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420 Day In Brazil: Why LGBT Rights Are A Focus Of Weed Celebration

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 04/21/2015 - 11:58

Thousands of Brazilians will celebrate 4/20 this week, but few could tell you why they’re coming out for pot at the end of April. There’s no 420 police code in Brazil, and like most other countries they write April 20th as 20/4 anyway. In fact, because of Mother’s Day and annual soccer championships, the date f 4/20 gets shuffled. This year 4/20 is really on 4/23. Last year it was a week into May. There’s another huge quirk in Brazil’s pro-marijuana movement: a natural synergy with gay rights.

At last year’s Marijuana March in São Paulo, for example, a more common chant among the thousands of red-eyed protesters was “Hypocrisy there’s a lot -- homophobia is legal but you can’t smoke pot.” (Quanta hipocrisia! Maconha é crime, mas não a homofobia). Homophobia might be a bit of an understatement. Not only are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered...

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