Students of NYC celebrate 4/20 at Washington Square Park

A group of New School students sit on the grass at Washington Square Park on April 20 to celebrate 4/20. Like most others celebrating the marijuana-positive holiday, they were celebrating by taking the drug. Photo by <a href="https://www.newschoolfreepress.com/author/emmadonellyhigginsnewschool-edu/">Emma Donelly-Higgins</a>

Students of NYC celebrate 4/20 at Washington Square Park

By:

Emma Donelly-Higgins and Tamara Kormornick

Apr 28, 2022

Students and residents of New York celebrated the global cannabis festival, April 20, over a year after the passing of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, which legalized the drug.

@nsfreepress
The New School Free Press headed to Washington Square Park to ask students of the city how they were celebrating 4/20. Reporting by Tamara Kormornick. Video by Emma Donelly-Higgins. Additional reporting by Christian Richey. #nsfreepress #newschoolfreepress #nsfp #thenewschool #tns #newyork #nyc #washingtonsquarepark #students
♬ original sound – The New School Free Press

Nikky Greenough (left), a student at St. John’s University Queens Campus, and Charlotte Macoul (right), who was visiting her friend in the city, attend the 4/20 celebration at Washington Square Park on the evening of April 20. The park was full of music, smoke and giddy people. Photo by Emma Donelly-Higgins

Mincy Barbosa (left) and Carson Thomas (right), who are both acting students at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, giggle as they picnic on the lawn of Washington Square Park on April 20. The park was as busy as ever in the evening of 4/20, an unofficial day of cannabis appreciation. Photo by Emma Donelly-Higgins

Rubin Smith, who is studying medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, soaked up the vibrant atmosphere of Washington Square Park on April 20, though he was not taking marijuana himself. Students, residents and visitors from all over danced, smoked and ate edibles in celebration of the holiday. Photo by Emma Donelly-Higgins

Reported by Tamara Kormornick

Video by Emma Donelly-Higgins

Additional reporting by Christian Richey