smoke-in

{{Short description|Protest in favor of cannabis rights}}

File:PittsburghSmokeIn3.JPG-sponsored Pittsburgh Smoke-In, Schenley Park, July 2, 1977]]

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A smoke-in is a protest in favor of cannabis rights or more specifically legalization of cannabis.{{citation|title=smoke-in|website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary online|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smoke-in|access-date=March 29, 2022}}

The Youth International Party (YIP) organized "smoke-ins" across North America through the 1970s and into the 1980s. The first YIP smoke-in was attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1970.{{cite web|url=http://internationaltimes.it/dana-beal-interview/|website=International Times|author=Viola, Saira|title=Dana Beal Interview|access-date=25 August 2016|archive-date=August 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831175738/http://internationaltimes.it/dana-beal-interview/|url-status=live}}{{sfn|New Yippie Book Collective|1983}} There was a culture clash when many of the hippie protesters strolled en masse into the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope.{{cite web|url=https://cannabisparade.org/history/|title=A Brief History of the NYC Cannabis Parade|author=A. Yippie|website=CannabisParade.org|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010005429/https://cannabisparade.org/history/|archive-date=October 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}

On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the Gastown Riot, one of the most famous protests in Canadian history.Odam, Jes, "Police charge yippie plot," Vancouver Sun, 1 October 1971

The annual July 4 Yippie smoke-in in Washington, D.C., became a counterculture tradition.{{sfn|DeAngelo|2015}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfPuzbXZdJAC&q=yippie+concerts&pg=PA42|title=Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital|author=Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins|date=August 2003|publisher=Akashic Books|location=Brooklyn, NY, USA|isbn=978-1888451443|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233727/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dance_of_Days/bfPuzbXZdJAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=yippie+concerts&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/07/05/demonstration-by-yippies-is-mostly-quiet/910e0221-0ea2-437c-9926-44a7e2aec481/|title=Demonstration By Yippies Is Mostly Quiet|author=Martin Weil, Keith B. Richberg|newspaper=Washington Post|date=5 July 1978|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221150/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/07/05/demonstration-by-yippies-is-mostly-quiet/910e0221-0ea2-437c-9926-44a7e2aec481/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/04/yippies-turn-on/fe69edca-41dd-4fa1-ade6-f9436d741c20/|title=Yippies Turn On|author=Harris, Art|newspaper=Washington Post|date=4 July 1979|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216034512/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/04/yippies-turn-on/fe69edca-41dd-4fa1-ade6-f9436d741c20/|url-status=live}} Other smoke-ins as protests for cannabis law reform have been held in the 1960s in London;{{cite news|title=BRITISH 'SMOKE-IN' PUFFS MARIJUANA: 'Flower People' in Hyde Park Chant Case for Legality|author=DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1967|page=9}} and through the 1990s at least at the U.S. Capitol,{{cite news|title=Marijuana supporters hold smoke-in protest|newspaper=Kitchener - Waterloo Record|location=Kitchener, Ontario|date=July 16, 1992}} and in and around Austin, Texas.{{citation|title=Marijuana 'smoke-in' may be smoke screen|newspaper=Austin American Statesman|date=May 23, 1990|page=B2}}{{cite news|title=Marijuana-law protest sprouts outside Hays jail|first=John |last=MacCormack |newspaper=San Antonio Express-News|location=San Antonio, Texas|date=July 2, 1993 |page=10D|quote=[He] was among seven local residents who staged dope smoke-ins at local police stations in 1991 to protest the criminalization of marijuana.}}

File:Smoke-in van. July 4, 1977.png, Washington, D.C., 1977.]]