Legal pot advocates smoked in front of the White House and held a giant inflatable joint

Demonstrators protest in favor of pot legalization
(Image credit: Mike Theiler/AFP/Getty Images)

More than 100 demonstrators held a smoke-in outside the White House on Saturday to protest federal laws that ban legal marijuana smoking, The Washington Post reports.

Against law enforcement's orders, the group inflated a 51-foot inflatable joint. Naturally, the protest took place around 4:20 p.m. ET.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Explore More
Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.