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    As cannabis customers celebrate 420 in Chicago, consumption becomes more common at sponsored events

    CHICAGO — One crucial new element will be added Thursday in Chicago to public celebrations of 420, marijuana’s unofficial holiday: smoke. Cannabis has been legal in Illinois since 2020, but consumption in public remains illegal. Now, companies are finding ways around that ban by providing buses and other private areas for invited or ticketed customers to partake. The trend is peaking just in ...
    by Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune Apr 19, 2023 3 minutes
    JoAnn Bedolla inhales cannabis vapor from a Stundenglass brand gravity bong during the first annual Budtender's Choice Awards at an event space in the 200 block of North Paulina Avenue in Chicago on Feb. 23, 2023.

    CHICAGO — One crucial new element will be added Thursday in Chicago to public celebrations of 420, marijuana’s unofficial holiday: smoke.

    Cannabis has been legal in Illinois since 2020, but consumption in public remains illegal. Now, companies are finding ways around that ban by providing buses and other private areas for invited or ticketed customers to partake.

    The trend is peaking just in time for April 20, a day when users celebrate their common interest — “420″ was said to be popularized as slang for weed by a

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