This 420 I’ll be lighting up a large spliff and raising a toast to conscious cultural movements and art in all it’s forms, and to the diverse lineage of cannabis and hemp activism across planet world, united in the pursuit of peace, fun and social awareness. I’ll also be raising both middle fingers with a Johnny Cash face to signify a ‘fuck you’ to Enoch Powell, the Birmingham conservative who in 1968 on this day delivered his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, and the other finger to Hitler, who was born on this day in 1889, and so to all Nazi’s, fascists and hate propagandists past and present. Both fingers. 

Today, the peaceful stand up high with a smile and perhaps a little laugh, calling out and rejecting racism and the roots of hatred and coercion in society wherever it spews out. Let’s get high and honour the great tribes of peacemakers, artists and philosophers like Lennon, Marley, Simone, Wilson, Hicks, and put the political opportunists in the trash where they belong with Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Bush, Blair, Trump, Jong-un, May, Cameron, Assad, Putin.

I’m Black Country and proud to say Fuck You to Enoch Powell and his language of prejudice and the familiar stench of UKIP bitter bait. We blaze as one family, and bless all mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. High humans from all gene pools united against division, against fundamentalism and in support of…fun: good honest open shared inclusive fun and the spirit of prograssive tolerance. We blow Girl Scout Cookies in the face of the tense and uptight and read a 1000 years of epic poetry in your earhole. Blessed are the peacemakers, cursed on the fear-makers, times up. Happy 420.