Mile High 4/20 Fest Will Be Adults Only

Denver’s annual 4/20 festival at Civic Center Park will return in 2023. But this year, for the first time, it will officially be 21+.

April 20, or 4/20, is an unofficial marijuana holiday across the country, and Denver’s yearly gathering at Civic Center Park has become one of the biggest unsanctioned smokeouts in the nation. In 2023, though, it will have a new organizer: Michigan-based dispensary chain JARS Cannabis, which late last year purchased Euflora, a Colorado dispensary chain, and got the Mile High 4/20 Fest in the process.

In an Instagram announcement posted last weekend, Mile High 4/20 Fest noted that 2023’s version will be an adults-only event, and readers were quick to share their thoughts on the Westword Facebook post of the news. Says Laser:

Age limit, you say? So…how…