420

April 20th has finally arrived! Tonight at 7PM, Attack of the Show presents its 420 special with Kevin Pereira, Candace Bailey, Sara Underwood and Alex Sim-Wise as they travel across the country (and around the world!) to learn about the latest from the cannabis industry. They explore everything from the Emerald Triangle in California where generations of farmers have been growing marijuana to the 8th annual Spannabis 2011 in Barcelona, Spain--and yes, Sara Underwood celebrates Carnival in Brazil. See you tonight at 7PM ET!

In case you haven't checked a calendar, it is indeed April 20 today, and G4 has 4/20 related content for you all day long. Tune in to the network and follow along with things like:

• X-Play's Trippiest Games - 10AM ET
• The X-Play 420 Special - 6:30PM ET
• The Attack of the Show 420 Special - 7PM ET
• Web Soup 420 Special - 8PM ET
• Screenings of Mars Attacks and Spinal Tap
• Date Appropriate Episodes of Campus PD and Cops
• And more! Check out the full schedule and tune in!

And for those of you looking for brief installments, check out the G420 Twitter Feed. Plus, as a bonus you can enjoy Trippy Adam! And hit the break to watch a special 420 Episode of X-Play's Cops. You'll enjoy it.

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It's April 20th! And that only means one thing: tonight at 7:00pm ET, Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn will take you to the beautiful beaches of Hawaii for the Attack of the Show Hawaii special, where they'll explore this strange pop culture phenomenon known as "420," cannabis culture and bikinis. We've got behind the scenes photos right here to give you a preview of what's to come so until then, enjoy G4's 420 movie marathon and tune in at 7pm ET for an all new AOTS! 

One of the most highly anticipated holidays of the year is right around the corner, and G4 has a whole schedule in place to allow you to enjoy your 4/20 celebration in just the right way. There's a whole slate of goo-friendly films for you to watch, coupled with an all-new Attack of the Show Hawaii celebration that promises to put the lava back in your lamp. It's so big that it's going to spill over into the morning of the 21st, because you're going to need to take it easy and relax after such a long day.

So, what are we showing for the celebration? Good question. Here's the schedule:

Tuesday 4/20

• Bottle Rocket - 1PM
• Dazed and Confused - 3PM
• Half Baked - 5PM
• AOTS Hawaii - 7PM
• Dazed and Confused - 8PM
• Half Baked - 10PM

Wednesday 4/21

• Super High Me - Midnight
• High Road - 2AM
• AOTS Jamaica - 3AM

Plus, you should follow @G420 on Twitter for 420 news, tune-ins, and general red-eyed ramblings.

In our constant effort to keep you updated about where in the world it's 4:20, we'd like to make sure you didn't forget our old friend Anchorage, Alaska, made famous by the Michelle Shocked song, 'Anchorage.' So, if you happen to like snow, or mid-90's folk angst, you might want to celebrate 420 now.

Also, we wanted to show you this video from X-Play's One-Hour Trip, from 2007, in which Adam Sessler challenges the world to defy his...um...trippiness. You have to see it to believe it.

Dude. Dude. Duuuuuuuuuuude. Have you looked at the clock? Do you know what time it is here in Los Angeles?! It's 4:20!

Excuse me, I'll be right back. I have some...umm...business to attend to.

However, while I'm gone, please enjoy this video of Kevin and Olivia exploring the raging nightlife in the infamous city of Amsterdam with comedian Mike O.T. Toliver. Then, of course, don't forget to tune in at 7:00 PM ET (just a few short hours) for our mega-awesome 420 special hosted by Kevin Pereira and Doug Benson of Super High Me.

Anyone know where the Fabreze went? Oh, sorry, here's the video!

We're having a G420 Tweedup tonight starting at 7PM ET / 4PM PT!  Tweedup?  What's that?

Let's all share the best parts of 420 together...get totally faced and tweet along with us during G4's 420 shows tonight and let us know how you're doin'! How YOU doin'?

Plus, and this is best part, we'll be broadcasting a exclusive twitter-only movie commentary from Doug Benson himself throughout the 10PM ET / 7PM PT showing of Super High Me! 

Here's how to join in and follow along:

• Watch G4's 420 Shows and include "G420" somewhere in your tweet. That way, we'll all see it!
   
• You could simply watch G4 while relaxing in front of our G420 Twitterfountain, seen above.  It plays the latest tweets marked with 'G420', and let's you see what's going on in the Tweedup! After 3 minutes, it reloads and starts over. Go full screen, if you want...play with the settings.  You can't mess it up, just reload the page to reset it..
   
• This one is real easy! G420's TweetChat is works just like a chat room, only it's on Twitter! Sign in using your own Twitter login and that's it!
   
• Power-Twitterers tend to prefer Tweetdeck. If you're familiar with it, start a search panel for "G420".  Then it works basically the same as the TweetChat.

If you have questions, give us a tweet at twitter.com/G420! 

HAPPY 420

Hey, do you happen to be in San Jose, Costa Rica? Well, if you can pry yourself away from the turtles that inhabit your landscape, you might want to take a moment and rejoice in the fact that, for you, our friends, the time is 4:20. Hope you enjoy it.

We also hope you enjoy this video from X-Play's One-Hour Trip in 2007, about a bust that goes down with some of your favorite gaming characters and the Cops. Enjoy!

As it's 420 today, we had the inclination and the good fortune to get an interview with Shirley Halperin, co-author (with Steve Bloom) of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life, in which she tells us about the draconian drug laws that relate to marijuana use, how she managed to get celebrities like Seth Rogen and Melissa Etheridge to talk about their stoner habits, and much, much more. So, without further adieu...

TheFeed: In the introduction (to the book), you characterize the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 as being "archaic and tragically out of touch." What updates would you hope are made to the way marijuana is perceived by the US govt. that would make it less archaic?

Shirley Halperin: For starters, I hope that one day soon, marijuana will be recognized for having at least some medicinal purpose and reclassified from a Schedule I narcotic (alongside heroin) to a Schedule III drug. With that in mind, a proper study of cannabis has been long overdue in this country and is one reason why many of our laws and prevailing attitudes are so out of touch with today’s reality. The way Steve and I see it, pot is ubiquitous — everybody knows somebody who’s a stoner — and it doesn’t kill you or make you want to kill someone. If anything, weed keeps people indoors; watching movies and ordering pizza — what’s the worst that could happen?

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Remember how we told you that it's 4:20 somewhere in the world at :20 after the hour? Well, to prove it, I would like to submit Kingston, Jamaica for your approval, likely one of the best places in the entire world to be when the clock hits 4:20.

And to commemorate it, we've pulled this Loop video from Attack of the Show in December, 2008, during which Kevin Pereira talks with Marisa Garcia of the Drug Policy Alliance Network about the legality of salvia, considered a more potent alternative to marijuana, and legal in most of the country. Check it out. And also, don't forget to tune in for our 420 special tonight, hosted by Kevin and Doug Benson, at 7:00PM EST.

If you want to play a really crazy, trippy game, you must check out flow. It's gonna mess with your mind, man. It's the perfect 420 title for you. Check it out, in the X-Play video below.

As I post this, it's 4:20 in Northfield, New Jersey. This charming little town is home to the Northfield Public Library, the Northfield Public School system and Nikki and Frank, G4's Mike D'Alonzo's parents. Any connection between Mr. D'alonzo and 420 is pure speculation at this time.

In celebration of 420, we present to you this Freestyle 101 favorite, featuring stoney Cypress Hill rapper B-Real goin’ off the top about smokin’, games and his favorite TV network, G4!

 Dig more episode of G4’s multi-platform hip hop series Freestyle 101 here. Enjoy!

By the way, right now, it's 4:20 in St. John's Newfoundland Canada! What a world, eh?

Attack of the Show isn't the only G4 program that enjoys 420. X-Play is cool too. A few years ago, the show took a look at Katamari Damacy because it's one of the trippiest games ever made...

The swirling colors...The King of the Cosmos... I can see through time, man!

By the way, it's 4:20 right now in Nuuk, Greenland. Can you imagine the kind of partying that's going on in Nuuk right now? I hear everyone is celebrating 420 by gathering around the city's 70-foot tall statue of Lief Erickson and eating whale blubber!

Many think people who enjoy 420 (heshers) and people who enjoy gadgets and tech (nerds) are two circles in a Venn diagram that never touch. But comedian and Super High Me star Doug Benson visits the exact meeting point between the two tribes in the video below. Watch as Benson guides you through the world of vaporizers and pipes in a very, very special Gadget Pron.

By the way, at this very second, it's 4:20 in Praia, Cape Verde. Cape Verde’s largest city, Praja is a commercial center, and a port that ships coffee, sugar cane, and tropical fruits all over the world.

Once again, we want to remind you that, somewhere in the world, it's 4:20...in this case, it's Reykjavik, Iceland, where Bjork and her friends are likely celebrating and dressing up like polar bears or some such.

In an effort to celebrate, we present this 420 video classic tour of the Illadelph Glass Factory in Los Angeles, a subsidiary of a Philadelphia-based company, and a repository of some of the great waterpipes of our time. Check out the gear, jah?