Police confiscate two-pound joint at Santa Cruz 4/20 party

Let's roll a huge spliff this year, dude. The cops won't care.

Students at the University of California campus in Santa Cruz increased their 4/20 celebrations to enormous proportions over the weekend, judging by this photo and videos of a police officer walking away with what looks like a joint that's wider than his body.

Video shows students gathered in a field on April 20, a day associated with marijuana. Smoke billows up toward the trees. Surely, those rolling the large joint thought the whole affair was very inconspicuous.

They went so far as to set up a booth at the pot-smoking party to unveil the joint, which weighed two pounds, according to the video description.

The New York Times reported in December that pot smoking is widespread and often ignored by authorities in California, even though it's still illegal to possess marijuana for recreation.

The state's lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, told the newspaper he knew a "shocking" number of community leaders who smoked the drug. Even dinner party hosts in Beverly Hills might offer their guests a puff, the Times reported.

Perhaps the relaxed attitude explains the reaction of one student in the video.

"Aw, come on," he says as the officer walks past.

Some joints, it seems, are too big to ignore.

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