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Merced College students mark ‘420’

Sun-Star staff reports
Greg Hatcher, 18, of Merced sets up his drum set as a flag marked with marijuana leaves flies over his shoulder in a Merced College amphitheater on Monday. Students for Liberty, a college club, put on a marijuana-based event called Legalize Liberty, which featured music and a philosophical debate on the decriminalization of the drug.
Greg Hatcher, 18, of Merced sets up his drum set as a flag marked with marijuana leaves flies over his shoulder in a Merced College amphitheater on Monday. Students for Liberty, a college club, put on a marijuana-based event called Legalize Liberty, which featured music and a philosophical debate on the decriminalization of the drug. Thaddeus Miller tmiller@mercedsunstar.com

A small crowd of students gathered in a Merced College amphitheater on Monday, the unofficial marijuana holiday, for an event called Legalize Liberty. Put on by the Students for Liberty, a college club, the event used music to try to bring out students for the philosophical debate that culminated the event. A flag marked with marijuana leaves flew over the stage throughout the day as a more than a dozen people stood nearby, according to one organizer.

This story was originally published April 20, 2015 at 5:55 PM with the headline "Merced College students mark ‘420’."

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