"Watch out! He's a fed."
Whether it was shouted at me in seriousness or humour was hard to tell but I can take a compliment and a quick flash my genuine replica FBI badge soon settled the matter.
Whilst recreational cannabis use remains illegal in the UK, each year I make my pilgrimage from Devon to London on the 20th of April to document this mass celebration of the plant.
Heavily policed with blind eyes turned there was a very real sense of "well, they can't arrest us all," to the crowd who in unison sparked up a fatty at precisely 4.20pm. I know it was precise because there was a count down from ten, heralding in the stoner's new year.
