The best 4/20 events in NYC

The celebration is a marriage of clichés: the event is called MARY Fest—a reference to one of marijuana’s nicknames, Mary Jane—and it will take place on April 20, which is unofficial weed day. 

MARY Fest will take over a Brooklyn address (you’ll receive the exact destination after you register), where a curation of 30 vendors will show off “products innovating in the cannabis space today.” In addition to sampling new products and smoking in designated areas, attendees will get to participate in how-to programs, including a class dedicated to growing marijuana plants at home. 

Tickets are on sale here. General admission passes cost $50 but, for now, you can enjoy a $15 discount when using the code ROLLWITHUS. Keep in mind that you must be 21 or older to attend.

Find the House of Cannabis (a.k.a. THC NYC), NYC's weed museum, in Soho. While the museum boasts plenty of mind-bending multi-sensory bells and whistles, it also showcases art, highlights science and confronts the social justice issues baked into cannabis prosecution.

Don't miss The Euphorium, a massive spinning record you can sit or lay on while listening to music, from The Doors to Santana. With the room's impressive light show and hazy vibes, it's like a merry-go-round for adults.  

Plus, the museum has a special 4/20 week open house; get tickets here.

Looking for a trip this 4/20 but don’t want to book a flight or hotel? Look no further than The Travel Agency. Not your traditional travel agency, it plays the part of your personal cannabis concierge.

Here's how the brand, with locations in Manhattan’s Union Square and downtown Brooklyn, is celebrating the holiday.

Restaurants, bars and chains throughout New York City are celebrating the buzzy festivities with food-and-drink specials, some that are actually cannabis-infused and some that are simply groovy in spirit. 

From $4.20 garlic knots to a Popeyes Munchies Menu, here's our roundup of 4/20 food-and-drink deals in NYC, cannabis-infused and otherwise.

Stop by a historic spot: New York's very first legal cannabis dispensary for recreational use. Visit Housing Works Cannabis Co at 750 Broadway (or 1 Astor Place), across the street from the Eighth Street subway stop in Greenwich Village and around the corner from the Astor Place stop. So long as you’re 21 or older, you can make a purchase here.

The shop focuses on smaller businesses (no corporate monopolies here!) owned by BIPOC and women, including Florist Farms, Back Home Cannabis Company, Aryloom and Lobo Cannagar. You’ll find vapes, edibles, flower, prerolls and more from these brands in addition to apparel and literature about smoking, cannabis, the mission of Housing Works and more. You can peruse its full menu here.

Ella Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris' step-daughter, is celebrating the opening of her first art exhibit, a collection of knit portraits on display at The Mezz, a gallery space inside East Village cannabis store Gotham. The artwork is on view until the end of April. 

The artist hopes the project will serve as a departure from her ways of the past. Instead of putting herself front-and-center, she now wants her work to speak for itself. 

“I’m calming down and returning more to the creative and quieter aspects,” she said. “Which is nice, because I got [everything else] out of my system.”