By Chad Harris

Hundreds gather at Riverside Park for Kamloops 4/20

Apr 20, 2016 | 5:25 PM

KAMLOOPS — It was a smoky scene at Riverside Park today as marijuana lovers came out to celebrate 4/20. 

The event happens every year on April 20, as pot users rally for the legalization of the drug.

WATCH: Pot lovers gather at Riverside Park
 

Dozens gathered at Riverside Park to smoke marijuana, an event that has been held in Kamloops since 2010.

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4/20 started in Vancouver on April 20, 1995. At that time it was a small day-long sit-in where people smoked marijuana in public in support of legalizing the drug.

Now thousands of people worldwide participate in the so-called 4/20 movement.