BBSPT#011: AM I HIGH? / 420(2)
by Joe Miranda

An unofficial follow up to JM & MO (& RC)’s 420 (Smalltime Books, 2014), and carrying on where that left off: drawing from the infinite archive of implied and literal “420” signage – physical, cosmic, or metaphorical – as observed by a longtime stoner & shooter, and thinking it’s kinda funny and definitely silly but also a bit cool ?!?!?! idk !!

Photos taken on any available device over the past 11 years of all things 420. 
Deeper meanings and understandings are made available through the green on green RISO print zine made with permission – but no editorial knowledge – at IRL on the RZ there at Catalyst Social Centre, Narrm (MEL). 

For the occassion of April 20 aka 4/20 Day, for the purposes of clearing the fug, wondering out loud if I am actually ever lifted anymore, what green on green would look like (good, is the answer, fyi) and, as ever, to be silly about enjoying hard life, while very serious about insisting on freeing up all the fucking famdem!!! and especially those held on bullshit (marijuana) possession charges!!! Dependancy is, at the very least, natural response to living in an/this unnaturaly fucked state. 

More information on the continued war on people targeted for marginalised violence self-soothing, regulating & surviving amidst the continued western so-called “war on drugs” / “war on crime” (UK resources):

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-policy/drugs-race-and-economic-justice
https://www.release.org.uk/publications/numbers-black-and-white-ethnic-disparities-policing-and-prosecution-drug-offences
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51122669
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/29/uk-drug-laws-used-as-tool-of-systemic-racism-says-ex-no-10-adviser
https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/news-events/blogs/2016/03/australia_s-recreational-drug-policies-arent-working--so-what-ar

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Published by Bad Books Small Press, April 20 2025.
36 page 150x210mm photo zine. saddle stitch bound + with scanbed collage 2 page cover & B&W A3 fold out poster. 
Risograph printed green throughout at IRL/Catalyst Social Centre, Wurundjeri country in Naarm by BBSP
First Edition of 42.0