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VANCOUVER— It’s one of the last vestiges of this city’s counterculture heyday — the annual gathering of cannabis activists and enthusiasts on 4/20.

Even though city officials have grumbled about the unsanctioned event for years — citing the litter and the nuisance complaints — they’ve always accommodated it.

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But now an only-in-Vancouver clash between the city’s park board and 4/20 organizers is intensifying, potentially putting the future of the event, now in its 25th year, in question.

A scheduled performance by American hip-hop group, Cypress Hill, which has a long affiliation with the cannabis industry, has city officials worried that crowds — which already number in the tens of thousands — could become uncontrollable, and the board voted Monday night to send a letter to organizers to cancel the concert.

Organizers, however, are vowing to stick with the program.

“The show must go on and it will and so too will the smoke,” organizer Jodie Emery told the National Post on Tuesday.