The Vancouver Sun reports in its Monday edition that Vancouver's annual 4/20 pot protest and farmers' market at Sunset Beach are so popular and well attended that the city simply needs to suck it up next year and find a suitable location and issue permits to organizers. The Sun's Matt Robinson writes that there are at least two spaces in this city where a marijuana market/trade show/festival/protest (depending on your view of the event) could easily be hosted. Sticking to picturesque downtown locations that are large, outdoors, paved and open for business, there is one tremendous choice -- the yet-to-be-built extension to Creekside Park, a large parking lot on the northeast corner of False Creek. It hosts the Concord Pacific showroom as well as a rotating assortment of commercial vehicles, dragon boats and event tents. The city has its own large, often empty and equally unsightly lot on the other side of False Creek that could host red-eyed revellers and budding businesses one day a year. Pot protest organizers have been clear they want the event to be permitted. The park board's chief objections to the unpermitted Sunset Beach event were around the smoking ban in public parks and possible disruption to residents.