What is the significance of 4:20, 4-20

[udonoogen]

why such an arbitrary time.

 

[tweakmm]

I've heard several things:

1) Police code in some city for possession or paraphanalia (I've read that this isn't true, I have no idea)
2) Stoners are stoners....

I dunno about you, but im going to place my bet on #2

 

[udonoogen]

good enough excuse for anybody that doesnt have anything to do ... and is into that thing. =) #2 soudns good

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I had always heard it was for the number of chemical in THC...which is crap too. 4-20 is earth day as well. It's the pot smokers holiday. Chicken or the egg situation here.

 

[deftron]

According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. ``Waldo Steve,'' a member of the group who now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would salute each other in the school hallway and say ``420 Louis!'' The term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one that caught on. ``It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of things, like `Do you have any?' or `Do I look stoned?' '' he said. ``Parents and teachers wouldn't know what we were talking about.'' The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate and be appropriated by commercial interests. The Waldos contacted Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420's history, primarily a collection of postmarked letters from the early '70s with lots of mention of 420. They also started a Web site, waldo420.com. ``We have proof, we were the first,'' Waldo Steve said. ``I mean, it's not like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a phrase. But it's kind of an honor that this emanated from San Rafael


420 FAQ

 

[gqstyle09]

earth day is april 22
4-20 is also hitler's birthday

 

[Spikesoldier]

4-20 is the day Bob Marley died, so everyone has to smoke at least once for the lost Marley.

 

[Anubis]

4-20 is also when colembine happened

 

[Braves]

yeah I never really heard "420" around my school/area until after columbine happened. Whenever peopel said it they were referring to a day when columbine happened and hitler's birthday. I had no idea it had somethign to do with drugs lol