MercedesTech
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Location: RP, CA
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 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject: How did the 4-20 thing start anyways ? |
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Lots of people wonder, thought I'd share what little I know. Since its that time of the year again, been hearing "420" more often. When you ask someone where the "420" thing came from you hear all kinds of answers....
Penal code for ganja
Amount of chemicals in the ganja
Police radio code
blah blah blah.
All of these are simply not true, however the origin is known:
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, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation.
There ya go, some local boys (to us anyways) started this 4/20 thing and it has REALLY taken off from there. Its in tons of movies (Pulp Fiction, all clocks are set to 4:20 except one, when the kid receives his Dad's watch its set at 9:00, Fast Time at Ridgemont High has a clock set at 4:20)
And just to add:
| Quote: | To add to the definition regarding "The Waldos," I'd like to note that in an article of High Times containing an interview with the waldos, one of them told this story:
We had heard rumors that one of the members brothers had planted a pot patch in the wooded area around town. We all wanted to go look for this patch of weed, so we devised to meet eachother by the statue of Louis Pasteur after school. Since we all had after school activities or electives that lasted about fifty minutes, and since it took about ten minutes to get from school to our after school activities, and another ten minutes to walk from the activites to the statue. Since there were many of us we decided that 420 would be a good time to meet so we could go search for the patch of pot. We never did find it, but we had lots of fun getting high while trying to look for it.
Therefore, when they were at school, when they saw eachother between classes they would secretively say "420" and maybe give the thumb-and-pointer-finger-to-the-mouth sign to indicate that that was when they would meet to look for the weed patch. Since the waldos were such legendary potheads, when people who were not waldos saw this, it caught on and they assumed it was a secret code word for pot. |
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TRUTH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
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