HAPPY 420!!!

[airram479]

Just kidding. I dunno WTF significance this date holds with all the tokers.

 

[808rebel]

i was about to send a happy 420 right back at ya, but ur joking... oh well.....

i dont really know the significance of the date. heard a bunch of stories, but i dont think any of them checked out...

 

[airram479]

There having some huge weed-fest right now in Downtown Denver. If my job didn't have randoms--i would partake in this!

 

[waynaferd]

Its Hitler's birthday, FYI.....

 

[JoHNnyNuTZ]

OK. From what Ive heard. 420 is the average time that smokers smoke. Like after work. so 420 became, well, 420, and today, well is the day 4/20...so.....well i dunno I dont smoke no more but thats what I went by when I was younger.

 

[ken22]

I thought it was a police code?

 

[bigsexy74]

Notwithstanding the many and various urban legends that have grown up about the meaning of "420" and its connection with marijuana, the true story behind it is surprisingly prosaic. In the early 1970s a small group of hippie stoners at San Rafael High School in northern California used to meet at a designated location every day to smoke pot at 4:20 p.m. They did this so regularly that among members of the group "420" became a general euphemism for lighting up.

The catchphrase spread beyond their immediate circle, beyond the high school they attended, and ultimately beyond California, so that within a decade or two pot smokers were using it across the country and indeed the world over.

 

[ken22]

What the hell is prosaic?

 

[bigsexy74]

commonplace.

 

[RoadBlocK]

Wiki and several other places say this:

The term was allegedly coined by a group of teenagers in San Rafael, California in 1971.[2][3] Calling themselves the Waldos, because "their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school,"[4] the group first used the term in connection to a fall 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about.[5] The Waldos designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time.[4] The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". Multiple failed attempts to find the crop eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a codeword the teens used to mean pot-smoking in general.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

 

[Hawk]

Damn hippies!

 

[MM11]

Road block and big sexy are correct.

I work today and would never be stupid enough to let anything compromise my career, but I will eventually get off... What I do in my free time after a long day at work is my business.

 

[808rebel]

very interesting....those guys that came up with the term must be proud lol...and i bet no one believes them when they try to say they came up with it