It's not a police radio code for anything, let alone that. Neither Morrison, Hendrix, nor Belushi died on that date. It's not the number of chemical compounds in marijuana, according to Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine
(Grinspoon and Balakar, 1993). It's not the penal code section
for marijuana use in California, and though it really is the California
Senate Bill number for medical marijuana implementation, that came much later. The Grateful Dead didn't always stay in room 420, and although it's true that Dr. Albert Hoffman took the first deliberate acid trip at 4:20 (on 4/19 even) that's really just a coincidence.
Nope, the truth is that '420' entered into the language in 1971
as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids known as
the Waldos at San Rafael High School in California. In 1990 a
mysterious flyer promoting 420 found its way to Grateful Dead shows in
Northern California, and it was at this point that it drew the
attention of High Times and became something of a national
phenomenon. San Rafael was the home of Grateful Dead Productions,
which supports the link to the original Waldos.
Nowadays, of course, 420 is everywhere - on
bumperstickers, on posters, shirts, and stickers. It's all over
in music and movies. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction, for
example, are stopped at 4:20. 420 has gone mainstream!
And it's a damn good thing. Smoke more weed! Happy 420!
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thats cool to know!!
By: marcia (Guest) on 08-06-2008 03:43