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I came across these stories and thought I would share, along with where they came from. There seems to be a fairly general consensus as to the actual history of 420, but I thought I would still share a few articles.
hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
One explanation of the origin of the term stems from a story about a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971. The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue. The exact time was chosen because that was the time that afternoon detention was dismissed. By extension April 20 ("4/20" in U.S. date notation) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.[1] In some locations this celebration coincides with Earth Week.[2][3][4] In Dunedin, New Zealand, members of Otago NORML were arrested and issued trespass notices after attempting to openly smoke cannabis on the Otago University Union Lawn at the regular 4:20pm protest meetings.[5][6] A large celebration is held every year on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus, with attendance reaching more than 10,000 in 2008.[7] University faculty have tried various methods to prevent the gathering, including turning on sprinklers and photographing students participating in the event,[8] but the crowd has grown every year.
hxxp://media.www.ocolympian.com/media/storage/paper1141/news/2007/04/25/Features/The-History.Behind.420.A.Counterculture.Holiday-2878243.shtml
The number 420 has represented cannabis culture for over 30 years. But where did it come from, and has it always been related to marijuana?
The answer comes from a group of high school boys in San Rafael, Calif. in 1971. Everyday at 4:20 p.m., they would meet at a statue of chemist Louis Pasteur on their campus. At first they used the time to follow a map in search of an abandoned pot patch.
As time passed, the boys found use in "420" as not only a time to light up, but also as a code around parents, cops and teachers. They had no idea that their code would become an internationally accepted term for pot users.
"It's a way for this persecuted culture to talk to each other and not to be exposed," said Steven Hager, Editor-in-Chief of High Times magazine, in an interview with ABC News in 2002.
Aside from a reference to getting high on the date or time of day, 420 has also taken a place in mainstream society.
The 420 Campaign is now a coined term that describes groups and actions around the country involving the legalization of marijuana. According to an article published in High Times magazine, "We want to use April 20 as a focal point every year to concentrate pressure on Congress to legalize marijuana until we get the job done.
"I think that we need to study why these things are happening, and why is there so much violence in our culture."
The pros and cons of marijuana have been debated for years.
The largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States is the Marijuana Policy Project. Their goals are to make marijuana available for medical uses and also as a legally taxed and regulated substance. Their activities include legalization, lobbying congress to approve medical marijuana and recruiting celebrities for support.
The legalization movement is not just about the right to smoke, but also wanting to work to make environmental and medical improvements.
The use of hemp as a replacement for items made out of petrochemicals could potentially lower pollution, and using marijuana as a medicine could be successful.
Another group fighting for legalization of Marijuana is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. They focus on the fact that marijuana is currently the largest cash crop in the United States. NORML contends that if marijuana was added to the U.S. economy as a legal cash crop, state deficits would be resolved and raising taxes would be unnecessary.
While in most nations consider the drug an illegal narcotic, its consumption, distribution, harvesting and selling continue occur around the world.
Despite the fact that 420 is celebrating an illegal drug, it is still considered a holiday by millions. And on 420, those millions gather around the world to celebrate not only the use of marijuana, but also the positive impact that they hope it will have on the world.
So how are students celebrating 4:20 this year?
Student Marcus Gause said he planned to, "leave early from work, and hit the ATM machine up."
hxxp://apartment618.blogspot.com/2005/10/history-of-420.html
Among stoner circles, there is nothing more known than the symbol of 420. It is confirmed by High Times mag that the term originated with the Waldos in San Rafael, who used it in high school as an extremely similar code. The term could mean anything that had to do with Cannabis.
Other myths about the term include the widely spread rumor that it represents the police code for smoking weed in any number of cities, that the Grateful Dead played everyday at 4:30 PM (meaning the crowd would meet up at 4:20 to "prepare"), and that a wide variety of great rock stars were born or died on the date (although it is the birthday of Luther Vandross).
This is not the only chapter in stoner culture when categrizing by topic. It is, however, the only true historical practice that s tied directly to the culture and promotes activity within the culture.
All the red-eyes know a thing or two about rolling, shotguns, resin scraping, dropping a piece, ritualistic eating, etc. None of that stuff is serious; there isn't a wide-spread ritualstic tie.
For some reason, the 420 slang made it big. A couple of dopey stoned kids making jokes saw one of the stupid things the say make it into the vocabulary of everyone like them. It could just have easily been you or me with a group of kids, burning spliffs and choing down twinkies. These kids just happened to come up with the right slogan, it happened to reach the right people, who were making the right flyer for the rigt band... and the Waldo's escalated their term to minor greatness.
The schizophrenic nature of the creation of the term can only be described as "stoned". It doesn't make any sense that this one inside joke thrown around a high school ever became something special.
hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
One explanation of the origin of the term stems from a story about a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971. The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue. The exact time was chosen because that was the time that afternoon detention was dismissed. By extension April 20 ("4/20" in U.S. date notation) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.[1] In some locations this celebration coincides with Earth Week.[2][3][4] In Dunedin, New Zealand, members of Otago NORML were arrested and issued trespass notices after attempting to openly smoke cannabis on the Otago University Union Lawn at the regular 4:20pm protest meetings.[5][6] A large celebration is held every year on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus, with attendance reaching more than 10,000 in 2008.[7] University faculty have tried various methods to prevent the gathering, including turning on sprinklers and photographing students participating in the event,[8] but the crowd has grown every year.
hxxp://media.www.ocolympian.com/media/storage/paper1141/news/2007/04/25/Features/The-History.Behind.420.A.Counterculture.Holiday-2878243.shtml
The number 420 has represented cannabis culture for over 30 years. But where did it come from, and has it always been related to marijuana?
The answer comes from a group of high school boys in San Rafael, Calif. in 1971. Everyday at 4:20 p.m., they would meet at a statue of chemist Louis Pasteur on their campus. At first they used the time to follow a map in search of an abandoned pot patch.
As time passed, the boys found use in "420" as not only a time to light up, but also as a code around parents, cops and teachers. They had no idea that their code would become an internationally accepted term for pot users.
"It's a way for this persecuted culture to talk to each other and not to be exposed," said Steven Hager, Editor-in-Chief of High Times magazine, in an interview with ABC News in 2002.
Aside from a reference to getting high on the date or time of day, 420 has also taken a place in mainstream society.
The 420 Campaign is now a coined term that describes groups and actions around the country involving the legalization of marijuana. According to an article published in High Times magazine, "We want to use April 20 as a focal point every year to concentrate pressure on Congress to legalize marijuana until we get the job done.
"I think that we need to study why these things are happening, and why is there so much violence in our culture."
The pros and cons of marijuana have been debated for years.
The largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States is the Marijuana Policy Project. Their goals are to make marijuana available for medical uses and also as a legally taxed and regulated substance. Their activities include legalization, lobbying congress to approve medical marijuana and recruiting celebrities for support.
The legalization movement is not just about the right to smoke, but also wanting to work to make environmental and medical improvements.
The use of hemp as a replacement for items made out of petrochemicals could potentially lower pollution, and using marijuana as a medicine could be successful.
Another group fighting for legalization of Marijuana is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. They focus on the fact that marijuana is currently the largest cash crop in the United States. NORML contends that if marijuana was added to the U.S. economy as a legal cash crop, state deficits would be resolved and raising taxes would be unnecessary.
While in most nations consider the drug an illegal narcotic, its consumption, distribution, harvesting and selling continue occur around the world.
Despite the fact that 420 is celebrating an illegal drug, it is still considered a holiday by millions. And on 420, those millions gather around the world to celebrate not only the use of marijuana, but also the positive impact that they hope it will have on the world.
So how are students celebrating 4:20 this year?
Student Marcus Gause said he planned to, "leave early from work, and hit the ATM machine up."
hxxp://apartment618.blogspot.com/2005/10/history-of-420.html
Among stoner circles, there is nothing more known than the symbol of 420. It is confirmed by High Times mag that the term originated with the Waldos in San Rafael, who used it in high school as an extremely similar code. The term could mean anything that had to do with Cannabis.
Other myths about the term include the widely spread rumor that it represents the police code for smoking weed in any number of cities, that the Grateful Dead played everyday at 4:30 PM (meaning the crowd would meet up at 4:20 to "prepare"), and that a wide variety of great rock stars were born or died on the date (although it is the birthday of Luther Vandross).
This is not the only chapter in stoner culture when categrizing by topic. It is, however, the only true historical practice that s tied directly to the culture and promotes activity within the culture.
All the red-eyes know a thing or two about rolling, shotguns, resin scraping, dropping a piece, ritualistic eating, etc. None of that stuff is serious; there isn't a wide-spread ritualstic tie.
For some reason, the 420 slang made it big. A couple of dopey stoned kids making jokes saw one of the stupid things the say make it into the vocabulary of everyone like them. It could just have easily been you or me with a group of kids, burning spliffs and choing down twinkies. These kids just happened to come up with the right slogan, it happened to reach the right people, who were making the right flyer for the rigt band... and the Waldo's escalated their term to minor greatness.
The schizophrenic nature of the creation of the term can only be described as "stoned". It doesn't make any sense that this one inside joke thrown around a high school ever became something special.
