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Robbie's a pro on this one, 4:20 originated because at 4:20 AM was when the police would make there shifts, so everybody could light up. I have also heard that 420 is the case number when you have possesion in California.
Origin of 420
where did it come from?
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 09:03 PM
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Where was it in the 80's? Does Anyone remember 420 in the 80's?
I was in high school in the US in the mid and late 80's and it was used then. It's been around a long time.
I had always heard that it was the time kids were home from school and parents weren't yet home from work, so time to light up.
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 10:00 PM
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I was in high school in the US in the mid and late 80's and it was used then. It's been around a long time.
I had always heard that it was the time kids were home from school and parents weren't yet home from work, so time to light up.
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 10:10 PM
This more or less originated in the 70's because kids in class could not say hey lets go get high. So they would say we gonna have a 420 today.
This to me only makes sense that this is where it really originated from. Now 420 however is no longer code and a part of the pop culture. For me 420 is ritual everyday at 4:20 I smoke. Every year on May the 20th i go to a public place with the rest of the pot culture and get high.
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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, 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. While our teens feel that they know something we don't, you can let them in on the fact that it was your generation that came up with the numbers.
A quote from one of the Waldos in the High Times article states, "We did discover we could talk about getting high in front of our parents without them knowing by using the phrase 420." Fortunately, your teenagers will not have that same option.
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, 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. While our teens feel that they know something we don't, you can let them in on the fact that it was your generation that came up with the numbers.
A quote from one of the Waldos in the High Times article states, "We did discover we could talk about getting high in front of our parents without them knowing by using the phrase 420." Fortunately, your teenagers will not have that same option.
This to me only makes sense that this is where it really originated from. Now 420 however is no longer code and a part of the pop culture. For me 420 is ritual everyday at 4:20 I smoke. Every year on May the 20th i go to a public place with the rest of the pot culture and get high.
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 10:30 PM
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For me 420 is ritual everyday at 4:20 I smoke. Every year on May the 20th i go to a public place with the rest of the pot culture and get high.
I never thought I'd be saying this to anyone, but maybe you should smoke less. 4/20 is in April, mang.
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 11:03 PM
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I never thought I'd be saying this to anyone, but maybe you should smoke less. 4/20 is in April, mang.
My bad i no i will not smoke less I never thought i would say this to anyone but it's man not mang.
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 11:05 PM
Oh, whoopsy daisy, that must have been a complete accident. No, I say mang if the situation warrants. And when dealing with hippies, it's warranted, brah.
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Posted 20 October 2006 - 03:15 AM
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I never thought I'd be saying this to anyone, but maybe you should smoke less. 4/20 is in April, mang.
Haha.
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But that man barely smokes at all.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 03:26 AM
First people told me taht 420 was the amount of chemicals in weed but they were obviously complete idiots or stoned out of their minds. Then from a slightly more creditable source i heard that the police code for a marijuana bust was '420'.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 03:59 AM
theres many lists related with the number 420, and who knows how it came related to drugs, maybe some guys just thought it sounded good, who knows
ive also heard its mainly the national drug day or something like that
July 20
ive also heard its mainly the national drug day or something like that
July 20
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 07:57 AM
no the 20th day of the 4th month is national stoner day. april 20th 
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Posted 25 October 2006 - 10:05 AM
I'd never heard of the 420thing until a few years ago when I saw it on a poster at the mall. I asked my girlfriend what it meant and she said that it was hippy code for the time of day to smoke pot. Oddly enough, when I was in my early teens, the number that would have better suited my friends and I would have been 24-7!
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Posted 25 October 2006 - 03:13 PM
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I'd never heard of the 420thing until a few years ago when I saw it on a poster at the mall. I asked my girlfriend what it meant and she said that it was hippy code for the time of day to smoke pot. Oddly enough, when I was in my early teens, the number that would have better suited my friends and I would have been 24-7!
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Posted 31 October 2006 - 07:18 AM
I always heard something about 420 being a police code back when they still used numbers... 420 obviously meaning there was a marijuana related 911 call.
Not exactly sure... I don't think anybody knows really - Every circle has what they believe. Maybe it just came from a bunch of different places?
Not exactly sure... I don't think anybody knows really - Every circle has what they believe. Maybe it just came from a bunch of different places?
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