Some guys up in Berkely would make it a point to smoke out at 4:20pm.

Then people started using the whole 20th of April in reverence of it.

Hitler was born on April 20th.

The Columbine Massacre was committed on the 20th of April as well.

 

 

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

 

Stay IRIE and smoke a phatty. going to hippie hill in SF if anyone wants to join. send me a pm and i will send you my number so we can meet up. also i will be smoking Hookah out there as well.

 

Hmm...I heard Cal Berkley. My dad went there during the late 60s and early 70s and told me all about the crazy antics that would go on.

 

Seems Jeff is right... everything i searched on for the term 420 i get this back..

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.

Known Myths

* Police dispatch code for smoking pot is 420. The number 420 is not police radio code for anything, anywhere. Checks of criminal codes suggest that the origin is neither Californian nor federal. For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a misdemeanor the hindrance of use of public lands.
* There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana. Actually, there are approximately 315 active chemicals in marijuana. This number goes up and down depending on which plant is used.
* April 20th is National Pot Smokers Day. Well, it is now; but that wasn't the origin.
* April 20th is Hitler's birthday. Yes, it is his birthday. But, as 420 started out as a time, not a date, his birthday had nothing to do with it.
* April 20th is the date of the Columbine school shootings. This happened after the term was already in use.
* 4:20 is tea time for pot-smokers in Holland. Tea time in Holland is at 5:30 pm, or is it 2:30 pm? Seems no one is quite sure when the wonderful people of Holland drink their tea.

 

can someone tell me how 4/20 is related to some kind of mary's birthday?
i know its hitler's birthday, what does that have to do with hemp.

edit: just read couple of posts above :X

 

 

I'll bring the capt'n crunch.