why do we smoke weed on april 20? 4/20?

Question

how did the celebration begin?

Answer 1

420 is the sign for Weed it just so happen to be a date as well.
the code 4 for the police in 11357.

Answer 2

Snopes.com, High Times magazine, The Marijuana-Logues, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, used to meet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue. One piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the number is always said "four twenty". This theory is also the most cited, and the most widely accepted.

Other possible suggested origins
The Bob Dylan song "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35". The song contains the lyrics "everybody must get stoned" prominently throughout the song. Since twelve multiplied by thirty-five equals 420, it has been suggested that this song is the original source of the term 420 in cannabis culture.
At some American junior or senior high schools, "after-school detention" ends at 4:20. Thus 4:20 signifies the time when the detainees are finally free to smoke after the school day.
The term could have possibly come from H. P. Lovecraft's short story, In the Walls of Eryx, which contains the line, "My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence... When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find that the time was only 4:20." This theory for the origin of 4:20 was first postulated on the official website for the band Tool.

Answer 3

oh thats an easy answer...


ok the whole national pot day holiday was started when a bunch of kids in california smoked weed on that day and at that time and they would only smoke on taht day and at that time and never else. throughout that years, more and more ppl started to join them, and the word about the new holiday spread thrughout the usa and taht is why on april 20 at 4:20 pm ppl all over the country will smoke pot!

Answer 4

april 20 is my b-day

Answer 5

there is no police code of 4-20, just to let you know, or 11537, or 5150!!! they only have the begging of 10 or 11 and are only 4 numbers long, unless they are like code 4 or some code like that, i would have to agree more with the girl before me that posted!

Answer 6

Because that's the stoners holiday man! Actually, it is a cop code for a person smoking weed.

Answer 7

My english instructor replaced into easily telling us the tale at present, yet i do not completely keep in recommendations it, something about a collection of people at this college that believed that illegilization of marijuana replaced into incorrect and as a protest wanting to all openly smoke weed on that day. apples! =D

Answer 8

EveryDay is 4:20 here in SoCal

Answer 9

This Ganja Gala had its humble beginnings when a group of high-school [stoner] buddies planned/agreed to meet for a little bong-related bizness...after school that day, i.e., @ 4:20~{{;>}~!!!

Answer 10

420 is police code for possession of marijuana

I'm a 5150
(reckless endangerment)
[ I am considered a danger to myself ]
Jumping off bridges , Jumping off embankments , swimming in the Sacramento river (Now that really was reckless endangerment) climbing trees to put in rope swings into the river (Also very risky behavior) swimming too far from the lake shore . yada yada yada...