2006-09-27 09:08:45 · 7 answers · asked by kwjkeller 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Where did the term and date "420" come from?
* 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 water tower. 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" and not "four hundred twenty." This theory is also the most cited, and the most widely-accepted.
* Marijuana grew wild on or near Highway 420 in Ontario in the 1960s. Whether or not this is true, Highway 420 is the location for an annual legalisation protest every April 20th.
* 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.
* 420 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which marijuana burns, the primary method of use.
* The term came from H. P. Lovecraft's Within 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".
2006-09-27 09:16:43 · answer #1 · answered by sharkscue 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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. 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.
2006-09-27 09:16:02 · answer #2 · answered by Duane A 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that when the cops bust someone with weed its a 420
2006-09-27 09:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by seven242003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does mean a weed bust. It also means April 20, according to some people i know: April 2Oth is national weed smoker's day.
2006-09-27 09:19:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
supposedly 4/20... as in April 20th has something to do with a so called.. "smoking weed day"....
2006-09-27 09:17:14 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Police code..
2006-09-27 09:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by limgrn_maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hitler's birthday. everything is revolved around his blasted birthday. i want something on mine...grrrrrrrrrrr
2006-09-27 09:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋