Some people say it started with a group of kids at school a long time ago, and it grew from there, but I dont buy it. Some say its the number of chemicals yada yada, some say its poilce code and pot heads stole it from them, another crappy answer.....Does anyone know the real actually documented first use of the term 420???
2007-02-16 15:35:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
In the year 420, some Roman soldiers were relaxing after a battle with a big fat blunt. In order to keep the officers from knowing that they were burning a fatty, they decided to call it a 420 session from then on. BTW...they rolled their blunts in papyrus leaves.
2007-02-16 15:57:07 · answer #1 · answered by Peachfish Whiskerbiscuit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to Wikipedia the origin is in dispute but:
According to Snopes.com, High Times magazine, The Marijuana-Logues, and The Straight Dope, 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 cannabis at the Louis Pasteur statue. This theory is the most cited and the most widely accepted.
hey wait a minute - that's what you just said already!
2007-02-16 23:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the generally accepted idea is that it started with The Waldos, a group of pot smokers in San Rafael in the '70s who used to meet at that time to smoke pot at their campus of statue Louis Pasteur.
I can tell you for sure that its not the number of chemicals in pot, nor is it police code for anything related to pot.
2007-02-16 23:41:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus W. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋