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The origin of 420
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420 to me sounds like a kid sort of term. I mean 15 years ago if you said that no one basically would know what you meant.
Today just about everyone knows what you're talkin about.

So where did the term originate. Some people say its a police code for smokin the herbs. Others will tell you that it started from a group of California high schooler kids for their time to go smoke up.

Here is my take. I was reading an article about pot and medical pot in an old Omni magazine (remember that mag?). Anyway it was mentioning the active chemical compounds in pot and guess how many there are. Yep; 420.

So who really knows where the term 420 came from. I just think it makes me feel old because we always called it by the old school names back in the day.What do you think about the term and any possible meaning you have attributed to it


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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anyone know if anything big happened in july 1977 regarding weed?

if so i know where 420 came from

i think it has something to do with a date and them numbers


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: makaveli8x8]
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Aw, yes, The Summer of 77. I drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. It was also very hot that summer.

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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that just reminded me that I needed to get some weed either tonight or tomorrow.


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: Banez]
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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: GoodbyeOrb]
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GoodbyeOrb said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29


There you go.



That doesn't tell you shit except for what he already mentioned.

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: makaveli8x8]
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makaveli8x8 said:
anyone know if anything big happened in july 1977 regarding weed?




I remember weed was very cheap, compared to todays prices.

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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I read an article somewhere that said Hoffman dosed on purpose the first time at 4:20 p.m.


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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altershroom said:
420 to me sounds like a kid sort of term. I mean 15 years ago if you said that no one basically would know what you meant.
Today just about everyone knows what you're talkin about.

So where did the term originate. Some people say its a police code for smokin the herbs. Others will tell you that it started from a group of California high schooler kids for their time to go smoke up.

Here is my take. I was reading an article about pot and medical pot in an old Omni magazine (remember that mag?). Anyway it was mentioning the active chemical compounds in pot and guess how many there are. Yep; 420.





Origins and Observances

It is widely accepted 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.[2] [3] Many cannabis users continue to observe 4:20 as a time to smoke communally. By extension April 20 ("4/20" in U.S. dating shorthand) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.

This is correct

Here is my take. I was reading an article about pot and medical pot in an old Omni magazine (remember that mag?). Anyway it was mentioning the active chemical compounds in pot and guess how many there are. Yep; 420.

this is NOT. Im not sure but there are MANY more chems than 420


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: LloydChristmas]
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LloydChristmas said:
I read an article somewhere that said Hoffman dosed on purpose the first time at 4:20 p.m.



possible but that was before pot was associated with the number.

the day was 4/19 Bicycle Day

HazzaH!


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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I don't know it's origins, but thanks to the internet, it sure has proliferated.

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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420 is retarded


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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:yesnod:

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: Boom]
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420 has no significance to me since I smoke every day anyway.


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: altershroom]
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:albundy:


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: Sterile]
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all i know is that 4/20 is Hitler's Birthday...

i hope the two are not related.

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: TameMe]
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Retarded stoners are nazi sympathizers.


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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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I heard something like it is to honor the largest burn of confiscated weed by the government.

My stoner friend that reads "high times" used to tell me that. I dunno

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Re: The origin of 420 [Re: udontknowme]
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So anyway I still think 420 seems to me like some kids saying. Maybe It's just my age. And I think it is like religion or some scientific theory, we believe in what we subscribe to.

Anyway here is the excerpt from that Omni Magazine article that is my cornerstone in my belief.

Reefer Madness. Omni September 1982

..."It becomes clear that doctors will probably never prescribe marijuana until the labs have found a way to take the fun out of it. So researchers are devoting as much attention to that effort as they are to exploring new medical uses for this age-old drug. Using Cannabis sativa grown on a U.S. government plantation hidden somewhere in Mississippi, chemists have already isolated420 complex organic chemicals from the plant. Of these, one seems to have a monopoly on medical potency: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC for short. And the high? That also comes from THC."


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