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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Number referring to cannabis 420 originally "4:20 Louis" Statue of Louis Pasteur at San Rafael High School, by Benny Bufano (1940), site of the earliest 4:20 gatherings in 1971 Observed by Cannabis counterculture, legal reformers, entheogenic spiritualists, and general users of cannabis ...
According to popular lore, 420 was started in the early 1970s by a group of students at Northern California's San Rafael High School.The group, which dubbed itself the Waldos, used to gather after ...
The Waldos may have never found the plant, but they did find a way to one of the biggest bands of all time, the Grateful Dead. In the 1970s, the Waldos had a few connections to the band.
During fall 1971, at 4:20 p.m., just after classes and football practice, the group would meet up at the school’s statue of chemist Louis Pasteur, smoke a joint and head out to search for the weed patch. They never did find it, but their private lexicon — “420 Louie” and later just “420” — would take on a life of its own.
4/20 started with five marijuana-smoking friends in California in 1970s, with a little help from the Grateful Dead.
420 is a slang term that refers to the consumption of cannabis. April 20th is commonly celebrated as a holiday dedicated to the drug, due the day being notated as 4/20 in the month-day-year format. Because of these associations, 420 has been humorously referred to as the "weed number". [7] 420 is the country calling code for Czech Republic.
Around the turn of the second millennium, the use of hashish (cannabis resin) began to spill over from the Persian world into the Arab world. Cannabis was allegedly introduced to Iraq in 1230 AD, during the reign of Caliph Al-Mustansir Bi'llah, by the entourage of Bahraini rulers visiting Iraq. [24]
Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their ...