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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 November 2024. 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 ...
Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century. [2] [3] [4]
Latin, or scientific name for the entire plant hemp, legally named marijuana, marihuana, ganja or Indian hemp in some jurisdictions. There are many other names for cannabis, [12] including commonly used terms grass, weed, and ganja. [2] Three recognized sub-species [13] include: Cannabis indica.
This year's high holiday will be extra trippy. April 20, known colloquially as 420 or a holiday for marijuana enthusiasts, falls on April 20, 2024, this year, or 4/20/2024, making it a palindrome ...
Of course the history is a bit hazy, but here’s what we know about the origin of ’420’ and weed.
Eventually, High Times reporter Steven Bloom found a flyer at a 1990 Grateful Dead concert that read, “We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge ...
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".
A slang scholar, Jonathon Green, noted in 2017 that even though various countries and US states were decriminalizing and legalizing cannabis, more slang terms were still being coined; he suggested that while the original need for euphemisms was because of the illegality, it had become part of the culture as those using the slang terms did not ...