420

420

When people hear the words four hundred and twenty, they think its just a number.   The number 420 symbolizes many other things.   420 is actually "codename" for smoking Ganja, cannabis, pot, weed, and some Mary j's.   Yes it means smoking marijuana.  
In today’s society 420 has been a term used by many different cultures.   According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot smoking teens who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50.   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, and its use spread among members of an entire generation.   To add to the definition regarding “The Waldos,” I would like to note that in the article, one of the members had this to say, “We had heard rumors that one of the member’s brothers had planted a pot patch in the wooded area around town.   We all wanted to go look for this patch of weed, so we devised to meet each other by the statue of Louis Pasteur after school.   Since we all had after school activities or electives that lasted about fifty minutes, and since it took about ten minutes to get from school to our after school activities, and another ten minutes to walk from the activities to the statue.   Since there were many of us, we decided that 4:20 would be a good time to meet so we could go search for the patch of pot.   We never did find it, but we had lots of fun getting high while trying to look for it.

Therefore, when they were at school, when they saw each other between classes they would secretively say “420” and maybe give the thumb and pointer finger to the mouth to indicate that was when they would meet up to look for the weed patch.   Since the waldos were such legendary potheads, when people who were not waldos saw this, it caught on and...