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I'm suprised that NORML isn't doing anything official in DC on 4/20... they are holding off until 4/22... making it a long weekend.

I guess that's what happens when you get older and start having responsabilities... you have to wait for the weekend.
 
im going to wake up at four fifteen and have a cone at 4:20

my mates had another version an autralian day they called fuj day (pronounced fooj)and just bonged all day and had a tecki and drew a line on their arm every time they had a cone
 
h@ndo said:
WTF is fourtwenty never heard of it until I came on BL I'm thinking it is mainly an American thing yeah ?

hence the 420 coming from the date 20th April 8)
420 shouldn't it be 204 then for the 20th of the 4th (April) ;)

Silly Americans ;)

Anyhoo I'll be smokin' but not because of 420 it's just another day =D
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420 was the police scanner code for possession of marijuana, but has since been changed.
 
^^^ that's actually an urban myth, 420 was never the code. there's an faq on it somewhere

http://newyork.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/2884925.html

there we go. in case you can't link or it doesn't work: (long)

Conventional wisdom: The most common tale is that 420 is the police radio code or criminal code (and therefore the police "call") in certain part(s) of California (e.g. in Los Angeles or San Francisco) for having spotted someone consuming cannabis publicly, i.e. "pot smoking in progress"; that local cannabis users picked up on the code and began celebrating the number temporally (esp. 4:20 a.m., 4:20 p.m., and April 20); that the number became nationally popularized in the late 1980s and, more ferverently, in the early- to mid-1990s; and is colloquially applied to a variety of relaxed and/or inspired contexts, including not only pot consumption but also a "good time" more generally (in contrast to the drug war surrounding).

Conventions are legends: 420 is not police radio code for anything, anywhere. Checks of criminal codes (including those of the City of San Francisco, the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, the State of California, and the federal penal code) suggest that the origin is neither Californian nor federal (the two best guesses). For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a misdemeanor the hindrance of use ("obstructing entry") of public lands, and California Family Code 420 defines what constitutes a wedding ceremony (Marco). One state does come close: "The Illinois Department of Revenue classifies the Alcoholic Liquor Act under Part 420, and the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tax Act are next, under Part 428." (RB 5/19/99)

True story?: "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 wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. ``Waldo Steve,' a member of the group who now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would salute each other in the school hallway and say ``420 Louis!' The term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one that caught on. ``It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of things, like `Do you have any?' or `Do I look stoned?' ' he said. ``Parents and teachers wouldn't know what we were talking about.' The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate and be appropriated by commercial interests. The Waldos contacted Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420's history, primarily a collection of postmarked letters from the early '70s with lots of mention of 420. They also started a Web site, waldo420.com. ``We have proof, we were the first,' Waldo Steve said. ``I mean, it's not like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a phrase. But it's kind of an honor that this emanated from San Rafael.'" Maria Alicia Gaura for the San Francisco Chronicle, 4/20/00 p. A19; and thanks to Noah Cole for the submission
 
OMFG where do these things come from..? I bet that we'll have three more of these threads by tomorrow! =D
 
Have a good 4/20

Just a post to wish everyone on the board a happy 4/20

If youre in Canada there will be a few hundred people all around pariliment hill all day, and theres a march in downtown toronto.

heres a link on the origin/history/meaning of 4:20

http://420.com/420site/home/


Everyone have a good day and smoke safely =D
 
HAPPY 420 everyone.......wake and baked before I went to work and still have a full day ahead of me (its only 9:51am in Florida) but wanted to wish everybody a day day full of bluts and bowls.

My friend is throwing an all day smoking party. He made special brownies too. I can't wait to get the hell out of work. Anyways be safe and keep lots of snacks around. And don't forget to tip the delivery guy!! lol

peace
 
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