What's this 420 thing all about then?

[Staurm]

Hello and welcome to my 420th anniversary thread, it is exactly 420 posts since I joined cannabis.com!

I've decided to mark this day by turning my avatar upside down, for a period of exactly 420 hours from now. MY avatar will be restored to its uprightly splendour on the morn of the 1st of July.

Anyway, I'd like to know why I am celebrating the number 420, can someone please explain to me the relevance of the 420 thing. What is it, 42 multiplied by 10? 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie? 20 past 4 in the morning?

:420thought:

[FakeBoobsRule]

It has to do with some kids used to meet up in front of some statue at 4:20 every day to smoke and it caught on. There is a thread on it but the thread has several explanations but this is the right one.

[Melkane]

Urban Legends Reference Pages: 420 (http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.asp)

[LIP]

420 (cannabis culture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29)

[M3nt0R]

...Anyway, I'd like to know why I am celebrating the number 420, can someone please explain to me the relevance of the 420 thing. What is it, 42 multiplied by 10? 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie? 20 past 4 in the morning?

:420thought:

LMAO you celebrate something with no prior knowledge of it, for all you knew it could have been the day that marijuana was illegalized in 1937!

[mrdevious]

Explanations I've heard:


- Bob Marley's birthday is on 4:20. LOL, I argued with my friends so much becaues they insisted this is right, then we researched marley and sure enough I won the argument:smokin:.

- The L.A. Police force's code for a marijuana offence was a 4:20 (first one I heard).

- Bob marley died at 4:20

- It's a day for dopefiends to celebrate Hitlers birthday, HAHAHA no shittin' I actaully heard this once.

[Nightcrewman]

Hello and welcome to my 420th anniversary thread, it is exactly 420 posts since I joined cannabis.com!

I've decided to mark this day by turning my avatar upside down, for a period of exactly 420 hours from now. MY avatar will be restored to its uprightly splendour on the morn of the 1st of July.

Anyway, I'd like to know why I am celebrating the number 420, can someone please explain to me the relevance of the 420 thing. What is it, 42 multiplied by 10? 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie? 20 past 4 in the morning?

:420thought:

I never knew either but was afraid to ask in case it was something I should have known but didn't, anyway now I know

NCM

[Staurm]

LMAO you celebrate something with no prior knowledge of it, for all you knew it could have been the day that marijuana was illegalized in 1937!

I thought I'd better give it the benefit of the doubt in case it was something important. :D

Thanks for the low down guys. :thumbsup:

[REEFERDREAMZ]

Total congrats Staurm on 420, all I know is 420 AM or 420 PM whatever time I am up I will smoke, soppose to be the time all stoners light up across the world, its a heart thing bra... Congrats, cant wait til my 420 post :dance::dance::dance:

[imitator]

I never really knew the "real" reason behind 420, too many explinations, not enough truth/logic behind them... so I just do it for my own reasons now.


Any time that I can smoke at 4:20, I dedicate it to all my fellow stoners who have ever been busted or screwed over for just smoking some grass... that bowl is for them, in their honor.

[Oneironaut]

- The L.A. Police force's code for a marijuana offence was a 4:20 (first one I heard).
This one is not true. The folks at snopes.com checked with the LAPD and they said that was not a code they used, nor has it ever been.


- It's a day for dopefiends to celebrate Hitlers birthday, HAHAHA no shittin' I actaully heard this once.
This is, of course, the truth. In fact, I have never met a pothead who wasn't a Neo-Nazi. When I'm chilling out smoking up a fattie with my friends, we get filled with such rage against Jews and Slavs and Gypsies and communists that we just want to kill them all with our bare hands to ensure that a pure Aryan race can take over the world.

[LIP]

This one is not true. The folks at snopes.com checked with the LAPD and they said that was not a code they used, nor has it ever been.


This is, of course, the truth. In fact, I have never met a pothead who wasn't a Neo-Nazi. When I'm chilling out smoking up a fattie with my friends, we get filled with such rage against Jews and Slavs and Gypsies and communists that we just want to kill them all with our bare hands to ensure that a pure Aryan race can take over the world.



Thank fuck your joking! Think, if anyone said that seriously they'd be dead before they could blink.

[PharmaCan]

Wellll - California Law SB 420 is the law that, for lack of a better word, implements Prop 215, the compassionate care initiative that legalized mmj.

The bill was passed 10/2003 so I suppose it would be easy enough to see if there are 420 references prior to that time.