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― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came Is it 4:20 already? to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
It is not a call code, or a penal code entry:
Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne, Tim's Wife (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)
I bought an Orangina.
― DEEBZ (ddb), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)