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Happy Holiday fucking stoners, I'll grab a beer
 
Originally posted by Seany-izzle@Apr 20 2005, 10:48 AM
WOO HOO!!! i just took my microeconomics final and now its time to party. does anyone know where it comes from, the 420? i KNOW its NOT the stupid police code cuz a 4-20 is a traffic violation.. ive been told that its when marijuana became illegal.. april 20th 1937.


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incorrect, the term 420 comes from a bunch of kids in some high school in cali that would always smoke out at 4:20 pm, right after school i guess
 
Originally posted by Blanco@Apr 21 2005, 04:48 AM
Yeah, that's what I've always heard and then at 4:20 on 4/20, you're supposed to get stoned completely stupid. :lol:
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and boy did i.
 
My chem test started at 4:30, so I missed the goup of 50 of my friends haveing a smokeout by the river @ 4:20 :(. However after my test I proceeded to smoke myself silly :)

6.2g Blunts are my friend :D
 
ah the good old days.

smoking on the Delaware River behind the school.

Gettin there was a chore. Sitting at the door at 9 am, waiting for the right moment to make a dash across the 1000 ft open field (yea right, no ones gonna see us run across, while half the buildings windows and 1000 kids watched us run. The best times were when the hall monitors and security guards chased us.

We only actually got caught once going that way though. They got smart and had a hall moniter waiting for us at the bottom of the cliff. Cory (slammedlude) knows him I'm sure...Mr. Lanfrank
 
Originally posted by SolReaver+Apr 21 2005, 01:25 AM-->
Seany-izzle
@Apr 20 2005, 10:48 AM
WOO HOO!!! i just took my microeconomics final and now its time to party. does anyone know where it comes from, the 420? i KNOW its NOT the stupid police code cuz a 4-20 is a traffic violation.. ive been told that its when marijuana became illegal.. april 20th 1937.


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incorrect, the term 420 comes from a bunch of kids in some high school in cali that would always smoke out at 4:20 pm, right after school i guess
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We have a winner!

Odd terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.

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.

These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:

* 420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California.

Nope. 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.

However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.

* It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.

It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.

* It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.

The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.

* April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died.

Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.

* The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana.

There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.

* Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943.

This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)

* It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager.

Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."

* When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420.

Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.

Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"

420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.

However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.

Thank you, Snopes.
 
I never bought into the 420 myths.

To me, it's still a day to get plastered.

This year was the worst in a while, too many people in trouble.

well heres a few pics..then the camera went dead.

me looking completely stupid....yet sober [sigh]
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Tharon passed out, he smoked WAY too much. Melissa is all fucked up but still in an awakening state
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lets all thank Sabz for his sobbering explanation. good shit. but yeah id have to say my 420 was kinda lame. like the past years fucked up to the pointt im walkin funny. but this year smoked many blunts but i didnt do anything special for the day just got hi and chilled
 
thank you for sobering me up lol. 420, for me, was awesome, great times with great friends. met a bunch of new people, had great times. weed brings people together, just like beer :D
 
Oh, a 2 year old was in the room when you were smoking, how nice.
 
lol, thats a non smoking hotel room.

we weren't smoking in there.

edit** THEY weren't smoking in there

I'm not retarded...Amazingly enough, I actually am a good father to my kids.
 
Originally posted by Citizen_Insane@Apr 21 2005, 12:07 PM
My chem test started at 4:30, so I missed the goup of 50 of my friends haveing a smokeout by the river @ 4:20 :(. However after my test I proceeded to smoke myself silly :)

6.2g Blunts are my friend :D
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almost a 1/4 in a blunt?

what were you using to roll it, a newspaper?
 
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