What Does 420 Mean to You? (420 = Slang for Marijuana)

For Real ^ | 2002 | Staff

[LADYRAIDER12]

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, 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. While our teens feel that they know something we don’t, you can let them in on the fact that it was your generation that came up with the numbers.

[LadyDeerHeart]

First I’m a product of the 70’s. I’ve been around marijuana my entire life and I’d never heard one person mention 4/20 ever.

Actually, marijuana is not a drug. It is an herb. It’s a weed in some parts of the world. Humans call it a drug because they want control of users just like they control alcohol. God made marijuana. Man made alcohol. Man made every other drug abused by anyone today. Did you know that the most abused drug in the world today is....drum roll please....over the counter pain pills. Advil. Tylenol. Asprin. Drugs are made in a petri dish using herbs and chemicals and who knows what else. I can understand why they call them illegal. But why anyone would ever think mari is a bad thing obviously hasn’t ever spent any time with her. She opens eyes. She sees truth. She enlightens the soul. She helps us forget the bad and remember the good.

I agree with you. It should be legal. (all drugs should be legal for that matter. At least then no one would be killing someone for their shoes to get any...but that’s another discussion.) It causes less damage and/or deaths than alcohol. No one ever sees news reports about kids killing someone for their shoes so they can go buy mari. But you hear every single day how someone died because someone else needed their shoes or money to go buy adictive drugs. Can you find a study that says how many drivers died because they were smoking pot? But I bet it takes less than a second on any search engine to find out how many people died because they were drinking or snorting or shooting up and driving. Just my two cents.