420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became ‘Weed Day’
By Ryan Grim
first published last year on April 20
Where does the expression 420 come from?
Depending on who you ask, or their state of inebriation, there are as many varieties of answers as strains of medical bud in California. It’s the number of active chemicals in marijuana. It’s teatime in Holland. It has something to do with Hitler’s birthday. It’s those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.
The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
The Huffington Post chased the term back to its roots and was able to find it in a lost patch of cannabis in a Point Reyes, California forest. Just as interesting as its origin, it turns out, is how it spread…
Read the full story: HuffingtonPost.com – 420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became ‘Weed Day’
