Jeff’s 420 Post [VIDEO/AUDIO]
Today is 4/20, and to a lot of people 4-20 is more about weed. So, how did 420 become associated with marijuana?
The way we hear it, 420 was just a slang term that a group of smokers used and it just sort of caught on.
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Way back in the day in 1971, a group of stoners at San Rafael High School in California would meet up after school to smoke weed every day at 4:20 P.M. So, “4-20″ eventually became their code for EVERYTHING marijuana related. Then the term spread when they used it around some traveling Grateful Dead fans, who adopted it.
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Later on “HighTimes” magazine heard about it, and did a story, and now April 20 is 4/20 and sort of an unofficial holiday for potheads.
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EER… enjoy some more 4-20 related humor…
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