What is 4/20? The meaning behind the marijuana celebration day

[yuiyoshida]

Rejoice, smokers of weed (or just continue to comfortably sit and marathon-watch Netflix with a bucketload of snacks). Today is 4/20, AKA the only worldwide holiday in celebration of the joy of marijuana.

But what is 4/20? Why do we celebrate it? And what do these specific numbers have to do with weed?

First off, the easy bit. 4/20 refers to April 20, written the American way with the month first and the day second. It’s widely considered to be an annual day of marijuana joy, marked by weed-themed festivals, brands doing food offers with a weed-themed twist, and plenty of smoking.

Now, on to the history of 4/20. Buckle your seatbelts.
People think 4/20 refers to a secret police code


I’ll be real. This is EXACTLY what I always thought 4/20 referred to, and it seems to be what most cannabis fans believe when it comes to the day.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/20/what-is-420-the-meaning-behind-the-marijuana-celebration-day-5828449/#ixzz4eo3jTcAz

[stonecutter357]

1. happy 420 !

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Because of the nursery rhyme: "Four an twenty blackbirds baked." n/t xp (tm) pat. pend.

[jmowreader]

3. I knew it was a time ref but not about the Waldos

I went to a high school that served a big area, low population county. It was on a hill across the river from the grade school, where the bus garage was. They only wanted to run one bus to...oh, say Santa*, so everyone who lived out there caught one of the express buses to the elementary school then changed buses.

The kids who smoked weed did it under the bleachers in Central Park.

School let out at 3:15.
The bus left school at 3:50.
It arrived at the garage at 4:15.
And it was a five minute walk to the bleachers.

One of my high school teachers got busted for growing weed in his front window. The case got thrown out of court because the sheriff was too stupid to send a sample to the police lab in Boise before the trial and, since he hadn't been to drug identification training, he wasn't legally entitled to identify pot plants. After the acquittal, he taught in that district for 10 more years.

(Oh yeah...the Santa story...it's a tiny hamlet that gets huge from Black Friday to Christmas; everyone mails Christmas cards from there for the postmark.)

[stonecutter357]

4. this is a must watch.

&ytbChannel=Facts.

[stonecutter357]

5. It's safe to plant crops in the US after April 20 , no frost till the fall.

[deek]

6. happy 420!

international holiday!