4:20 and no stoner thread yet????

[mtbakerskier]

WTF, is everyone one of you way to stoned to realise today is 420 or did you just forget?????

LOL

Consider this a stoner publice service anouncemnt.


now if I could just rember where I left the bong.

[shera]

Here, here!!!

[Tap]

tokin' care of business right now!

[Crinkle]

i was up working till 2am last night so i took care of this long ago.

[Below Zero]

The Vapo will the out in full force this evening!

[Spicoli]

4:20?


thud, thud, thud

"You hear that? That's my skull!"

[raddam]

The Vapo will the out in full force this evening!

mmmmm.....Vapo

[Below Zero]

My buddy and I were watching "Fast times at Ridgmont High" on TBS last night.

Ah man, I forgot how funny that movie is.

One of my favorite lines:

[Spicoli has had a pizza delivered to class.]

Mr. Hand: Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?

Jeff Spicoli: Learning about Cuba, and having some food.

[Lane Meyer]

now if I could just rember where I left the bong.

It's under your pile of polymer chem books....

[mtbakerskier]

this reminds me of the best ever lift ticket saying: a few years ago on april 20th Baker decided it would be a good idea to put "Thanks Herb" on their ticket.

[splat]

Free Tommy.

[Karl Stall]

Dude, I think Tommy is out - he was just on Stern a few weeks ago.

[raddam]

Dude, I think Tommy is out - he was just on Stern a few weeks ago.

great news!!
lets get stoned!

[Mcwop]

Stu Naham: A lot of people expected maybe Mark Cutback Davis or Bob Jungle Death Gerard would take top honors this year?

Jeff Spicoli: Ohhhhhh! Those guys are fags!

[Tippster]

Fucking men... I mean Cops. Dammit, shoulda waited a day to go to Ice's.

[summit]

Why the hell was 4-20 chosen as pot day? It's Hitler's birthday (and the day of the Columbine School Massacre).

[Core Shot]

Why the hell was 4-20 chosen as pot day? It's Hitler's birthday (and the day of the Columbine School Massacre).

420 TIMELINE 420 is not so much a time or place as it is a state of mind. A stoned state of mind, to be specific. In the past, HIGH TIMES has reported on various competing theories surrounding the appearance of this unique bit of smoker slang, but as the following timeline clearly shows, the controversy has been resolved.
The original story of 420 begins with five fellow students - all of whom assumed the nom de pot Waldo - who met after school at the appointed hour to smoke some of Californias finest, and occasionally searched for a hidden pot feild they'd heard about in the hills outside town.

1971 - Five San Rafael High School students christen the term "4:20," meeting daily at that hour to share a smoke under the school's statue of Louis Pasteur. The original password: "420 Louis."

1972 - Carmen Electra is born on 4/20 in Cincinnati.

1973-1989 - 420 languishes in obscurity, passed along from stoner to stoner as a completely underground "grassroots" phenomenon.

1990 - A mysterious flyer promoting 420 circulates at Grateful Dead shows, especially in Northern California. A copy of the flyer finds its way from a show in Oakland to HIGH TIMES' offices in New York. San Rafael was the home of Grateful Dead Productions, supporting a link back to the original Waldos, who are not mentioned in the flyer.

1991 - HIGH TIMES publishes the text of the mysterious flyer, which claims that 420 started in San Rafael, CA, "as a police code for marijuana smoking in progress." It also promotes "the grandmaster of all holidays: 4/20, or April 20th."

1994 - Clocks in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction are set at 4:20.

1995 - The Cannabis Action Network stages its first annual 4/20 Ball in San Francisco at Maritime Hall. The event begins and ends at 4:20.

1997 - HIGH TIMES launches 420.com, taking 420 into the digital world.

1998 - HIGH TIMES debunks the "marijuana smoking in progress" theory and declares the Waldos the true originators of 420 after the group produces letters and posters to prove this claim.

1999 - Columbine: The worst thing to happen on 4/20 since Hitler was born 90 years earlier.

2002 - The original Waldos reunite at the HIGH TIMES Doobie Awards in New York City to present a lifetime achievement award to their favorite band, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, who reunite for one night only and perform their classic marijuana anthem "Panama Red."

2003 - Carmen Electra marries Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.

2004 - Clocks in Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation are set at 4:20. Coppola and Tarantino become an item.

2005 - HIGH TIMES suggests moving 4:20 to 5:20: "When you're working a 9-to-5 job, sometimes it's worth waiting the extra hour."

PRESENT - You finished reading this 420 timeline.

[Below Zero]

Why the hell was 4-20 chosen as pot day? It's Hitler's birthday (and the day of the Columbine School Massacre).

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What is 420?
Home > Marijuana Information > What is 420?
What does 420 mean? There are varying theories on the origin of 420. Some say that 420 originated from a police code that announces marijuana use is taking place. Yet another story is that a group of guys (Waldo's) in the 1970's made 4:20 their official meeting time to smoke marijuana after school. Whether or not 4:20 p.m. is the best time of day for your first hit depends on your own body, your own needs. Some folks feel that waiting until 4:20 enhances ones appreciation of the herb. Of course, your mileage may vary.

In the 21st Century, 420 is firmly established as a code amongst tokers, a time of day and even sort of a toker's New Year's Day. It's in our culture now and only time will tell where it ends up.

April 20th (4/20) is another usage, meaning that it is time for to plant before the summer.

Whatever the real story is, 420 has been an important part of the marijuana culture since the 1970's. The significance of 420 has been kept underground and is mostly known only among marijuana smokers. Many non-smokers aren't aware of the symbolism when they see someone wearing a T-shirt or baseball cap that says 420 across the front.

When the 420 icon is somehow discreetly worked into a mainstream product like a film, marijuana users take notice. The film Pulp Fiction is rumored to have had all clocks throughout the movie set to 4:20. Marijuana smokers familiar with the symbol picked up on it—most people, however, did not.

While some marijuana smokers are using 420 as a code that enables them to openly speak about marijuana in front of parents or teachers. 420 has been to some, a sacred symbol for nearly 30 years.

Simply put, 420 is a symbol of cannabis and its culture. Today, April 20th events are international, and 4:20 pm has become sort of a world wide "burn time".



Known 420 Myths

Police dispatch code for smoking pot is 420.
The number 420 is not police radio code for anything, anywhere. Checks of criminal codes suggest that the origin is neither Californian nor federal. For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a misdemeanor the hindrance of use of public lands.

There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana.
Actually, there are approximately 315 active chemicals in marijuana. This number goes up and down depending on which plant is used.

April 20th is National Pot Smokers Day.
Well, it is now ; but that wasn't the origin.

April 20th is Hitler's birthday.
Yes, it is his birthday. But, as 420 started out as a time, not a date, his birthday had nothing to do with it.

The date of the Columbine school shootings.
This happened after the term was already in use.

4:20 is tea time for pot-smokers in Holland.
Tea time in Holland is at 5:30 pm, or is it 2:30 pm? Seems no one is quite sure when the wonderful people of Holland drink their tea.

[splat]

420 got it's start at a college in Petaluma, where students had a ritual get-together everyday after class. It actually started as '420 Louis', because the meeting place was beneath a statue of Robert Louis Stevenson. It started as a time, not a date, spreading beyond the Bay Area to become the international time to smoke pot.

[tuffy109]

splat, are that that stoned that you already forgot what you read 30 seconds ago?

[splat]

Uh, maybe it was Louis Pastuer. Read 20 minutes ago? I'm going off a full page article I read that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple years ago.

edit:

splat, are that that stoned that you already forgot what you read 30 seconds ago?

Is'n you you so so rippppped, youz forgittin how to scribble?

[MOHSHSIHd]

cops? what?

4/20/04 CU

[Spicoli]

Uh, maybe it was Louis Pastuer. Read 20 minutes ago? I'm going off a full page article I read that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple years ago.

edit:

Is'n you you so so rippppped, youz forgittin how to scribble?

Dude, you just read it 2 or 3 posts above. Quit hoggin' the pipe, pass it over here. Anyone want to go get some nachos?

[splat]

cooookies..............

[sea2ski]

[QUOTE=Below Zero]My buddy and I were watching "Fast times at Ridgmont High" on TBS last night.

QUOTE]

A fun game to play when you see this movie in it's safe for Broadcast form.

Bong Hit for each time the original word is replaced with a safe for Broadcast word.