420

[Donald Trump]

So far the majority of you are incorrect.
420s origin IS known.
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.
So there ya go, someones parents out there invented the term 4/20.
And remember this:
There are NOT 420 chemicals in Weed. Its about 315, the num. goes up or down depending on what youre smoking.
4/20 is NOT police code or Maryjane.
And that whole shit about Holland and 4/20 over there being tea time for smokers isnt true either.
I know my shit.

[Mark Zuckerberg]

Common misconceptions point to crazy theories about weed but the truth is it is actuly a number between 419 and 421.

[Couch Potatoe]

420, indeed, was thought of years ago as the time of day some people got together to smoke pot. Now it is used as code for Lets go get high. Also, some people consider it to be April 20th that is National Pot Smoking Day.
I prefer all of the above.

[Mark Zuckerberg]

To add to the definition regarding The Waldos, Id like to note that in an article of High Times containing an interview with the waldos, one of them told this story:
We had heard rumors that one of the members brothers had planted a pot patch in the wooded area around town. We all wanted to go look for this patch of weed, so we devised to meet eachother by the statue of Louis Pasteur after school. Since we all had after school activities or electives that lasted about fifty minutes, and since it took about ten minutes to get from school to our after school activities, and another ten minutes to walk from the activites to the statue. Since there were many of us we decided that 420 would be a good time to meet so we could go search for the patch of pot. We never did find it, but we had lots of fun getting high while trying to look for it.

[Sonia]

The term 420 is used widely in Cannabis culture as a time to get high, a national day to get high, and cannabis itself.

There are a lot of different theories about how the word was first invented:

:: San Rafael theroy ::
In the early 1970s, a group of teenagers who attended San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to get high every day at 4:20 in the afternoon under the Louis Pasteur statue.

:: Bob Dylan theroy ::
In Bob Dylans song, Rainy Day Women #12

[Jessica]

420 is april 20 the day to smoke your best bud, or national pot smoking day. It all started with a bunch of teenagers called the Waldos.

[Donald Trump]

who really cares...its 420 right now!!!

[Kai]

In 1971, five high school students – Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich – in San Rafael, California, calling themselves [the Waldos] because their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school, used the term in connection with a 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about, based on a [treasure map] made by the grower. [The Waldos] designated the [Louis Pasteur] statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time. The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase 4:20 Louis. After several failed attempts to find the crop, the group eventually shortened their phrase to simply 4:20, which ultimately evolved into a code-word that the teens used to mean consuming cannabis.

Mike Edison says that Steven [Hager] of High Times was responsible for taking the story about the Waldos to mind-boggling, cult-like extremes and suppressing all other stories about the origin of the term. Hager wrote Stoner Smart or Stoner Stupid?, in which he attributed the early spread of the phrase to Grateful Dead followers – after Reddix became a roadie for the [Deads] bassist, [Phil Lesh] – and called for 4:20 p.m. to be the socially accepted hour of the day to consume cannabis.

[Renato]

Used to refer to cannabis or to the act of smoking cannabis.