Hugs Not Drugs
What does that really mean? It’s 420, happy 420. Oh and it’s pronounced four-twenty.
For those of you who are completely lost. Today it April 20(4/20). It’s the day just below the amsterdam festivals on a pothead’s list of “best days ever, man.”
According to wikipedia, 420 is simply cannabis culture. 420 “refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis drug subculture.”-wikipedia.
There are many theories to how this number became the codeword for all things marijuana related: It was the police code for marijuana, or that it was the Waldo’s meeting time to smoke after school everyday.
Myths?
-Concept420.com
Police dispatch code for smoking pot is 420- there is no code that is numbered 420.
There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana- it’s somewhere near 315-give or take
April 20th is National Pot Smokers Day- pretty much, it’s just not a legally recognized holiday
April 20th is Hitler’s birthday.-True
The date of the Columbine school shootings was 4/20-True
Pulp fiction has every clock set to 4:20 throughout the movie.-True
