4.20
This simple combination of numbers has started off more speculation into its meaning than any other I can think of. Most people mistakenly believe that it is some sort of California police code which supposedly means "Marijuana smoking in progress." That's not true.
I mean, let's look at that reasonably, first off... if it truly meant that... let's just picture L.A. for a second... the police scanner would be ablaze with nothing but 4.20 calls all damn day. I sometimes wonder if the smog over L.A. is not truly an inversion effect complicated by auto exhaust fumes, but rather a more Cheech and Chong "Up In Smoke" sort of effect from all the pot smoking that goes on in that city.
Of course, from what I've heard, they don't even compare to places like Boulder, Colorado. Not that I would know personally from experience, mind you. I have never been too Boulder.
And, no, it's not that I was so high that I couldn't remember it, neither.
But I know some hippies and hippie types... and they tell me that it's a very chill community. Denver too. They often joke about the whole "Mile High" thing. Go figure.
Anyways, another misguided belief is that 4.20 refers to the number of different compounds or the number of different carcinogens to be found in marijuana smoke. Again, this is not true. Even given the different blends and "brands" of pot out there, one can immediately see that it would be impossible to simply put 420 out there as the absolute number of chemicals in weed.
What may be closest to true has to do with a code used by buddies at some California school on where and/or when to meet to go get high... Pretty lame, yeah? But at the very least, assuming this is the truth, it does retain the whole 4.20 = let's go get high fact in all of the rumored meanings... which is good. Every good lie holds a nice kernel of truth in it to make it an easy to swallow pill.
But it's funny how the truth gets right out of the way of a good story, isn't it?
Kinda makes me wonder what people 50 years from now will think 4.20 stands for then.
Well, maybe some of us will still be around - if so, well... remember us from way back when, when we were already wrong...
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posted by wopanese @ 11:27
5 Smack Me:
4.20 holds some good and bad memories for me. But this is another year and you are playing this 4.20 so it is already starting off on a good foot. Can't wait for tomorrow. I know you are going to blow the crowd away!!!!!
Okay, I think I know what you're talking about. I am confused so much you'd think I DID smoke pot. Anyhoo, 4/20 is the day everybody is supposed to smoke pot at 4:20, right? Gawd, the really sad part is I didn't even know that much until a few years ago when I started going to college. :)
ahem. WHERE is your hnt? chop chop lollipop.
It always made sense that it was the time of day that pot smoking is to occur. If it's kids, then this is the time when they would have just arrived home from school.
As for me... I like mine later in the evening. ;)
shari - all dates are singular in nature, but I understand. 4.1 sucked for me, personally... Thanks for the good wishes
jodi - maybe you inhaled when you didn't even KNOW it? Ever think of that? ;)
grody - hey, it's up there.
summer - and it was late in the evening... and I blew that room away!!! yeah, that's how I felt last night. But you're right on the after school tip.
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