Wednesday, April 20, 2005

It's 4/20 Everyone!!!!


HAPPY HIPPY HOLIDAY Posted by Hello

Potheads across the country celebrate as the date is April 20th. Why is that date significant? A little history on this day from a stoner perspective.


  • 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."

  • 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.

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

Source:High Times Magazine

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