At San Rafael High, a public high school in North Bay, in 1971 a group called the Waldos would say 420 to eachother when walking in between classes. Letting them know to be at the statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20pm to go toke.
Highway 420 had alot of weed growing along side it, and started being used to describe smoking pot. Some claim it's a police code for pot arrests. Others have claimed that they started the term by meeting at 4:20 after school to get high.
Even if it's not a police code, I find it hard to beleive that a group of hard core stoners(the San Rafael Waldos) had after school activities. ALL of them too, not just a couple. All the stoners I knew wouldn't even stay till the end of school, never mind staying for clubs or whatever. What clubs were these guys in? The Glee Club? And to be so precise with their times. It just doesn't sound at all like stoners to me. I think a few guys wanted their 15 minutes of fame and duped alot of people into thinking that they started the term '420' I would like to know where it REALLY started.
The 420 highway definition sounds alot more plausible to me.
1. The day where pot smokers unite and get fuckin blazed as shit
2. April 20th, 1999- Columbine shootings.
3. April 20th, 2006- Anna Svidersky gets murdered by some whackass fuck
4. Hitler's birthday. Fuck his shyt though.