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How did 4/20 become a significant date for marijuana enthusiasts worldwide? It all started with five high school students in California searching for a hidden marijuana garden.
How did 4/20 become a significant date for marijuana enthusiasts worldwide? It all started with five high school students in California searching for a hidden marijuana garden.
How did 4/20 become a significant date for marijuana enthusiasts worldwide? It all started with five high school students in California searching for a hidden marijuana garden.
It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
Meet the 'founding fathers' of 420: How five California high schoolers - including the son of a DoJ NARCOTICS agent - coined term as a code for getting high 50 YEARS ago, and sparked the start of the now-infamous weed-themed 'holiday' David Reddix, 66, Steve Capper, 66, Larry Schwartz, Jeff Noel, 66, and Mark Gravich, 64, were friends at San Rafael High School in suburban San Francisco in the '70s In the fall of 1971, another classmate gave them a map to a marijuana garden that his brother-in-law had planted and abandoned The five teens made a plan to meet at 4:20 p.m. after school to search ...