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General News of Monday, 20 April 2020

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What 420 days means ( A modest explainer)

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Simply put, 420 days is weed day. It is dedicated in the servitude of cannabis and it is marked in various location around the world on April 20th, hence the coinage 4/20.

420 is the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb - Let's Go 420, dude!



The earliest report of this cannabis smoking culture is traced to 1971 to five high school students in San Rafael, California,who used the term "4:20" in connection with a plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop, based on a treasure map made by the grower.

Calling themselves the Waldos, because their typical hang-out spot "was a wall outside the school",the five students (Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich) designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 PM as their meeting time. The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". After several failed attempts to find the crop, the group eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a code-word the teens used to refer to consuming cannabis.

April 20 has become an international counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. Many such events have a political nature to them, advocating the liberalization / legalization of cannabis. Vivian McPeak, a founder of Seattle's Hempfest states that 4/20 is "half celebration and half call to action". Paul Birch calls it a global movement and suggests that one cannot stop events like these.



On that day many marijuana users protest in civil disobedience by gathering in public to light up at 4:20 pm.