420 (cannabis culture)

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420 , 4:20 , 4/20 or 420 Blaze It (pronunciation: four-twenty ) is a common code word in the United States for the regular use of cannabis and is often used to identify with the cannabis culture. Starting with the number 420, cannabis will be smoked at 4:20 pm and various festivities will be held on April 20 (in the US date format 4/20).

origin

A group in San Rafael, California calling themselves "The Waldos" used the term in connection with a plan in the fall of 1971 to look for an abandoned cannabis plantation. After obtaining a treasure map of the original grower, members of the group identified a statue of Louis Pasteur in the San Rafael High School grounds as the location and 4:20 pm (4:20 pm) as the time to meet . The Waldos therefore gave their plan the code name "4:20 Louis". After several unsuccessful attempts to find the plantation, this phrase was later shortened to "4:20" and eventually became a general code word for smoking marijuana. Mike Edison claims that Steven Hager at High Times magazine was responsible for bringing this Waldo story to its "cult-like extremes" and "suppressing" all other stories about the origin of the term.

Hager wrote an article calling 4:20 the socially acceptable time of day for cannabis use. He attributes the early spread of the term to the supporters of the Deadheads , who also have references to the city of San Rafael.

Events on April 20th

Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2010

April 20 has been in North America an unofficial holiday of the counterculture , where people meet for the common use of cannabis and this celebration. Some of these events have a political character and call for the legalization of cannabis .

Celebrations in North America took place on “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco , on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado , on Parliament Hill in Ottawa , in Major's Hill Park in Montreal , at the Mount Royal Monument in Edmonton , at the Alberta Legislature Building in Alberta and on Sunset Beach in Vancouver . As the unofficial events at the University of Santa Cruz grew , the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs emailed student parents in 2009, describing the growth as worrying for the university and the surrounding community. Events also took place in New Zealand at the University of Otago in Dunedin .

In 2017, an event took place in Görlitzer Park , Berlin , in Germany.

Effects

Traffic signs labeled "420" are increasingly stolen in the USA. In Colorado , to prevent these thefts, the Colorado Roads Authority replaced milestone 420 on I-70 east of Denver with a stone labeled 419.99. In Idaho, the lettering on milestone 420 on Highway 95 has been replaced with 419.9. In Goodhue County, Minnesota , the city government changed the street signs from "420 St" to "42x St". The German-language cannabis magazine Highway , which has been published since 2016, is published by the publisher “Four Twenty Solutions GmbH”.

See also

Web links

Commons : 420 (cannabis culture)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matt King: Thousands at UCSC burn one to mark cannabis holiday . In: Santa Cruz Sentinel . April 24, 2007. Archived from the original on April 26, 2007.
  2. ↑ Stoner Chic Traces Origin To San Rafael - Snickering high schoolers brought '420' 'into lexicon . In: San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  3. ^ Jesse McKinley: Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change . In: The New York Times , April 19, 2009. Archived from the original on January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2011. “Mr. Hager said the significance of April 20 dates to a ritual begun in the early 1970s in which a group of Northern California teenagers smoked cannabis every day at 4:20 pm Word of the ritual spread and expanded to a yearly event in various places. Soon, cannabis aficionados were using "420" as a code for smoking and using it as a sign-off on flyers for concerts where the drug would be plentiful. In recent years, the April 20 events have become so widespread that several colleges have discouraged students from participating. " 
  4. ↑ a b The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook: More Than 50 Irresistible Recipes That Will Get You High. Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-1-4521-0133-0 , p. 97 .
  5. ↑ a b Ryan Grim: 420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became 'Weed Day' . In: The Huffington Post . April 20, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ Alyssa Pereira: Local originators of term 420 solve 45-year-old mystery , San Francisco Chronicle. April 20, 2016. 
  7. ↑ Ryan Grim : What 420 Means: The True Story Behind Stoners' Favorite Number . In: The Huffington Post . April 20, 2009. Archived from the original on January 30, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 23, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huffingtonpost.com
  8. ↑ Mike Edison: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. Faber & Faber ISBN 978-0-86547-903-6 , p. 207, books.google.com .
  9. ↑ a b Stoner Smart, or Stoner Stupid? . In: High Times . 2008. Archived from the original on May 14, 2012. Retrieved on April 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ Karen Bettez Halnon: The power of 420 . April 11, 2005. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ 420 event lists - Cannabis Wiki
  12. ↑ A Huge Turn Out for 420 Day on Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park "San Francisco Citizen . Sfcitizen.com. April 20, 2010. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  13. ^ Jesse McKinley: Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change . In: The New York Times , April 19, 2009. Archived from the original on January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2011. “Mr. Hager said the significance of April 20 dates to a ritual begun in the early 1970s in which a group of Northern California teenagers smoked cannabis every day at 4:20 pm Word of the ritual spread and expanded to a yearly event in various places. Soon, cannabis aficionados were using "420" as a code for smoking and using it as a sign-off on flyers for concerts where the drug would be plentiful. In recent years, the April 20 events have become so widespread that several colleges have discouraged students from participating. " 
  14. ↑ CU's 4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000: CU News ( Memento from July 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  15. ↑ Medical marijuana expected to give momentum to CU-Boulder 4/20 event - Boulder Daily Camera . Dailycamera.com. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  16. ↑ Pot activists to light up on Hill ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  17. ^ Ottawa's Parliament Hill just one site for planned 4/20 protest . Digitaljournal.com. Archived from the original on May 11, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  18. ↑ 420 Day Cannabis Festival . samesun.com Samesun Nation Travel Blog. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  19. ↑ Canada's marijuana activists unite against American-style drug laws - 420 vote mobs to be held in over 10 cities across Canada on April 20th ( Memento from September 7th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  20. ↑ Hundreds of Tokers Flood Alberta Legislature in protest to push for Legalization of Marijuana . Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  21. ^ Lisa Johnson: 4/20 pot rally draws tens of thousands in Vancouver . In: CBC News , April 20, 2016. 
  22. ↑ Genevieve Bookwalter: Mom and Dad now know about '4/20' . In: Santa Cruz Sentinel , April 7, 2009. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2013. 
  23. ↑ Debbie Porteous: Police swoop on cannabis protest . In: Otago Daily Times . June 12, 2008. Accessed March 31, 2009.
  24. ↑ 420 Protest . In: Channel 9 News Dunedin . February 22, 2008. Archived from the original on October 22, 2008. Retrieved on October 7, 2008.
  25. ↑ Debbie Porteous: Campus arrests follow marijuana complaints (+ video) . In: Otago Daily Times . July 11, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  26. ^ Allison Rudd: Moore's appeal rejected . In: Otago Daily Times . September 26, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  27. ^ Allison Rudd: Lack of quorum foils cannabis vote . In: Otago Daily Times . July 22, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  28. ↑ Allison Rudd: OUSA general meeting promises controversy . In: Otago Daily Times . September 20, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  29. ↑ We were at the first legal cannabis smoke-in in Germany . VICE . Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  30. ↑ 4/20 in Berlin: Patients Demanded Acceptance Over Zero Tolerance . April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  31. ↑ State age 420 MM sign to thwart thieves . In: KUSA-TV . Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.9news.com
  32. ↑ Vsauce on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed December 23, 2016]).
  33. ↑ Idaho replaces mile marker 420 with 419.9 to thwart stoners . In: KTVB . Archived from the original on August 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ktvb.com
  34. ^ County finds fix for missing 420 signs . In: Post Bulletin . Retrieved July 20, 2015.