It’s time for the annual weed-smoking holiday known as 420. So, here’s a look at where those who celebrate can smoke legally.
The day has also been used to hold advocacy rallies for the legalization of marijuana, which is not federally legal, and light up in protest.There are many myths of how 420 began, with some believing it was the police code for marijuana possession and others thinking it stemmed from the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song being among the many origin stories.
But the most popular theory involves a group of high school friends from California in 1971 known as"The Waldos." The group met every day after school and extracurricular activities at 4:20 p.m., with the initial goal of finding an abandoned patch of cannabis growing in the woods. Before searching each day, they'd smoke marijuana. They never found the plants but they developed a three-digit marijuana code that soon entered the mainstream weed vernacular: 420.
Word of the code made its way to an associate of one of the Waldos' older brothers. That associate was Phil Lesh, who played bass guitar for the Grateful Dead. Dave Reddix, an original member of the Waldos, worked as a roadie for Lesh and the band helped popularize the 420 code,. That meant it was adopted by the highly-influential stoner band with their loyal following of weed-smoking"Deadheads.
Fans began handing out flyers encouraging fellow Deadheads to smoke on April 20 at 4:20 p.m. One of the flyers ended up in the hands of a former editor forHere's a list of states that have legalized recreational marijuana use through March of 2023,
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