420

[topless]

who know what this is and who partakes? :idea:

[JetBoatRich]

I know what it is :rolleyes: but have to pass :rolleyes:

[shadow]

who know what this is and who partakes? :idea:
I partake, 4-20 is my birthday.Don't partake in the other 420 rituals,but don't have a problem with anybody who does.

[al cole'holic]

..where's your chong...

[cola]

who know what this is and who partakes? :idea:
16 days after my birthday. :cool:

[topless]

Lets ask Ziggy, he's the expert on this. :crossx:

[76ANTHONY]

up with hope, down with dope :) hey ask DJUNKIE, hes a pothead :crossx:

[topless]

up with hope, down with dope :) hey ask DJUNKIE, hes a pothead :crossx:
I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL

[76ANTHONY]

I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL
HAHAHAHA, the guy at work smokes up so he says it every fricken day. not sure what it came from though, probably a penial code or somethin...

[Mandelon]

I know, but I'm not telling.

[JetBoatRich]

I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL
Psycho people :rolleyes:

[topless]

HAHAHAHA, the guy at work smokes up so he says it every fricken day. not sure what it came from though, probably a penial code or somethin...
420= April 20th

[littlejake]

I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL
crazy is 5250 :rollside: :) :crossx:

[Her454]

I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL
LMAO, that would be 5150 :rollside:
Lets ask Ziggy, he's the expert on this. :crossx:
That explains alot. :rolleyes: :rollside:

[76ANTHONY]

LMAO, that would be 5150 :rollside:
That explains alot. :rolleyes: :rollside:
i second that...

[JetBoatRich]

Lets ask Chong :rolleyes:
http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/dathmaul/chongpatch.jpg

[76ANTHONY]

420= April 20th
im tellin ya, ask DJUNKIE.... :) :)

[JetBoatRich]

Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint.
Status: True.
Origins: Odd
terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:
420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California.
Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.
It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.
It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.
It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.
The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.
April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died.
Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.
The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana.
There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.
Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943.
This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)
It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager.
Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."
When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420.
Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.
Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"
420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.
However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.
Barbara "4 and 20 blackbirds" Mikkelson
Last updated: 19 April 2005
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm
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Sources:
Gaura, Maria Alicia. "Snickering Chic Traces Origin to San Rafael."
San Francisco Chronicle. 20 April 2000 (p. A19).
Hubler, Shawn. "The Inside Dope on '420' Buzz."
The Los Angeles Times. 20 April 2002 (p. A19).
St. Petersburg Times. "True Reefer Madness."
20 April 2002 (p. D1).
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[topless]

LMAO, that would be 5150 :rollside:
That explains alot. :rolleyes: :rollside:
a few years ago there was this neighbor who was a cop and he got his wife personalized plated.............5150

[cxr133]

I know what it is :rolleyes: but have to pass :rolleyes:
i think the rule is
PUFF PUFF ..............PASS
but im not certain :220v:

[77Eliminator]

It's a daily social group meeting time 4:20pm. 420 is also the penal code section for marijuana use in California. Guess what the social group does at 4:20pm

[JetBoatRich]

i think the rule is
PUFF PUFF ..............PASS
but im not certain :220v:
Rules :yuk: suck

[Phat Matt]

We play Bob Marley everyday at 4:20pm. I never understood why. :rolleyes:
:D

[n8dawg]

Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint.
Status: True.
Origins: Odd
terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:
420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California.
Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.
It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.
It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.
It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.
The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.
April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died.
Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.
The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana.
There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.
Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943.
This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)
It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager.
Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."
When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420.
Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.
Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"
However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.
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YOU FORGOT ONE... 420 IS HOW MANY CHEMICALS ARE IN THC WHICH IS FOUND IN MARIJAUNA, AND THATS WHERE IT ALL STARTED! tHANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT... RETIRED POT HEAD made my head do this... :rollside: :) :220v: :220v: to many times.

[n8dawg]

pack it!!!!!!!

[cxr133]

Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint.
Status: True.
Origins: Odd
terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:
420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California.
Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.
It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.
It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.
It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.
The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.
April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died.
Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.
The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana.
There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.
Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943.
This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)
It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager.
Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."
When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420.
Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.
Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"
420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.
However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.
Barbara "4 and 20 blackbirds" Mikkelson
Last updated: 19 April 2005
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm
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Sources:
Gaura, Maria Alicia. "Snickering Chic Traces Origin to San Rafael."
San Francisco Chronicle. 20 April 2000 (p. A19).
Hubler, Shawn. "The Inside Dope on '420' Buzz."
The Los Angeles Times. 20 April 2002 (p. A19).
St. Petersburg Times. "True Reefer Madness."
20 April 2002 (p. D1).
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ummm.... i tried to read all this but got distracted.. dont knw why :rollside:

[topless]

Let's ask Boozer. He might have the REAL answer. For some reason, I think he keeps himself updated on these type of things.

[Kilrtoy]

420 is also the penal code section for marijuana use in California.
This is 420 P.C.
420.1. Anyone who willfully and knowingly prevents, hinders, or
obstructs any person from entering, passing over, or leaving land in
which that person enjoys, either personally or as an agent, guest,
licensee, successor-in-interest, or contractor, a right to enter,
use, cross, or inspect the property pursuant to an easement,
covenant, license, profit, or other interest in the land, is guilty
of an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500), provided that the interest to be exercised has been
duly recorded with the county recorder's office. This section shall
not apply to the following persons: (1) any person engaged in lawful
labor union activities that are permitted to be carried out by state
or federal law; or (2) any person who is engaging in activities
protected by the California Constitution or the United States
Constitution.
420 would fall under the H& S 11357

[topless]

This is 420 P.C.
420.1. Anyone who willfully and knowingly prevents, hinders, or
obstructs any person from entering, passing over, or leaving land in
which that person enjoys, either personally or as an agent, guest,
licensee, successor-in-interest, or contractor, a right to enter,
use, cross, or inspect the property pursuant to an easement,
covenant, license, profit, or other interest in the land, is guilty
of an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500), provided that the interest to be exercised has been
duly recorded with the county recorder's office. This section shall
not apply to the following persons: (1) any person engaged in lawful
labor union activities that are permitted to be carried out by state
or federal law; or (2) any person who is engaging in activities
protected by the California Constitution or the United States
Constitution.
420 would fall under the H& S 11357So does this mean that if a person is growing marijuanna and someone else enters the property where it is being grown and harvested, they're are committing a 420?

[Midlife Advantage]

This is all very confusing, I'll have to burn one and think about it :rolleyes:

[MagicMtnDan]

I'm suddenly feeling really hungry! And my eyes are all red - I don't know why :rolleyes:
http://www.bonjourchezdo.com/humour/images-fun/images/Marijuana.jpg
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/Assets/bong.jpg

[djunkie]

up with hope, down with dope :) hey ask DJUNKIE, hes a pothead :crossx:
Thats how rumor get started Focker..... :argue: :rollside:

[CA Stu]

Are you cool?

[Boa1277]

[QUOTE=cola]16 days after my birthday. :cool:[/QUOTE
My son has his birthday on 4-4 also. He is only 9 but soon to be 10 Happy pre B-Day.

[SoCalSouthpaw]

I smell it in da air...
http://***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12392

[NOTALENT]

There were a few other things that people say 420 stood for...one was for the biggest racist who ever lived.....Hitlers B-Day.

[Faceaz]

I heard it was the recognized smoke time in Amsterdam, kind of like England having a Tea Time.

[Dave C]

pot heads used to know what the origins of 420 really where but for some reason they forgot?

[WYRD]

I know what it is :rolleyes: but have to pass :rolleyes:
the question is do you puff before you pass :idea: :crossx:
I know and say no! :cool:

[SummitKarl]

Thats how rumor get started Focker..... :argue: :rollside:
AHHHH............so it's DoobieJunkie :rollside:

[lucky]

I feel stupid because I bograrted the last two doobs LOL
Ohh my

[n8dawg]

pot heads used to know what the origins of 420 really where but for some reason they forgot?
LMFAO!!!!!!!
So then 520 is meth smoking time? Is that right?

[topless]

Ohh myYou are a bad boy!!!!!! :mad:

[Ziggy]

Lets ask Ziggy, he's the expert on this. :crossx:
I presume you mean Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley. :)

[topless]

I presume you mean Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley. :)You're the one who enlightened me on what it meant. :idea:

[Ziggy]

You're the one who enlightened me on what it meant. :idea:I also told ya who taught me that too.
What the hell does Humphry Bogart got to do with all this? :idea:

[SummitKarl]

You're the one who enlightened me on what it meant. :idea:
he is such a bad influence :rollside:

[topless]

What the hell does Humphry Bogart got to do with all this? :idea:I was wondering the same thing.

[Fast Freddy]

ever see those 'blowin dust area' signs on the side of the road on the way to vegas? it took me forever to get to sin city but by the time i got there i was goin faster than any casino in town and more lit up than the strip

[LLGirl]

YOU FORGOT ONE... 420 IS HOW MANY CHEMICALS ARE IN THC WHICH IS FOUND IN MARIJAUNA, AND THATS WHERE IT ALL STARTED! tHANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT... RETIRED POT HEAD made my head do this... :rollside: :) :220v: :220v: to many times.
"It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.
The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine. "
Nope... don't think he forgot that one!

[hoolign]

who know what this is and who partakes? :idea:
I have no Idea. and also don't know that it is a better "time" up here , I also don't know that B.C. has tied (and beaten Amsterdam) more times than any other Province, state, or country! ,,,but then again...I don't know :D

[buzzaro]

I feel stupid because I thought it was some code word for psycho people. LOL
I think thats 5150 (like the Van Halen album), but ive been wrong before, just ask my wife.

[ThongMagnet]

I here it has some thing to do with California mine #420.

[MagicMtnDan]

I here it has some thing to do with California mine #420.
http://www2.***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12474

[Boozer]

Did somebody say something about 4:20?