Stoners live and Stoners die,
But in the end, we all get high.
So if in life you don't succeed,
it all and smoke some weed.
Sex, drugs and Rock n Roll,
Speed, Weed and birth control.
Life's a bitch and then you die,
So it all and let's get high.
I'm saying this poem to make a point,
Life's a bitch without a joint.
Weed is a plant that grows in the ground,
If God didn't like it it wouldn't be found.
So tell all those who don't get high,
To SHUT THE UP, and give it a try!
Happy 420
:D
Mortyman
Known Myths
* Police dispatch code for smoking pot is 420.
The number 420 is not police radio code for anything, anywhere. Checks of criminal codes suggest that the origin is neither Californian nor federal. For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a misdemeanor the hindrance of use of public lands.
* There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana.
Actually, there are approximately 315 active chemicals in marijuana. This number goes up and down depending on which plant is used.
* April 20th is National Pot Smokers Day.
Well, it is now; but that wasn't the origin.
* April 20th is Hitler's birthday.
Yes, it is his birthday. But, as 420 started out as a time, not a date, his birthday had nothing to do with it.
* The date of the Columbine school shootings.
This happened after the term was already in use.
* 4:20 is tea time for pot-smokers in Holland.
Tea time in Holland is at 5:30 pm, or is it 2:30 pm? Seems no one is quite sure when the wonderful people of Holland drink their tea.
Mortyman
The number 420 is a euphemism for cannabis and its associated culture. The exact origin of the term is unknown, although there is much speculation and many urban legends about its origin. Smoking marijuana at 4:20 or on April 20 has special meaning to some.
Origin theories
Snopes.com, High Times Magazine, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s the Waldos, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM at the water tower atop San Rafael Hill. The local story has these students doing radio skits with a pirate radio transmitter from the hill. One of these alleged skits was of kids getting caught smoking by the local police. They imitated the police radio call voice saying, "We have a 4:20 in progress on San Rafael Hill." The San Rafael police have asserted that there is "... no such code." These actual students, however, have never been identified individually. The time became a code word for the drug, and usage spread. 4:20 PM has since become a popular time to "smoke up". (It's also worth noting that 4:20 PM is the time of LSD creator Albert Hofmann's first deliberate ingestion of the substance, in 1943 on what was later dubbed Bicycle Day; perhaps this is where the San Rafael teenagers picked up the idea.)
Other theories include the following:
Urban legend claims, incorrectly, that 420 is or was a police code for a drug bust.
It was, at one time, believed that there were 420 chemicals in marijuana.
Many mistake April 20 as being the day Bob Marley, a famous rastafarian musician, died. The actual date he died is May 11.
April 20 is the last day on which one is supposed to plant cannabis seeds.
The Beatles song "Come Together" and "Smokin'" by Boston are 4:20 in length.
"D" and "T" are the 4th and 20th letters of the alphabet, respectively, and thus "DT" stands for "doobie time" ("doobie" being a slang term for a marijuana cigarette).
At 4:20 on a hand clock, the hands line up in a downward angle giving the appearance that the face of the clock has a smoking instrument in its "mouth".
The psychoactive chemical in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). "tetra" is Greek for 4, "hydro" for water (aka H2O); condensed together somewhat makes 420.
Hitler's birthday is the 20th of April
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Occurrences
The number 420 is common in classified ads describing housing or individuals which permit or encourage marijuana use ("420 OK"). This practice is common in socially progressive communities such as Craigslist. One such "Housing to share" listing, from the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1994, read:
Rm avail Veggie household. 420. No pets M pref
Many of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20. (It is often erroneously claimed that all of them are.)
In an episode of the show Futurama called "The Farnsworth Parabox", an alternate universe where everyone is a hippie is numbered as Universe 420.
The Lovecraft theory for the origin of 4:20 was first postulated on the official web-site for the rock band Tool.
The California law that authorizes and regulates medical uses of marijuana was Senate Bill 420 (Chapter 875/2003, John Vasconcellos).
The Bob Dylan song "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is informally known as "Everybody must get stoned" since the chorus repeats that line. 12×35=420.
The first downbeat of the drums in the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" falls at 4:20.
The second line of the first verse in the children's nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' goes "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie". ('Baked' is a common euphemism for being under the influence of cannabis.)
The Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) song "4+20" on their 1970 Déjà Vu album has the numbers in the title and begins, "Four and twenty years ago ..."
In WWE, the team of Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio used a double leg drop termed the 420, ostensibly because of the number of legs involved (4) and the combined shoe size (Van Dam's size 12 + Mysterio's size 8 = 20).
Rock band Nirvana's b-side "Even in His Youth" (on the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit") is credited to be 4 minutes 20 seconds long on the single's cover. The song is really 3:06 in length.
A popular sailing dinghy is called the 420 (being 420 cm long) and is most commonly raced by adolescent and collegiate sailors.
A cannabis coffeeshop located at Oude Brugsteeg 27 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands is named the "420 cafe"
The high school shooting at Columbine occurred on April 20th. However, this is often connected with the birthdate of Adolf Hitler, which was also on April 20th.
The Phoenix, Arizona radio station Edge 103.9 plays a Bob Marley track every day at 4:20, both AM and PM.
Djsketchbag
420 is also Hitlers B-Day
Mortyman
quote:
Originally posted by Mortyman
Hitler's birthday is the 20th of April
UmmiE
All I know is that i am going be at College Park today with a long ass bong in my hands puffin ma lungz out. :crazy:
Djsketchbag
quote:
Originally posted by Mortyman
Yeah i have the attention span of a gold fish i didn't get past the first line.....
Anyways.....
WittyHandle
Goldfish actually have the longest attention span of any fish on the planet.
Jennifer_P_
lol ~ all the 420 talk today has me feeling nauseous. :sadgreen:
Enjoy your celebration peeps... I shall pass on the 420 puff (as usual lol)
ick
Nick Cenik
Freedom Festival: May 1st!
jsibilin
if I wasn't taking a year off 420 I would be celebrating...
its been over 4 months now and I'm still a lazy bastard and sleep in past noon!
hahah
lets hot for words investigate 420!
Adamo
i was never really a fan of steve porters slap chop...but this next one with kat williams is hilarious, fitting for today.
