How the marijuana-loving world came to mark the occasion is believed traceable to five Northern California men now in their 60s with bad backs and graying hair.
They are the unofficial grandmasters by virtue of the code they created 52 years ago as students at a suburban San Francisco high school in 1971."We thought it was a joke then," said David Reddix, a filmmaker and retired CNN cameraman."We still do."
The map purported to show the location of a marijuana garden in the forest of nearby Point Reyes National Seashore. The classmate said the pot patch belonged to his brother-in-law, a Coast Guard reservist stationed at Point Reyes. The five, now firmly middle-class fathers dressed in Polo shirts and khaki pants, laugh about tumbling out of a marijuana smoke-filled car when they arrived at their destination.They didn't find the patch that day, but vowed to keep searching. They would pass in the halls and whisper"420 Louis" to each other if a new attempt was planned, indicating they should meet at 4:20 p.m. at the Pasteur statue.
The number really took off in the late 1980s when flyers were circulated at Dead concerts proclaiming 420 to be the password of stoner culture. The flyers went on to explain that 420 was California police code for marijuana smoking in progress. It's not, but that and other origin stories continue to circulate to the point that Capper and Reddix have committed themselves to preserving as much proof as they can that they are the originators.
The Oxford English Dictionary added 420 to its lexicon last year after reviewing the Waldos' records and credits the men as the creators.
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