Why is 420

The friends - who called themselves the Waldos because they used to hang out by a wall - met after school, at pm, and drove off on their treasure hunt. They never found the plot. So did friends and acquaintances, who included - at a couple of steps removed - members of the Grateful Dead rock band. The term spread among the band's fans, known as Deadheads. A group of upstanding young marijuana enthusiasts who were enrolled together at the local high school caught wind of a plot of marijuana growing wild in a forest near town.

They hatched a plan to find the pot plot, just as any decent young men should have done. Zero sarcasm intended, for the record. The lads, who referred to themselves informally as the Waldos because high school , would meet up each day at PM at a statue near their school. Once assembled at the appointed time and place, they set out en masse in search of the grass. The Waldos never found the legendary plot of woodland weed, but something even better came out of it all: The young men began using the number not as a time to meet and commence a search, but instead as a code word to refer to all things pot-related.

Bloom says "after about five years," the Waldos story emerged. Which is "about five years" if you're baked. So it checks out. This one's pretty simple. Oh how nice this would be, to trace the high holiday back to one of the best artists to listen to while engaging in the devil's lettuce. But alas, even though the song was recorded in , well before the Waldos did their thing, it's highly unlikely this is our one true source. This one's a shut and closed case, too.

Although it has been stated that there are "more than chemical compounds" in a cannabis plant, no one ever clearly stated that that number is There are a couple of theories having to do with the police and Congress, too. The first, referring to what police would utter over the radio should they see you buying a baggie, is incorrect. Unfortunately that radio code is for homicide. The one about Congress?

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