What Is 4 20?

According to multiple sources, the term 420 finds it's origins back in 1971 in the United States in San Rafael High School in California.


Back then, a group of students from San Rafael high school had a daily meeting by the Louis Pasteur statue at 4:20 PM where they would smoke marijuana for hours.


These students called their group the Waldos, because they used to hang out by a wall when they met. Some sources say that the true purpose of their meeting was the search for some abandoned cannabis they had heard was located near Point Reyes, and they smoked a lot of marijuana while they were searching. However, they never found what they were looking for.


Nowadays, 420 is known in the United States as a holiday where people get together to consume cannabis.

420 is also celebrated in other countries such as Canada (Parliament Hill, Ottawa), British Columbia (Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver), and New Zealand (The Daktory, Auckland).

One interesting fact about April 20th: It's also Hitler's birth date.