In thousands of cannabis users met in Hyde Park, London, in celebration of and to protest the existing laws prohibiting use and possession of cannabis in the UK. In the US, where originated, organised rallies normally take place in states including Colorado, California, Michigan, and Florida.
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Some think it has something to do with Adolf Hitler's birthday, but why the hell would that mean anything? Even if it is his birthday. Lastly, some stoned-off-their-ass person once said April 20 is the best day to plant marijuana, but that very clearly depends on where you're planting it.
In the end, the only real way to trace it back is to those ambitious high school kids in San Rafael. They toked so we could rip.
They lied to their parents so we could have an excuse once a day—and especially on April 20—to pull out all the stops and get as high as the lord above us. So breathe deep folks, and remember, weed isn't a bad thing. These states know what I'm talking about. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Every 'Bond' Film Ever, Ranked. In the fall of , the Waldos learned of a Coast Guard member who had planted a cannabis plant and could no longer tend to the crop.
Their meeting time? The Waldos would pile into a car, smoke some pot and scour the nearby Point Reyes Forest for the elusive, free herb. It originally started out Louis, and we eventually dropped the Louis. They never did score the free bud, but perhaps they stumbled on to something more lasting?
The term was coined, allowing the high schoolers to discuss smoking pot without their parents or teachers knowing. The mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred on April 20, , but there are conflicting reports about the date choice: Some claim that the shooters were Nazi sympathizers and planned for the shooting to fall on Hitler's birthday.
Others say it was simply a coincidence. More: NJ marijuana legalization was 'historically popular,' so why are towns banning legal weed dispensaries? The legend begins in the mythical land of Northern California: Once upon a time, there were five friends, smoking weed and sitting on top of a wall at San Rafael High School.
The other students called them "Waldos. And somehow because of that, all these doors opened up for us all the time," said "Waldo Steve" Capper in an interview with the Reno Journal-Gazette.
Check out the history of from the stoners who invented the term! In the fall of , the Waldos soon heard of a hidden patch of cannabis, abandoned by a U. Coast Guardsman stationed nearby who was afraid he'd get busted. They decided to meet up at the school's statue of Louis Pasteur who completed the first pasteurization test on April 20, to get high and go on a weed treasure hunt.
But they had to wait until after their various sports team practices and settled on a specific time: p. They used the phrase " Louie" to remind each other of their plans, eventually shortening it to simply " The phrase quickly grew beyond a reference to their futile search for the secret garden of weed.
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