Commonly accepted origin
* According to Snopes.com, High Times magazine, The Marijuana-Logues, and The Straight Dope, in the early 1970s, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, used to meet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke cannabis at the Louis Pasteur statue. This theory is the most cited and the most widely accepted.[4]
One piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the term is always said "four twenty" in line with common U.S. termonology for time, rather than being pronounced "four-two-zero" or "four-hundred-twenty."
[edit] Alternative origins
* Karen Bettez Halnon summarizes and analyzes several popular theories about 420, explaining how it functions as a multi-faceted expression of pot-smoker identity and community.[5]
* H. P. Lovecraft's short story, In the Walls of Eryx, which contains the line, "My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence... When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find that the time was only 4:20." Lovecraft describes these "curious mirage-plants" as having a "shaggy stalk", "spiky leaves", and "mottled blossoms whose gaseous, dream-breeding exhalations penetrate every existing make of mask." This theory for the origin of 4:20 was postulated on the official website for the American rock band Tool.[6]
anyone know whats been going on in israel?
short recap/overview of whats happened over the years (ive read much about it but it would still be interesting to have an overview)
