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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
This morning I surfed around as usual on the New York Times (one of my startup 'homepage' tabs) and clicked on their "Most Popular" category to see what's hip amongst the far-lefty big city folk. Amazingly enough, 1936's "Reefer Madness" topped the list of popular movies. Why is that, I wondered? Can't these "The-City" denizens get enough of staying stoned, that they have to laugh at a decidedly over-the-top bit of "unabashed propoganda" ? Then I realized: 4 20.
4:20, and 4/20, is the doper's hour and day. There's various answers to the question "why 420?" A search gives conflicting answers: some say that according to "High Times" magazine, 4:20 was created by a group of high school students because they met to smoke pot after school at 4:20pm. Others say (erroneously I think) that 420 is/was police department code for "doper bust imminent". That's a hoot; police codes vary from city to city, and I doubt any PD would choose to use doper code for anything. For any reason. A google search of "4 20 doper" gives us this wonderful site, "Doper's Union Local 420", where there be microcephalics. Go figure. If you must visit, don't breathe the air.
Oh. Speaking of microcephalics... )
