420 (cannabis culture)

420
originally "4:20 Louis"
420 ; originally "4:20 Louis"
	Statue of Louis Pasteur at San Rafael High School, by Benny Bufano (1940), site of the earliest 4:20 gatherings in 1971
Observed by	Cannabis counterculture, legal reformers, entheogenic spiritualists, and general users of cannabis
Type	Secular
Significance	Time/date to celebrate cannabis
Observances	Cannabis consumption, traditionally cannabis smoking, dispensary discounts
Date	4:20 p.m./April 20
Frequency	Daily, annually

420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is cannabis culture slang for cannabis consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 p.m. (16:20). It also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that take place annually on April 20 (4/20 in U.S. date form).^[3]^[4]

^ "Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California". November 20, 1954. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
^ Chronicle, San Francisco (1962). The San Francisco Chronicle Reader. McGraw-Hill. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
^ King, Matt (April 24, 2007). "Thousands at UCSC burn one to mark cannabis holiday". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 26, 2007.
^ McCoy, Terrence (April 18, 2014). "The strange story of how the pot holiday '4/20' got its name". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 18, 2020.

[1] "Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California". November 20, 1954. Retrieved April 22, 2017.

[2] Chronicle, San Francisco (1962). The San Francisco Chronicle Reader. McGraw-Hill. Retrieved April 22, 2017.

[UCSC-3] King, Matt (April 24, 2007). "Thousands at UCSC burn one to mark cannabis holiday". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 26, 2007.

[McCoy_2014-4] McCoy, Terrence (April 18, 2014). "The strange story of how the pot holiday '4/20' got its name". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 18, 2020.

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