NPR did a segment on the significance of 4/20, and here is a site that
expresses the same information: http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm
Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light
up a joint.
Status: True.
Origins: Odd
terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the
oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug
subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use,
but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term
supposedly signifies.
read on . . .
listen to NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5351807
Harry Willems, Consultant Asst. Dir. 620.365.5136
Southeast Kansas Library System 620.365.5137 (fax)
Iola, KS 66749 hwillems@sekls.org
42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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