{"id":12698,"date":"2023-04-20T03:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12698"},"modified":"2023-04-25T03:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:17:00","slug":"4-20-etymology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/20\/4-20-etymology\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/20 Etymology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-420-history-20160420-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dude, you ever wonder, like, why people celebrate pot on 4\/20?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/james-queally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JAMES QUEALLY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reefer Madness (1936)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhQlcMHhF3w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Any self-respecting stoner knows what to do on 4\/20. But few seem to know how the otherwise innocuous date became an international celebration of cannabis culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rumors about the origins of 4\/20 tend to drift around like so much smoke from a tightly rolled joint: Is 420 the police radio code for smoking marijuana in public? Was it the day Adolf Hitler died? Or Jim Morrison of \u201cThe Doors\u201d? Did it mark the day of death of someone else famous or infamous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope. Negative. Try again. None of the names commonly associated with the origin of 4\/20 actually died on April 20 (although Hitler\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0born on that day in 1889). In California, Section 420 of the penal code refers to the crime of barring someone from lawfully entering public land &#8212; so that is not marijuana related either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-420-history-20160420-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times Dude, you ever wonder, like, why people celebrate pot on 4\/20? BY\u00a0JAMES QUEALLY Any self-respecting stoner knows what to do on 4\/20. But few seem to know how the otherwise innocuous date became an international celebration of cannabis culture. The rumors about the origins of 4\/20 tend to drift around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}