Who invented 420

The so-called evidence dates back to the s, when the Waldos were just a quintet of bell bottomed wearing, blurry eyed boys. It was in San Rafael, Calif. Nicknamed the Waldos because they sat atop a wall in the middle of their campus at San Rafael High School, they'd impersonate their classmates, teachers, parents; make incessant jokes, call each other Doctor so-and-so and spoke in their own dialect of words like "Pfffft zoight!

And somehow because of that, all these doors opened up for us all the time," said Capper. The Waldos were also known for having spectacular adventures, which they called safaris. One time they snuck into a military air field during the Vietnam War and the mechanics ended up showing them an assortment of weapons systems.

Another time they went underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and made the painters nets their "personal trampolines. We had a brain in our head, we just liked to get a little high once in a while," Reddix said.

The map was a primitive drawing of where the boys could find a patch of abandoned weed out at Point Reyes, a foggy coastal outlet about 45 minutes from their home. The map had been drawn, in fact, by McNulty's brother-in-law, a man the Waldos later knew as Gary Newman. Some of the boys, however, were enrolled in football, so they couldn't meet until a little after 4 p. They settled on a rendezvous at p. For weeks, the boys searched for the ganja garden of their dreams, marching through the coastal fog, rolling through cattle fields, looking for a fragrant plot of pot, but they never did find their treasure.

Just because they never made it to the X-marks-the-pot, that didn't mean it was the final chapter for The other students called them "Waldos. And somehow because of that, all these doors opened up for us all the time," said "Waldo Steve" Capper in an interview with the Reno Journal-Gazette.

Check out the history of from the stoners who invented the term! In the fall of , the Waldos soon heard of a hidden patch of cannabis, abandoned by a U. Coast Guardsman stationed nearby who was afraid he'd get busted. They decided to meet up at the school's statue of Louis Pasteur who completed the first pasteurization test on April 20, to get high and go on a weed treasure hunt.

But they had to wait until after their various sports team practices and settled on a specific time: p. They used the phrase " Louie" to remind each other of their plans, eventually shortening it to simply " The phrase quickly grew beyond a reference to their futile search for the secret garden of weed.

Instead, it was used as a covert way to talk about marijuana — who was selling it, who wanted to buy it and who was already — right under the nose of teachers, parents and police officers. They would know if I was saying, 'Are you stoned? Do I look stoned? Do you have any?

It tastes great. Also, we had a vape pen a few years ago with Chemistry over in Oakland. They wanted us to help create the beer. We went up to their factory and went through tons and tons of bins of hops. They wanted us to choose the hops that smelled most like marijuana. Dave: Yeah, they wanted to get the most dank-smelling hops that smelled like marijuana and would taste like it. This is a year celebration of that relationship.

We still go on safaris every once in a while. Some funny things have happened in our adult lives, too. Dave: If you got to waldos. Ashley Lyle. Brian Beckley. Daniel Chase. Skip to content Profile Avatar. Subscribe to Entrepreneur. Shop CBD. By Jonathan Small April 20, Jon Small. More About History. Ashley Lyle Nov 6, Hemp Nation. Brian Beckley Apr 29, Latest on Entrepreneur.

Daniel Chase Nov 14, Phillip Nov 13, Daniel Chase Nov 12, Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. They didn't know what it was. It was our own little secret code. For a while, was just a Waldos thing, but soon other students at San Rafael High started to pick up on it.

Eventually it made its way to the Grateful Dead, who were rehearsing in San Rafael at the time. It was awesome.

Finding the origin of a word or slang term can be a murky business, but the Waldos have the documentation to back up their story.

There are letters that reference , postmarked in the s, which was before the term had widespread use. Bay Curious partnered with The Cooler podcast for this story. Be sure to catch their episode, " How Did Become a Phenomenon? Search-Icon Created with Sketch. KQED is a proud member of.

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