As CNBC airs constant coverage of our nation’s holiday, 4/20, I was curious to see how this phenomenon began. Now, it’s true I’ve had my share of Mary Jane, I have no desire to spark up today (nor will I), let’s just be clear about that.
From Huffington Post:
It starts with the Dead.
It was Christmas week in Oakland, 1990. Steven Bloom was wandering through The Lot – that timeless gathering of hippies that springs up in the parking lot before every Grateful Dead concert – when a Deadhead handed him a yellow flyer.
“We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais,” reads the message, which Bloom dug up and forwarded to the Huffington Post. Bloom, then a reporter for High Times magazine and now the publisher of CelebStoner.com and co-author of Pot Culture, had never heard of “420-ing” before.
The flyer came complete with a 420 back story: “420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California in the late ’70s. It started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb – Let’s Go 420, dude!” READ MORE
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Now let’s check in on the best of breed marijuana stock, GWPH. Yep, apparently everyone is doing it:
I’m pretty sure the GW stands for George Washington, a noted pot head of his time.
RC – when I was a kid, living down here on the border, there were two types of weed: Mexican Skunk, and Red Hair. I was curious what you all smoked. The only thing that showed up on Google was ‘Louisiana Swamp Moss’. https://www.allbud.com/marijuana-strains/hybrid/louisiana-swamp-moss
Was this around back then?
There’s only one weed name I know, and it’s one to stay away from, and that’s the reggie. Meaning very low quality. It was named after Reggie Bush, which was very low quality when he played for the Saints.
I thought this was really funny from one of the “Waldos”:
“I’ve got to run a business. I’ve got to stay sharp,” says Capper, explaining why he rarely smokes pot anymore. “Seems like everybody I know who smokes daily or many times in a week, it seems like there’s always something going wrong with their life, professionally or in their relationships or financially or something. It’s a lot of fun, but it seems like if someone does it too much, there’s some karmic cost to it.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/420-weed-day-marijuana-april-holiday_n_3122359.html
MSFT……+3.10%
CAT………..1.59
TWTR…….1.46
VTI…………0.81
VDE……….0.45
GWPH – bought it at 90 2 weeks ago… Sell or reduce or back up the truck for 200?
200?
Like 500 and a buyout.
-65% operating margin? Holy Sheep Shit.
Mad baked right now @ 4:20 on 4/20, indeud.