They hatched a plan to find the pot plot, just as any decent young men should have done. Zero sarcasm intended, for the record. The lads, who referred to themselves informally as the Waldos because high school , would meet up each day at PM at a statue near their school.
Once assembled at the appointed time and place, they set out en masse in search of the grass. The Waldos never found the legendary plot of woodland weed, but something even better came out of it all: The young men began using the number not as a time to meet and commence a search, but instead as a code word to refer to all things pot-related.
And there it may have stayed, a fond memory in the minds of a few gentlemen from California, perhaps even forgotten over time. They toked so we could rip. They lied to their parents so we could have an excuse once a day—and especially on April 20—to pull out all the stops and get as high as the lord above us.
So breathe deep folks, and remember, weed isn't a bad thing. These states know what I'm talking about. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Every 'Bond' Film Ever, Ranked. Leaving Afghanistan Behind.
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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? Do you want to go off and get stoned? The band had recently relocated to San Rafael, and the Waldos had various connections: One of the kids' older brothers was a manager for bassist Phil Lesh's side project.
Another one's father purchased real estate for them. They watched their dogs, were welcomed into their parties and Reddix even got a gig as a roadie for the band. Staff on the magazine, long the leading publication on marijuana, started using it. They held ideas meetings at 4. Twenty years later another publication, Magazine, reported a claim by a rival group of San Rafael old boys that they had invented the term.
But the Waldos, who have shown letters and other items to High Times, vigorously defend their version.
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