Finding New Meaning on 420 with Last Prisoner Project
Urban legends about the origin of 420 abound – from a group of 1970s high school students meeting at 4:20 p.m. every day to smoke cannabis (or possibly go on a treasure hunt for cannabis plants growing wild), to the supposed police code for marijuana, to a reference to the Bob Dylan song “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” and even a 1939 short story by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling referencing “curious mirage-plants” that would get the narrator high...
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