Scrubbing!

[Dru]

You know that climbers often will scrub away moss and lichen from climbs in order to establish them.

 

It seems non-climbers will sometimes scrub too.

 

 

[mec]

Are you sure that was not a climber? I've known quite a few climbers to enjoy 420...

[bunglehead]

Maybe it was the same guy that's responsible for this:

 

Edited May 2, 2005 by bunglehead

[Thinker]

nah....it's only fido Howett practicing how to be cool.

 

edit: cool code, I wasn't expecting that.

Edited May 2, 2005 by Thinker

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Maybe it was the same guy that's responsible for this:

 

 

Izzat one o' them "ice screws" you ice climbers are always rambling on about?

[Bill_Simpkins]

nah....it's only fido Howett practicing how to be cool.

 

edit: cool code, I wasn't expecting that.

 

Brilliant comment.

[Ireneo_Funes]

So when did 4:20 become synonymous with pot? I never heard of it before about 7-8 years ago.

 

I think coded nicknames for drugs are juvenile.

[AlpineK]

I believe it's some police code; as in, "We've got a 4-20 in progress." I first heard it about 8 years ago too.

[PhilomathSloth]

i thought it was in relation to chemical content within the plant??

[mec]

It's annoying, is what it is...

[Squid]

420 (drug culture)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The number 420 is a euphemism for cannabis and its associated culture. The exact origin of the term is unknown, although there is much speculation and many urban legends about its origin. Smoking marijuana at 4:20 or on April 20 has special meaning to some.

 

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Origin theories

Snopes.com, High Times Magazine, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s the Waldos, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM. The time became a code word for the drug, and usage spread. 4:20 PM has since become a popular time to "smoke up". (It's also worth noting that 4:20 PM is the time of LSD creator Albert Hofmann's first deliberate ingestion of the substance, in 1943 on what was later dubbed Bicycle Day; perhaps this is where the San Rafael teenagers picked up the idea.)

 

Another possible origin of the term can be found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft. A short story of his, entitled "In the Walls of Eryx" and first published in Weird Tales [34, No. 4 (October 1939), pp 50-68], contains this passage:

 

I had encountered at least one of those curious mirage-plants about which so many of our men told stories. Anderson had warned me of them, and described their appearance very closely—the shaggy stalk, the spiky leaves, and the mottled blossoms whose gaseous dream-breeding exhalations penetrate every existing make of mask...Although everything was spinning perilously, I tried to start in the right direction and hack my way ahead. My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence. Gradually the dancing lights began to disappear, and the shimmering spectral scenery began to assume the aspect of solidity. When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find that the time was only 4:20. Though eternities had seemed to pass, the whole experience could have consumed little more than a half-hour.

In 1955, Raj Kapoor directed a film entitled Shree 420 (Mr. 420), a reference to someone who has a reputation for theft and deception, since apprehensions for such crimes are usually section 420 of the Indian Penal Code.

 

Other theories include the following:

 

Urban legend claims, incorrectly, that 420 is or was a police code for a drug bust.

It was, at one time, believed that there were 420 chemicals in marijuana.

Many mistake April 20 as being the day Bob Marley, a notorious marijuana smoker, died. The actual date he died is May 11.

April 20 is the last day on which one is supposed to plant cannabis seeds.

April 20 is the birthday of Adolf Hitler.

The Beatles song "Come Together" is 4:20 in length.

"D" and "T" are the 4th and 20th letters of the the alphabet, respectively, and thus "DT" stands for "Doobie Time."(Doobie being a slang term for a marijuana cigarette)

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Occurrences

The number 420 is common in classified ads describing housing or individuals which permit or encourage marijuana use ("420 OK"). This practice is common in socially progressive communities such as Craigslist. One such "Housing to share" listing, from the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1994, read:

Rm avail Veggie household. 420. No pets M pref

Many of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20. (It is often erroneously claimed that all of them are.)

In an episode of the show Futurama called "The Farnsworth Parabox", an alternate universe where everyone is a hippie is numbered as Universe 420.

The Lovecraft theory for the origin of 4:20 was first postulated on the official web-site for the rock band Tool.

The California law that authorizes and regulates medical uses of marijuana was Senate Bill 420 (Chapter 875/2003, John Vasconcellos).

In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the "answer" to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, and 420/402 is often used in the same manner.

The Bob Dylan song "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is informally known as "Everybody must get stoned" since the chorus repeats that line. 12×35=420.

The first downbeat of the drums in the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" falls at 4:20.

[EWolfe]

Wasn't there also some biblical reference as well?

[ScottP]

California Senate Bill 420

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

 

(1) On November 6, 1996, the people of the State of California enacted the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (hereafter the act), codified in Section 11362.5 of the Health and Safety Code, in order to allow seriously ill residents of the state, who have the oral or written approval or recommendation of a physician, to use marijuana for medical purposes without fear of criminal liability under Sections 11357 and 11358 of the Health and Safety Code.

 

(2) However, reports from across the state have revealed problems and uncertainties in the act that have impeded the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce its provisions as the voters intended and, therefore, have prevented qualified patients and designated primary caregivers from obtaining the protections afforded by the act.

 

(3) Furthermore, the enactment of this law, as well as other recent legislation dealing with pain control, demonstrates that more information is needed to assess the number of individuals across the state who are suffering from serious medical conditions that are not being adequately alleviated through the use of conventional medications.

 

(snip)

[jmace]

I think coded nicknames for drugs are juvenile.

 

No doubt, thats why I only hang out with mature drug users.

 

It's annoying, is what it is...

 

Obviously not getting on dope enough