420 (cannabis culture)
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4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis drug subculture.
Origins and observances
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One explanation of the origin of the term stems from a story about a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971. The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue. The exact time was chosen because that was the time that afternoon detention was dismissed. By extension April 20 ("4/20" in U.S. date notation) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.[1] In some locations this celebration coincides with Earth Week.[2][3][4] In Dunedin, New Zealand, students at the University of Otago and other cannabis law reform activists meet under a walnut tree on the Otago University Union Lawn on Wednesdays and Fridays at 4:20pm to openly smoke cannabis in public in what they consider an act of protest.[5][6][7] In 2008 members of the Dunedin group were arrested and issued trespass notices in relation to openly smoking cannabis on the Otago University Union Lawn[8], but the meetings continue to this day.
See also
References
- ^ Thousands at UCSC burn one to mark cannabis holiday
- ^ Earth Week in Guam
- ^ Earth Week in San Diego
- ^ Earth Week in Victora, BC
- ^ "Dope Heads on Campus". TV One Close Up. July 27, 2007. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1256786. Retrieved on 2008-10-06.
- ^ "Otepoti Overgrown: Cannabis Culture in Dunedin". Critic Te Arohi Magazine. April 29, 2008. http://www.critic.co.nz/about/features/112. Retrieved on 2008-10-05.
- ^ "420 Protest". Channel 9 News Dunedin. February 22, 2008. http://www.ch9.co.nz/node/7704. Retrieved on 2008-10-07.
- ^ Porteous, Debbie (12 June 2008). "Police swoop on cannabis protest". Otago Daily Times. http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/9276/police-swoop-cannabis-protest. Retrieved on 2009-03-31.
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