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4:20 is High Time for Pot Users Worldwide
Posted by CN Staff on April 21, 2004 at 09:11:52 PT
By Mike Lewis, Seattle P-I Reporter
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
They are not, they insist, real-world versions of the Jeff Spicoli character in the teen movie classic, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." They don't arrive in battered VW buses and spill out, coughing, in a plume of blue-black smoke.They write code, run Internet service providers, practice law. They do concede a weakness for Cheetos, but only after smoking. And that is, of course, exactly what they did yesterday, April 20 (4/20), the unofficial holiday that contains the hour of unity for the cannabis culture.
"That Spicoli guy, before he ever smoked marijuana, was stupid," said Michael Holden, 36, sitting in his Capitol Hill home, a blue Victorian with tulips and camellias on the outside and marijuana on the kitchen table."If pot made you stupid, you wouldn't have software, half the lawyers wouldn't pass the bar and restaurants wouldn't be staffed."Behind him, friends rolled joints. It was a little after 4 p.m. The group planned to light up at 4:20, the same time as thousands of other pot smokers around the world. For the past 25 years or so, the numbers -- first as a time of day and later as a date -- have grown to symbolize a shared experience of those who smoke the illegal drug.There are Web sites, T-shirts, coffee mugs and songs with the numbers. Pot devotees use derivatives of 4:20 for personal passwords and secret codes. For Holden, yesterday also marked the day his divorce became final. He planned that.It's not exactly Independence Day, Easter or Mardi Gras -- or even a well-known number such as 411. And to recreational drug opponents, any celebration of a drug they say leads to harder drugs is unacceptable. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/fourtwenty.htmSource: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)Author: Mike Lewis, Seattle P-I ReporterPublished: Wednesday, April 21, 2004Copyright: 2004 Seattle Post-IntelligencerContact: editpage seattle-pi.comWebsite: http://www.seattle-pi.com/Related Articles:NORML Hosts 4/20 Rally in Support of Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18694.shtml'Faded on Farrand Field'http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18693.shtmlMarijuana Proponents To Protest http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18689.shtmlMarijuana Backers Will Meet in Park http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18688.shtml 
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Comment #1 posted by E_Johnson on April 21, 2004 at 09:56:29 PT
Whether or not Spicoli was stupid
He didn't deserve to be raped in jail.
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