What is the significance of 420

Some people just want to get high and have fun. Others see the day as a moment to push for legalization, or celebrate legalization now that more states have adopted it and it has popular opinion behind it.

In recent years, marijuana legalization activists have tried to bring a more formal aspect to the celebration, framing it as a moment to push their political agenda. Businesses are also trying to take advantage of the holiday. And our company is going to let everyone know about it. The event has steadily grown over the years, featuring big concerts from notable musicians like Snoop Dogg, Soja, and 2 Chainz, as well as a wide collection of marijuana businesses as sponsors.

The Cannabis Cup is only one of many events, which also include comedy shows like Cheech and Chong , marijuana-friendly speed dating, and trade shows for glass pipes and bongs, offering businesses and celebrities various opportunities to push their products and brands. To many legalizers, this is a sign of their success. But to some drug policy experts and legalizers, this is a cause for alarm.

The big concern is that a big marijuana industry will, like the tobacco and alcohol industries, irresponsibly market its drug to kids or users who already consume the drug excessively — with little care for public health and safety over the desire for profits. To this end, many drug policy experts see alcohol as a warning, not something to be admired and followed for other drugs.

For decades, big alcohol has successfully lobbied lawmakers to block tax increases and regulations on alcohol, all while marketing its product as fun and sexy in television programs, such as the Super Bowl, that are viewed by millions of Americans, including children. Meanwhile, alcohol is linked to 88, deaths each year in the US.

All of that could prove bad for public health. Now, the situation almost certainly will not be as bad as alcohol, since alcohol is simply more dangerous than marijuana. Marijuana has never been definitively linked to any serious ailments — not deadly overdoses or lung disease. The most accepted root of the high holiday starts with some high school kids in San Rafael, California, back in Sloman says the phrase started as " Louis," meaning "at [they'd] meet by the Louis Pasteur statue outside the high school" and get high.

It turns out one of these kids' older brothers was friends with Grateful Dead's bassist, Phil Lesh. And the group—"they called themselves 'Waldos,' " Sloman says—started getting high with the Grateful Dead at their rehearsal studio in San Rafael.

Around , High Times magazine senior editor Steve Bloom saw a flyer at a Dead concert that "told the story of , and that was news to me," he wrote in a copy of the magazine obtained by the Huffington Post. Bloom wrote that "" was originally California police code for smoking pot. But it turns out the story on the flyer was horseshit. Bloom says "after about five years," the Waldos story emerged.

Which is "about five years" if you're baked. So it checks out. This one's pretty simple. Oh how nice this would be, to trace the high holiday back to one of the best artists to listen to while engaging in the devil's lettuce. But alas, even though the song was recorded in , well before the Waldos did their thing, it's highly unlikely this is our one true source. This one's a shut and closed case, too.

Although it has been stated that there are "more than chemical compounds" in a cannabis plant, no one ever clearly stated that that number is There are a couple of theories having to do with the police and Congress, too. It is not a police code for someone smoking marijuana, either.

Snapchat is expected to allow users to display a graphic on Thursday. The on-demand delivery company saw an 80 percent increase in orders for food such as chips, cookies, candy and beef jerky on April 20, , according to company officials.

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