True history of the term "4-20"

[northernlightssmokn]

In the chat room yesterday, I had a conversation over the term 420 w/ some others. I believed firmly that I knew the true meaning and shared it with the others in the chat room. I said it was a member of the "4" code used by military police to communicate back in the day of anolog radio communications..4-20 was "person under the influence"...4-29 was "person of unknown age or race in custody" etc.... In the mid to late 70's the code of communications turned to a new format called the "10 code"...10-4 is "ok" or "copy that" 10-20 is "location" etc..... Mid 80's and the Ham radio "Q" code was introduced..Over time the the term 420 became a term instead of a code....

Well it made for a great story anyway....lol BUT unfortunitaly according to the ever so popular www.snopes.com I was able to dig up a totaly different version of the same story, according to them, I could not have been farther from the truth... Here is the link to the page, You tell me what you think...

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm

Calling all older hippies and military kids out there, Any one a teen ager in the late 60's/early 70's and sober enough to remember the police lingo...were there even radio's in the police cars than??...lol

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[the_riz]

i think it would be nice to think "420" as something we can interperate for ourselves.

Its pretty much cult amongsed the smoking youth of today whether its a point at the clock: "hey man check it out! 420!" or a time people actually meet.

I always thought it was a time, but like, "theres a 420 on 42nd street" sounds pretty likely to me..

riz

 

[krotch]

I thought it meant spring break. april 20th. smoke time!