Well I just spent an hour trying to find a link that would give you the whole story, to no avail! So I'll try the story from memory. Excuse me if I don't get it quite right. Someone will be along to correct me I'm sure.
High Times got a letter from a guy claiming to have originated the phrase. He said he did'nt want any kind of money or notority. He just wanted to set the record straight.
It is NOT a police code. It started back in the early 70's with a group a high school friends in Santa Barbara Calif.(I think!)
They called themselves the Waldo's. After school they would meet at a statue of Ralph WALDO Emerson and smoke up. The time each day was about 4:20. So 420 became the code for meeting to burn one. As for the spread of it nationally and Internationally, they were all Deadhead's. They say it caught on at 'Dead shows and spread from there.
If ya go fish around the High Times site you can probably find the story somewhere. I've been known to be cyber impaired. Along with just a little case of the stoned stupids right now!
