Where is 420

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You know who does know a thing or two about this? 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.