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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Avi Bajpai

It’s April 20. Here’s why everyone associates 420 with marijuana.

Whether you know a lot about marijuana or very little, chances are you’ve heard that the numbers 420 are particularly significant in weed culture.

But what does it mean? And why do weed aficionados hold April 20 and 4:20 p.m. so sacred?

According to Time Magazine, 420 can be traced to 1971, when a group of five students at San Rafael High School in Marin County, California, began meeting at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana.

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