It’s April 20^th.  That means it’s time for everyone’s favorite fake holiday that’s probably more celebrated than most of the official government holidays (Columbus Day, I’m looking at you): 420.  Yes, I think people who smoke weed today are losers, but I probably think they’re losers the other 364 days of they year, too, so no big deal. 

What’s more interesting is listening to said losers discuss the origins of the term ‘420’ as a drug reference.  You hear everything from birthdays to penal codes to then number of chemicals in the plant.  And they all know it’s the truth because ‘some guy’ told them.

Stoner1:  “I hear it’s Bob Marley’s birthday.”

Stoner2:  “Wouldn’t a date like that be easily verifiable, like within 30 seconds of research on the internet?”

Stoner1:  “Yeah, I was going to go look it up… but then I decided to get high and sit on this couch… for several hours.”

Although I have to say that my favorite theory is that it’s because today is Hitler’s birthday.  Yeah, that seems like a reasonable excuse to do anything.

Stoner1:  “Did you hear it was Hitler’s birthday today?”

Stoner2:  “Wait… so are you saying we should go smoke some weed?”

Stoner1:  “Obviously I am saying that.  Why else would I have brought it up?”

Damn those stoners and their arbitrarity.

-FG

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