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In San Francisco, it's a juvenile disturbance. While there may be a few police dispatchers in the United States who get a laugh out of assigning marijuana offenses to code No. Burning question answered: Yes, you can smoke weed in New Jersey.

Most studies have determined that there are more than compounds in a cannabis plant, though the number and type vary by strain. There are over cannabinoids, the chemicals most often studied in order to determine the physical and mental effects of marijuana. The mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred on April 20, , but there are conflicting reports about the date choice: Some claim that the shooters were Nazi sympathizers and planned for the shooting to fall on Hitler's birthday.

Others say it was simply a coincidence. More: NJ marijuana legalization was 'historically popular,' so why are towns banning legal weed dispensaries? The legend begins in the mythical land of Northern California: Once upon a time, there were five friends, smoking weed and sitting on top of a wall at San Rafael High School.

The other students called them "Waldos. And somehow because of that, all these doors opened up for us all the time," said "Waldo Steve" Capper in an interview with the Reno Journal-Gazette. Check out the history of from the stoners who invented the term! In the fall of , the Waldos soon heard of a hidden patch of cannabis, abandoned by a U. Coast Guardsman stationed nearby who was afraid he'd get busted.

They decided to meet up at the school's statue of Louis Pasteur who completed the first pasteurization test on April 20, to get high and go on a weed treasure hunt. But they had to wait until after their various sports team practices and settled on a specific time: p.

They used the phrase " Louie" to remind each other of their plans, eventually shortening it to simply " The phrase quickly grew beyond a reference to their futile search for the secret garden of weed. Please consider making a contribution to Vox today to help us keep our work free for all. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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The friends - who called themselves the Waldos because they used to hang out by a wall - met after school, at pm, and drove off on their treasure hunt. They never found the plot.

So did friends and acquaintances, who included - at a couple of steps removed - members of the Grateful Dead rock band. The term spread among the band's fans, known as Deadheads.



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