Praise the Law and Pass the Kutchie
This is a beautiful piece about something I know nothing about. But I feel the feelings.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/20/2023-a-spliff-odyssey/
Hoping malaise gets to comment on this.
Dreadlocks cant smoke him pipe in peace
Too much informers and too much beast
Too much watchie watchie watchie, too much su-su su-su su
Too much watchie watchie watchie, too much su-su su-su su
-from Tenement Yard, by Jacob Miller
Happy Holiday! How about some good news for a change? Via the Associated Press:
Saturday marks marijuana cultures high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather at 4:20 p.m. in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts.
This years edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in nearly half the states and the nations capital. Many states have instituted social equity measures to help communities of color, harmed the most by the drug war, reap financial benefits from legalization. And the White House has shown an openness to marijuana reform.
The origins of the date, and the term 420 generally, were long murky. Some claimed it referred to a police code for marijuana possession or that it derived from Bob Dylans Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35, with its refrain of Everybody must get stoned 420 being the product of 12 times 35.
But the prevailing explanation is that it started in the 1970s with a group of bell-bottomed buddies from San Rafael High School, in Californias Marin County north of San Francisco, who called themselves the Waldos. A friends brother was afraid of getting busted for a patch of cannabis he was growing in the woods at nearby Point Reyes, so he drew a map and gave the teens permission to harvest the crop, the story goes.
During fall 1971, at 4:20 p.m., just after classes and football practice, the group would meet up at the schools statue of chemist Louis Pasteur, smoke a joint and head out to search for the weed patch. They never did find it, but their private lexicon 420 Louie and later just 420 would take on a life of its own. [
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