{"id":2887,"date":"2019-04-15T04:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dispensaries.com\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2019-04-15T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:44:00","slug":"is-420-overrated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dispensaries.com\/blog\/is-420-overrated-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 420 Overrated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 20 has been the unofficial holiday to celebrate all things cannabis for years now. But as legalization spreads, some are starting to ask, is 420 overrated? The holiday, born in the need for secrecy about weed, has possibly become overrated and maybe even unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Certainly, many people plan to celebrate this year. And there are festivals planned again in places like Denver and Seattle. But there\u2019s an argument to be made that the holiday has outlived its usefulness.<\/p>\n

Before getting into that, here\u2019s a look at how 4\/20 began, some of the traditions around the holiday and where the biggest festivals are happening in 2019.<\/p>\n

The 420 Legend<\/h2>\n

Back in 1971, four friends at San Rafael High School would meet at the Louis Pasteur statue on campus <\/a>to go in search of a fabled field of marijuana near a Coast Guard station outside of town. The time they met? 4:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

From this humble beginning, the holiday of 4\/20 was created. Soon, the friends used \u201c420\u201d as a code for marijuana. Eventually, that slang – and their story – spread across the country. April 20 became the un-official cannabis holiday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Popular traditions of 4\/20<\/h2>\n

Everyone chooses to observe 4\/20 in their own way. One of the most common is to fire up a joint at 4:20 p.m., which is the time that the group in California met at the statue. Other traditions include:<\/p>\n