Liked this article? Sign up for our newsletter to get the best craft beer writing on the web delivered straight to your inbox. Search this website. Search for:. Store Subscribe. Travel Gear People Beer Culture. They watched their dogs, were welcomed into their parties and Reddix even got a gig as a roadie for the band. The band picked up on the "" habit and, soon after, so did the "Deadheads," well known for their particular interest in smoking weed before, during and after shows.
Nearly 20 years later, the phrase would get national attention after High Times magazine published a flyer that explained the "code.
More: 16th NJ medical marijuana dispensary now open in Neptune. This is when you must get the day off work or school," it continues. The Waldos' website has multiple examples of how the number was an inside joke among their friends and at San Rafael High School. There are postmarked letters — to each other, to friends and to members of the Grateful Dead — that make reference to the code.
There's a tie-dye flag with "" made in their art class. There's a school newspaper, with a student simply stating "" when asked what he'd say in front of his class.
And in , the Waldos tracked down retired U. He confirmed drawing up the "treasure map" that sparked the legend. Facebook Twitter Email. What does mean? The big concern is that a big marijuana industry will, like the tobacco and alcohol industries, irresponsibly market its drug to kids or users who already consume the drug excessively — with little care for public health and safety over the desire for profits.
To this end, many drug policy experts see alcohol as a warning, not something to be admired and followed for other drugs. For decades, big alcohol has successfully lobbied lawmakers to block tax increases and regulations on alcohol, all while marketing its product as fun and sexy in television programs, such as the Super Bowl, that are viewed by millions of Americans, including children.
Meanwhile, alcohol is linked to 88, deaths each year in the US. All of that could prove bad for public health. Now, the situation almost certainly will not be as bad as alcohol, since alcohol is simply more dangerous than marijuana.
Marijuana has never been definitively linked to any serious ailments — not deadly overdoses or lung disease. Given this, the focus for drug policy experts tends to be the risk of addiction and overuse. But these risks are still risks. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.
Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. Please consider making a contribution to Vox today to help us keep our work free for all. For them, it was an ideal time: They were out of school but their parents still weren't home, giving them a window of unsupervised freedom.
They met at that time every day near a statue of Louis Pasteur, the scientist who pioneered pasteurization. CNN Money: 10 things to know about legal pot. The time became a code for them to use in front of their unsuspecting parents, and gradually spread from there -- possibly via Grateful Dead followers -- across California and beyond.
It's even the number of a California Senate bill that established the state's medial marijuana program. What was shorthand for a group of friends can now be seen on T-shirts and throughout pop culture.
And of course, on the calendar every April.
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