Clearing the air on the origins of 420, the unofficial national marijuana holiday.
The origins of the so-called pot holiday "420" are — fittingly — fuzzy.
Weed lore dictates that in the early 1970s, a group of teens attending San Rafael High School, about 19 miles north of San Francisco, would as a code word of sorts to indicate a smoke session after school.
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