What do the Point Reyes lighthouse, French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Grateful Dead all have in common? Well, they’re all part of the origin story of how 420 methodically worked its way from a secret code to mainstream weed lingo.
And by [2002], when the L.A. Times did an article about us, it was already semi-common knowledge. But still, a lot of people don’t know who started this.I wrote a letter to him that said, “Hey, everybody thinks this 420 thing is a police code. That’s bulls—. It’s not the time that Jerry Garcia died. It’s not the number of chemical compounds in marijuana. And we have physical evidence, proof, going back to the 1970s.”We showed him these letters.
A letter from the early ‘70s written by Dave Reddix to Steve Capper after Capper left San Rafael for San Diego State University. The letter included a joint and a postscript saying, “A little 420 enclosed for your weekend.”We had never met the Coast Guardsmen who grew the pot and people started to say there was no Coast Guardsmen.
We spent six years trying to find [my friend’s brother who gave him the map], trying to track him down. And after six years [in 2016], we found him. He was living homeless in the streets of San Jose. We tracked him down to what was about a three-mile radius. So, I hired this private detective to go in there and see if she could find him, and she got in.
They were having a Super Bowl in [Santa Clara that year], and they wanted to clear all the homeless people out of San Jose to make it look clean. I found a P.O. Box that he had, and we wrote to the P.O. Box and said, “Hey, we know you’re not going to have a place to stay. They want to kick all the homeless people out of the city. We can put you up in a hotel for a week if you’ll just get together with us and tell us your side of the story and what you remember.”He joined the Coast Guard Reserve.
But the three other Waldos, they had kids in school, and they didn’t want to be stigmatized as marijuana parents. So, they stayed quiet until 2012.
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