But if Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh pick it up? Although there are many rumors behind the nomenclature, the most likely theory is that the name started with a couple high school friends in San Rafael and gathered steam after it hit the Grateful Dead.
Regardless of where the name comes from, the pseudo-holiday is a fun excuse to take a break. Canada is also a popular place to celebrate, with smokers gathering at the Mount Royal Monument in Montreal and the Parliament Hill in Ottawa. And now you know why. Liked this article?
You know who does know a thing or two about this? The most accepted root of the high holiday starts with some high school kids in San Rafael, California, back in Sloman says the phrase started as " Louis," meaning "at [they'd] meet by the Louis Pasteur statue outside the high school" and get high.
It turns out one of these kids' older brothers was friends with Grateful Dead's bassist, Phil Lesh. And the group—"they called themselves 'Waldos,' " Sloman says—started getting high with the Grateful Dead at their rehearsal studio in San Rafael. Around , High Times magazine senior editor Steve Bloom saw a flyer at a Dead concert that "told the story of , and that was news to me," he wrote in a copy of the magazine obtained by the Huffington Post.
Bloom wrote that "" was originally California police code for smoking pot. But it turns out the story on the flyer was horseshit. Bloom says "after about five years," the Waldos story emerged. Which is "about five years" if you're baked. So it checks out. This one's pretty simple.
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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.
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