• Picks for ‘26

    High time

    Today’s date isn’t lost on me, and not simply because some of the people I’ve spoken to so far have sounded higher than a kite. (You know who you are.) For those unaware of April 20’s significance – other than our lovely friend Remi’s birthday – “420” in cannabis culture code and pronounced “four-twenty” is slang for marijuana consumption. In particular, smoking it at 4:20 p.m. This reefer respite began in 1971 when five California high school students called “The Waldos” met every day at precisely 4:20 p.m. under a campus statue of Louis Pasteur to smoke pot before searching for an abandoned cannabis crop. They had a map. Because,…