The Dispensary Experience For 420 Was a Bust
It made me want to smoke a bowl for all the wrong reasons
It doesn’t matter why or how the number 420 came to be, it just is. It’s 4:20 every day twice a day, but 4/20 comes once a year.
In our capitalistic society all holidays exist to encourage people to buy something to help them celebrate. In the case of 420, we buy weed to take to the 420 festival that that we bought a new outfit for.
Before marijuana became decriminalized then commercialized 420 was a secret stoner signal like wearing a handkerchief in back pockets was for gays. At 4:20 we smoke weed. On 4:20 we smoke weed all day.
My favorite 4/20 was spent up in Humboldt with while my sister was going to college. Us and a couple hundred people spent the day sitting on blankets at the park passing joints, eating edibles, tossing frisbees while someone played acoustic guitar. At 4:20 we all smoked at the same time creating a massive cloud, then went home.
Back then the dealer we bought from didn’t have any deals, they had weed. We didn’t know what the strain’s name was or if it was an indica or sativa. The best time to buy weed was when the weed guy called back. There were no early bird specials or mass texting daily deals. If we wanted to pay less, we bought a larger…
