There are all sorts of rumors about how the term 420 came to be associated with lighting up a joint, but according to the myth-busting website Snopes.com, it was born in the 1970s at San Rafael High School in California, where about a dozen students gathered each day at 4:20 p.m. to smoke pot.
Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Louis Weichmann moved into Mary Surrattâs boardinghouse on November 1, 1864. On December 23, 1864, Dr. Samuel Mudd introduced John Surratt, Jr. to John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited John Jr. into his conspiracy to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
Recently in the San Francisco Bay Area a local state Assemblywoman was arrested for shoplifting in an upscale department store: surveillance cameras caught her leaving the store with over $2000 of merchandise. This event has caught the local and national media's attention due to her political position and the fact that she is married to a judge. Attorneys and spokespeople for the Assemblywoman have released statements that she unintentionally left the store with the items in her bag and intended to go back.