1 The number 420 is not police radio code for anything, anywhere. ( 2 Checks of criminal codes suggest that the origin is neither Californian nor federal. 3  For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a misdemeanor the hindrance of use of public lands.). 4  There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana.
By the late 1600âs, economic conditions in England improved, and fewer people came to Maryland as indentured servants. By the 1690s, planters found that they could earn more money if they did not have to pay laborers. So, planters turned to slave labor.
It afterwards formed part of the grant that was made by Charles I. to Sir George Calvert, by title Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic nobleman. Inspired by the same feeling that had moved the Puritans, he sought to establish a refuge in America for men of his religious faith, who were persecuted in England.