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.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, who wanted to create a perfectly religious community, or a 'city on the hill,' away from the Catholic influence in the Anglican Church. Unlike its Chesapeake counterpart, the Massachusetts Bay Colony flourished with literacy, schools, town meetings, longer lives, clean drinking water, a cool climate, and a variety of crops.