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.
Introduction to New Early Settlers of Maryland. During the first years of his Province of Maryland, 1633-1681, Lord Baltimore rewarded people who transported themselves or others with rights to land, usually called headrights. For most of the period, the reward was a right to 50 acres of land per person transported.