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	Encyclopedia: Popular culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In modern and postmodern societies, popular culture in large part is influenced by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example the film, television, and publishing industries, as well as the news media.
		Contrary to its term, Pop Culture is often at the leading edge of culture--adopted by cultural mavens or alphas--then adopted later by the laggards of the mainstream.
		The folkloric element of popular culture is heavily engaged with the commercial element; indeed popular culture might be defined as the kind of folkloric culture that arises under heavy commercial influence.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Popular-culture (1467 words)

	420 (drug culture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The number 420 is a euphemism for cannabis and its associated culture.
		Urban legend claims, incorrectly, that 420 is or was a police code for a drug bust, or that 4:20 is or was the shift change for the police.
		A popular sailing dinghy is called the 420 (being 420 cm long) and is most commonly raced by adolescent and collegiate sailors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/420_(drug_culture) (1162 words)

	Cannabis article - Cannabis Scientific classification Plantae Magnoliophyta Magnoliopsida - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The soils most suited to the culture of this plant are those of the deep, fl, putrid vegetable kind, that are low, and rather inclined to moisture, and those of the deep mellow, loamy, or sandy descriptions.
		In the culture of this plant, it is particularly necessary that the same piece of land grows both male and female, or what is sometimes denominated simple hemp.
		However, the relationship between depression and drug abuse is not determined, and heavy drug use may be the result of a mental condition rather than the cause.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Marijuana (5057 words)

	Cannabis (drug) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for drug material is due largely to the efforts of US drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 30s.
		However, because cannabis is a peculiar psychedelic that is unlike typical depressant or stimulant drugs, these persistent effects are unlike those normally associated with physical dependence.
		As with other drugs that are taken orally, it is sometimes customary to fast before taking the drug to increase the effect (possibly because an empty stomach will absorb the drug faster so it 'hits' you more strongly).
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cannabis_(drug) (3658 words)

	Phish.Net FAQ: 420
		420 is a favorite number for a variety of reasons, but colloquially the number says pot -- "let's smoke pot", or "someone's smoking pot", or "gee, i really like pot", or "time to smoke pot".
		April 20th at 4:20 is marked by annual events in Mount Tamalpais, CA (an informal gathering); Marin Conty, CA (the 420 Hemp Fest); Ann Arbor, MI (the Hash Bash); and Washington, D.C. (buildup towards the July 4th Smoke-In).
		Plus the Amsterdam weather forecast, the 420 Song (RealPlayer exerpt) Bobby G from 1966, and Cheech and Chong.
	www.phish.net /faq/420.html (180 words)

	Cannabis (drug) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cannabis is also thought by some to be the ancient drug soma, mentioned in the Vedas as a sacred intoxicating hallucinogen, although a number of advocates for different psychoactive substances such as Amanita muscaria and Salvia divinorum make this claim as well.
		That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for drug material is due largely to the efforts of US drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 30s, who used a Mexican name for cannabis in order to turn the populace against the idea that it should be legal.
		The findings of earlier studies purporting to demonstrate the effects of the drug are unreliable, as the studies were flawed, with strong bias and poor methodology.
	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Cannabis_(drug) (4394 words)

	420 (drug culture) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Urban legend claims, incorrectly, that 420 is or was a police code for a drug bust.
		The Lovecraft theory for the origin of 4:20 was first postulated on the official web-site for the rock band (An implement used in the practice of a vocation) Tool.
		The song "Smokin" by the 70's rock band (State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services) Boston is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/4/42/420_(drug_culture).htm (874 words)

	Kansas State Collegian: History of 4/20 evident in youth, drug culture 04/19/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		or p.m.) and the number 420 itself all have become entrenched in youth and drug culture, and the explanations for this phenomenon are numerous.
		This myth has become the most popular explanation of where the number came from, but 420 is not, and never has been a dispatch number for possession of marijuana anywhere.
		Now, parties and festivals are organized for the date, like the Hash Bash in Ann Arbor, Mich., and The 420 Hemp Fest in Marin Conty, Calif. The date has become a time for some to celebrate the drug, and for others, like the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, to protest marijuana laws.
	www.kstatecollegian.com /stories/041902/art_drugculture.shtml (308 words)

	THE POWER OF 420Transforming the universal code into a collective consciousness for stoners. :: hightimes.com
		April 20 at 4:20 PM is the “pot-smokers’ holiday,” also variously described as the “hippie New Year,” “national smoke time,” “national pot-smoking day,” “the holiday,” “pot appreciation day,” “the ultimate session,” or “a day of tribute to the scene.” One enthusiastic smoker reported: “Every group has its holidays, and pot-smokers are no exception.
		The sense of worldwide “we-ness” and the friendships established and renewed at 4/20 celebrations are due largely to the fact that April 20 is a public forum for the fight for legalization.
		I think this is the most valid expression of 420, as it puts the recreational use of marijuana in full view of the public, which is perhaps the first step towards gaining legitimacy.” Others explained: “4/20 at 4:20 is a time to come together.
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	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Years: 416 417 418 419 - 420 - 421 422 423 424 Decades: 390s 400s 410s - 420s - 430s 440s 450s Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century Events End of the Jin Dynasty in China.
		The 420 is a monohull planing dinghy with centerboard, bermuda rig and center sheeting, designed for a crew of two.
		List of numbers — Integers 420 CardinalFour hundred and twenty Ordinal420th Factorization[2^2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 7] Roman numeralCDXX Binary110100100 Hexadecimal1A4 It is the sum of four consecutive pr..
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		The number 420 has become a euphemism for one's support for cannabis and drug culture in general.
		An origin story according to Snopes and The Straight Dope claims that in the early 1970s a group of California teenagers at San Rafael High School used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM.
	www.cordblood-drugrehab.com /420.html (558 words)

	Read about 420 (drug culture) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research 420 (drug culture) and learn about 420 (drug ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM.
		The Lovecraft theory for the origin of 4:20 was first postulated on the official web-site for the rock band
		The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the "answer" to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, and 420/402 is often used in the same manner.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/International_Cannabis_Day (684 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It has been used by humans throughout recorded history for its fiber, for its psychological and physiological effects as a drug, and for the nutrition and oil of its seeds.
		Therefore, the experiments could not conclude that their findings were indicative of the effects of cannabis alone but rather the effects of a combination of drugs.
		According to NIDA (National Instute of Drug Abuse/Addiction) the use of cannabis may result in addiction or physical dependence.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Cannabis (4397 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (420) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself.
		This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection.
		However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side.
	www.snopes.com /language/stories/420.htm (837 words)

	Potheads aka pot heads
		420 Alternative Search is an ongoing pot community project seeking out 420 culture on the Internet.
		420 has developed into a new slang culture used by a wide variety of herbal smoke social backgrounds.
		Be the first to submit your own 420 definitions and slang.
	www.420pot.com /potheads.html (632 words)

	Wired News: High Holy Day for Potheads
		On message boards and community sites across the Web, it's possible to find people who are "420 friendly," meaning that they'd love to meet you and smoke your dope.
		And for such people, 4/20 is the recognized day to get your smoke on.
		The Web is rife with speculation regarding the origin of the term "420." An old yarn has it that 420 was a California police code cops used when they'd spotted someone getting high, and that drug users co-opted the word.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,51986,00.html (733 words)

	Are Some Hemp Advocates Tied to the Illicit Drug Culture
		Recently, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took action to ban hemp products meant for human consumption, because they contain THC--the psychoactive compound in marijuana that is prohibited by the Controlled Substances Act.
		A closer examination of some of its key members, however, suggests close ties to the drug culture and the drug legalization movement.
		High Times, the drug culture magazine, reported on the Association's first organizational meeting.
	www.drugwatch.org /McDougal.htm (851 words)

	420 Times Magazine Marijuana News and High Entertainment - Press Release Could Be Illegal Under New Drug Law
		Politicians are so desperate to win the War on Drugs that they're willing to outlaw this press release, the Libertarian Party said today.
		It would be illegal to tell someone how to produce an illegal drug, such as growing marijuana.
		The bill is a dangerous expansion of government power, said Dasbach, because although politicians now have the power to outlaw certain activities, the First Amendment prohibits them from outlawing speech about those illegal activities.
	www.420times.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3762 (566 words)

	Cannabis - MariWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Containing mildly psychedelic and other psychoactive and physiologically active chemicals known as cannabinoids, the buds and leaves of cannabis are used recreationally and medicinally in many cultures; such a preparation is often referred to as marijuana and, today, is usually consumed orally or by inhalation in smoking or vaporization.
		There is some evidence that correlates long-term use with depression and aggravation of pre-existing mental conditions; the precise relationship between depression and marijuana has not been determined, though there is some preliminary research on this.
		Since marijuana is primarily a hallucinogenic drug, its withdrawal should never be confused with depressant drugs (e.g.
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	Drug War Chronicle, Issue #306 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Drug War Chronicle now uses a new format in which we send the table of contents, with web links and announcements, but not the full text of the articles.
		Inside, Walters, new DEA administrator Karen Tandy, Dr. Andrea Barthwell of the drug czar's office (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov), and fellow prohibitionist medicos Dr. Mark Kraus of the Connecticut Society of Addiction Medicine and Dr. Billy Martin of Virginia Commonwealth University assailed the six New England governors with their typical blend of hysteria, misinformation, and hyperbole.
		Drug czar John Walters was in unusually mendacious form Wednesday as he warned an audience at Washington's conservative Center for Strategic International Studies of the Canadian marijuana menace.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/306/full.shtml (10024 words)

	420_(drug_culture)
		Snopes.com, High Times Magazine, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s the Waldos, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM.
		One piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the number is almost always said "four twenty" and not "four hundred and twenty".
		The second verse in the children's nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' goes "Four and twenty flbirds baked in a pie".
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=420_(drug_culture) (772 words)

	Drugs - Info and contacts
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		Green Party Drugs Group updated UK drugs news, providing a large and comprehensive drugs links service and selling informative ecstasy testing kits and drug-related books online.
		The CD "informs young people about the risks of drugs and is presented in an entertaining and humorous peer fashion.
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	107-420 Art and Mass Culture in the 1960s
		Usually 37.5 points of art history at second/third year, see Prerequisites or admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in art history or cultural studies.
		The visual arts of the 1960s are studied in conjunction with other cultural practices (television, advertising, fashion, popular music) and historical phenomena (the Vietnam war, counter-cultural movements, the rise of consumer culture).
		Through a series of case studies the ideological, cultural, artistic and philosophical shifts that we now call postmodernism will be explored.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/2003/subjects/107-420.html (183 words)

	Welcome to 420.org - Enjoy your stay. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From T-shirts to tote bags, stickers to stash boxes, there's bound to be something for everyone at the 420.org Store.
		Just log in with your user name and password and get instant access to your 420 account including e-mail, address book, calendar and lots of great customizable features.
		See what folks are saying about cannabis and the drug culture.
	www.420.org (163 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Numeric Terms Abound in Drug Culture and Elsewhere
		A 30-year-old euphemism for smoking marijuana, 420 is a common term among adolescents but doesn't register with boomers, or some drug and alcohol counselors.
		But he said it's not unusual for drug terms used by some to mean nothing to others, and it can vary from high school to high school.
		The term 420 is one in a long line of names for marijuana, coming on the heels of the likes of "Mary Jane," "grass," "bud," "tree," "hooch," "dope," "chronic" and the granddaddy of them all, "reefer."
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread9395.shtml (1689 words)

	'420' Slang for Marijuana Going Mainstream \| JoinTogether.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some believe 420 got its origins as a police radio code for "pot smoking in progress." But Steven Hager, editor of High Times, said its reference goes back to 1971, when a group of high-school students in California met frequently at 4:20 to smoke.
		According to Hager, the term eventually caught on and was popularized in the counterculture by the Grateful Dead.
		"This is a whole culture with kids," said Beth Kane Davidson, director of the addiction-treatment center at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. "Even if your adolescent is at home alone at 4:20, and he smokes up, he is not alone.
	www.jointogether.org /sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1030,265914,00.html (298 words)

	420 - the only dumb people are those that think it is the police code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		420 - the only dumb people are those that think it is the police code
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		Would you like the real history of the term 4:20?
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	420 Times Magazine Marijuana News and High Entertainment - DEALING WITH DRUGGIES
		drug testing students who participate in extracurricular activities, she
		serves as a useful indicator of the tenor of discourse surrounding drug
		The court is widely regarded to have taken on Earls v.
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	420people.com - index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's currently the 2nd largest marijuana, hemp, and 420 related directory in the world.
		If your site relates to marijuana, hemp, and the 420 related culture, and you would like Free qualified traffic, simply place a link from your web site to 420-people.com, and submit your site to our directory.
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	pets california - Local area business directory. Local services. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		420 (drug culture) The number 420 is a euphemism describing one's support for cannabis and drug culture.
		As with any socially taboo subject, a large amount of urban legend surrounds the origin of this term.
		An origin story according to Snopes.com and The Straight Dope claims that in the early 1970s a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM.
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