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The most credible story traces 4/20 to Marin County, Calif. In 1971, five students at San Rafael High School would meet at 4:20 p.m. by the campus' statue of chemist Louis Pasteur to partake. They chose that specific time because extracurricular activities had usually ended by then. This group " Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich " became known as the "Waldos" because they met at a wall. They would say "420" to each other as code for marijuana.