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Rastafari Beliefs and Practices

Sun, 12/Nov/23

Rastafari do not say “we” for plurality. They grow their lingo out of the Jamaican Creole, which is a dialect of English itself. They wear dreadlocks, and worship the emperor Haile Selassie I, believing he is a true messiah and a divine personality, also a direct descendant of King Solomon.

Livity is yet another Rastafari term for cosmic energy and a life force. So, I-tal works to increase livity.

  • Rastafari advocate unity with all things, believing every living soul on Earth is a “brother”, and this spreads far beyond humans. I asked once my Rastafari brother as I pointed to an ant – “And he?”, the dude replied: “Yes, he is my brother. Selassie-ai.”

  • Rastafari deny any violence in any form towards brothers, which are all living creatures on the planet! Rastafari do not usually protest, but when they do, they express their “fight” in reggae sounds. Apparently, not a fight in the Western mentality.

  • Rastafari oppose Babylon for the two reasons listed above.

Do all “rastas” smoke weed?

Nay, this isn’t true, not all Rastafari smoke weed – surprise! The Rastafari principal belief suggests the body is a temple of God, and they accept godsends (including marijuana) to take care of this temple of God and enhance the cosmic energy in it.

“Then God said: Behold, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food” (Genesis 1:29)

  • Smoking weed for a Rastafari is a sacramental deal, the spiritual food for the mind, and a medium for meditation to feel universal energy and unity with Jah and oneself.

  • In a rare case when weed does not fit the body and/or the mind, making anything worse, some Rastafari followers refuse to smoke for sake of keeping the “temple of god” (the body) in a good shape.

  • The dominating majority of Rastafari, of course, smokes marijuana and blesses God every time and with every toke for that God gave to all of us such a generous gift.

Why do “rastas” wear dreadlocks?

The reason for wearing dreadlocks is a part of the same model, that the body of Man is a temple of God, and it’s better be not intervened. So Rastafari do not cut hair, because the latter is a part of the divine plan of God towards humans. The formation of a dreadlock is a natural process, and you guess, that “rastas”, those living in asceticism, do not go to a barber’s shop to make dreads. All goes natural way.

Rastafari do not say “we” for plurality

The religious meaning of deprecating “we” and removing it from the speech, is that every Rastafari is a part of God, where his body is a temple of God and at the same time a living man. Every living man describes himself as an “I”, a personal pronoun. Because everyone is an “I”, Rastafari do not say “we” for plurality but say “I and I”.

From the said, Rastafari tend to replace some leading syllables in regular words with “I”. For example, eternal becomes I-ternal, the creator is the I-reator, and an hour transforms into an I-owa. The name of the popular diet, the Rastafari exercise, derives from the word “vital” by silencing the leading “v” and making it “I-tal”.

The divine idea of an “I”, plural – I and I, also applies to the title of the emperor Haile Selassie I. Even though it is normal to use Roman numbers for counting princes, Rastafari believe that the trailing Roman numeric one in the “Haile Selassie I” title points to the divinity of the king.

I-tal diet of Rastafari

The word “I-tal” is transformed from the English word “vital”, but the “v” is silenced, removed at all, and the “I” is highlighted because they always highlight the “I” to emphasize the unity with Jah and the universe.

I-tal diet is a plant-based diet, where Rastafari practices borrow many ideas about how to limit food for I-tal diet from Judaism and Hindu. Thus, Rastafari as a religion is a sort of compilation and a blend of Hindu and Judaism, seh so (that’s how “say so” sounds in Rastafari dialect, we’ve found it in Bob Marley’s interview).

There is no strict rule about the I-tal as it is more a personal feeling about what strengthens the body and increases energy, and what does not, adhering to the purity of food. However, there are guidelines to start with:

  • Food is to be pure and delivered directly from the earth

  • Clay pots and wooden bowls often replace metal pans

  • Some followers decline metal at all, including spoons

  • I-tal declines meat, as it is not from earth, and it is dead

  • Fish may be acceptable, but seafood is less

  • Some I-tal practitioners avoid salt

What is Livity?

LIVITY is another Rastafari term for cosmic energy and a life force. So, I-tal works to increase livity. Why not they only inforced the i-letter by dropping the L-letter away, haha.

Is Rastafari Christian?

Not much.

Rastafari is not Christian, but the two religions share some prophets and the book. Rastafari, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism share the basics as they all are the Abrahamic religions (branches).

All Abrahamic branches take off from the same legends, and the same book, usually recognizing the same basic prophets. However, not all of them support the idea of the divine genealogy of Jesus, which is the core dogma making Christianity Christianity

Some Rastafari beliefs correspond to Judaism, such as their diet, called “I-tal”, but some beliefs, as a matter of course, are similar to Christianity.

However, the principal religion of Ethiopia is Orthodox Christianity, the same as in Russia and Greece!

So the emperor Haile Selassie was a Christian Orthodox. Jesus was not Christian, but a prophet for Christianity, while Selassie was not Rastafari but a prophet for Rastafari, simple as that.

Who is Haile Selassie?

The central personality in the Rastafari religion is the emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who also happened to be the last king of the country. Rastafari worship Haile Selassie I as god, and he is also the second coming of messiah, described in the Bible, just like the first messiah was Jesus.

emperor Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie in Civilization 5 videogame

“Know that the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the Almighty. Wha’ dem want? A white God, well, God come black,” – Bob Marley.

Also, “rastas” believe, that the king of kings his imperial majesty Haile Selassie I is the direct descendant of a biblical royal couple of King Solomon and Queen of Sheba, and the land of Ethiopia is the biblical Canaan, the promised land for Rastafari.

The visit of Queen Sheba to King Solomon (role in Rastafari Religion)

Queen Sheba visiting King Solomon (by Edward John Poynter) the large image here

What does the “Ras Tafari” mean?

Haile Selassie’s name resulted from the coronation, which was somewhat an Ethiopian tradition to change the monarch’s name, less important for the present narrative. Yet more important, his real-world name, before his being-a-king, was Tafari Makonnen (no-o-o, he is a 100% Ethiopian prince, and he is absolutely not from Finland, whatever the surname may seem, and it makes me smile too)

The title of the crown prince Tafari was Ras Tafari as long as he used to be a governor of Harrar province in Ethiopia, where “ras” is a very word for a governor, or a duke, in the Ethiopian language.

Thus, Ras Tafari literally means Duke Tafari, the Haile Selassie’s name as a crown prince, a ruler of Harrar, and the icon of the Rastafari religion.

Rastafari Vocabulary

To make this post clear, we list several definitions Rastafari use. We already know who is emperor Haile Selassie I, and why we call the whole thing Ras Tafari. Let’s dig up deeper to find out what the Lion is doing here, and the importance of Babylon definition, so we pack all of it into this brief Rastafari vocabulary:

Jah — is the name of God in the Rastafari religion, the latter is the Abrahamic branch basically, along with Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Thus, “Jah” is the same monotheistic deity for all Abrahamic religions, some call him Yahweh or Allah, yet he is one for all.

Haile Selassie I — is the last king of Ethiopia, the central person and messiah (what we call the second coming of Jesus) in the Rastafari religion. Whereas Rastafari believe, that the king of kings his imperial majesty Haile Selassie I is the direct descendant of King Solomon and Queen of Sheba, therefore a holy person and the deity himself, just like Jesus in Christianity.

★ Zion — is a biblical place, or a region, now located in Africa, in Ethiopia as of their belief, where the Rastafari have once moved from Israel in the prehistoric (biblical) times. Rastafari religion has rejected the traditional definition of Zion as a “spiritual place in the sky”, promoting instead that Mount Zion is the “heaven on earth”.

★ Babylon — Babylon — is every negative aspect of the “western culture”, which Rastafari religion opposes in the lyrics of ska and reggae, namely: the law enforcement, the government in its wide, and especially when it is recklessly unfaithful or going mad. Rastafari refer to the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Vatican as “Babylon” too.

How do you say “Haile Selassie” as blessing?

Rastafari say “Selassie” as often as Christians say “Jesus” as both use the name of their messiah for blessing. A full version is “Haile Selassie”, and “Selassie” is a short version for this.

I have discovered another curious fact on my quest to comprehend better the “rasta” culture: Rastafari also add the trailing Roman numeric “I” to the short version of the blessing, it becomes “Selassie I” slipping “Haile” out.

So,

– An English-speaking “rasta” would say [selasi-ai],

making “1” be an i-sound.

– A Spanish-speaking “rasta” would say [selasi-el],

converting capital “I” to “L”, because they look the same.

– You’ve got a good toke: you murmur “Selassie-ai”, or “Selassie-el”.

There are (at least) two monuments to Judah Lion in Addis Ababa

The Lion of the Judah tribe, aka Judah Lion or the Lion of Zion, is a historical symbol of Ethiopia, maybe because the royal family of Ethiopia descends from King Solomon, who was of the Judah tribe himself. Thus, Haile Selassie I is of the Judah tribe too, which makes the marijuana community accept the lion as a cannabis symbol under the influence of Rastafari culture. And, we can spot that Lion on the personal coat-of-arms of the emperor Haile Selassie.

Well, it is all about the Lion, and no surprise, lions are all around Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. The first monument was erected in 1930 on the occasion of the coronation of Haile Selassie I (that is when he stopped being Ras Tafari and changed to Haile Selassie).

Judah Lion monument in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1930

Judah Lion, Addis Ababa, 1930

Yet another Judah Lion (aka the Lion of Zion) in Addis Ababa got commissioned in 1954 by the emperor Haile Selassie I himself.

Judah Lion, Addis Ababa, 1954

Judah Lion, Addis Ababa, 1954

Rastafari discourage the use of -ism and -ians suffixes

Speaking about the Rastafari’s representation of evil, the Babylon. We use the term “Rastafari” instead of “Rastafarianism” because the latter is… wait for that: oppressive, Babylonic, and very negative.

Suprisingly, the Merriam Webster dictionary confirms it:

1) “ism”, as a noun – an oppressive and discriminatory attitude or belief.

2) “-ism”, as a suffix – indicates prejudice, discrimination, or an abnormal state resulting from an excess of a thing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-ism

Indeed!

Have you ever noticed that the Western culture refers to most of foreign religions and teachings adding “-ism” to the original word, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, etc, but never say “christianism”? Try saying “christianism” to feel how hostile it sounds.

It is Hindu, and not “hinduism”,

It is Mazdayasna, and its practitioners hardly called it “zoroastrism”.

So Rastafari use the “Rastafari” word, discouraging “-ism” and “-ian” as much as they disgrace the Babylonic ideologies as a whole. Though, they protest peacefully singing, through the lyrics of reggae and ska.

Aye-aye, unbelievably, the reggae (and ska) are the rebellion songs!

Ska

Ska was a pop-version of reggae, called “bluebeat” in England, being a mix of jazz and blues. Ska is yet outdated and rarely in use nowadays.

Ska — is a precursor of reggae, developed in the 1950-60s as a mild protest against social and political conditions in Jamaica.

While ska rhythms seem happy and content, in fact, they are about the pain and suffering of the people of Jamaica under the dishonest governmental regime. Ska is similar to reggae but applies a softer manner of blues. My god, what on Earth can be even softer than reggae? Ska can be!

Ska introduced Jamaican drumming to the world for the first time, which has happened long before the transformation of ska into reggae. The famous ska titles were “Oh Carolina”, “Another Moses”, and “Babylon Gone”.

Female Corruptible Influence

Ska musicians expressed the deep personal pain they were gaining from the political forces and, surprisingly, the pain from the “corruptible influence of a female”. They’ve been promoting that the temptation of female flesh eventually leads in general to negative things: broken hearts, loneliness, and teardrops.

This explains a lot about Bob Marley’s “No woman, no cry” — while being romantic in sound, the lyrics disgrace the female role in society. Oops!

To advocate this provision, let me add that Woman is worshiped as the incarnation of love and a deity for tens of thousands of years in the history of mankind. Apparently, a woman clearly demonstrates the dual nature, just as gods do all the time.

Thus, the lyrics of reggae and ska do not necessarily mean anything bad towards women, but they support the divine duality of woman’s nature, just like so many cultures did for ages.

To understand the concept of divine duality of every Woman as she is an ancient goddess of life and war, try to think about water or the Sun: both create life, and both can severely destroy everything. Yep, that’s hot.

Only some of the Rude Boys were Rastafari

In 1965 in Jamaica, unemployed ghetto youths, 14-25 years old, living in the shantytown of Kingston, the capital city of Jamaica, formed a strong and well-organized rebellion force armed with knives, cutlasses, and guns. They became a certain threat to the middle class, looting houses and shops, clashing violently and successfully against the law enforcement, living only for “run faster, jump higher, fuck longer” as they claimed.

Rude Boys embraced the image of an outlaw hero and a symbol of a new generation opposing the system which (they suggested) produced unemployment and poverty in Jamaica. Guess that for “rudies” marijuana was not exactly a spirituality, and their behavior, righteous or not, can hardly match the “peace and love” approach of the Rastafari followers.

However, some “rudies” claimed and pretended they were Rastafari, adopting the Rastafari language, appearance, dreadlocks, and also consuming weed openly. Consequently, citizens of Jamaica organically associated Rude Boys with the already existing negative, lunatic image of Rastafari.

Rastafari in their turn desperately denied any connection to “rudies” by all means, and never encouraged or promoted any violent action towards other people in exchange for gaining their own liberty. The suffering of humans, regardless of their negativity, is out of the question too.

Rastafari and Rude Boys highlighted identical goals to “fight” poverty and oppression but indeed espoused two radically different ideologies.

Grounation day: “God is here!”

Only once the king of kings Haile Selassie has visited Jamaica, it’s happened on the 21st day of April in 1966, and the 4/21 day is celebrated ever since by Rastafari, and they call it “Grounation day”.

100,000 people gathered at the airport on the 4/21 of 1966, and 10,000 of them were Rastafari, who smoked bongs, all the time chanting “God is here!” — the long-awaited Messiah finally arrived on the island of Jamaica to liberate them and take them to Zion in Africa!

“We have to go to Africa to live with our brothers and sisters there. Blacks remember, our king Haile Selassie grants land space for us in Ethiopia,” — Rasta Historian, writer to Bongo-man, Rastafari newspaper, Jamaica, 1968

Well, their expectation of repatriation to Africa didn’t work that way. Even though there is a piece of free land in Ethiopia, that Haile Selassie allocated for the Rastafari community in Shashamane town, but the king of kings did not take all Jamaicans to that Zion after his visit of Jamaica.

Instead, Haile Selassie has spoken to Rastafari leaders and proposed a new concept to them — to refuse the idea of physical repatriation to Africa, to the biblical Canaan, the promised land, but replace it with the pursuit of political liberation of Jamaica.

  • Among other goals, the emperor Haile Selassie wished to influence the public opinion in the country, persuading political leaders of Jamaica that the “rastas” could no longer be written off as “dangerous freaks”. This made reggae commercially viable, and also allowed the Rastafari religion to take off for the global spread.

  • Rita Marley, the wife of Bob Marley, converted to Rastafari faith as she saw Haile Selassie passing by in his motorcade. She later said she saw a stigma on his hand when he waved to the crowd.

  • The “grounation” as a word in the “Grounation day” derives from “foundation”. We’ve mentioned how Rastafari invent words to stress Letter I’s divinity in the already hardly understandable Jamaican Creole; but this time, for the “grounation” word, Rastafari expressed the idea that the Haile Selassie’s touchdown in Jamaica felt like a foundation for them but as he touched the Jamaican ground it was actually the “Grounation”.

Haile Selassie influenced the incorporation of “rudies” into reggae

By the time of the visit of Haile Selassie to Jamaica, the “Rastafari music” was already transforming from ska to reggae under the influence of R&B. But the idea the emperor have thrown about the liberation of Jamaica made reggae more aggressive and political, as only “aggressive” reggae could be!

The reggae musicians reacted by applying to build the heroic image out of “rudies” (Rude Boys), demonstrating the virtual alliance between Rude Boys and Rastafari united from now on against the common enemy, the system that produced unemployment and poverty, the Babylonic evil.

From Ska passive crying Rastafari slowly switched to reggae struggle. The sounds of reggae changed to describe the society in the process of transformation. Also, the religious Rastafari became the political power, which promoted rebellion and liberation.

Peace and love!

The Western way of thinking may call a violent image of Rastafari fighting for liberation, disobeying the Babylonic government. However, in reality, Rastafari oppose the Western mentality, as they are the “silent protesters”, and the “peaceful rebels”.

“We are truly humble people whose response to evil is to flee from it,” — Bongo Dizzy in Bongo-man, Rastafari newspaper, Jamaica, 1968”

Rastafari express their claims and demands exclusively through music and never consider a violent action. Love and peace they also express in asceticism.

Rastafari shanty villa in Jamaica

Rastafari shanty “villa” in Jamaica


Marijuana famous people

Fri, 30/Jul/21

This is the Hall of fame of famous people of the marijuana culture, and marijuana industry, also history. The list is ordered randomly, positions mean nothing. We are keeping this list updated, yet slowly.

Raphael Mechoulam

Professor Raphael Mechoulam

Dr Raphael Mechoulam is an Israeli scientist, who discovered, explained, isolated, and fully synthesized THC. Delta-9 tetra hydro cannabiniol, also known as the THC, is the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, one that makes us high.

Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I, King of Ethiopia, and the Prophet in Rastafari Religion

His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I was the emperor and the last king of Ethiopia, and a central figure of Rastafari religion. The Rastafari followers faithfully regard Haile Selassie I as a divine person, and a direct descendant of the biblical King Solomon and Queen of Sheba.

Rameses II

Rameses II, Rameses the Great, the Pharaoh of the Ancient Egypt

Rameses II was a pharaoh of Egypt about 3300 years ago. Scientists recently proved mummies of pharaohs and their high priests were positive on tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine. It makes pharaohs the first rulers in history, officially documented, who have ideologically advocated weed.

Robert Nesta Marley

Bob Marley, Rastafari, Jamaican Musician, Marijuana Advocate

Bob Marley (full name Robert Nesta Marley) is a marijuana advocate, Rastafari follower, cultural leader for many people, and famous Jamaican reggae musician.
Marley « I would say to the people, Be still, and know that His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the Almighty. Now, the Bible seh so, Babylon newspaper seh so, and I and the children seh so. Yunno? So I don’t see how much more reveal our people want. Wha’ dem want? A white God, well God come black. True true.
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Jim Belushi

Jim Belusshi's marijuana farm

Jim Belushi, American actor. After watching his “Real Men” movie I started thinking he was a stoner. Check out the Belushi’s Farm.

Jim Ross

Jim Ross MTF

Jim Ross / by ZeWeed.com

Jim Ross kept alive a unique marijuana strain by cloning it for 20 years, away from eyes. He alone saved the Matanuska Thunderfuck (MTF) genetics for the world. MTF is also marketed as Alaskan Thunderfuck.


What is 420, 421, and 710 all weed numbers

Wed, 30/Jun/21

We, the desperate stoners, know the principal marijuana number is 420. It was once a schoolboys’ secret code for the “parents would not guess what we are speaking about”, coined in California in 1971, and since then the 420 weed number has evolved to be an icon, the jolly roger banner of the cannabis world.

What is 420, 710, and 4/21?

  • 420 is a full-scale replacement to express any relation to marijuana for address to those who know, which is every single stoner on the global surface. While other words like marijuana, weed, or pot may call yet a hostile eye-rolling, the 420 weed code shall ingeniously keep a next-door grandma undisturbed. Boom!
  • 421 is the date, the 21st of April, which is the Grounation Day in Rastafari culture. On this day the emperor Haile Selassie, the prophet of the Rastafari religion, arrived in Jamaica in 1966. We mention it here to honor the guy, who has seriously influenced the debranding of marijuana smokers as “dangerous freaks” back in the 1960s.
    • The 4/20 Day is the International Day of Marijuana for all of us.
    • The 4/21 is Grounation Day, the main religious holiday for Rastafari followers.
  • 710 weed number is the word  “oil” up-side-down. A modern term coined in 21st century after the war on plants got ceased. The 710 weed number stands mainly for the marijuana extracts, concentrates, oils, cannabutter, etc, and is an attempt to separate another way of weed from the general pan-marijuanish 420 term.

The iconic 420 represents tradition, while the 710 is a relatively poor attempt to coin a separate number for a new fashion if you wish. Both happily co-exist, however. Let’s dig up!

What is 420? Explained

The 420 number is the ‘unofficial’ international code for marijuana. The 420 number is often found as a part of weed brands and weed trademarks, recognized well among stoners worldwide. So, the demonization of marijuana is over, hopefully, and we celebrate that, meanwhile the 420 number is becoming a good (at least neutral) number as accepted in society since then.

A few urban legends explain the origins of the 420, where the strongest one suggests that the 420 is a time on the clock: “4:20 pm”. This is is the sweetest version of all, and we love it just like everyone else in the marijuana industry, marijuana community, and beyond.

Origins of the 420 weed number

The quasi-official historical record of the 420’s origin is that the 420 marijuana code got invented in the early 1970s in California (the United States) by a group of schoolboys of the San Rafael High School – namely Steve, Dave, Mark, Larry, and Jeff, who called themselves Waldos.

The pothead kids got over-inspired by marijuana culture, and by the highness, it delivered, of course, then one in the Waldos group somehow managed to have a hand-drawn “secret map” of a hidden cannabis crop marked in Point Reyes. So the buddies gathered together every time after classes at 4:20 pm by the campus monument of the chemist Louis Pasteur to light up one and then be searching for a ton of free weed. Within the Waldos group, they referred to marijuana and/or a smoke time as “420 Louis” after Louis Pasteur, then shortening it to “420”.

“It was always like cub scout field trips, except we were stoned,” Waldo Steve explains in an interview.

“An original little joke that turned into a worldwide phenomenon,” Waldo Dave confirms.

420 is the 4:20 pm or am, the time on the clock

The story of Waldos made the 4:20 am/pm time be a forever official iconic point to burn one down, and many stoners on the planet gladly do so:

“Holy mother, my clock reads 4:19, I’m required to make one again, despite the fact I have just baked the previous fifteen minutes ago. Let me just obey the rules and respect the 420 tradition,” we mumble rolling. This is how 420 works, regardless of “am” or “pm”, yeah.

420 is the 20th day of April, the Marijuana Day

The 420 then develops to the 4/20 happy day, which is the 20th day of April, is the International Marijuana Day, when we all celebrate love and happiness, and we get desperately stoned. Ye-ah, right, as if we never do so on all other days through the year or other hours of a day, ha-ha-ha.

Marijuana communities in social networks celebrated the full month of April of 2020, as it was 4/20 all month through, the fourth month of the year ’20. We also witnessed on the internet a special celebration happening at 4:20 EST (California time) on the 20th day of April of the year 2020. That was a triple 420.

Babylonic version of the 420 that we boycott

There is an alternative version, that no one likes. It states, that a police code for radio transmissions was “420” alerting any ongoing marijuana-in-fire event on the streets in the times when those armed over-educated adult men nonsensically hunted for hay of dry plants, being licensed by their masters for their daemons to come out from the darkest corners of their lost souls.

“We could disrupt the communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.” – said Nixon’s top advisor John Ehrlichman, extravagantly praising himself in a 1994 interview.

Really, no one is going to accept a marijuana legend of the 420, arriving from a Babylonic force. Forget that radio code. We boycott this version anyway. Clearly, the gang of teenagers from St Rafael High School, getting stoned every day after classes at 4:20 pm, then embarking on a safari to search a secret marijuana field, wins the hearts of the global marijuana community.

710 = OIL up-side-down

The 710 is a pretty new cannabis number, it has appeared already in the legal cannabis era when concentrates and oils flourished in the legal cannabis market. If you look at it up-side-down, there will be “OIL”. Therefore, the 710 number is ingeniously a “cannabis oil” and it stands now for all the extracts in general, symbolizing the modern technology of cannabis extraction and cannabinoid isolation.

The 710 decorates the new legal weed industry and weed businesses as a younger counterpart to the archaic tradition of “420”. No hazy legends, the origin of the 710 is as crystal as a perfect cannabis extract! The 720 is the fresh modern-age term, even though less popular than the 420.

4/20 day in history

As soon as we, the stoners all around the world, celebrate the 20th of April as the happy marijuana 420 day, let’s see what else has happened on this day in history.

420 is when Adolf Hitler was born

This man’s behavior was far from “peace” and even farther from “love”, but his birthday coincides with Marijuana day. Adolf Hitler, the former leader of Germany and a follower of the very wrong ideology, was born on the 20th day of April 1889. He and his soviet sick counterpart Koba (Stalin’s street name among the criminal world before his “official career”) together put the world into the darkness of World War II, the official history says.

420 is when Marie Curie refined Radium

The scientific couple Pierre and Marie Curie pioneered radioactivity and revolutionized both physics and chemistry. The Curies refined Radium Chloride on the 20th day of April 1902, and later got the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Radium as an element. Marie Curie eventually died of radiation as nobody knew at that time the consequences of exposure of the human body to radiation. Marie Curie is widely recognized as the Scientist Who Sacrificed Herself.

Marie Curie

  • Marie Curie was the first woman in history who won the Nobel Prize.
  • Marie Curie was the only woman in history who won the Nobel Prize twice.
  • Marie Curie was the only person in history who won the Nobel Prize in two different fields of science — Physics for radiation phenomena in 1903 and Chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium in 1911. Polonium is named after Poland, Marie Curie’s motherland.

420 is when Apollo-16 landed on the Moon

On the 20th day of April 1972, a year after Waldos’ adventures, by the way, the Apollo 16 lunar module lands on the Moon. That landing, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, was the fifth and next to the last when humans touched the surface of the Moon, so far.

NASA moon landing

NASA Moon Landing

Young and Duke spent 71 hours — just under three days — on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three moonwalks. Wiki contradicts if they have really touched down on the marijuana day 4/20 or it’s been already the 4/21, the Grounation day, the Rastafari main holiday.

NASA’s image decorates this entry, thank you, NASA, for highlighting the 420, whether intentionally or not, and a very special thanks for the fantastic content every time!

420 is the Chinese Language Day

The 420 day is established by the UN as the Chinese Language Day to celebrate cultural diversity, and the equal use of the sixth of the official working languages in the UN organization. In the statement, they also accentuate the role of Cang Ji in the development of the Chinese language.

Cang Ji the inventor of Chinese characters

Cang Ji

Historically, the legend says, Cang Ji has invented the Chinese characters in the times of the Yellow Emperor, and also the method Chinese people write since then. It happened in about the 3rd millennium BC, which is 5000 years ago.

We fantasize that his eyes were the reason to pick particularly the 420 marijuana day for the Chinese language holiday, just have a look at his eyes on the image!