The story that seems most likely is … Chris Conrad, curator of the Oaksterdam Cannabis Museum in Oakland, California, says 420 started as a secret code among a group of friends at San Rafael High School in the early 1970s who called themselves "the Waldos." They would often meet at 4:20 p.m. to get stoned
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Scott McStacy
Scott McStacy is a father, a husband, a registered hemp farmer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Chief Operating Officer for TheCannMan, LLC. His background is in plant genetics, previously growing and cultivating heirloom tomatoes, he has been fully focused on cannabis cultivation, genetics sales, and development since the Farm Bill made industrial hemp legal again in 2018.