Credit: Sapphic. But how did this ragtag team of treasure-seekers at a high school in California manage to spread their secret phrase internationally? For that, we turn to the Grateful Dead. Members of the Waldos had open access, and many connections, to the band.
Credit: Carly Schwartz. The flyer told the history of , referencing the Waldos of San Rafael. Today, the unofficial holiday is celebrated worldwide. The brother was also good friends with Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. The Grateful Dead practiced at a rehearsal hall in San Rafael, California: "So we used to go hang out and listen to them play music and get high while they're practicing for gigs," Reddix told the Huffington Post.
And me, too, because I was hanging out with Lesh and his band [as a roadie] when they were doing a summer tour my brother was managing," he added. Capper said: "We'd go with [Gravitch's] dad, who was a hip dad from the '60s. There was a place called Winterland and we'd always be backstage running around or onstage and, of course, we're using those phrases.
Take a deep dive into the history of cannabis and the controversies surrounding it today by watching a marijuana documentary, such as The Grass is Greener , The Culture High and The Legend of Explore more topics around cannabis in the podcast Brave New Weed, which offers "high-minded conversations for the post-prohibition era," according to its website. One day they heard a story from a friend about a patch of weed being grown by a U.
Coast Guard member near the coastal town of Point Reyes. The Coast Guard member was too scared to go harvest it, so the Waldos decided to go on a treasure hunt for the marijuana patch.
They decided to meet at a Louis Pasteur statue near campus at p. The pot search routine went on for weeks and the group agreed to meet every day at " Louis" to continue the search. Though it wound up being a wild goose chase, it eventually gave rise to the shortened term "" to denote smoking marijuana.
The Grateful Dead lived in San Rafael at the same time as the Waldos, and the group sometimes hung out in "deadhead" circles, even lingering backstage after shows.
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