Happy “Weed Day”! How 4/20 Became An International Holiday

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We’ve all known for years that 4/20 is a day for weed lovers to celebrate and unite in their passion for smoking weed. But do you know how it all came about? There are plenty of competing theories, but we share the actual origins of what’s become an international day of celebrating. We also talk about the impact the rise of weed has had on alcohol sales and just how big and booming the marijuana industry is becoming in this country.

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0:36.1	It is Monday, April 20th. And we're going to get you high today. And welcome to this episode, this THC-infused episode of baby NTJ. Happy 420. Everybody, everybody, it's not quite officially robs in national holiday, but it's a national holiday.
0:57.3	It's an unofficial international holiday, I would actually go so far as to say, yeah, it's, people just are now saying, happy weed day.
1:04.9	That's kind of how people roll now on these more modern 420s. It wasn't always like that. But it was, it also was not,
1:14.3	do I have it right, robes? It wasn't about the date. It was about a time and now this thing
1:18.3	has evolved. Do I have that right? Do most people even know that? So you don't have to wait
1:22.1	once a year for 420 to celebrate. Oh, no, no, no, no, every day at 420 in the afternoon, you're supposed
1:30.3	to celebrate this. So that became the, basically the accepted time where it's okay to start
1:36.5	smoking pot. But the origins are really interesting because I had no idea how 420 came about.
1:43.6	Obviously, I've become aware of it, but maybe later than most to figuring out that this was the day where people around the world celebrate the smoking of marijuana.
1:54.2	And at 420 on 420, the world is united in their love of pot.
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