420 Smokelore

With nearly a quarter of a billion Google search results, 420 is the most popular number in the world. Yet the truth surrounding the history, meaning, and origin of 420 remains shrouded in mystery. How was 420 born? What is 420? Most importantly, who actually created 420?Author Guy Perry, who grew up in the San Rafael, California neighborhood of Peacock Gap where 420 was born in October 1970, delivers an engaging and hilarious insider's account of the people, places, and events behind the invention of the globally iconic "secret code" for marijuana.420 Smokelore cuts through the smoky haze of myths and deceptions to reveal the true history of 420 and the true identity of the teenage prankster extraordinaire who invented a Pop Culture phenomenon.