"I have always enjoyed hearing the various stories about how and when 420 came to mean a time to get high, and I am never certain anyone really knows for certain where this cultural phenomena began," Keith Stroup told The 420 Times. Keith is the founder of The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the oldest cannabis law reform organization in the country. "Regardless, it has become an iconic number that for millions of people around the country, and really around much of the world, is now understood as code for getting high..That evening we were back at what was then known as the RCA Building for the "Tonight" taping. I was too young to be part of the studio audience, with its minimum age of 18, but my father heroically had pulled some strings. We were seated in a back row safely out of sight so I wouldn't be visible when the camera panned the grinning, waving crowd before each station break.

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