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The legend begins in the mythical land of Northern California: Once upon a time, there were five friends, smoking weed and sitting on top of a wall at San Rafael High School.
The other students called them "Waldos. And somehow because of that, all these doors opened up for us all the time," said "Waldo Steve" Capper in an interview with the Reno Journal-Gazette. Check out the history of from the stoners who invented the term! In the fall of , the Waldos soon heard of a hidden patch of cannabis, abandoned by a U. Coast Guardsman stationed nearby who was afraid he'd get busted.
They decided to meet up at the school's statue of Louis Pasteur who completed the first pasteurization test on April 20, to get high and go on a weed treasure hunt. But they had to wait until after their various sports team practices and settled on a specific time: p. They used the phrase " Louie" to remind each other of their plans, eventually shortening it to simply " The phrase quickly grew beyond a reference to their futile search for the secret garden of weed.
Instead, it was used as a covert way to talk about marijuana — who was selling it, who wanted to buy it and who was already — right under the nose of teachers, parents and police officers. They would know if I was saying, 'Are you stoned? Do I look stoned? Do you have any? Do you want to go off and get stoned? Where does the term come from and why did it catch on, asks Aidan Lewis. That autumn, the five teenagers came into possession of a hand-drawn map supposedly locating a marijuana crop at Point Reyes, north-west of San Francisco.
The friends - who called themselves the Waldos because they used to hang out by a wall - met after school, at pm, and drove off on their treasure hunt.
They never found the plot. So did friends and acquaintances, who included - at a couple of steps removed - members of the Grateful Dead rock band. So never mind that theory. Then there's The legend of the Dylan song. Multiply 12 by 35 and you get Seems a bit of a stretch.
And Dylan himself has never confirmed any link. The story that appears to hold the most water is The legend of the Waldos. According to Chris Conrad, curator of the Oaksterdam Cannabis Museum in Oakland, California, started as a secret code among high schoolers in the early s. For them, it was an ideal time: They were out of school but their parents still weren't home, giving them a window of unsupervised freedom.
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