Only the deer were enjoying the grass at Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz at 4:20 p.m. Monday. Normally the locale is one of the epicenters of the 420 revelry on April 20 at 4:20 p.m., but obviously, not so this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Numerous explanations of the genesis of 420 as a celebration of marijuana exist. According to urbandictionary.com, In 1971, five high school students in San Rafael, California, called themselves the Waldos because “their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school” and used the term in connection with a 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about, based on a treasure map made by the grower. The Waldos designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time. According to huffpost.com the legend continues as, It was Christmas week in Oakland, 1990 and at that timeless gathering of hippies that springs up in the parking lot before every Grateful Dead concert a Deadhead handed passerby Steve Bloom a yellow flyer which said, “We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais,” Bloom, then a reporter for High Times magazine and now the publisher of CelebStoner.com and co-author of Pot Culture, had never heard of “420-ing” before. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel)