4/20 DAY A REAL BUST FOR STUDENTS

National Smoke Up Day was a bust for almost three dozen Burlington
high school students. Halton police officers made 36 arrests April 20
for drug-related offences, after police and the public school board
co-ordinated an investigation at two randomly chosen Burlington high
schools, Lester B. Pearson and M.M. Robinson.

Four locations surrounding the schools were targeted and police seized
more than 300 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, along with
ecstasy pills and more than $700 cash.

Thirty-four students were suspended from their schools and 20 were
charged with 23 offences under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act.

Legend has it that a group of California high school students in the
1970s designated the time 4:20 to get together to smoke pot. They
eventually used the term 4/20 to refer to marijuana so that parents
and teachers wouldn't know what they were talking about.

The number 4/20 has come to represent the date marijuana enthusiasts
all over the world claim as cannabis smoking day.