420 day

[Eric the Green]

Because some young California hippies gathered together to smoke pot at that hour, and later on that day, says this article. It also says people smoked pot to challenge systemic problems caused by the Establishment. I don't think so. People smoked marijuana because it was part of the movement to be liberated from conventional consciousness and feel less-inhibited, looser, more-relaxed and freer and more sociable and to break down social and mental walls. And it actually works for this purpose, whereas whether it worked as a protest is unclear.

But it would be true to say that "the system" helps cause, in various ways, our original condition as uptight, unsociable, inhibited, less conscious beyond conventions and mental illusions, etc.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...galization