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? The band had recently relocated to San Rafael, and the Waldos had various connections: One of the kids' older brothers was a manager for bassist Phil Lesh's side project.
Another one's father purchased real estate for them. They watched their dogs, were welcomed into their parties and Reddix even got a gig as a roadie for the band.
The band picked up on the "" habit and, soon after, so did the "Deadheads," well known for their particular interest in smoking weed before, during and after shows. Nearly 20 years later, the phrase would get national attention after High Times magazine published a flyer that explained the "code. More: 16th NJ medical marijuana dispensary now open in Neptune.
But the Waldos, who have shown letters and other items to High Times, vigorously defend their version. Bloom says the term has served as a sort of semi-private code, and cannabis smokers tend to spot it everywhere - building numbers, prices, even clocks in the film Pulp Fiction. After the mile marker on the Interstate highway in Colorado was repeatedly pinched, officials recently replaced it with a This year Denver will be the centre of festivities, thanks to Colorado recently becoming the first state to permit the sale of recreational marijuana.
The Waldos would pile into a car, smoke some pot and scour the nearby Point Reyes Forest for the elusive, free herb. It originally started out Louis, and we eventually dropped the Louis. They never did score the free bud, but perhaps they stumbled on to something more lasting? The term was coined, allowing the high schoolers to discuss smoking pot without their parents or teachers knowing. Credit: Sapphic. But how did this ragtag team of treasure-seekers at a high school in California manage to spread their secret phrase internationally?
Our parents didn't know what we were talking about. It's one thing to identify the origin of the term. Indeed, Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary already include references to the Waldos.
The bigger question: How did spread from a circle of California stoners across the globe? As fortune would have it, the collapse of San Francisco's hippie utopia in the late '60s set the stage.
The Waldos had more than just a geographic connection to the Dead. Mark Waldo's father took care of real estate for the Dead. Patrick tells the Huffington Post that he smoked with Lesh on numerous occasions. He couldn't recall if he used the term around him, but guessed that he must have.
So we used to go hang out and listen to them play music and get high while they're practicing for gigs. But I think it's possible my brother Patrick might have spread it through Phil Lesh.
And me, too, because I was hanging out with Lesh and his band [as a roadie] when they were doing a summer tour my brother was managing.
The Waldos also had open access to Dead parties and rehearsals. When somebody passes a joint or something, 'Hey, Lesh, walking off the stage after a recent Dead concert, confirmed that Patrick is a friend and said he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Waldos had coined He wasn't sure, he said, when the first time he heard it was. I'm very sorry. I wish I could help," he said. Wavy-Gravy is a hippie icon with his own ice cream flavor and has been hanging out with the Dead for decades.
HuffPost spotted him outside the concert. Asked about the origin of , he suggested it began "somewhere in the foggy mists of time. What time is it now? I say to you: eternity now. As the Grateful Dead toured the globe through the '70s and '80s, playing hundreds of shows a year - the term spread though the Dead underground. Once High Times got hip to it, the magazine helped take it global. The publicity that High Times gave it is what made it an international thing. Until then, it was relatively confined to the Grateful Dead subculture.
But we blew it out into an international phenomenon. Sometime in the early '90s, High Times wisely purchased the web domain
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