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2 unusual facts about San Rafael High School


San Rafael High School

The school is often cited as the origin (1971) of the time and codeword 420 in drug culture; originally "420" served as a code word for "The Waldos", a group of marijuana users who would meet in front of a statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20 P. M. to smoke marijuana, both near the statue and at other clandestine locations on campus grounds.

Byron Stewart '74 Warren Coolidge on the CBS television series The White Shadow.



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