The following parenting tip came to us from the excellent teen drug prevention website, theantidrug.com.

It’s 4/20: Who’s Celebrating?

April 20 may not mean anything to you, but for teens familiar with popular drug culture, April 20 - or “420″ — is THE pot-smoking holiday. Pronounced “four-twenty,” this pop-culture reference discretely unifies marijuana users on a particular day. There are many urban legends with regard to the origins of the name: 420 is the supposed number of active chemicals in marijuana, 420 is an alleged police crime code for drug arrests — or, the most common theory is that 4:20 p.m. was the time a group of California teens in the 1960s congregated for a smoke everyday.

To learn more, visit www.theantidrug.com.