Public 420 Smoke-Ins May Be Off, But AVN Stars Celebrate Anyway

April 20 has arrived, the day best known in the cannabis community as 4/20 or just 420—or more casually as “Weed Day”—when cannabis consumers all over the country traditionally gather in large groups for “smoke-ins” celebrating their favorite herb. But not this year. Thanks to the shutdowns and bans on public gatherings across most of the United States, 4/20 celebrations have moved online—including on to the AVN Stars social media platform. The connection between porn and pot has long been well-documented. So it is perhaps not surprising that AVN Stars models are marking the “holiday” on their pages.  “Puff puff pass. It’s no secret I’m pretty stoked that weed was just legalized in My state,” wrote Goddess Asari on her page. “My smoking boys are excited to get more mesmerizing and sensual domination clips from Me.” She then goes on to ask for “tribute” in the amounts of $4.20, $40.20, or $420. Goddess Eva changed her subscription fee to $4.20 for the entire month of April, Miss Harley Nicole is offering subscription discounts and custom clips “in honor of 420,” and self-described “unique one of a kind all natural insatiable milf” Leilani Lei webcast a live “wake and bake” session via her AVN Stars page on the morning of April 20. Several other AVN Stars models simply posted pictures of their most recently-purchased cannabis edibles, asking their fans for $60 “reimbursements.” For those somehow unfamiliar with the annual 420 cannabis celebration, the somewhat murky origins of the holiday have nothing to do with the supposed number of active chemicals in a pot plant, nor with Bob Dylan’s classic tune “Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35,” with the memorable “Everybody must get stoned” refrain—and its title in which the numbers 12 and 35 really do multiply to 420. And despite some online rumors, the holiday does not originate with Adolf Hitler’s birthday, which is also April 20.  According to an investigation by The Huffington Post, the actual origin traces back to five San Rafael, California, teenagers in 1971, who supposedly had heard of a rogue cannabis plant growing somewhere in Marin County’s Point Reyes Forest.  The group would meet, the story goes, at least once every week at 4:20 p.m., after school and subsequent practices let out, to go in search of the coveted plant and its imagined bounty of free weed.  They never did find the plant, but they kept the term “420” as secret code to refer to their pastime of smoking pot without their parents and other grownups knowing what they were talking about. The teen pals were, as one might expect, devoted fans of the Grateful Dead. As a result, the term “420” as a code for cannabis started sweeping through the Deadhead community—and from there to the world. Photo via AVN Stars @galacticdomme