Happy 420! Here’s a scientific guide to smoking weed (The Debrief)

Today,  global weed festival (and protest) 420 kicks off to promote the legalisation of cannabis through the mass smoking of loads of bifters. In America, the UK (Hyde Park is going to be seriously hotboxed), Italy, Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia hundreds of thousands of stoners are taking to the streets and parks to, presumably, sit around being really mellow while eating shitloads of crisps.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, or smoking wayyy too much, 420 is the code name for weed after a group of young American kids thought they’d found a marijuana plot. They met at 4.20pm to go find it and, while they never did (probs too stoned)- they started using the term 420. Because a part of their friendship circle went on to form the band Grateful Dead, the slang spread throughout their fans/the whole bloody world. So now you know.

To celebrate or, at least, acknowledge the efforts of the 420 festival-goers, we thought it’d be fitting to put together a comprehensive, scientific list of the immediate effects of smoking a joint. Not that we’ve ever done it or anything. We gathered this information from test subjects. Bye.

You can’t feel your arms 

You can replace “arms” with “legs” or pretty much any part of your body. One thing’s for sure – when you’re sitting on a coach and the 420 hits, there’s going to be a brief moment where you’re not fully able to comprehend movement in your extremities. Probably best to stay on the sofa for this one.

You can feel your arms and they’re fucking hilarious

ARMS ARE JUST BIG LONG FLOPPY THINGS COMING OUT OF OUR SHOULDERS. HAS ANYONE ELSE REALISED THIS? I’M GOING TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THIS NEW, FRESH PERSPECTIVE VIA THE MEDIUM OF POETRY. I’M GOING TO WRITE A BOOK OF POETRY ABOUT ARMS

(READ THE REST ON THEDEBRIEF.CO.UK)