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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 Bloom, the reporter who first stumbled on it, gives High Times less credit.

It wasn't really much of High Times doing," he says. The Waldos say that within a few years the term had spread throughout San Rafael and was cropping up elsewhere in the state. By the early '90s, it had penetrated deep enough that Dave and Steve started hearing people use it in unexpected places - Ohio, Florida, Canada - and spotted it painted on signs and etched into park benches.

You guys ever look it up? He had to admit that no, he had never looked it up. Hager flew out to San Rafael, met the Waldos, examined their evidence, spoke with others in town, and concluded they were telling the truth. Hager still believes them. So unless somebody can come up with something that predates them, then I don't think anybody's going to get credit for it other than them," he says. He does take pride in his role, though.

So it's kind of like a cult celebrity thing. Two years ago I went to the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. High Times magazine flew me out," says Dave. Dave is now a credit analyst and works for Steve, who owns a specialty lending institution and lost money to the con artist Bernie Madoff.

He spends more time today, he says, composing angry letters to the SEC than he does getting high. The other three Waldos have also been successful, Steve says. One is head of marketing for a Napa Valley winery.

Another is in printing and graphics. A third works for a roofing and gutter company. I've got to stay sharp," says Steve, explaining why he rarely smokes pot anymore. It's a lot of fun, but it seems like if someone does it too much, there's some karmic cost to it.