Todd’s Take: Maybe We Should All Smoke Weed a Week BEFORE 4/20

While the date April 20 has allowed us some lighthearted fun poking at "potheads," historically the week leading up to, and including, 4/20 has been one of notorious bloodshed in our country.

April 20, 1999, the deadliest high school shooting occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo,. which killed 12 students, one teacher and injured 21 others.
April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. Need I say more?
April 19, 1995, The Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was bombed, killing 168 and injuring over 600 people. It was, until 9/11/01, the single-biggest terrorist attack on American soil.
April 19, 1993, The ATF siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas, ended after a 50-day standoff when the building was engulfed in flames, killing leader David Koresh as well as 73 other men, women and children.
April 19, 1775, the American Revolutionary War vs. Britain began with the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" sparking the battles of Lexington and Concord.
April 16, 2007, a lone gunman massacred 32, and injured 17 on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
April 15, 2013, the finish line at the annual running of the Boston Marathon was rigged with a bomb that exploded, killing three and injuring 264 others.