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Looking for a green moon tonight? Good luck

Wendel on the Web is WKYC reporter/digital producer Kim Wendel's "take" and commentary on the news of the day

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Wendel on the Web is WKYC reporter/digital producer Kim Wendel's "take" and commentary on the news of the day

In case you were looking forward to this, it's a hoax: The moon will appear green for the first time in 420 years tonight -- April 20, 2016.

True? No, not even kinda. And it won't be green on May 29 either.

Snopes has called it entirely humorous in nature. But why would this even be an idea?

Well, if you think about it a minute.....April 20 (4-20) and 420 years....get it yet? Well, 420 is a code word for marijuana -- invented, according to Urban Dictionary, by “dozen pot-smoking wiseacres” at San Rafael High School in 1971-- and that the date April 20 has special meaning to some as Weed Day.

But with all the talk in Ohio about trying to legalize marijuana -- medical, that is -- maybe a green moon might be something we see in the future.

After all, as of today, 24 states and the District of Columbia have forms of legalized medical marijuana.

But a green moon tonight? Just. Not. Happening.

Follow WKYC's Kim Wendel on Twitter @KimWendel

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