List of slang names for cannabis

More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for marijuana and hashish, the dried leaves and flowers harvested from cannabis for drug use,[1] including:

420, a slang name for cannabis, written on a train in New Jersey

Slang names for cannabis

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Slang names for marijuana or hashish

Most slang names for cannabis date to the jazz era, when it was called Weed, Reefer, Gauge, Jive. Weed is a commonly used slang term for marijuana. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.[2][3][4]

• 2 long[5]
• 420[1]
• Ace[1]
• Airplane[1]
• Alfalfa[1]
• Alice B. Toklas[6]
• Alligator cigarette[1]
• Aloe Vera[1]
• Amnesia[1]
• Angola[6]
• Ashes[6]
• Asparagus[1]
• Astro turf[6]
• Atshitshi[6]
• Aunt Mary[1][6]
• Baby[1]
• Babysitter[6]
• Bag of bones[1]
• Bamba[6]
• Bambalacha[6]
• Bhang[6]
• Biggory[6]
• Black bart[6]
• Black gunion[6]
• Blaze[5]
• Blonde[6]
• Blue sage[6]
• Blunt[1][5][6]
• Bo[6]
• Bobo bush[6]
• Boo boo bama[6]
• Boom[6]
• Broccoli[5]
• Bud[1][5][6]
• Burnie[6]
• Butter flower[6]
• Butter weed[6]
• Cabbage[1]
• Canamo[6]
• Canappa[6]
• Cannabis[6]
• Cannon[5]
• Catnip[1][6]
• Cest[6]
• Charge[6]
• Cheeba[6]
• Chira[6]
• Chinese[6]
• Christmas tree[1]
• Chronic[1][6]
• Churus[6]
• Citrol[6]
• Climb[1]
• Cochornis[6]
• Coliflor tostao (Spanish)[6]
• Collie [7]
• Crazy weed[6]
• Crying weed[6]
• Cryptonite[6]
• Culican[6]
• Dagga[6]
• Da kine[1]
• Dank[1]
• David Kenneth James Martin[1]
• Dawamesk[6]
• Devil's lettuce[8]
• Dew[6]
• Diambista[6]
• Dimba[6]
• Ding[6]
• Dinkie dow[6]
• Djamba[6]
• Dody[6]
• Doña Juanita ("Lady Jane" in Spanish)[1]
• Doobie[1][5]
• Dope[6]
• Doradilla[6]
• El Gallo (Spanish for "Rooster")[6]
• Endo[5]
• Esra[6]
• Fatty[5]
• Feeling[6]
• Fine stuff[6]
• Fir[6]
• Flower[5]
• Fu[6]
• Gage or gauge[6]
• Ganja[1][5]
• Gash[6]
• Ghana[6]
• Gold star[6]
• Golden[6]
• Gonj[6]
• Good giggles[1][6]
• Gorge[6]
• Grass[1][5]
• Grata[6]
• Green[1]
• Green goddess[1]
• Greta[6]
• Griffa[6]
• Grifo[9]
• Gunga[6]
• Gungeon[6]
• Ham[6]
• Hanhich[6]
• Happy cigarette[6]
• Hashish[1]
• Hay[6]
• Herb[1][6]
• Holy weed[10]
• Homegrown[6]
• Hooch[6]
• Houdini[1]
• Indian boy[6]
• Indian hemp[6]
• Instaga[6]
• Jane[6]
• Jay[6]
• Jive[6]
• Jolly green[6]
• Joy smoke[6]
• Kalakit[6]
• Kaya[6]
• KGB ("killer green bud")[6]
• Kief[6]
• Kilter[6]
• Kind[6]
• Krippy[6]
• Kumba[6]
• Kush[6]
• L pape[5]
• Laughing grass[6]
• Left-handed cigarette[5]
• Lima[6]
• Llesca[6]
• Loaf[6]
• Lobo[6]
• Loco weed[6]
• Love weed[6]
• Loud[6]
• Macaroni[6]
• Machinery[6]
• Maconha[6]
• Magic dragon[5]
• Magic smoke[6]
• Mary Jane[5]
• Maui-wowie[6]
• Meg[6]
• Mohasky[6]
• Mooster[6]
• Mota[11]
• MJ[6]
• Mr Green [6]
• Mu[6]
• Muggle[1]
• Nixon[1]
• Pakalolo (Hawaiian for "crazy tobacco")[12]
• Pinner[5]
• Pot[1][5][6]
• Pretendo[6]
• Rainy day woman[1]
• Rasta weed[6]
• Reefer[1][6]
• Reverend Green[6]
• Righteous bush[6]
• Roach[5]
• Root[6]
• Rope[6]
• Rose marie[6]
• Salad[6]
• Salt and pepper[6]
• Siddi[6]
• Sinsemilla[6]
• Skunk[5][6]
• Spliff[5]
• Stash[13]
• Sticky icky[6]
• Stink weed[6]
• Stogie[1]
• Tea[6]
• Taima[6]
• Takkouri[6]
• Tex-mex[6]
• Thirteen[1][6]
• Trauma[6]
• Trees[4][6][14]
• Unotque[6]
• Wheat[6]
• Wisdom weed[10]
• Whacky tabacky[6]
• Weed[1][3][6]
• Zambi[6]
• Zol[6]
• Zoo-Wee-Mama[6]

Slang names for cannabis identified by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration

Whether all of these terms are slang names is disputed by some scholars, including writers at The Boston Globe and Reason Magazine.[8][15] Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:

• Alfombra[16]
• All-Star[16]
• Almohada[16]
• Arizona ashes[16]
• AZ[16]
• Barbara Jean[16]
• Bareta[16]
• Bash[16]
• Biggy[16]
• Black Maria[16]
• Blue Crush[16]
• Blue jeans[16]
• Chistosa[16]
• Cotorritos[16]
• Dizz[16]
• Escoba[16]
• Gallina[16]
• Gato[16]
• Green paint[16]
• Grenuda[16]
• Guardada[16]
• Lechuga[16]
• Lemon-Lime[16]
• Liamba[16]
• Lime Pillows[16]
• Loud[16]
• Mafafa[16]
• Manteca[16]
• Maracachafa[16]
• Mariquita[16]
• My Brother[16]
• Narizona[16]
• O-Boy[16]
• Palm[16]
• Platinum Jack[16]
• Popcorn[16]
• Shoes[16]
• Shmagma[16]
• Shora[16]
• Shrimp[16]
• Smoochy Woochy Poochy[16]
• Tigitty[16]
• Tila[16]
• Tims[16]
• Tosca[16]
• Tweeds[16]
• Valle[16]
• Wooz[16]
• Young Girls[16]
• Zacate[16]

Regional slang names

Nigeria

Kaya, wee-wee, igbo, oja, gbana, blau, kpoli and abana.[17]^:114

Sweden

See also: Cannabis in Sweden § Regional slang names for cannabis

Flower/fruit

• Grälle[18]
• Gräs[18]
• Gröning[18]
• Grönt[18]
• Marre[18]
• Maja[18]
• Ört[18]

Hash

• Böj[18]
• Braj[18]
• Brass[18]
• Brownie[18]
• Brunt[18]
• Knatch, knätch[18]
• Svart[18]
• Zattla[18]
• Zütt[18]

Slang names for good-quality cannabis

Weed, a commonly used slang name for marijuana, written on a banner at a Yippie smoke-in in Ohio in 1978

• BC bud[6]
• Black gold[6]
• Bud[6]
• Buddha[6]
• Chiba chiba[6]
• Chronic[1]
• Citrol[6]
• Colas[6]
• Dank[1]
• Fine stuff[6]
• Flower tops[6]
• Ganja[6]
• Gas[6]
• Golden leaf[6]
• Good stuff[6]
• Hydro[6][19]
• Kief[6]
• Killer green bud (KGB)[6]
• Kind bud[6]
• Nug[19]
• Primo[6]
• Righteous bush[6]
• Sinsemilla[6]
• Thai sticks[6]
• White-haired lady[6]

Slang names for poor-quality cannabis

• Bushweed
• Bammies[6]
• Cabbage[1]
• Dirt grass[6]
• Ditch weed[6]
• Firewood[6]
• Garbage[6]
• Green[6]
• Harsh[6]
• Leaf[6]
• Nixon[1]
• Reggie
• Ragweed[6]
• Railroad weed[6]
• Rope[6]
• Rough stuff[6]
• Scrub[6]
• Shake[6][19]
• Stems[6]
• Swag[6]
• Whack[6]

Slang names for a cannabis cigarette

• 2 long[5]
• Airplane[1]
• Alligator cigarette[1]
• Blunt[1][5][6]
• Bomber[19]
• Bone[6][19]
• Camberwell carrot[20]
• Cripple[6][19]
• Doobie[1][5]
• Earth[6]
• Fatty[5][6][19]
• Gasper[6]
• Goof butt[6]
• Happy cigarette[6]
• Hot stick[6]
• J or Jay[6]
• Joint[6][21]
• Joy stick[6]
• L pape[5]
• Left-handed cigarette[5]
• Log[6]
• Magic dragon[5]
• Megg[6]
• Number[6][19]
• Panatella[6]
• Phatty[19]
• Pinner[5]
• Pocket rocket[6]
• Pregnant Winston
• Reefer[1][6]
• Roach[5][6]
• Simpleton
• Spliff[5][6]
• Stogie[1]
• Tommy Chong[1]
• Torpedo[6]
• Twist[6]

Slang names for a package or a specific amount of cannabis

• Bag[6]
• Bale[6]
• Brick[6]
• Cube[6]
• Dime bag[19]
• Dollar[19]
• Dub[19]
• Eight ball[19]
• Eighth[19]
• Elbow[19]
• Finger[6]
• Lid[6]
• Matchbox[6]
• Nickel bag[19]
• OZ[19]
• Pack[6]
• QP[19]
• Quarter[19]
• Stash[19]
• Tin[6]
• sept (french for 7 in reference to a quarter; pronounced "set")

• 1 Key = 1 KG of brick weed[19]

• 1 book/sebuku = 1 KG of brick weed

• setengah = 500 G of brick weed

• suku = 250 G of brick weed

• SPD (suku potong dua/2) =125 G of brick weed

• SP4 (suku potong 4) = 62.5 G of brick weed

• SP8 (Suku potong 8) = 31.25 G of brick weed

• SP16 (Suku potong 16) = 15.125 G of brick weed

• SP32 (suku potong 32) = 7.8125 G of brick weed

Slang names for consuming cannabis

• 420[1][6]
• Baking[6]
• Blast[6]
• Blaze[6]
• Burn one[6]
• Clam bake[6]
• Fly Mexican airlines[6]
• Get high[6]
• Hit[6]
• Hot box[19]
• Puff the dragon[6]
• Rip[6]
• Session[19]
• Tea party[6]
• Toke[6][19]
• Torch up[6]
• Vape[22]
• Wake and bake[6]

Slang names for cannabis' effects

• Buzz[19]
• Baked[19]
• Cottonmouth[19]
• Couchlock[23]
• Fried[19]
• High[1]
• Lit up[19]
• Munchies[19]
• Nature's holiday[19]
• Roasted[19]
• Stoned[19]
• Toasted[19]
• Wasted[19]
• Smacked[19]

Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis

• Baker[6]
• Burnout[19]
• Connoisseur[19]
• Ent[24]
• Hippie[25]
• Pothead[19]
• Stoner[19]
• Tea head[19]
• Viper[19]

See also

• Glossary of cannabis terms
• List of names for cannabis
• List of names for cannabis strains

References

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2. Linder, Courtney (April 19, 2015). "Pot patois: A comprehensive etymology of marijuana". The Pitt News.
3. Yagoda, Ben (March 5, 2014). "How Weed Became the Hippest Slang Term for Marijuana". Lexicon Valley.
4. McKee Simmons, Kate (June 16, 2017). "The ABCs of Marijuana Slang From the DEA". Westword.
5. "Embrace 4/20 With These Nicknames For All Things Weed". The Huffington Post. April 20, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
6. Green, Johnny (April 29, 2011). "List of Marijuana Slang Terms". The Weed Blog.
7. https://genius.com/Barrington-levy-collie-weed-lyrics
8. Davis, Zuri (July 10, 2018). "The DEA's List of Cannabis Slang Is Predictably Hilarious: Does anyone actually call weed "shoe"?". Reason Magazine.
9. John Charles Chasteen (9 February 2016). Getting High: Marijuana through the Ages. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-1-4422-5470-1.
10. Pieter Coertzen, M Christiaan Green, Len Hansen (2015). Law and Religion in Africa: The quest for the common good in pluralistic societies. African Sun Media. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-919985-63-3.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
11. Tom Dalzell (25 July 2008). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge. p. 673. ISBN 1-134-19478-1.
12. Thomas Kemper Hitch; Robert M. Kamins (1992). Islands in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Haiwaii's Economy. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-0-8248-1498-4.
13. Wright, Julia (May 6, 2016). "Bye Bye, Baggie: 5 Elegant Storage Boxes For Your Stash". Civilized.
14. Stoned, I.M. (2014). "Dope: The 200 Most Awesome Things About Weed". Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781440586231.
15. Reiss, Jaclyn (July 10, 2018). "The DEA just put out a new list of slang terms for marijuana, and some of them are pretty hilarious". The Boston Globe.
16. Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel (PDF) (Report). Drug Enforcement Agency. July 2018. p. 6. DEA-HOU-DIR-022-18. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
17. Professor Anita Kalunta-Crumpton (28 June 2015). Pan-African Issues in Drugs and Drug Control: An International Perspective. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4724-2214-9.
18. "Slangopedia: Slangordbok, slanglexikon, slangord, sköna ord, ordbok, uttryck och talesätt". www.slangopedia.se.
19. Marin, Cheech; Chong, Tommy (2013). "Cheech & Chong's Almost Legal Book for Stoners". Running Press. pp. 166–170. ISBN 9780762449873.
20. Tom Dalzell; Terry Victor (31 October 2007). Vice Slang. Routledge. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-1-134-19484-1.
21. "Joint". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
22. "Vape". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
23. Ernest Small (14 October 2016). Cannabis: A Complete Guide. CRC Press. pp. 341–. ISBN 978-1-315-35059-2.
24. Roberts, Michael (September 22, 2014). "Urban Dictionary for Pot? Ten Definitions From Ganjapreneur's Marijuana Slang Site". Westword.
25. Booth, Martin (2004), Cannabis: A History, St. Martin's Press, p. 212.

External links

• Wiktionary Appendix of Cannabis Slang