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List of slang names for cannabis

More than slang names have been identified for the product (drug), herb or hashish, obtained from the cannabis plant. This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.

Slang names by continent and country

African slang names

Niger

  • Abana
  • Blau
  • Gbana
  • Igbo
  • Kaya
  • Kpoli
  • Kush
  • Oja
  • Wee-wee

North American slang names

United States

In the United States, most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.

  • 2 long
  • Ace
  • Airplane
  • Alfalfa
  • Alligator cigarette
  • Amnesia
  • Asparagus
  • Astro turf
  • Aunt Mary
  • Baby
  • Bag of bones
  • Bhang
  • Blunt
  • Bobo
  • Boof
  • Broccoli
  • Bud
  • Cabbage
  • Cali-weed
  • Cannon
  • Catnip
  • Christmas tree
  • Chronic
  • Climb
  • Collie
  • Dagga
  • Da kine
  • Dak
  • Dank
  • Devil's lettuce
  • Doña Juanita ("Lady Jane" in Spanish)
  • Doobie
  • Dope
  • Endo
  • Exotic
  • Fatty
  • Fir
  • Fire
  • Flower
  • Ganja
  • Gas
  • Good giggles
  • Grass
  • Green
  • Green goddess
  • Griffa
  • Grifo
  • Hashish
  • Herb
  • Holy weed
  • Houdini
  • Jazz cigarette
  • Joint
  • KGB ("killer green bud")
  • Kush
  • L pape
  • Left-handed cigarette
  • Loud
  • Magic Grass
  • Magic dragon
  • Magical brownie
  • Mary Jane
  • Maui-wowie
  • Mota
  • Muggle
  • Nixon
  • Pakalolo (Hawaiian for "crazy tobacco")
  • Pinner
  • Pot
  • Polen
  • Puff
  • Purple Haze
  • Rainy day woman
  • Reefer
  • Roach
  • Rudolf Red Eyes
  • Sinsemilla
  • Skunk
  • Space cake
  • Spliff
  • Square grouper
  • Stash
  • Sticky icky
  • Stogie
  • Tea
  • Thirteen
  • Trees
  • Wisdom weed
  • Weed
  • Yart
  • Zaza (sometimes shortened as "Za")

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

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

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

Latin American slang names

Mexico

  • or (originally ; derivatives: maría, mariana, mari juana, marinola, maripepa, etc.)

Latin America

  • (o yerba o yerbasanta)

Asian slang names

Indonesia

  • (Indonesian for "cassava leaf")
  • begut (surabaya)
  • joi ("ijo" in reverse, translate to green)
  • peluru ("bullets")
  • orian (ori as in original)
  • adek kakak (adek = weed, kakak = tobacco leafs sprayed with chemicals 2 times stronger than the high from legal high
  • gelek (as in gulungan in indonesia which means "roll" of joint)

European slang names

France

Spain

Sweden

  • Flower/fruit
  • Hash
  • ,

Slang names for cannabis by quality

Good-quality cannabis

Poor-quality cannabis

Slang names for specific products

Cannabis cigarettes

  • 2 long
  • Airplane
  • Alligator cigarette
  • Bifter, bifta
  • Bomber
  • Bone
  • Camberwell carrot
  • Cow
  • Cripple
  • Doink
  • Doobie
  • Fatty
  • Jazz cigarette
  • Joint
  • L pape
  • Left-handed cigarette
  • Magic dragon
  • Number
  • Phatty
  • Pinner
  • Reefer
  • Roach
  • Spliff
  • Stogie
  • Tommy Chong
  • Yontson
  • Zol

Package or a specific amount of cannabis

  • 40 Sack
  • Dime bag
  • Dollar
  • Dub
  • Eight ball
  • Eighth
  • Elbow
  • Lid
  • Nickel bag
  • OZ
  • Q
  • QP
  • Quarter
  • Stash
  • Bow
  • Zip

Slang names for consuming cannabis

  • 420
  • Burning bush
  • Getting high
  • Hot box
  • Session
  • Toke
  • Vape
  • Wake and bake
  • Garden

Slang names for cannabis' effects

  • Buzz
  • Baked
  • Cottonmouth
  • Couch-lock
  • Faded
  • Fried
  • High
  • Lit up
  • Mashed
  • Munchies
  • Nature's holiday
  • Roasted
  • Stoned
  • Toasted
  • Tripping balls
  • Geeked
  • Wasted
  • Zooted

Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis

  • Burnout
  • Connoisseur
  • Ent
  • Gardener
  • Hippie
  • Pothead
  • Stoner
  • Tea head
  • Viper
  • Beekeeper

See also

References

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