ALICE B. TOKLAS
The lesbian lover of Gertrude Stein and a good friend of Pablo Picasso, she
had a recipe for killer marijuana brownies.
BALE A compressed brick of marijuana, usually
ranging in weight from 10 to 40
pounds.
BHANG
An Indian and Middle Eastern
smoking mixture consisting of pollen from
marijuana flowers and ghee, an oily butter. In
medieval Arabia it also
referred to a datura-based knockout potion.
BLUNT
A
joint rolled in the tobacco-leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar.
BONG A water-cooled pipe
for one smoker, often made of glass or bamboo.
BRICK A kilogram-sized slab or cube of
compressed pot.
BUD The fresh or dried flowers of the female marijuana plant.
BUDDHA
STICK
See Thai Stick.
CANNABIS INDICA
The scientific name for a species of
marijuana plant, the Indian hemp
plant.
CANNABIS SATIVA
Another species of
marijuana, closely related to indica.
CHIBA-CHIBA
A black Brazilian form of reefer,
usually gummy and compressed into
bricks.
CHILLUM/CHALICE
A cone-shaped pipe
made of clay, or sometimes of fruit or vegetable rinds.
CHRONIC
The hip-hop term for
high-quality or potent reefer.
COCKTAIL
A joint of tobacco and marijuana combined.
The most common type of grass on the black market.
DOOBIE
A 1960s
and ’70s term for joint; the word originated on the baby-boomer
kiddy show Romper Room, where
the good children were called "good Do-
Bes."
DOPE Any controlled substance,
although it usually refers to heroin or
marijuana; also a hip-hop term for fine or good.
Marijuana from Natal Province in South Africa.
ELBOW
A pound of
pot.
FRESH/PHAT
Hip-hop term for good, great, grand, dope, fine; having an ample stash
or
supply of dope.
GAGE 1940s slang for pot.
GANJA
Indian and Jamaican
term for pot.
GOLD Yellow pot from Acapulco in Mexico or Santa Marta Department in
Colombia.
GRASS
Marijuana, weed, pot, etc.
HASHISH/HASH
Smoking mixture
that regionally varies, generally based primarily on resin
from substandard Middle Eastern or
Indian marijuana.
HEMP Cannabis stalks and stems, especially those used to make rope, fabrics,
etc.
HERB Jamaican term for marijuana with Biblical connotations; Rastafarian
sacrament.
HOOKAH
A hashish waterpipe with four long stems to accommodate four smokers
at
once; ref. the Caterpillar in Alice In Wonderland.
IN CROWD
Hipsters who
throw secret parties for vipers only.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Circa the 1940s and ’50s, a
term for a roach-holder fashioned from a
matchbook cover.
JIVE 1930s and ’40s slang for
marijuana and marijuana-influenced popular
music.
JOHNSON
1960s term for a
joint, referring either to LBJ or the membrum virile.
JOINT/JAY
A marijuana
cigarette.
KIEF/KIF/KAFF/KHAYF
Golden pollen hash from Morocco, Lebanon and other
Arab/Middle
Eastern nations. It is said that "A puff of kif in the morning makes a man
as strong as 1,000 camels in the courtyard."
LAMBSBREAD
Large Jamaican buds
which can be sliced like a loaf of bread and are shaped
like a lamb’s tail.
MARIJUANA
The smokable flowers and leaves of the female cannabis plant.
MARYJANE/M.J.
The
female cannabis plant. Male plants have almost no active
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
MEZZ Marijuana; from Mezz Mezzrow, the legendary jazzman and Harlem pot-
dealer who turned on
Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats during the
1930s.
MUGGLES
1930s and ’40s
slang for pot.
NICKEL BAG
Five dollars worth of pot, or any other street intoxicant.
OH-ZEE
An ounce
of pot.
PARAQUAT
A defoliant, toxic to humans as well as plants, that has been sprayed
on
marijuana throughout the world since the ’70s.
PANAMA RED
A potent strain of
pot from Panama.
POT Reefer, grass, cannabis.
REEFER
Term for pot dating back to
the turn of the century, and still popular.
ROACH
The butt of a joint; it is strong
because it catches and concentrates the resin
from the rest of the joint.
ROPE DOPE
SINSEMILLA
The flowering tops of seedless
plants.
SHIT Any sort of controlled substance.
SKUNK
Aromatic sinsemilla, usually
cultivated from the Afghani variety of
marijuana.
SMOKE
Pot, reefer, tea,
grass, etc.
SPLIFF
Jamaican term for a large, ice-cream-cone-shaped joint.
STASH
(n.) A hidden cache of dope; (v.) to conceal one’s dope.
TEA Slang for maryjane,
muggles, gage, etc.
TEA PAD
In Harlem in the ’30s and ’40s, an after-hours club where
pot was smoked
and jazz music performed.
TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL/THC
The
psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana that is responsible for the
high.
THAI STICK
bamboo splints or
popsicle-stick slivers.
THYME (OR OREGANO)
Spices resembling marijuana in appearance,
frequently used to defraud
customers.
TOKE To inhale, or puff, from a joint of
reefer.
TWENTY AND FORTY
Hip-hop term for a $20 bag of reefer and a 40-ounce bottle of
malt liquor.
TWIGS AND SEEDS
The unsmokable leftovers from screening marijuana before
sale, or the
stuff at the bottom of the bag after purchase.
UNDERGROUND
The
drug-using sector of society.
VIPER 1930s hipsters who frequented tea pads and smoked jive;
onomatopoeic
from ssssssssst, the sound made by an inhaling pot-smoker.
WEED Pot, weed,
smoke, herb, etc.
ZONKED
Very stoned, spaced-out, wasted, ripped, destroyed, wrecked,
intoxicated all
to Hell and gone.
ZIG-ZAG
A brand of rolling papers famous for
the silhouette of a bearded smoker on
the label
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