What do you call your bud? Is it strictly “cannabis” for you or do you use slang terms like refer, and dope, or perhaps you enjoy more colorful terms like Electric Lettuce? Recently, the Canadian Government published a list of popular and common slang terms for cannabis as part of their About Cannabis webpage and while we appreciate any effort that seeks to improve how people perceive and ultimately talk about cannabis we felt that the list was missing a few options.
Whatever your flavor, perhaps you’ll spot a new name to work into your repertoire with this list of slang names that we worked tirelessly to source from all corners of the internet.
You are welcome.
420: April 20th, cannabis celebration day. 4:20 aka the best time to smoke a joint.
710: Term for smoking hash oil due to the number resembling the word ‘oil’ upside-down.
A-bomb: Marijuana cigarette with heroin or opium
Acapulco gold: Marijuana from S.W. Mexico; marijuana
Acapulco red: Marijuana
Afgani indica: Marijuana
African bush: Marijuana
Airhead: Marijuana use
Alice B. Toklas: Marijuana Brownie
Amp Amphetamine: marijuana dipped in formaldehyde or embalming fluid, sometimes laced with PCP and smoked
Amp joint: Marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic
Angola: Marijuana
Ashes: Marijuana
Assassin of Youth: Marijuana
Astroturf: Marijuana
Atom bomb: Marijuana mixed with heroin
Aunt Mary: Marijuana
Baby bhang: Marijuana
Babysitter: Marijuana
Bad seed: Marijuana combined with peyote; heroin
Baker: Person who smokes marijuana
Bale: Marijuana
Bamba: Marijuana
Bambalacha: Marijuana
Bammies: A poor-quality of marijuana
Bammy: Marijuana
Banano: Marijuana or tobacco cigarettes laced with cocaine
Bazooka Cocaine: a combination of crack and marijuana; crack and tobacco combined in a joint; coca paste and marijuana
BC bud: Marijuana from British Columbia; synonymous with any high-grade marijuana from Canada
Beedies: Cigarettes from India (resemble marijuana joints/vehicles for other drugs)
Bhang: Marijuana-infused beverage, an Indian term
Black Bart: Marijuana
Black Ganga: Marijuana resin
Black gold: High-potency marijuana
Black mote: Marijuana mixed with honey
Blanket: Marijuana cigarette
Blast a joint: To smoke marijuana
Blast a roach: To smoke the last part of a joint, the roach
Blast a stick: To smoke marijuana
Blazing: Smoking marijuana
Blow a stick: To smoke marijuana
Blow one’s roof: To smoke marijuana
Blowing smoke: Marijuana
Blue de hue: Marijuana from Vietnam
Blue sage: Marijuana
Blue sky blond: High-potency cannabis from Colombia
Blunt: Marijuana inside a cigar wrapper
Bo: Marijuana
Bo-bo: Marijuana
Bobo Bush: Marijuana
Bogart a joint: Salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share
Bohd: To be very high
Bomber: Marijuana cigarette
Bong: Water pipe used to smoke marijuana
Boot the gong: To smoke marijuana
Brick: Applies to both cocaine and marijuana; 1 kilogram of marijuana
Broccoli: Marijuana
Bud: Marijuana
Buda: Marijuana
Burn one: To smoke marijuana
Butterflower: Marijuana
Cambodian red/Cam red: Marijuana from Cambodia
Candy blunt: Blunts dipped in cough syrup
Catnip: Marijuana cigarette
Chase: To smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana
Cheeba: Marijuana
Chiba Chiba: Marijuana
Chicago Black: Marijuana, a term from Chicago
Chicago Green: Marijuana
Chiefing: To smoke marijuana and forget to pass the bong, joint, or pipe.
Chocolate Thai: Nickname for weed and also a cannabis strain
Chronic: Good, good weed.
Clam bake: Sitting inside a car or other small, enclosed space and smoking marijuana
Cocoa puff: To smoke cocaine and marijuana
Colas: The flowers on a cannabis plant
Colorado cocktail: Marijuana
Crazy weed: Marijuana
Dagga: Marijuana from South Africa
Dank: Cannabis that is dark, sticky, gooey, and potent
Dawamesk: Marijuana-infused paste
Dirt grass: Inferior quality marijuana
Dirties: Joints with powder cocaine added to them
Ditch weed: Inferior quality marijuana
Domestic: Locally-grown marijuana
Doob: Joint
Doobee/Doobie/dubbe/duby: Joint
Dope: Marijuana; heroin; any other drug
Dusting: Adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana; Using inhalants
Fatty: Big joint
Fire it up: To smoke marijuana
Flower: Marijuana
See more marijuana terms in the glossary.
Flower tops: Marijuana
Ganoobies: State of being stoned and laughing uncontrollably
Garbage: Inferior quality marijuana; low-quality heroin
Get high: To smoke marijuana
Giggle smoke: Marijuana
Giggle weed: Marijuana
Golden leaf: Very high-quality marijuana
Grass: Marijuana
Grass brownies: Marijuana-infused brownies
Green goddess: Marijuana strain
Grow(s): Marijuana growing operations (indoor and outdoor)
Happy cigarette: Marijuana cigarette
Hay: Marijuana
Herb: Marijuana
Hit: To smoke marijuana; marijuana cigarettes; Crack Cocaine
Homegrown: Marijuana is grown at home
Honey blunts: Marijuana cigars sealed with honey
Hydrogrows: Indoor marijuana growing operations
Indica: Species of cannabis, found in a hot climate, that grows 3.5 to 4 feet
Indo: Marijuana term from Northern CA referring to hybrids of strains from Indonesia and Western countries
J: Marijuana cigarette
Jamaican gold: Marijuana
Jamaican red hair: Marijuana
Jane: Marijuana
Jay: Marijuana cigarette, short for “Joint”
Jive stick: Marijuana
Joint: Marijuana cigarette
Jolly Green: Marijuana
Kali: Marijuana
Kansas Grass: Marijuana
Kawaii Electric: Marijuana
Kentucky blue: Marijuana
KGB: (killer green bud)Marijuana
Kick stick: Marijuana cigarette
Kief: Resin from trichomes. Appears like dust and can be collected from grinders and added to joints and pipes.
Killer weed: Marijuana
Kona Gold: Marijuana
Kush: Marijuana
Laughing grass: Marijuana
Lid: 1 ounce of marijuana
Love weed: Marijuana
M.J.: Marijuana
Magic smoke: Marijuana
Manhattan Silver: Marijuana
Mary: Marijuana
Mary Jane: Marijuana
Matchbox: 1/4 ounce of marijuana or 6 marijuana cigarettes
Maui Wowie: Marijuana from Hawaii
Mexican green: Marijuana
Mexican red: Marijuana
Mighty Mezz: Marijuana cigarette
Mow the grass: To smoke marijuana
Northern Lights: Marijuana from Canada
Pack a bowl: To load a pipe or bong with cannabis in preparation for smoking
Panama gold: Marijuana
Panama red: Marijuana
Philly blunts: Like a regular blunt but longer.
Pinner: Very thin joint
Pot: Marijuana
Pre Roll: A joint that’s already been rolled
Puff the dragon: To smoke marijuana
Queen Ann’s Lace: Marijuana
Ragweed: Inferior quality marijuana
Reefer: Marijuana
Righteous bush: Marijuana
Roach: Butt of a marijuana cigarette
Roach clip: Holds partially smoked marijuana cigarette
Ruderalis: Species of cannabis, found in Russia, that grows 1 to 2.5 feet
Salad: Marijuana
Sativa: Species of cannabis, found in a cool, damp climate, that grows up to 18 feet
Schwagg: Marijuana that looks sparse and scraggly
Shake: The loose leaf at the bottom of a trim tray or bag of weed
Sinsemilla: Potent variety of marijuana
Skunk: Marijuana
Skunkweed: Marijuana
Smoke a bowl: To smoke from a pipe or bong
Spark it up: To smoke marijuana
Spliff: Large marijuana cigarette
Stems: Marijuana plant stems are sometimes found in your stash.
Sticky icky: Marijuana
Stinkweed: Marijuana
Swishers: Cigars in which tobacco is replaced with marijuana
Thai sticks: Bundles of marijuana soaked in hashish oil; marijuana buds bound on short sections of bamboo
Tin: Container for marijuana
Toke: To inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; marijuana
Toke up: To smoke marijuana
Trees: Marijuana
Triple A: Marijuana from British Columbia
Twist: Marijuana cigarette
Wake and Bake: To smoke weed when you wake up
Weed: Marijuana
Whacky tobacky: Marijuana
Zig Zags: marijuana rolling papers
420: April 20th, cannabis celebration day. 4:20 aka the best time to smoke a joint.
