A Comprehensive List of Slang Terms for Cannabis

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.