Marijuana is an extremely popular herb and it’s understandable why it has gained a wide list of nicknames and common street names.
If you are a medical marijuana patient or just use cannabis for recreational purposes, understanding marijuana slang terms will make it easy for you to buy marijuana in many dispensaries, as well as engage in conversations with others that are also involved with this lifestyle.
This guide lists down some of the most common and basic marijuana terms you should know.
- Aristocrat- is a special kind of joint that’s long and extremely narrow.
- Backroll- or backrolling is the act of rolling a doobie with the rolling paper turned inside out and with the gum inside of the joint.
- Bake Sale- is a term for a pot session which draws the purpose “to get baked”
- Blazed- is another term for being high.
- Blitzed- has the same meaning as blazed which means as the state of heightened intoxication due to strong batch of marijuana.
- Bogart- means holding on too long for something that’s meant to be shared, like a joint.
- Bouldered-is a derivative of the word ‘stoned’, but it is only used to describe an extreme intoxication from marijuana.
- Bud- or buds are cannabis flowers, the part of the plant we smoke.
- Budder- is an extract of cannabis that’s much stronger than regular weed.
- Budtender- is a marijuana specialist who works at a marijuana dispensary.
- Burn One- means to smoke weed.
- Cannivore- is someone who eats cannabis more than smoking or vaporizing it.
- Cheeba- is another term for weed
- Cherried-is referred to a bowl that continues burning without the help of a match or lighter.
- Chiefing- is holding on to a bowl (blunt, bong, pipe, etc.), and taking continuous hits without passing it. It can also refer to simply smoking marijuana.
- Clam Baking- Smoking weed in an enclosed space.
- Cola- is the main flower, usually the largest cluster found at the top of cannabis plants.
- Cone- is a kind of joint which is narrower from where you draw and wider at the end where you light.
- Cotton Mouth- is a term for having an intensely dry mouth resulting from consuming cannabis.
- Couchy or Couch Lock- is used to describe indica strains that make you sleepy or put you in a deeply relaxed state.
- Cross Joint- is a large joint that intersects with another smaller joint at a 90o
- Crutch- is a short cylinder inside the joint used to make rolling a joint easier.
- Crystals- refer to trichomes.
- Cure- or curing is a process that gives weed more flavor and great smoking qualities.
- Dabber- is a spoon-like tool used to apply dabs. It can also refer to a person who dabs.
- Dabbing- is a process of consuming marijuana using a dabber tool to collect some hash oil and be heated on a surface called rig.
- Dab- can be BHO, wax or shatter, which are all highly concentrated extract of cannabis.
- Dank- is used to describe a strong smelling and high quality weed.
- Ditch Weed- is another substance that looks similarly as weed, although it isn’t.
- Doobie- is another term for a joint which is commonly used by older individuals.
- Down Smoke- is also known as shot gunning.
- Dugout- is a small two-chambered box used to hold your weed and one-hitter pipe.
- Edibles-are cannabis infused tasty treats which are consumed orally to get high.
- Endo- premium buds of marijuana.
- Ent- is someone who smokes marijuana.
- Fatty- is a large spliff or joint.
- Fire- can refer to a lighter; or a high quality weed.
- Florist- is a dealer of weed.
- 420- denotes to periods when marijuana inhalation is promoted by cannabis community.
- Gasper- hand-rolled joint
- Green- another term for marijuana
- Green Out- refers to smoking too much weed
- Head Change- feeling of being extremely high
- Hog Leg- is an extremely fat joint
- Hot Box- to make a room full of marijuana smoke
- Hydro- short for hydroponics system; a growing system which does not use soil as growing medium
- KGB- ‘Killer Green Buds’ or a very potent weed.
- Kind Bud- well grown marijuana that gives off an intense and one of a kind high.
- L- a large doobie
- Laughing Grass- another term for marijuana
- Left-handed Cigarette- another term for joint
- Mary Jane- another way to refer to marijuana
- Mota- slang for marijuana
- Mother- a large and vegetating cannabis trimmed off to make clones
- Muggles- slang for a marijuana cigarette or joint
- Nug- an individual bud of cannabis
- Nug Run- hash oil extract made of top quality nugs
- Pack a Bowl- load your pipe with marijuana
- Pinner- extremely thin joint or spliff
- Pre-roll- joint or blunt made and sold by dispensary or a dealer
- Re-up- to replenish stock of marijuana
- Reclaim- byproduct that results from dabbing
- Recreational- non-medical marijuana
- Reefer- slang for marijuana or marijuana derivatives
- Rosin Tech- a solventless methos of extracting weed which uses flat iron or hair straightener
- Sawbuck- bag of marijuana worth $10
- Schwag- poor quality weed
- Sensimilia- seedless female marijuana plant
- Skin-up- term for rolling a joint
- Snipe- joint rolled from roaches of other spliffs or joints
- Sticky Icky- Excellent quality weed
- Toke up- to smoke, hit or puff marijuana
- Trim- leftover marijuana leaves and smaller buds
- Wacky Tabacky- another slang for marijuana
- Wrecked- can refer to someone who’s extremely high
- Yerba- refers to cannabis
- Zip or Zone- one ounce of marijuana
Finally, these are just some of the many terms used in connection to marijuana. These growing lists of terms are just proof of how creative marijuana users can be and how fun it is to be inside the industry.