List of slang names for cannabis

More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for marijuana and hashish, the dried leaves and flowers harvested from cannabis for drug use,[1] including:

420, a slang name for cannabis, written on a train in New Jersey

Slang names for cannabis

Slang names for marijuana or hashish

Most slang names for cannabis date to the jazz era, when it was called Weed, Reefer, Gauge, Jive. Weed is a commonly used slang term for marijuana. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.[2][3][4]

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

Whether all of these terms are slang names is disputed by some scholars, including writers at The Boston Globe and Reason Magazine.[8][16] Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:

Nigeria

Kaya, wee-wee, igbo, kush, oja, gbana, blau, kpoli and abana.[18]:114

Denmark

  • Den Gode (The Good)
  • Fjolletobak (crazy tobacco)
  • Dub
  • Blånt
  • Grønt
  • Marianne

Sweden

Flower/fruit

Hash

Poland

Baka (or baku, baczka), jaranie, jaranko, jazz, mandżur, Marysia/Maria, palenie, trawa, trawka, ziele, zioło, ziółko.

Slang names for good-quality cannabis

Weed, a commonly used slang name for marijuana, written on a banner at a Yippie smoke-in in Ohio in 1978

Slang names for poor-quality cannabis

Slang names for a cannabis cigarette

Slang names for a package or a specific amount of cannabis

  • 1 Key = 1 KG of brick weed[20]
  • 1 book/sebuku = 1 KG of brick weed
  • setengah = 500 G of brick weed
  • suku = 250 G of brick weed
  • SPD (suku potong dua/2) =125 G of brick weed
  • SP4 (suku potong 4) = 62.5 G of brick weed
  • SP8 (Suku potong 8) = 31.25 G of brick weed
  • SP16 (Suku potong 16) = 15.125 G of brick weed
  • SP32 (suku potong 32) = 7.8125 G of brick weed

Slang names for consuming cannabis

Slang names for cannabis' effects

Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis

See also

References

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