List of slang names for cannabis

More than slang names have been identified for the product (drug), herb or hashish, obtained from the cannabis plant. This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.

Slang names by continent and country

African slang names

Nigeria Abana Blau Gbana Igbo Kaya Kpoli Kush Oja Wee-wee

North American slang names

United States In the United States, most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.

2 long Ace Airplane Alfalfa Alligator cigarette Amnesia Asparagus Astro turf Aunt Mary Baby Bag of bones Bhang Blunt Bobo Boof Broccoli Bud Cabbage Cali-weed Cannon Catnip Christmas tree Chronic Climb Collie Dagga Da kine Dak Dank Devil's lettuce Doña Juanita ("Lady Jane" in Spanish) Doobie Dope Endo Exotic Fatty Fir Fire Flower Ganja Gas Good giggles Grass Green Green goddess Griffa Grifo Hashish Herb Holy weed Houdini Jazz cigarette Joint KGB ("killer green bud") Kush L pape Left-handed cigarette Loud Magic Grass Magic dragon Magical brownie Mary Jane Maui-wowie Mota Muggle Nixon Ouid Pakalolo (Hawaiian for "crazy tobacco") Pinner Pot Polen Puff Purple Haze Rainy day woman Reefer Roach Rudolf Red Eyes Sinsemilla Skunk Spliff Square grouper Stash Sticky icky Stogie Tea Thirteen Trees Wacky baccy Wacky tobacky (sometimes spelled "wacky tobaccy") Weed Wisdom weed Yart Zaza (sometimes shortened as "Za")

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

Alfombra All-Star Almohada Arizona ashes AZ Barbara Jean Bareta Bash Biggy Black Maria Blue Crush Blue jeans Chistosa Cotorritos Dizz Escoba Gallina Gato Green paint Grenuda Guardada Lechuga Lemon-Lime Liamba Lime Pillows Mafafa Manteca Maracachafa Mariquita My Brother Narizona O-Boy Palm Platinum Jack Popcorn Shoes Shmagma Shora Shrimp Smoochy Woochy Poochy Tigitty Tila Tims Tosca Tristan kush Tweeds Valle Wooz Young Girls Zacate

Latin American slang names

Mexico

or (originally ; derivatives: maría, mariana, mari juana, marinola, maripepa, etc.)

Latin America

(o yerba o yerbasanta)

(Panama)

Asian slang names

Indonesia (Indonesian for "cassava leaf") Cimeng Gele

European slang names France

Spain

Sweden

Flower/fruit

Hash

Slang names for cannabis by quality

Good-quality cannabis

Chronic Dank Ganja Gas Hydro Koota Loud Nug Sinsemilla

Poor-quality cannabis

Brickweed Cabbage Ditch weed Nixon Schwag Shake Oregano

Slang names for specific products

Cannabis cigarettes

2 long Airplane Alligator cigarette Bifter, bifta Bomber Bone Camberwell carrot Cow Cripple Doink Doobie Fatty Jazz cigarette Joint L pape Left-handed cigarette Magic dragon Number Phatty Pinner Reefer Roach Spliff Stogie Tommy Chong Yontson Zol

Package or a specific amount of cannabis

40 Sack Dime bag Dollar Dub Eight ball Eighth Elbow Lid Nickel bag OZ Q QP Quarter Stash Bow Zip

Slang names for consuming cannabis

420 Burning bush Getting high Hot box Session Toke Vape Wake and bake

Garden

Slang names for cannabis' effects

Buzz Baked Cottonmouth Couch-lock Faded Fried High Lit up Mashed Munchies Nature's holiday Roasted Skaffa Stoned Toasted Tripping balls Wasted

Zooted

Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis

Burnout Connoisseur Ent Gardener HippieBooth, Martin (2004), Cannabis: A History, St. Martin's Press, p. 212. Pothead Stoner Tea head Viper Beekeeper

List of slang names for cannabis

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