Slang Marijuana Terms
Tree, Forb, ice cream, pot,Sticks, wacky tobaccy, Freakus, Budski, Alex Kopack, comic books, Bobatti,Bishop, Chess (high quality), Checkers (low quality), Herbsteins, grapes (purple weed), Daniel Nuggetstone, trees, G-regs or Gregs (general or generic regulars), Muggles, friendship, grandpa's medicine, stuff, magic cancer, BC, Bis, Boone, Bob Hope (footnote in Infinite Jest, by author David Foster Wallace), bread, bud, Burger King (with fork being the smoking tool of choice), Bloop, Bobby Brown, brown (resin), brown frown (low quality), brown buddha, Bubble kushy, cess, cheeba, cheg (very small amount of resin), chronic (high quality), course notes, dagga (from Afrikaans via South Africa), dak, dank, Detroit magic, Dumm, diesel (low quality resin), dodo, dope, doobage, doja, draw, dro (derived from hydroponics), eighth (standard quantity used for trading - 1/8 imperial ounce), dunce, electric puha (from puha, a plant in New Zealand), fire, frodis (from The Monkees), funk, (Australian English, Jamaican English) ganja or ganj (abbreviated) (from Hindi), grade - good quality bud, grass, green, green tea, Guy Smiley, hash (hashish, arabic for grass), hay, herb, hydro, indo or endo, instaga, IZM, jimmy, Kevin Bacon (euphemism for kind bud), kibs or kibbies (short for kind bud),kif (from Arabic), kind (short for kind bud), kushempeng, lamb's bread, little beasts (nuggets) lef, lowes, marijuana (originally subcultural), Lula, Mary Jane, Mecca (low-grade), Mexican kilobrick (low-grade, highly-compressed import), mids (middle quality), mota, nick or nickel (a 5 dollar sack), dime (a 10 dollar sack), a dub sack or twamp (20 dollars), nay nay famous, nodge (small amount of hashish), nug or nugget or nugs, moss, newguys, Old Toby, O-Z, pakalolo (from Hawaii), Paul Zurawski, pot, regs (regular strength), Sampson, sinsemilla or sinse, shake (leaf and seeds at bottom of bag), ramín, rodeo or schwag, Sappad, (low quality), schwugs (middle quality - portmanteau of schwag and nugs), skunk, solid (resin), soap bar (low quality hash), sticky-icky-icky, sweet G, tea, tree, wacky tobacky/baccy, weed, bible worksheets, george, X box, Arathi (high quality),Greenest of the Goop (high quality), Boogity Brown (low quality), Goofy Boots, headies, reefbuds, blifter, Jean, doja, outdo, spank, tweed, tiger fear, goo, greenest of the green, widdle (common in Bergen County, New Jersey), Cheatham (awful quality weed), (South African English) insangu, cabbage, mbanjeZimbabwe languageShona, Mannie Fresh or Mannie, trizer, booboo shit (bad marijuana), chicken, gangster gumbo (a mix of several people's cannabis), scratchy, schwanal, kush, good advice (high quality smoke), Scooby-Doo (common usage on UEA campus, England), Smeed (Northwest Ohio), Zig-Zag, C-Jizz, Tacos [StL], Guitar Hero, Squirter-Farter, sha-bang-a-bang-a, good shit
Reefer was common in the early twentieth century, but it is now often used only humorously, often in reference to the 1930s propaganda film Reefer Madness, which significantly misrepresented the effects of cannabis. Terms also from this time period are: mex, mezz, muggles, gage, jive, viper, spinach, cheese, CD's, sweet leaf, kutch, dutchie, key (kilo of marijuana), elbow (pound), bingger (bong, water pipe), chillum, white rhino (high quality MJ), MJ, Mary, Mother Mary, Sister Mary, Cousin Mary, stash, delta-9, flowers, shake, kif, bunk (bad marijuana), skunk (marijuana smelling like a skunk), bone (marijuana cigarette), joint, J, spliff, submarine, twist, Juicy Fruit (a strain that smells like gum), morning meds, grizz (= gram), onion (= ounce), QP (quarter pound), herbal jazz cigarette, pizza (exclusively North America), roach clips (=multiple ends of used joints typically on a toothpick).
In the UK, cannabis is often referred to by quantity:
* 1/16 (ounce): 'teenth' (sixteenth), Louis (the 16th)
* 1/8: eighth, eighter, single, Henry (the VIII), cut, slice, Garden Gate
* 1/4: quarter (ounce), quad, 'Q', bottle (of water), farmer's daughter, mike vick
* 1/2: half (ounce), 'halfie', 'half-O', 'halfer'
* 1: ounce, oz, onion Ozzy (Osbourne), 'O', Oscar, zone, zip, Fosters
* 4 o's: QP, quap, Cutie Pie
* 9: bar (approx. 250g)
* 36: key, kilo (approx. 1 kg)
* 10^9: beenth (fictional term for a billion ounces)
* £10s worth - 'ten bag','tens', 'benners', 'ten bit', '10s poof'
In the US, cannabis is often reffered to by price:
* nickel bag, blunt (also referred to as a "nick") — $5 worth
* dime bag (also referred to as a "dime") — $10 worth
* dub - twenty bag, $20 worth
* 30 sack - $30 worth
* 50 piece (also referred to as an eighth or fatty eight) — You get 3 of that particular dealer's twenty bags ("dubs") for $50, $10 in savings. Sometimes just comes in one bag/plastic jar.
* 25, or a quarter — It is $100 worth and works with the savings system by giving you $20 amount free with it.
* Lid- $200 worth, It is usually the largest amount bought at a time. It is referred to as a lid because the height of the amount of marijuana in the bag is equal to the width of the lid of a bucket.
In the Northeastern U.S. it is common to speak of cannabis in terms of clothing store merchandise or food (e.g., a slice is 1/8 oz. (3.5 g))
Sock—1 gram, Shirt—1/8 ounce (3.5 g), Pants—1/4 ounce (7 g), Jacket—1 ounce (28 g).
Buyer: "How much do you think a pair of pants would cost?" Dealer: "A pair of pants would cost $X.XX."
In Canada, similar terms to those in the UK are used, but grams are used in small quantities, and fractional ounces are actually weighed out in grams. For example, an "o" or ounce in most of Canada will be weighed as exactly 28 grams on a scale, which is an approximation. Common purchase units are the "half", "quarter" and "eighth", or "half quarter", weighed out as 14, 7, and 3.5 grams respectively. Grams are used for lower quantities, and may be referred to as "grrs".
In Australia, cannabis is usually sold in $25 bags (referred to as a "stick" or "wick" or a "twent"), $50 bags (referred to as a "fifty"), quarter "Quart", half ounces "half", ounces and pounds. Dealers also occasionally deal 30 bags, common in Western Australia. In India, cannabis (and especially hashish) is usually sold in tolas, one tola being 10 grams. Interestingly, a tola is also the standard unit of weight used by jewellers and dealers often use jewellers scales to measure their product
Reefer was common in the early twentieth century, but it is now often used only humorously, often in reference to the 1930s propaganda film Reefer Madness, which significantly misrepresented the effects of cannabis. Terms also from this time period are: mex, mezz, muggles, gage, jive, viper, spinach, cheese, CD's, sweet leaf, kutch, dutchie, key (kilo of marijuana), elbow (pound), bingger (bong, water pipe), chillum, white rhino (high quality MJ), MJ, Mary, Mother Mary, Sister Mary, Cousin Mary, stash, delta-9, flowers, shake, kif, bunk (bad marijuana), skunk (marijuana smelling like a skunk), bone (marijuana cigarette), joint, J, spliff, submarine, twist, Juicy Fruit (a strain that smells like gum), morning meds, grizz (= gram), onion (= ounce), QP (quarter pound), herbal jazz cigarette, pizza (exclusively North America), roach clips (=multiple ends of used joints typically on a toothpick).
In the UK, cannabis is often referred to by quantity:
* 1/16 (ounce): 'teenth' (sixteenth), Louis (the 16th)
* 1/8: eighth, eighter, single, Henry (the VIII), cut, slice, Garden Gate
* 1/4: quarter (ounce), quad, 'Q', bottle (of water), farmer's daughter, mike vick
* 1/2: half (ounce), 'halfie', 'half-O', 'halfer'
* 1: ounce, oz, onion Ozzy (Osbourne), 'O', Oscar, zone, zip, Fosters
* 4 o's: QP, quap, Cutie Pie
* 9: bar (approx. 250g)
* 36: key, kilo (approx. 1 kg)
* 10^9: beenth (fictional term for a billion ounces)
* £10s worth - 'ten bag','tens', 'benners', 'ten bit', '10s poof'
In the US, cannabis is often reffered to by price:
* nickel bag, blunt (also referred to as a "nick") — $5 worth
* dime bag (also referred to as a "dime") — $10 worth
* dub - twenty bag, $20 worth
* 30 sack - $30 worth
* 50 piece (also referred to as an eighth or fatty eight) — You get 3 of that particular dealer's twenty bags ("dubs") for $50, $10 in savings. Sometimes just comes in one bag/plastic jar.
* 25, or a quarter — It is $100 worth and works with the savings system by giving you $20 amount free with it.
* Lid- $200 worth, It is usually the largest amount bought at a time. It is referred to as a lid because the height of the amount of marijuana in the bag is equal to the width of the lid of a bucket.
In the Northeastern U.S. it is common to speak of cannabis in terms of clothing store merchandise or food (e.g., a slice is 1/8 oz. (3.5 g))
Sock—1 gram, Shirt—1/8 ounce (3.5 g), Pants—1/4 ounce (7 g), Jacket—1 ounce (28 g).
Buyer: "How much do you think a pair of pants would cost?" Dealer: "A pair of pants would cost $X.XX."
In Canada, similar terms to those in the UK are used, but grams are used in small quantities, and fractional ounces are actually weighed out in grams. For example, an "o" or ounce in most of Canada will be weighed as exactly 28 grams on a scale, which is an approximation. Common purchase units are the "half", "quarter" and "eighth", or "half quarter", weighed out as 14, 7, and 3.5 grams respectively. Grams are used for lower quantities, and may be referred to as "grrs".
In Australia, cannabis is usually sold in $25 bags (referred to as a "stick" or "wick" or a "twent"), $50 bags (referred to as a "fifty"), quarter "Quart", half ounces "half", ounces and pounds. Dealers also occasionally deal 30 bags, common in Western Australia. In India, cannabis (and especially hashish) is usually sold in tolas, one tola being 10 grams. Interestingly, a tola is also the standard unit of weight used by jewellers and dealers often use jewellers scales to measure their product
