Mary_Jane_(slang)
More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use.[1] This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.
Slang names for marijuana
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][3][4]
- 2 long[5]
- 420[1]
- Ace[1]
- Airplane[1]
- Alfalfa[1]
- Alligator cigarette[1]
- Amnesia[1]
- Asparagus[1]
- Astro turf[6]
- Aunt Mary[1][7]
- Baby[1]
- Bag of bones[1]
- Bhang
- Blunt[1][5][7]
- Bobo[8]
- Boof[6]
- Broccoli[5]
- Bud[1][5]
- Cabbage[1]
- Cannon[5]
- Catnip[1]
- Christmas tree[1]
- Chronic[1][7]
- Climb[1]
- Collie[9]
- Dagga
- Da kine[1]
- Dak[1]
- Dank[1][7]
- Devil's lettuce[10]
- Doña Juanita ("Lady Jane" in Spanish)[1]
- Doobie[1][5][7]
- Endo[5]
- Fatty[5][7]
- Fir[6]
- Flower[5][7]
- Ganja[1][5][7]
- Good giggles[1][7]
- Grass[1][5][7]
- Green[1]
- Green goddess[1]
- Griffa[6]
- Grifo[11]
- Hashish[1]
- Herb[1][7]
- Holy weed[12]
- Houdini[1]
- Jazz cigarette[13]
- Joint[7]
- KGB ("killer green bud")[6]
- Kush[7]
- L pape[5]
- Left-handed cigarette[5]
- Magic dragon[5]
- Magical brownie[14]
- Mary Jane[5][7]
- Maui-wowie[6]
- Mota[15]
- Muggle[1]
- Nixon[1]
- Pakalolo (Hawaiian for "crazy tobacco")[16]
- Pinner[5]
- Pot[1][5][7]
- Polen
- Rainy day woman[1]
- Reefer[1][7]
- Roach[5]
- Sinsemilla
- Space cake[17]
- Spliff[5]
- Square grouper[18]
- Stash[19][7]
- Sticky icky[7]
- Stogie[1]
- Tea[20]
- Thirteen[1]
- Trees[4][21]
- Wisdom weed[12]
- Weed[1][3][7]
- Zaza[22]
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.[10][23] Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:
- Alfombra[24]
- All-Star[24]
- Almohada[24]
- Arizona ashes[24]
- AZ[24]
- Barbara Jean[24]
- Bareta[24]
- Bash[24]
- Biggy[24]
- Black Maria[24]
- Blue Crush[24]
- Blue jeans[24]
- Chistosa[24]
- Cotorritos[24]
- Dizz[24]
- Escoba[24]
- Gallina[24]
- Gato[24]
- Green paint[24]
- Grenuda[24]
- Guardada[24]
- Lechuga[24]
- Lemon-Lime[24]
- Liamba[24]
- Lime Pillows[24]
- Loud[24]
- Mafafa[24]
- Manteca[24]
- Maracachafa[24]
- Mariquita[24]
- My Brother[24]
- Narizona[24]
- O-Boy[24]
- Palm[24]
- Platinum Jack[24]
- Popcorn[24]
- Shoes[24]
- Shmagma[24]
- Shora[24]
- Shrimp[24]
- Smoochy Woochy Poochy[24]
- Tigitty[24]
- Tila[24]
- Tims[24]
- Tosca[24]
- Tristan kush[24]
- Tweeds[24]
- Valle[24]
- Wooz[24]
- Young Girls[24]
- Zacate[24]
Regional slang names
Francosphere
Hispanosphere
- 420[29]
- Césped[29]
- Doña juana[29]
- Ganja[29]
- Hierba[29]
- Joint[29]
- Marihuana (and derivatives: maría, mariana, mari juana, marinola, maripepa, etc.)[29]
- Orégano[29]
- Pasto[29]
- Yerbasanta[29]
- Zacate[29]
- Ganja[30][31]
- Grifa[30][31]
- María[30][31]
- Yerba[30][31]
- Cucaracha[32]
- Grifa[32]
- Juanita[32]
- Mafafa[32]
- Mota[32]
- Mostaza[32]
- Shora[32]
Elsewhere
Nigeria
Sweden
Flower/fruit
Hash
Indonesia
Leaf
- Daun singkong (Indonesian for "cassava leaf")[36]
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- John Charles Chasteen (9 February 2016). Getting High: Marijuana through the Ages. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-1-4422-5470-1.
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- Tom Dalzell (25 July 2008). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge. p. 673. ISBN 978-1-134-19478-0.
- Thomas Kemper Hitch; Robert M. Kamins (1992). Islands in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Haiwaii's Economy. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-0-8248-1498-4.
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- Victor, Terry; Dalzell, Tom (2007). The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge. p. 614. ISBN 978-1134615346.
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Zaza is slang for top-tier weed
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- Jean-Pierre Martin; Christophe Lamfalussy (18 January 2017). Grasset (ed.). Molenbeek-sur-djihad (document) (in French). Grasset. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-2-246-86277-2.
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