Can·na·bis and it’s Many Street Slang Terms 
If you didn’t know Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three different species of different strain variations, Cannabis sativa strains, Cannabis indica strains and Cannabis ruderalis. The species are indigenous to Central and South Asia.
Most people have never heard of the term Cannabis ruderalis because it has a far lower THC count than the other varieties. Though some are high in cannabidiol (CBD), which is generally used for medical purposes.
Marijuana is in fact an old slang term used against Mexican culture and should no longer be a part of our modern language.
Depending on the crowd, your locale, and your outlook on it, ‘cannabis’ or ‘marijuana’ can mean many different things. Much like the cannabis lifestyle, some words come with a certain stigma or expectation. Not all are good, not all bad, but most have negative connotations due to it’s Federal illegality.
Some of the more common Cannabis slang terms are:
- Marijuana: referring to the original word ‘mariguana’, later americanized to ‘marijuana’ when the first cannabis laws were passed.
- Pot: referring to the first time the ‘THC- barring hemp’ was popularly consumed.
- Weed: referring to it’s height
- Grass: referring to it’s consistence when ground up
- Ganja: Hindu for cannabis
- Skunk: referring to smell
- Hemp: reflecting the plant’s industrial strength and usefulness
- Reef: referring to the Spanish word ‘griefo’
- Herb: referring to its versatility in herb usage like tea
- Loud: referring to high grade strains; the smell and the potency its referred as “loud”.
Did we miss any common terms down below? Please add in the comments section at the end of the post.
All The Marijuana Street Terms We Could Find
To break the taboo it is important to use the right terminology. Marijuana is in fact an old slang term used against Mexican culture and should no longer be a part of our modern language. You will find that the people who still use the word Pot, Marijuana, and other slang terms are not supporting the movement.
List of Marijuana Street Terms (IT'S A LOT)
A-bomb | marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarette |
ace | marijuana cigarette |
Assassin of Youth | marijuana (from 1930’s film of same name) |
bammy | marijuana |
banano | marijuana or tobacco cigarettes laced with cocaine |
bazooka | coca paste and marijuana |
blow a stick | smoke marijuana |
Budda | potent marijuana spiked with opium |
Buddha | potent marijuana spiked with opium |
cheroot | smking cigar-shaped object (tobacco or marijuana or mixture) |
chillums | marijuana |
chips | tobacco or marijuana cigarettes laced with PCP |
colas [Spanish=tails] | marijuana flowing tops |
ditchweed | low potency marijuana that grows wild |
fire up | smoke marijuana |
funk | marijuana |
funny stuff | marijuana |
ganja | marijuana (term originated in India) |
get on | smoke marijuana |
ghanja | marijuana (see ganja) |
giggle weed | marijuana |
good stuff | high potency drug, especially marijuana |
grefa | marijuana |
grifa | marijuana |
gunga | marijuana (see ganga) |
gungeon | potent Jamaican marijuana |
gunja | marijuana (see ganga) |
gunney | marijuana |
gunney sack | marijuana (from sacks made with hemp fiber) |
hit | a single puff on a marijuana cigarette; a single puff on a pipe (any drug) |
hookah | Middle Eastern water pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana |
hubbly bubbly | hookah; a Middle Eastern water pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana |
Indian hemp | marijuana |
Indiana ditchweed | low-potency wild marijuana, grows wild from seeds originally bred for hemp rope |
Indiana hay | marijuana |
Johnson grass | low potency Texas marijuana (as in Lyndon Johnson) |
kif | hashish, potent Moroccan marijuana |
lamb’s bread | marijuana |
light up | smoke marijuana |
limbo | marijuana |
loco | marijuana |
Lucas | marijuana |
lumber | marijuana stems and wastes |
moocah | marijuana |
muggles | marijuana |
munchies | symptoms of intense hunger after marijuana use |
paca lolo | marijuana (Hawaiian term) |
peace weed | marijuana with PCP |
Phillies Blunt | cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana |
picked up | smoked marijuana |
pin | thinly-rolled marijuana cigarettes |
pinhead | thinly-rolled marijuana cigarettes |
poke | to smoke a marijuana cigarette |
potlikker | tea brewed from marijuana waste |
pot liquor | tea brewed from marijuana waste |
P.R. | Panama red marijuana |
shlook | a puff of a marijuana cigarette |
shotgun | inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one’s mouth by another’s exhaling |
skin | marijuana rolling paper |
snop | marijuana |
spring | giving a marijuana cigarette to another |
steamboat | inhaling marijuana smoke trapped in toilet paper roll or similar device used to burn last embers of the butt |
sticks | marijuana stems and waste |
super grass | marijuana with PCP |
super weed | marijuana with PCP |
taking on a number | smoking marijuana |
tea head | habitual marijuana user |
tighten someone’s wig | provide marijuana [1940’s] |
Tijuana | marijuana |
TJ | marijuana (from Tijuana) |
toak | to inhale smoke, especially marijuana |
toke pipes | small pipes in which marijuana is smoked |
toke up | to light a marijuana cigarette |
vipe | marijuana |
viper | marijuana smoker |
Wacky terbacky | marijuana |
Zombie weed | marijuana with PCP |
Acapulco gold | marijuana from S.W.Mexico |
Acapulco red | marijuana |
Ace | marijuana; PCP |
African black | marijuana |
African bush | marijuana |
African woodbine | marijuana cigarette |
Airhead | marijuana user |
Airplane | marijuana |
Alice B. Toklas | marijuana brownie |
Amp joint | marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic |
Angola | marijuana |
Ashes | marijuana |
Atom bomb | marijuana and heroin |
Atshitshi | marijuana |
Aunt Mary | marijuana |
B | amount of marijuana to fill a matchbox |
B-40 | cigar laced with marijuana and dipped in |
Baby | marijuana |
Baby bhang | marijuana |
Bad seed | peyote; heroin; marijuana |
Bale | marijuana |
Bambalacha | marijuana |
Bar | marijuana |
Bash | marijuana |
Basuco | cocaine; coca paste residue sprinkled on marijuana or regular cigarette |
Belyando spruce | marijuana |
Bhang | marijuana, Indian term |
Bite one’s lips | to smoke marijuana |
Black | opium; marijuana |
Black bart | marijuana |
Black ganga | marijuana resin |
Black gold | high potency marijuana |
Black gungi | marijuana from India |
Black gunion | marijuana |
Black mo/black moat | highly potent marijuana |
Black mote | marijuana mixed with honey |
Blanket | marijuana cigarette |
Blast | to smoke marijuana; to smoke crack |
Blast a joint | to smoke marijuana |
Blast a roach | to smoke marijuana |
Blast a stick | to smoke marijuana |
Block | marijuana |
Blonde | marijuana |
Blow | cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana |
Blow a stick | to smoke marijuana |
Blow one’s roof | to smoke marijuana |
Blowing smoke | marijuana |
Blue de hue | marijuana from Vietnam |
Blue sage | marijuana |
Blue sky blond | high potency marijuana from Columbia |
Blunt | marijuana inside a cigar; marijuana and cocaine inside a cigar |
Bo-bo | marijuana |
Bobo bush | marijuana |
Bogart a joint | salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share |
Bohd | marijuana; PCP |
Bomb | crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; |
Bomber | marijuana cigarette |
Bone | marijuana; $50 piece of crack |
Bong | pipe used to smoke marijuana |
Boo | marijuana |
Boom | marijuana |
Boot the gong | to smoke marijuana |
Brick | 1 kilogram of marijuana; crack |
Broccoli | marijuana |
Brown | heroin; marijuana |
Bud | marijuana |
Buda | a high-grade marijuana joint filled with crack |
Bullyon | marijuana |
Burn one | to smoke marijuana |
Burnie | marijuana |
Bush | cocaine; marijuana |
Butter | marijuana; crack |
Butter flower | marijuana |
Cam trip | high potency marijuana |
Cambodian red/Cam red | marijuana from Cambodia |
Can | marijuana; 1 ounce |
Canadian black | marijuana |
Canamo | marijuana |
Canappa | marijuana |
Cancelled stick | marijuana cigarette |
Cannabis tea | marijuana |
Carmabis | marijuana |
Cartucho | package of marijuana cigarettes |
Catnip | marijuana cigarette |
Cavite all star | marijuana |
Charas | marijuana from India |
Charge | marijuana |
Chase | to smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana |
Cheeba | marijuana |
Cheeo | marijuana |
Chiba chiba | high potency marijuana from Columbia |
Chicago black | marijuana, term from Chicago |
Chicago green | marijuana |
Chira | marijuana |
Christmas tree | marijuana; depressant; amphetamine |
Chronic | marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack |
Churus | marijuana |
Citrol | high potency marijuana, from Nepal |
Climb | marijuana cigarette |
Cochornis | marijuana |
Cocktail | cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular |
Cocoa puff | to smoke cocaine and marijuana |
Coli | marijuana |
Coliflor tostao | marijuana |
Colorado cocktail | marijuana |
Columbian | marijuana |
Columbus black | marijuana |
Cosa | marijuana |
Crack back | crack and marijuana |
Crazy weed | marijuana |
Cripple | marijuana cigarette |
Crying weed | marijuana |
Cubes | marijuana tablets |
Culican | high potency marijuana from Mexico |
Dagga | marijuana |
Dawamesk | marijuana |
Dew | marijuana |
Diambista | marijuana |
Dimba | marijuana from West Africa |
Ding | marijuana |
Dinkie dow | marijuana |
Dirt grass | inferior quality marijuana |
Ditch | marijuana |
Ditch weed | marijuana inferior quality, Mexican |
Djamba | marijuana |
Do a joint | to smoke marijuana |
Domestic | locally grown marijuana |
Don jem | marijuana |
Dona Juana | marijuana |
Dona Juanita | marijuana |
Doobie/dubbe/duby | marijuana |
Dope | heroin; marijuana; any other drug |
Dope smoke | to smoke marijuana |
Doradilla | marijuana |
Draf weed | marijuana |
Drag weed | marijuana |
Dry high | marijuana |
Durog | marijuana |
Duros | marijuana |
Dust | heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various chemicals |
Dusting | adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana |
Earth | marijuana cigarette |
El diablito | marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP |
El diablo | marijuana, cocaine and heroin |
Endo | marijuana |
Esra | marijuana |
Fallbrook redhair | marijuana, term from Fallbrook, CA |
Fatty | marijuana cigarette |
Feed bag | container for marijuana |
Fiend | someone who smokes marijuana alone |
Fine stuff | marijuana |
Finger | marijuana cigarette |
Fir | marijuana |
Fire it up | to smoke marijuana |
Flower | marijuana |
Flower tops | marijuana |
Fly Mexican airlines | to smoke marijuana |
Fraho/frajo | marijuana |
Frios | marijuana laced with PCP |
Fry daddy | crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with crack |
Fu | marijuana |
Fuel | marijuana mixed with insecticides; PCP |
Fuma D’Angola | marijuana Portugese term |
Gage/gauge | marijuana |
Gange | marijuana |
Gangster | marijuana |
Ganja | marijuana from Jamaica |
Gash | marijuana |
Gasper | marijuana cigarette |
Gasper stick | marijuana cigarette |
Gauge butt | marijuana |
Geek | crack and marijuana |
Get a gage up | to smoke marijuana |
Get high | to smoke marijuana |
Get the wind | to smoke marijuana |
Ghana | marijuana |
Giggle smoke | marijuana |
Gimmie | crack and marijuana |
Go loco | to smoke marijuana |
Gold | marijuana; crack |
Gold star | marijuana |
Golden leaf | very high quality marijuana |
Gong | marijuana; opium |
Good butt | marijuana cigarette |
Good giggles | marijuana |
Goof butt | marijuana cigarette |
Grass | marijuana |
Grass brownies | marijuana |
Grata | marijuana |
Green | inferior quality marijuana; PCP; ketamine |
Green goddess | marijuana |
Greeter | marijuana |
Greta | marijuana |
Griefo | marijuana |
Griff | marijuana |
Griffa | marijuana |
Griffo | marijuana |
Gungun | marijuana |
Gyve | marijuana cigarette |
Hanhich | marijuana |
Happy cigarette | marijuana cigarette |
Has | marijuana |
Hawaiin | very high potency marijuana |
Hay | marijuana |
Hay butt | marijuana cigarette |
Hemp | marijuana |
Herb | marijuana |
Herb and Al | marijuana and alcohol |
Herba | marijuana |
Hit | crack; marijuana cigarette; to smoke marijuana |
Hit the hay | to smoke marijuana |
Hocus | opium; marijuana |
Homegrown | marijuana |
Honey blunts | Marijuana cigars sealed with honey |
Hooch | marijuana |
Hooter | cocaine; marijuana |
Hot stick | marijuana cigarette |
Indian boy | marijuana |
Indian hay | marijuana from India |
Indo | marijuana, term from Northern CA |
Indonesian bud | marijuana; opium |
J | marijuana cigarette |
Jane | marijuana |
Jay smoke | marijuana |
Jay | marijuana cigarette |
Jim Jones | marijuana laced with cocaine and PCP |
Jive | heroin; marijuana; drugs |
Jive stick | marijuana |
Joint | marijuana cigarette |
Jolly green | marijuana |
Joy smoke | marijuana |
Joy stick | marijuana cigarette |
Ju-ju | marijuana cigarette |
Juan Valdez | marijuana |
Juanita | marijuana |
Juice joint | marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack |
Kali | marijuana |
Kaya | marijuana |
Kentucky blue | marijuana |
KGB (killer green bud) | marijuana |
Kick stick | marijuana cigarette |
Kiff | marijuana |
Killer | marijuana; PCP |
Killer weed (1980s) | marijuana and PCP |
Killer weed (1960s) | marijuana |
Kilter | marijuana |
Kind | marijuana |
Kumba | marijuana |
L.L. | marijuana |
Lace | cocaine and marijuana |
Lakbay diva | marijuana |
Laughing grass | marijuana |
Laughing weed | marijuana |
Leaf | marijuana; cocaine |
Lid | 1 ounce of marijuana |
Light stuff | marijuana |
Lima | marijuana |
Little smoke | marijuana; psilocybin/psilocin |
Llesca | marijuana |
Loaf | marijuana |
Lobo | marijuana |
Locoweed | marijuana |
Log | PCP; marijuana cigarette |
Love boat | marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP |
Love weed | marijuana |
Lovelies | marijuana laced with PCP |
Lubage | marijuana |
M | marijuana; morphine |
M.J. | marijuana |
M.O. | marijuana |
M.U. | marijuana |
Machinery | marijuana |
Macon | marijuana |
Magic smoke | marijuana |
Manhattan silver | marijuana |
Mari | marijuana cigarette |
Mary | marijuana |
Mary and Johnny | marijuana |
Mary Ann | marijuana |
Mary Jane | marijuana |
Mary Jonas | marijuana |
Mary Warner | marijuana |
Mary Weaver | marijuana |
Matchbox | 1/4 ounce of marijuana or 6 marijuana cigarettes |
Maui wauie | marijuana from Hawaii |
Meg | marijuana |
Megg | marijuana cigarette |
Meggie | marijuana |
Messorole | marijuana |
Mexican brown | heroin; marijuana |
Mexican red | marijuana |
Mighty mezz | marijuana cigarette |
Modams | marijuana |
Mohasky | marijuana |
Monte | marijuana from South America |
Mooca/moocah | marijuana |
Mooster | marijuana |
Moota/mutah | marijuana |
Mooters | marijuana cigarette |
Mootie | marijuana |
Mootos | marijuana |
Mor a grifa | marijuana |
Mota/moto | marijuana |
Mother | marijuana |
Mow the grass | to smoke marijuana |
Muggie | marijuana |
Mutha | marijuana |
Nail | marijuana cigarette |
Number | marijuana cigarette |
O.J. | marijuana |
P.R. (Panama Red) | marijuana |
Pack | heroin; marijuana |
Pack of rocks | marijuana cigarette |
Pakalolo | marijuana |
Pakistani black | marijuana |
Panama cut | marijuana |
Panama gold | marijuana |
Panama red | marijuana |
Panatella | large marijuana cigarette |
Paper blunts | marijuana within a paper casing rather than a tobacco leaf casing |
Parsley | marijuana, PCP |
Pat | marijuana |
Pin | marijuana |
Pipe | crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances |
Pocket rocket | marijuana |
Pod | marijuana |
Poke | marijuana |
Pot | marijuana |
Potten bush | marijuana |
Prescription | marijuana cigarette |
Pretendica | marijuana |
Pretendo | marijuana |
Primo | crack; marijuana mixed with crack |
Puff the dragon | to smoke marijuana |
Queen Ann’s lace | marijuana |
Ragweed | inferior quality marijuana; heroin |
Railroad weed | marijuana |
Rainy day woman | marijuana |
Rangood | marijuana grown wild |
Rasta weed | marijuana |
Red cross | marijuana |
Red dirt | marijuana |
Reefer | marijuana |
Righteous bush | marijuana |
Roach | butt of marijuana cigarette |
Roach clip | holds partially smoked marijuana cigarette |
Rockets | marijuana cigarette |
Root | marijuana |
Rope | marijuana |
Rose marie | marijuana |
Salt and pepper | marijuana |
Santa Marta | marijuana |
Sasfras | marijuana |
Scissors | marijuana |
Seeds | marijuana |
Sen | marijuana |
Sess | marijuana |
Sezz | marijuana |
Shake | marijuana |
Siddi | marijuana |
Sinse | marijuana |
Sinsemilla | potent variety marijuana |
Skunk | marijuana |
Smoke | heroin and crack; crack; marijuana |
Smoke Canada | marijuana |
Snop | marijuana |
Spark it up | to smoke marijuana |
Speed boat | marijuana, PCP, crack |
Spliff | marijuana cigarette |
Splim | marijuana |
Square mackerel | marijuana, term from Florida |
Squirrel | smoking cocaine, marijuana and PCP; LSD |
Stack | marijuana |
Stems | marijuana |
Stick | marijuana, PCP |
Stink weed | marijuana |
Straw | marijuana cigarette |
Sugar weed | marijuana |
Supergrass | marijuana |
Sweet Lucy | marijuana |
T | cocaine; marijuana |
Taima | marijuana |
Takkouri | marijuana |
Tea | marijuana, PCP |
Tea party | to smoke marijuana |
Tex-mex | marijuana |
Texas pot | marijuana |
Texas tea | marijuana |
Thai sticks | bundles of marijuana soaked in hashish oil; marijuana buds bound on short sections of bamboo |
Thirteen | marijuana |
Thumb | marijuana |
Tin | container for marijuana |
Toke | to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana |
Toke up | to smoke marijuana |
Torch | marijuana |
Torch up | to smoke marijuana |
Torpedo | crack and marijuana |
Turbo | crack and marijuana |
Twist | marijuana cigarette |
Twistum | marijuana cigarette |
Up against the stem | addicted to smoking marijuana |
Viper’s weed | marijuana |
Wac | PCP on marijuana |
Wacky weed | marijuana |
Weed | marijuana, PCP |
Weed tea | marijuana |
Wheat | marijuana |
White-haired lady | marijuana |
Wollie | rocks of crack rolled into a marijuana cigarette |
Woolah | a hollowed out cigar refilled with marijuana and crack |
Woolas | cigarette laced with cocaine; marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack |
Woolies | marijuana amd crack or PCP |
Wooly blunts | Marijuana and crack or PCP |
X | marijuana; MDMA; amphetamine |
Yeh | marijuana |
Yellow submarine | marijuana |
Yen pop | marijuana |
Yerba | marijuana |
Yerba mala | PCP and marijuana |
Yesca | marijuana |
Yesco | marijuana |
Zacatecas purple | marijuana from Mexico |
Zambi | marijuana |
Zig Zag man | LSD; marijuana; marijuana rolling papers |
Zol | marijuana cigarette |
Zooie | holds butt of marijuana cigarette |
Zoom | PCP; marijuana laced with PCP |
parker | one who fails to share a marijuana cigarette |
burrito | marijuana |
Marley | marijuana |
4:20 | Marijuana |
four twenty | Marijuana |
fry | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
wack | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
wet-wet | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
amp | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
water-water | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
wetdaddy | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
drank | marijuana or tobacco cigarette dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
illy | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
wet | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
ill | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
crazy eddie | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
purple rain | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
clickem | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
milk | marijuana cigarette or joint dipped in embalming fluid (formaldehyde and alcohols) and laced with PCP |
primos | marijuana cigarette or blunk with crack or powder cocaine |
fry sweet | marijuana laced cigar dipped in embalming fluid laced with PCP |
candy blunt | marijuana laced cigar dipped in codeine cough syrup |
snowcaps | cocaine sprinkled over marijuana bong hits |
Our Favorite Hilarious Street Terms
- Sticky: reflecting on the amount of crystals on the bud, it makes it very sticky and hard to handle.
- Ganjaprenuer: a person who makes a nice chuck of change selling cannabis and it’s constituents
- Shwag: generally has a negative connotation. Originally used to describe low grade marijuana
- Giggle Stick: a joint
- Chino: specifically referring to Cannabis Stavia
- Left-Handed Cigarette: a joint
- Mighty Mez: high quality marijuana. Archaic
- Bobonic Chronic: extremely potent marijuana
- Burger: marijuana
- Zombie: marijuana
Any Funny Street Terms We Might Have Missed? Tell Us in the Comments
These being the most common street terms of marijuana; the list is no where near done. Most of these names are out of commission now, but still, they are pretty darn hilarious. Please let us know on Facebook or in the comments section of any terms we might have missed.
Research References
http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/cannabis_streetnames.htm#ixzz3O5KSFOio
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/14/weed-all-about ittheoriginsofthewordamarijuanaaintheus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_cannabis
http://blog.dictionary.com/pot-marijuana/
http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/marijuana/l/bldicmarijuana.htm
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/thesaurus/words+meaning+marijuana.html