compiled by Ross G. Winter
ALICE B. TOKLAS- The lesbian lover of Gertrude Stein and a good friend of Pablo Picasso, she had a recipe for killer marijuana brownies.
ANGEL DUST- Also known as PCP, sporadicly used to lace weed.
BALE- A compressed brick of marijuana, usually ranging in weight from 10 to 40 pounds.
BHANG- An Indian and Middle Eastern drink consisting of pollen from marijuana flowers and ghee, an oily butter. In medieval Arabia it also referred to a datura-based knockout potion.
BLOWEN- Dutch term for smoking weed
BLUNT- A joint rolled in the tobacco-leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar.
BONG- A water-cooled pipe for one smoker, often made of glass or bamboo.
BRICK- A kilogram-sized slab or cube of compressed pot.
BUD- The fresh or dried flowers of the female marijuana plant.
BUDDHA STICK- See Thai Stick.
CANNABIS INDICA- The scientific name for a species of marijuana plant, the Indian hemp plant.
CANNABIS SATIVA- Another species of marijuana, closely related to indica.
CHIBA-CHIBA- A Black Brazilian form of reefer, usually gummy and comppressed into bricks.
CHILLUM/CHALICE- A cone-shaped pipe made of clay, or sometimes of fruit or vegetable rinds.
CHRONIC- The hip-hop term for high-quality or potent reefer.
COCKTAIL- A joint of tobacco and marijuana combined.
COLOMBIAN- The most common type of grass on the black market.
DOOBIE- A 1960s and '70s term for joint; the word originated on the baby-boomer kiddy show Romper Room, where the good children were called "good Do-Bes."
DOPE- Any controlled substance, although it usually refers to heroin or marijuana; also a hip-hop term for fine or good.
DURBAN BROWN- Marijuana from Natal Province in South Africa.
ELBOW- A pound of pot.
FRESH/PHAT- Hip-hop term for good, great, grand, dope, fine; having an ample stash or supply of dope.
GAGE- 1940s slang for pot.
GANJA- Indian and Jamaican term for pot.
GARRICK- See roach. South-African term.
GOLD- Yellow pot from Acapulco in Mexico or Santa Marta Department in Colombia.
GRASS- Marijuana, weed, pot, etc.
GREEN- Marijuana term
GREEN DRAGON- Weed vodka. Put a lot of weed in a 3/4 full bottlle of wodka, and put it in the refrigerator for one day. Make sure to sit down when drinking, you'll need to.
HASHISH/HASH- Smoking mixture that regionally varies, generally based primarily on resin from substandard Middle Eastern or Indian marijuana.
HEMP- Cannabis stalks and stems, especially those used to make rope, fabrics, etc.
HERB- Jamaican term for marijuana with Biblical connotations; Rastafarian sacrament.
HOOKAH- A hashish waterpipe with four long stems to accommodate four smokers at once; ref. the Caterpillar in Alice In Wonderland.
IN CROWD- Hipsters who throw secret parties for vipers only.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE- Circa the 1940s and '50s, a term for a roach-holder fashioned from a matchbook cover.
JIVE- 1930s and '40s slang for marijuana and marijuana-influenced popular music.
JOHNSON- 1960s term for a joint, referring either to LBJ or the membrum virile.
JOINT/JAY- A marijuana cigarette.
KIEF/KIF/KAFF/KHAYF- Golden pollen hash from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern nations. It is said that "A puff of kif in the morning makes a man as strong as 1,000 camels in the courtyard."
LAMBSBREAD- Large Jamaican buds which can be sliced like a loaf of bread and are shaped like a lamb's tail.
LEFTY- Slang used to refer to marijuana cigarette.
MARIJUANA- The smokable flowers and leaves of the female cannabis plant.
MARYJANE/M.J.- The female cannabis plant. Male plants have almost no active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
MEZZ- Marijuana; from Mezz Mezzrow, the legendary jazzman and Harlem pot-dealer who turned on Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats during the 1930s.
MUGGLES- 1930s and '40s slang for pot.
NEDERWIET- Indoor grown Dutch weed, world famous for its potency.
NICKEL BAG- Five dollars worth of pot, or any other street intoxicant.
OIL- The purified and concentrated resin from hashish or marijuana.
OH-ZEE- An ounce of pot.
PARAQUAT- A defoliant, toxic to humans as well as plants, that has been sprayed on marijuana throughout the world since the '70s.
PANAMA RED- A potent strain of pot from Panama.
POT- Reefer, grass, cannabis.
REEFER- Term for pot dating back to the turn of the century, and still popular.
ROACH- The butt of a joint; it is strong because it catches and concentrates the resin from the rest of the joint.
ROPE DOPE- Low-quality pot from leafy hemp.
SINSEMILLA- The flowering tops of seedless plants.
SHAKE- Small peices of marijuana at the bottom of the bag, mostly leaf that has fallen off the buds.
SHIT- Any sort of controlled substance.
SKUNK- Aromatic sinsemilla, usually cultivated from the Afghani variety of marijuana.
SMOKE- Pot, reefer, tea, grass, etc.
SPLIFF- Jamaican term for a large, ice-cream-cone-shaped joint.
STASH- (n.) A hidden cache of dope; (v.) to conceal one's dope.
STICK/STICKIE- Dutch term for marijuana cigarette.
TEA- Slang for maryjane, muggles, gage, etc.
TEA PAD- In Harlem in the '30s and '40s, an after-hours club where pot was smoked and jazz music performed.
TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL/THC- The psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana that is responsible for the high.
THAI STICK- A delicious Thai variety of marijuana, usually wrapped around the bamboo splints or popsicle-stick slivers.
THYME (OR OREGANO)- Spices resembling marijuana in appearance, frequently used to defraud customers.
TOKE- To inhale, or puff, from a joint of reefer.
TULIP- Big, very fat joint in the form of a Tulip.
TWENTY AND FORTY- Hip-hop term for a $20 bag of reefer and a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor.
TWIGS AND SEEDS- The unsmokable leftovers from screening marijuana before sale, or the stuff at the bottom of the bag after purchase.
UNDERGROUND- The drug-using sector of society.
VIPER- 1930s hipsters who frequented tea pads and smoked jive; onomatopoeic from ssssssssst, the sound made by an inhaling pot-smoker.
WEED- Pot, weed, smoke, herb, etc.
ZONKED- Very stoned, spaced-out, wasted, ripped, destroyed, wrecked, intoxicated all to Hell and gone.
ZIG-ZAG- A brand of rolling papers famous for the silhouette of a bearded smoker on the label.