List of slang names for cannabis

List of slang names for cannabis

Pot, a common slang name for cannabis, on a sign at a 2012 cannabis rights demonstration in New York City

More than 1,200 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

Niger

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

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.

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:

Mexico

• Marihuana or Marijuana (originally Mariguana; derivatives: maría, mariana, mari juana, marinola, maripepa, etc.) • Zacate • Cucaracha • Juanita • Doña juana • Mota

Latin America

• 420 • Césped • Ganja • Hierba (o yerba o yerbasanta) • Joint • Orégano • Pasto • Mafafa • Mostaza • Shora

Indonesia

• Daun singkong (Indonesian for "cassava leaf") • begut (surabaya) • joi ("ijo" in reverse, translate to green) • peluru ("bullets") • orian (ori as in original) • adek kakak (adek = weed, kakak = tobacco leafs sprayed with chemicals 2 times stronger than the high from legal high • gelek (as in gulungan in indonesia which means "roll" of joint)

France

• Beuh • Chichon • Ganja • Herbe • Kif • Marie-Jeanne • Shit • Taga • Teush • Washmeuh • Weed

Sweden

• Flower/fruit • Grälle • Gräs • Gröning • Grönt • Marre • Maja • Ört

• Hash • Böj • Braj • Brass • Brownie • Brunt • Knatch, knätch • Svart • Zattla • Zütt

Slang names for cannabis by quality

Good-quality cannabis

Weed, a commonly used slang name for cannabis, written on a banner at a Yippie smoke-in in Ohio in 1978