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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 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 cannabis (drug)
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.
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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 .
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[23] Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the
Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:
Regional slang names
Francosphere
Hispanosphere
Elsewhere
Nigeria
Sweden
Flower/fruit
Hash
Indonesia
Leaf
Daun singkong (Indonesian for "cassava leaf")
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Slang names for good-quality cannabis
Weed , a commonly used slang name for cannabis, written on a banner at a Yippie smoke-in in Ohio in 1978
Slang names for poor-quality cannabis
Slang names for a cannabis cigarette
Slang names for a package or a specific amount of cannabis
Slang names for consuming cannabis
Slang names for cannabis' effects
Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis
See also
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