Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the UK & United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; THC for short.
How Is Marijuana Abused?
Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (joint) or in a pipe. It is also smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana. Since the blunt retains the tobacco leaf used to wrap the cigar, this mode of delivery combines marijuana’s active ingredients with nicotine and other harmful chemicals. Marijuana can also be mixed in food or brewed as a tea. As a more concentrated, resinous form it is called hashish, and as a sticky black liquid, hash oil.* Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor.
How Does Marijuana Affect The Brain?
Scientists have learned a great deal about how THC acts in the brain to produce its many effects. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to the brain and other organs throughout the body.
THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the “high” that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thoughts, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.1
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that marijuana’s adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.2 As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
Research on the long-term effects of marijuana abuse indicates some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs. For example, cannabinoid withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system3 and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine.4 Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse.
Addictive Potential
Long-term marijuana abuse can lead to addiction; that is, compulsive drug seeking and abuse despite its known harmful effects upon social functioning in the context of family, school, work, and recreational activities. Long-term marijuana abusers trying to quit report irritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety, and drug craving, all of which make it difficult to quit. These withdrawal symptoms begin within about 1 day following abstinence, peak at 2–3 days, and subside within 1 or 2 weeks following drug cessation.5
Marijuana and Mental Health
A number of studies have shown an association between chronic marijuana use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and schizophrenia. Some of these studies have shown age at first use to be a factor, where early use is a marker of vulnerability to later problems. However, at this time, it is not clear whether marijuana use causes mental problems, exacerbates them, or is used in attempt to self-medicate symptoms already in existence. Chronic marijuana use, especially in a very young person, may also be a marker of risk for mental illnesses, including addiction, stemming from genetic or environmental vulnerabilities, such as early exposure to stress or violence. At the present time, the strongest evidence links marijuana use and schizophrenia and/or related disorders.6 High doses of marijuana can produce an acute psychotic reaction; in addition, use of the drug may trigger the onset or relapse of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals.
What Other Adverse Effect Does Marijuana Have on Health?
Effects on the Heart
Marijuana increases heart rate by 20–100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.7 This may be due to the increased heart rate as well as effects of marijuana on heart rhythms, causing palpitations and arrhythmias. This risk may be greater in aging populations or those with cardiac vulnerabilities.
Effects on the Lungs
Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50–70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs’ exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;8 however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.9 Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time.
Nonetheless, marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, and a heightened risk of lung infections. A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers.10 Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.
Effects on Daily Life
Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person’s existing problems worse. In one study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement including physical and mental health, cognitive abilities, social life, and career status.11 Several studies associate workers’ marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers’ compensation claims, and job turnover.
What Treatment Options Exist?
Behavioral interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational incentives (i.e., providing vouchers for goods or services to patients who remain abstinent) have shown efficacy in treating marijuana dependence. Although no medications are currently available, recent discoveries about the workings of the cannabinoid system offer promise for the development of medications to ease withdrawal, block the intoxicating effects of marijuana, and prevent relapse.
The latest treatment data indicate that in 2006 marijuana was the most common illicit drug of abuse and was responsible for about 16 percent (289,988) of all admissions to treatment facilities in the United States. Marijuana admissions were primarily male (73.8 percent), White (51.5 percent), and young (36.1 percent were in the 15–19 age range). Those in treatment for primary marijuana abuse had begun use at an early age: 56.2 percent had abused it by age 14 and 92.5 percent had abused it by age 18.**
How Widespread is Marijuana Abuse?
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)***
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2007, 14.4 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, which is similar to the 2006 rate. About 6,000 people a day in 2007 used marijuana for the first time—2.1 million Americans. Of these, 62.2 percent were under age 18.
Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug TradeDrug Type: Marijuana |
STREET TERM | DEFINITION |
3750 | Marijuana and crack rolled in a joint |
420 | Marijuana use |
51 | Combination of crack cocaine with marijuana or tobacco |
A-bomb | Marijuana cigarette with heroin or opium |
Acapulco gold | Marijuana from S.W. Mexico; marijuana |
Acapulco red | Marijuana |
Ace | Marijuana cigarette; PCP |
Afgani indica | Marijuana |
African | Marijuana |
African black | Marijuana |
African bush | Marijuana |
African woodbine | Marijuana cigarette |
Airhead | Marijuana user |
Airplane | Marijuana |
Alice B. Toklas | Marijuana brownie |
Amp | Amphetamine; marijuana dipped in formaldehyde or embalming fluid, sometimes laced with PCP and smoked |
Amp joint | Marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic |
Angola | Marijuana |
Are you anywhere? | Do you use marijuana? |
Ashes | Marijuana |
Assassin of Youth | Marijuana |
Astro turf | Marijuana |
Atom bomb | Marijuana mixed with heroin |
Atshitshi | Marijuana |
Aunt Mary | Marijuana |
B | Amount of marijuana to fill a matchbox |
B-40 | Cigar laced with marijuana and dipped in malt liquor |
Baby | Marijuana |
Baby bhang | Marijuana |
Babysitter | Marijuana |
Bad seed | Marijuana combined with peyote; heroin |
Bag | Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person’s favorite drug |
Baker | Person who smokes marijuana |
Bale | Marijuana |
Bamba | Marijuana |
Bambalacha | Marijuana |
Bammies | A poor quality of marijuana |
Bammy | Marijuana |
Banano | Marijuana or tobacco cigarettes laced with cocaine |
Bar | Marijuana |
Bash | Marijuana |
Basuco (Spanish) | Cocaine; Coca paste residue sprinkled on regular or marijuna cigarette |
Bazooka | Cocaine; combination of crack and marijuana; crack and tobacco combined in a joint; coca paste and marijuana |
BC bud | Marijuana from British Columbia; synonymous with any high-grade marijuana from Canada |
Beedies | Cigarettes from India (resemble marijuana joints/vehicle for other drugs) |
Belyando spruce | Marijuana |
Bhang | Marijuana, Indian term |
Bite one’s lips | To smoke marijuana |
Black | Marijuana; opium; methamphetamine |
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 |
Black rock | Crack Cocaine |
Blanket | Marijuana cigarette |
Blast | Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack |
Blast a joint | To smoke marijuana |
Blast a roach | To smoke marijuana |
Blast a stick | To smoke marijuana |
Blaxing | Smoking marijuana |
Blazing | Smoking marijuana |
Block | Marijuana |
Blonde | Marijuana |
Blow | Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin |
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 marijuna from Colombia |
Blunt | Marijuana inside a cigar; cocaine and marijuana inside a cigar |
Bo | Marijuana |
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; high potency heroin |
Bomber | Marijuana cigarette |
Bone | Marijuana; $50 piece of crack; high purity heroin |
Bong | Pipe used to smoke marijuana |
Boo | Marijuana; methamphetamine |
Boo boo bama | Marijuana |
Boom | Marijuana |
Boot the gong | To smoke marijuana |
Brick | Crack Cocaine; cocaine; marijuana; 1 kilogram of marijuana |
Broccoli | Marijuana |
Brown | Marijuana; heroin; methamphetamine |
Bubble gum | Cocaine; crack cocaine; marijuana from Tennessee |
Bud | Marijuana |
Buda | Marijuana; a high-grade marijuana joint filled with crack |
Buddha | Potent marijuana spiked with opium |
Bullyon | Marijuana |
Burn one | To smoke marijuana |
Burnie | Marijuana |
Bush | Marijuana; cocaine; PCP |
Butter | Marijuana; crack |
Butter flower | Marijuana |
C.S. | Marijuana |
Cam trip | High potency marijuana |
Cambodian red/Cam red | Marijuana from Cambodia |
Can | Marijuana; 1 ounce |
Canade | Heroin/marijuana combination |
Canadian black | Marijuana |
Canamo | Marijuana |
Canappa | Marijuana |
Cancelled stick | Marijuana cigarette |
Candy blunt | Blunts dipped in cough syrup |
Candy sticks | Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine |
Cannabis tea | Marijuana |
Carmabis | Marijuana |
Cartucho (Spanish) | Package of marijuana cigarettes |
Catnip | Marijuana cigarette |
Caviar | Combination of cocaine and marijuana; Crack Cocaine |
Cavite all star | Marijuana |
Cest | Marijuana |
Champagne | Combination of cocaine and marijuana |
Charas | Marijuana from India |
Charge | Marijuana |
Chase | To smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana |
Cheeba | Marijuana |
Cheeo | Marijuana |
Chemo | Marijuana |
Chiba chiba | High potency marijuana from Colombia |
Chicago black | Marijuana, term from Chicago |
Chicago green | Marijuana |
Chiefing | To smoke marijuana |
Chillum | An object used to smoke opium, hashish, and marijuana |
Chips | Tobacco or marijuana cigarettes laced with PCP |
Chira | Marijuana |
Chocolate | Marijuana; opium; amphetamine |
Chocolate Thai | Marijuana |
Christmas bud | Marijuana |
Christmas tree | Marijuana; amphetamine; methamphetamine; depressant |
Chronic | Marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack |
Chunky | Marijuana |
Churus | Marijuana |
Citrol | High potency marijuana, from Nepal |
Clam bake | Sitting inside a car or other small, enclosed space and smoking marijuana |
Clicker | Crack mixed with PCP; marijuana dipped in formaldehyde and smoked |
Clickums | A marijuana cigarette laced with PCP. |
Climb | Marijuana cigarette |
Cochornis | Marijuana |
Cocktail | Combination of crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette |
Cocoa puff | To smoke cocaine and marijuana |
Colas | Marijuana |
Coli | Marijuana |
Coliflor tostao (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Colombian | Marijuana |
Colorado cocktail | Marijuana |
Columbus black | Marijuana |
Cosa (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Crack back | Marijuana and crack |
Crack bash | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
Crazy weed | Marijuana |
Cripple | Marijuana cigarette |
Crying weed | Marijuana |
Cryppie | Marijuana |
Cryptonie | Marijuana |
Cubes | Marijuana tablets; crack cocaine |
Culican | High potency marijuana from Mexico |
Dagga | Marijuana from South Africa |
Dank | Marijuana; the practice of lacing cigarettes with formaldehyde |
Dawamesk | Marijuana |
Dew | Marijuana |
Diablito (Spanish) | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana in a joint |
Diambista | Marijuana |
Dimba | Marijuana from West Africa |
Ding | Marijuana |
Dinkie dow | Marijuana |
Dipped joints | Marijuana combined with PCP and formaldehyde |
Dips | Marijuana joints dipped in PCP (phencyclidine) |
Dirt grass | Inferior quality marijuana |
Dirties | Marijuana cigarettes with powder cocaine added to them |
Dirty joints | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
Ditch | Marijuana |
Ditch weed | Inferior quality marijuana |
Djamba | Marijuana |
Do a joint | Marijuana |
Dody | Marijuana |
Domestic | Locally grown marijuana |
Don jem | Marijuana |
Don Juan | Marijuana |
Dona Juana (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Dona Juanita (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Donk | Marijuana/PCP combination |
Doob | Marijuana |
Doobee | Marijuana |
Doobie/dubbe/duby | Marijuana |
Dope | Marijuana; heroin; any other drug |
Dope smoke | To smoke marijuana |
Doradilla | Marijuana |
Draf | Marijuana; ecstasy, with cocaine |
Draf weed | Marijuana |
Drag weed | Marijuana |
Dry high | Marijuana |
Dube | Marijuana |
Duby | Marijuana |
Durong | Marijuana |
Duros (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Dust | Marijuana mixed with various chemicals; cocaine; heroin; PCP |
Dust blunt | Marijuana/PCP combination |
Dusting | Adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana; Using inhalants |
Earth | Marijuana cigarette |
El diablito (Spanish) | Cocaine, marijuana, heroin and PCP |
El diablo (Spanish) | Cocaine, marijuana and heroin |
El Gallo (“rooster”) | Marijuana |
Elephant | Marijuana; PCP |
Endo | Marijuana |
Esra | Marijuana |
Fallbrook redhair | Marijuana, term from Fallbrook, CA |
Fatty | Marijuana cigarette |
Feed bag | Container for marijuana |
Feeling | Marijuana |
Fiend | Someone who smokes marijuana alone |
Fine stuff | Marijuana |
Finger | Marijuana cigarette |
Finger lid | Marijuana |
Fir | Marijuana |
Fire it up | To smoke marijuana |
Firewood | Marijuana |
Flower | Marijuana |
Flower tops | Marijuana |
Fly Mexican airlines | To smoke marijuana |
Fraho/frajo | Marijuana |
Frios (Spanish) | Marijuana laced with PCP |
Fry | Marijuana cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid, sometimes also laced with PCP; Crack Cocaine |
Fry daddy | Crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with crack; marijuana joint laced with crack |
Fry sticks | Marijuana cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid, sometimes also laced with PCP |
Fu | Marijuana |
Fuel | Marijuana mixed with insecticides; PCP |
Fuma D’Angola (Portugese) | Marijuana |
Gage/gauge | Marijuana |
Gange | Marijuana |
Gangster | Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine |
Ganja | Marijuana; term from Jamaica |
Ganoobies | State of being stoned and laughing uncontrollably |
Garbage | Inferior quality marijuana; low quality heroin |
Gash | Marijuana |
Gasper | Marijuana cigarette |
Gasper stick | Marijuana cigarette |
Gauge butt | Marijuana |
Geek | Crack mixed with marijuana |
Geek-joints | Cigarettes or cigars filled with tobacco and crack; a marijuana cigarette laced with crack or powdered cocaine |
Get a gage up | To smoke marijuana |
Get high | To smoke marijuana |
Get the wind | To smoke marijuana |
Ghana | Marijuana |
Giggle smoke | Marijuana |
Giggle weed | Marijuana |
Gimmie | Crack and marijuana; marijuana joint laced with crack |
Go loco | To smoke marijuana |
Goblet of jam | Marijuana |
Gold | Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin |
Gold star | Marijuana |
Golden | Marijuana |
Golden leaf | Very high quality marijuana |
Gong | Marijuana; opium |
Gonj | Marijuana |
Good butt | Marijuana cigarette |
Good giggles | Marijuana |
Good stuff | High potency drug, especially marijuana |
Goody-goody | Marijuana |
Goof butt | Marijuana cigarette |
Gorge | Marijuana |
Grass | Marijuana |
Grass brownies | Marijuana |
Grasshopper | Marijuana |
Grata | Marijuana |
Greek | Combination of marijuana and powder cocaine |
Green | Inferior quality marijuana; ketamine; PCP |
Green buds | Marijuana |
Green goddess | Marijuana |
Greens | Marijuana |
Greeter | Marijuana |
Gremmies | Combination of cocaine and marijuana |
Greta | Marijuana |
Griefo | Marijuana |
Griefs | Marijuana |
Grifa (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Griff | Marijuana |
Griffa | Marijuana |
Griffo | Marijuana |
Grow(s) | Marijuana growing operations (indoor and outdoor) |
Gunga | Marijuana |
Gungeon | Marijuana |
Gungun | Marijuana |
Gunja | Marijuana |
Gyve | Marijuana cigarette |
Haircut | Marijuana |
Hanhich | Marijuana |
Happy cigarette | Marijuana cigarette |
Happy stick | Marijuana and PCP combination |
Harsh | Marijuana |
Has | Marijuana |
Hawaiian | Very high potency marijuana |
Hawaiian Black | Marijuana |
Hawaiian homegrown hay | Marijuana |
Hay | Marijuana |
Hay butt | Marijuana cigarette |
Herb | Marijuana |
Herb and Al | Marijuana and alcohol |
Herba | Marijuana |
Hit | To smoke marijuana; marijuana cigarette; Crack Cocaine |
Hit the hay | To smoke marijuana |
Hocus | Marijuana; opium |
Homegrown | Marijuana |
Honey blunts | Marijuana cigars sealed with honey |
Hooch | Marijuana |
Hooter | Cocaine; marijuana |
Hot stick | Marijuana cigarette |
Hydro | Amphetamine; high quality methamphetamine; marijuana; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); marijuana grown in water (hydroponic) |
Hydrogrows | Indoor marijuana growing operations |
Illies | Marijuana dipped in PCP |
Illing | Marijuana dipped in PCP |
Illy | Marijuana cigarettes soaked in embalming fluid and dried |
Indian boy | Marijuana |
Indian hay | Marijuana from India |
Indian hemp | Marijuana |
Indica | Species of cannabis, found in hot climate, grows 3.5 to 4 feet |
Indo | Marijuana term from Northern CA |
Indonesian bud | Marijuana; opium |
Instaga | Marijuana |
Instagu | Marijuana |
J | Marijuana cigarette |
Jamaican gold | Marijuana |
Jamaican red hair | Marijuana |
Jane | Marijuana |
Jay | Marijuana cigarette |
Jay smoke | Marijuana |
Jefferson airplane | Used match cut in half to hold a partially smoked marijuana cigarette |
Jim Jones | Marijuana laced with cocaine and PCP |
Jive | Marijuana; heroin; drugs |
Jive stick | Marijuana |
Joint | Marijuana cigarette |
Jolly green | Marijuana |
Joy smoke | Marijuana |
Joy stick | Marijuana cigarette; marijuana and PCP combination |
Ju-ju | Marijuana cigarette |
Juan Valdez (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Juanita (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Juice joint | Marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack |
Juja | Marijuana |
Jumbos | Large vials of crack sold on the streets; marijuana mixed with crack |
Kabak | Marijuana; Turkish marijuana |
Kaff | Very potent marijuana from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern countries |
Kalakit | Marijuana |
Kali | Marijuana |
Kansas Grass | Marijuana |
Kate bush | Marijuana |
Kawaii electric | Marijuana |
Kaya | Marijuana |
KB | Marijuana |
Kee | Marijuana |
Kentucky blue | Marijuana |
Key | Marijuana |
KGB (killer green bud) | Marijuana |
Khayf | Very potent marijuana from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern countries |
Ki | Marijuana |
Kick stick | Marijuana cigarette |
Kief | Very potent marijuana from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern countries |
Kiff | Marijuana cigarette; very potent marijuana from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern countries |
Killer | Marijuana; PCP |
Killer green bud | Marijuana |
Killer weed | Marijuana |
Killer weed (1980’s) | Marijuana and PCP |
Kilter | Marijuana |
Kind | Marijuana |
Kind bud | High quality marijuana |
King bud | Marijuana |
Kona gold | Marijuana |
Krippy | Marijuana |
Kryptonite | Crack cocaine; marijuana |
Kumba | Marijuana |
Kush | Marijuana |
L.L. | Marijuana |
Lace | Cocaine and marijuana |
Lakbay diva | Marijuana |
Laughing grass | Marijuana |
Laughing weed | Marijuana |
Leaf | Cocaine; Marijuana |
Leak | Marijuana/PCP combination |
Leno (Spanish) | Marijuana |
LG (Lime Green) | Marijuana |
Lid | 1 ounce of marijuana |
Light stuff | Marijuana |
Lima | Marijuana |
Liprimo | Marijuana and crack rolled in a joint |
Little smoke | Marijuana; LSD; psilocybin/psilocin |
Llesca | Marijuana |
Loaf | Marijuana |
Lobo | Marijuana |
Loco (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Loco Weed (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Locoweed | Marijuana |
Log | Marijuana cigarette; PCP |
Loose shank | Marijuana |
Love boat | Marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP; blunts mixed with marijuana and heroin; blunts mixed with marijuana and PCP |
Love leaf | Marijuana/PCP combination |
Love weed | Marijuana |
Loveboat | PCP; combination of PCP and marijuana |
Lovelies | Marijuana laced with PCP |
Lubage | Marijuana |
M | Marijuana; morphine |
M.J. | Marijuana |
M.O. | Marijuana |
M.U. | Marijuana |
Macaroni | Marijuana |
Macaroni and Cheese | $5 pack of marijuana and a dime bag of cocaine |
Machinery | Marijuana |
Macon | Marijuana |
Maconha | Marijuana |
Mafu (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Magic smoke | Marijuana |
Manhattan silver | Marijuana |
Mari | Marijuana cigarette |
Marimba (Spanish) | Marijuana |
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 |
Maui-wowie | Marijuana; methamphetamine |
Meg | Marijuana |
Megg | Marijuana cigarette |
Meggie | Marijuana |
Messorole | Marijuana |
Mexican brown | Marijuana; heroin |
Mexican green | Marijuana |
Mexican locoweed | Marijuana |
Mexican red | Marijuana |
Mighty mezz | Marijuana cigarette |
Mo | Marijuana; powder cocaine |
Modams | Marijuana |
Mohasky | Marijuana |
Mohasty | 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 (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Mother | Marijuana |
Mow the grass | To smoke marijuana |
Mu | Marijuana |
Muggie | Marijuana |
Muggle | Marijuana |
Muggles | Marijuana |
Muta | Marijuana |
Mutha | Marijuana |
Nail | Marijuana cigarette |
Nigra | Marijuana |
Northern lights | Marijuana from Canada |
Number | Marijuana cigarette |
O.J. | Marijuana |
Oolies | Marijuana cigarettes laced with crack |
Ozone | Marijuana, PCP and crack cigarette; marijuana cigarette; PCP |
P-dogs | Combination of cocaine and marijuana |
P.R. | Panama Red |
Pack | Marijuana; heroin |
Pack a bowl | Marijuana |
Pack of rocks | Marijuana cigarette |
Pakaloco | Marijuana (“crazy tobacco”) |
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 combined with PCP |
Pasto (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Pat | Marijuana |
Philly blunts | Marijuana |
Pin | Marijuana |
Pipe | Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances |
Pocket rocket | Marijuana; marijuana cigarette |
Pod | Marijuana |
Poke | Marijuana; to smoke marijuana |
Pot | Marijuana |
Potlikker | Marijuana |
Potten bush | Marijuana |
Premos | Marijuana joints laced with crack cocaine |
Prescription | Marijuana cigarette |
Pretendica | Marijuana |
Pretendo | Marijuana |
Primo | Crack; marijuana mixed with cocaine; crack and heroin; heroin, cocaine and tobacco |
Primo square | A marijuana joint laced with crack |
Primo turbo | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
Puff the dragon | To smoke marijuana |
Purple haze | LSD; crack cocaine; 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 bud | Marijuana |
Red cross | Marijuana |
Red dirt | Marijuana |
Reefer | Marijuana |
Reefers | Marijuana cigarette |
Righteous bush | Marijuana |
Rip | Marijuana |
Roach | Butt of marijuana cigarette |
Roach clip | Holds partially smoked marijuana cigarette |
Roacha | Marijuana |
Roasting | Smoking marijuana |
Rockets | Marijuana cigarette |
Rompums | Marijuana with horse tranquilizers |
Root | Marijuana |
Rope | Marijuana; rohypnol |
Rose marie | Marijuana |
Rough stuff | Marijuana |
Rubia (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Ruderalis | Species of cannabis, found in Russia, grows 1 to 2.5 feet |
Rugs | Marijuana |
Salad | Marijuana |
Salt and pepper | Marijuana |
Sandwich bag | $40 bag of marijuana |
Santa Marta (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Sasfras | Marijuana |
Sativa | Species of cannabis, found in cool, damp climate, grows up to 18 feet |
Schwagg | Marijuana |
Scissors | Marijuana |
Scrub | Marijuana |
Seeds | Marijuana |
Sen | Marijuana |
Sess | Marijuana |
Sezz | Marijuana |
Shake | Marijuana; powder cocaine |
Sherman stick | Crack cocaine combined with marijuana in a blunt |
Shotgun | Inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one’s mouth by another’s exhaling |
Siddi | Marijuana |
Sinse (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Sinsemilla | Potent variety marijuana |
Skunk | Marijuana; heroin |
Skunkweed | Marijuana |
Smoke | Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin and crack |
Smoke a bowl | Marijuana |
Smoke Canada | Marijuana |
Snop | Marijuana |
Spark it up | To smoke marijuana |
Speedboat | Marijuana, PCP, and crack combined and smoked |
Spliff | Large marijuana cigarette |
Splim | Marijuana |
Splitting | Rolling marijuana and cocaine into a single joint |
Square mackerel | Marijuana, term from Florida |
Squirrel | Combination of PCP and marijuana, sprinkled with cocaine and smoked; marijuana, PCP, and crack combined and smoked; LSD |
Stack | Marijuana |
Stems | Marijuana |
Stick | Marijuana; PCP |
Sticky icky | Marijuana |
Stink weed | Marijuana |
Stoney weed | Marijuana |
Straw | Marijuana cigarette |
Sugar weed | Marijuana |
Super grass | PCP; marijuana with PCP; marijuana |
Super pot | Marijuana |
Swag | Marijuana |
Sweet Lucy | Marijuana |
Swishers | Cigars in which tobacco is replaced with marijuana |
Syrup | Combination of marijuana and cough syrup |
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 |
Thirty-eight | Crack sprinkled on marijuana |
Thumb | Marijuana |
Tin | Container for marijuana |
Tio | Cocaine-laced marijuana cigarette |
Toke | To inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; marijuana |
Toke up | To smoke marijuana |
Torch | Marijuana |
Torch up | To smoke marijuana |
Torpedo | Marijuana and crack |
Trauma | Marijuana |
Tray | $3 bag of marijuana |
Trees | Marijuana |
Triple A | Marijuana from British Columbia |
Trupence bag | Marijuana |
Turbo | Marijuana and crack |
Tustin | Marijuana |
Twist | Marijuana cigarette |
Twistum | Marijuana cigarette |
Unotque | Marijuana |
Up against the stem | Addicted to smoking marijuana |
Vega | A cigar wrapping refilled with marijuana |
Viper | Marijuana smoker |
Viper’s weed | Marijuana |
Wac | PCP on marijuana |
Wacky weed | Marijuana |
Wake and Bake | Marijuana |
Water | Blunts; methamphetamine; PCP; a mixture of marijuana and other substances within a cigar; Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
Water-water | Marijuana cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid, sometimes also laced with PCP |
Weed | Marijuana; PCP |
Weed tea | Marijuana |
Wet | Blunts mixed with marijuana and PCP; methamphetamine; marijuana cigarettes soaked in PCP (“embalming fluid”) and dried |
Wet daddies | Marijuana joints that are dipped in formaldehyde, often mixed with PCP |
Wet sticks | Marijuana combined with PCP and formaldehyde |
Whack | Crack Cocaine; heroin and PCP; Crack/PCP mixture or marijuana laced with insecticides |
Whackatabacky | Marijuana |
Wheat | Marijuana |
White Russian | Marijuana |
White-haired lady | Marijuana |
Wicky | Combination of powder cocaine, PCP and marijuana |
Wicky stick | PCP, marijuana, and crack |
Wollie | Rocks of crack rolled into a marijuana cigarette or in a cigar |
Woo blunts | Marijuana; marijuana combined with cocaine |
Woola blunt | Marijuana and heroin combination |
Woolah | Hollowed out cigar refilled with marijuana and crack |
Woolas | Cigarettes laced with cocaine; crack sprinkled on marijuana cigarette |
Woolie | Marijuana and heroin combination; marijuana and crack cocaine combination |
Woolie blunt | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
Woolies | Marijuana and crack or PCP |
Wooly blunts | Marijuana and crack or PCP |
Wooties | Crack smoked in marijuana joints |
X | Marijuana; amphetamine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
Yeh | Marijuana |
Yellow submarine | Marijuana |
Yen pop | Marijuana |
Yeola | Marijuana and crack |
Yerba (Spanish) | Marijuana |
Yerba mala (Spanish) | PCP and marijuana |
Yerhia | Marijuana |
Yesca | Marijuana |
Yesco | Marijuana |
Zacatecas purple | Marijuana from Mexico |
Zambi | Marijuana |
Zay | A mixture of marijuana and other substances within a cigar; blunts |
Zig Zag man | Marijuana; LSD; marijuana rolling papers |
Zol | Marijuana cigarette |
Zooie | Holds butt of marijuana cigarette |
Zoom | Marijuana laced with PCP; PCP |
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