Dope Terminology

       ALICE B. TOKLAS 
                   The lesbian lover of Gertrude Stein and a good friend of Pablo Picasso, she had a
                   recipe for killer marijuana brownies.

            BALE 
                   A compressed brick of marijuana, usually ranging in weight from 10 to 40 pounds.

            BHANG 
                   An Indian and Middle Eastern smoking mixture consisting of pollen from marijuana
                   flowers and ghee, an oily butter. In medieval Arabia it also referred to a datura-based
                   knockout potion.

            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 compressed 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.

            GOLD 
                   Yellow pot from Acapulco in Mexico or Santa Marta Department in Colombia.

            GRASS 
                   Marijuana, weed, pot, etc.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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 thin 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.

            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.

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