Stoners have different names for cannabis. There are even more slang terms that describe the drunkenness caused by cannabis consumption.
The illicit status of cannabis has significantly contributed to its many names.
Consumers designed most of the names for cannabis to obscure the fact that they are discussing cannabis.
“The illegality has generated the inescapable demand for the nomenclature,” one researcher stated. As society and authorities become more aware of one type of cannabis, a new term emerges.
Cannabis is the most often used substance. As a result, it has names from all around the world. It is not only safe for consumers, especially in states where marijuana is outlawed and rejected, but it is also entertaining.
Below is a list of some of the many names and synonyms for weed. The various characters’ inspirations are what bind them together.
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Names of cannabis because of its effects on consumers:
1.Airplane
The airplane name of cannabis is because it provides users with the ‘high’ feeling that many desire. It’s also known as a rocket or a parachute.
2. Amnesia
Weed has a reputation for making people forgetful.
3. Climb
Similar to the airplane nickname, weed gives an elevated or climbing feeling.
4. Doobie
A doobie is a dull or stupid person. Weed is known to enhance dullness and unproductivity among users. It is also known to have users staring blankly into space hence this name.
5. Good giggles
Weed has a reputation for making people laugh excessively at ridiculous things.
6. Houdini
Many people consume marijuana to escape reality.
7. Reefer
Reefer is from a Spanish word, ‘Grifo,’ which means tangled or messed. Therefore, it describes someone under the influence of cannabis which is in a twisted and messed mental state.
8. Spliff
A spliff is a combination of tobacco and cannabis. The name for cannabis is a combination of stifle and suffocate.
Tobacco is known to have choking heavy smoke. The word, therefore, describes the act of confusing or confounding someone.
Names for cannabis because of how people feel about it:
1.Ace
As the ace of cards, the cannabis name portrays superiority and, therefore, the dominance of cannabis and its effects.
2. Baby
Baby shows its vulnerability and attention the plant needs to be grown. It is also because of the affection users feel towards the drug.
3. Green goddess
Green goddess is a combination of two qualities. The green is for the color, while the goddess is for the experience and feeling weed gives.
Names for cannabis because of its green pigment:
1.Alfalfa
Alfalfa is also slang for beard, money, and tobacco
2. Asparagus
Asparagus is slang for green plants like broccoli, parsley, sassafras, and turnip greens.
3. Bud
These are the consumable parts of cannabis that are smoked or vaped.
4. Christmas tree
Cannabis plants, especially sativas, are long, slender, and shaped like Christmas trees. It can also be called fir or lumber.
5. Grass
Cannabis is also called bush or weed. Grass is because it was initially a wild plant.
6. Green
Green is mainly because of its color, the same reason it is slang for money. Similar slang terms are green stuff, greenery, and green tea.
7. Herb
Rastafarians who consume marijuana on a religious basis are the ones who refer to cannabis as Herb. It emphasizes that it is natural and provided by nature like other herbs. For similar reasons, marijuana is also called mother, noble weed, or righteous bush.
Names for cannabis because of language
1.Aunt Mary
Aunt Mary is a pun on marijuana, like Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Mary Weaver, and Mary or Johnny
2. Dakine
Dakine is a Hawaiian term that refers to anything one forgets the exact name.
4. Dona Juanita
Spanish for lady jane, another pun on marijuana.
5. Ganja
Ganja is the Hindi word for the plant.
6. Marijuana
Marijuana is the most used name for cannabis. It originated in Spain. Many consumers and farmers are trying to avoid using this term because it is associated with the plant’s illegality.
Instead, they are adopting the word cannabis. Talk about the desire to appear intelligent.
7. Muggle
Muggle is from the famous Harry Potter series. This slang term dates back to the 1920s and refers to marijuana smokers.
8. Pot
Pot is from the Spanish word potiguaya, which refers to cannabis leaves.
9. Rainy day woman
Rainy day woman comes from the Bob Dylan song with the line “Everybody must get high.”
10. Thirteen
The first letter of marijuana, M, is the 13th in the alphabet
Names for marijuana because of the way a joint is shaped:
1.Alligator cigarette
Alligator cigarette is related to the relaxing effects of the plant that make one slow, like an alligator on land.
2. Bag of bones
Bag of bones refers to multiple marijuana cigarettes or joints.
3. Blunt
A blunt is a joint rolled with cigar wrappers.
4. Stogie
Stogie refers to an oversized marijuana joint. That term comes from an abbreviation of a large, heavy horse breed, Conestoga. People who used to ride these horses were associated with smoking cannabis vastly.
Names for cannabis because of quality
1.Cabbage
Cabbage refers to poor quality weed or one that resembles the vegetable
2. Catnip
Catnip refers to inferior or fake marijuana.
3. Chronic
Chronic refers to cannabis with severe or extreme effects.
4. Dank
Dank describes the unpleasant and swamp-dwelling things and plants. However, in the cannabis world, dank describes the sound or best quality marijuana.
5. Nixon
Nixon refers to poor-quality weed sold expensively and far above its worth.