# List of slang names for cannabis

More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use. 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.
* 2 long
* 420
* Ace
* Airplane
* Alfalfa
* Alligator cigarette
* Amnesia
* Asparagus
* Astro turf
* Aunt Mary
* Baby
* Bag of bones
* Bhang
* Blunt
* Bobo
* Boof
* Broccoli
* Bud
* Cabbage
* Cali-weed
* Cannon
* Catnip
* Christmas tree
* Chronic
* Climb
* Collie
* Dagga
* Da kine
* Dak
* Dank
* Devil's lettuce
* Doña Juanita ("Lady Jane" in Spanish)
* Doobie
* Endo
* Exotic
* Fatty
* Fir
* Fire
* Flower
* Ganja
* Gas
* Good giggles
* Grass
* Green
* Green goddess
* Griffa
* Grifo
* Hashish
* Herb
* Holy weed
* Houdini
* Jazz cigarette
* Joint
* KGB ("killer green bud")
* Kush
* L pape
* Left-handed cigarette
* Loud
* Magic Grass
* Magic dragon
* Magical brownie
* Mary Jane
* Maui-wowie
* Mota
* Muggle
* Nixon
* Pakalolo (Hawaiian for "crazy tobacco")
* Pinner
* Pot
* Polen
* Puff
* Purple Haze
* Rainy day woman
* Reefer
* Roach
* Rudolf Red Eyes
* Sinsemilla
* Skunk
* Space cake
* Spliff
* Square grouper
* Stash
* Sticky icky
* Stogie
* Tea
* Thirteen
* Trees
* Wisdom weed
* Weed
* Zaza

### 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. Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:
* Alfombra
* All-Star
* Almohada
* Arizona ashes
* AZ
* Barbara Jean
* Bareta
* Bash
* Biggy
* Black Maria
* Blue Crush
* Blue jeans
* Chistosa
* Cotorritos
* Dizz
* Escoba
* Gallina
* Gato
* Green paint
* Grenuda
* Guardada
* Lechuga
* Lemon-Lime
* Liamba
* Lime Pillows
* Mafafa
* Manteca
* Maracachafa
* Mariquita
* My Brother
* Narizona
* O-Boy
* Palm
* Platinum Jack
* Popcorn
* Shoes
* Shmagma
* Shora
* Shrimp
* Smoochy Woochy Poochy
* Tigitty
* Tila
* Tims
* Tosca
* Tristan kush
* Tweeds
* Valle
* Wooz
* Young Girls
* Zacate

### Regional slang names
#### Francosphere

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

#### Hispanosphere

* 420
* Césped
* Doña juana
* Ganja
* Hierba
* Joint
* Marihuana (and derivatives: maría, mariana, mari juana, marinola, maripepa, etc.)
* Orégano
* Pasto
* Yerbasanta
* Zacate
* Ganja
* Grifa
* María
* Yerba
* Cucaracha
* Grifa
* Juanita
* Mafafa
* Mota
* Mostaza
* Shora

##### Elsewhere

* Kan-jac (Panama)

#### Nigeria

* Abana
* Blau
* Gbana
* Igbo
* Kaya
* Kpoli
* Kush
* Oja
* Wee-wee$^{:114}$

#### Sweden
##### Flower/fruit

* Grälle
* Gräs
* Gröning
* Grönt
* Marre
* Maja
* Ört

##### Hash

* Böj
* Braj
* Brass
* Brownie
* Brunt
* Knatch, knätch
* Svart
* Zattla
* Zütt

#### Indonesia
##### Leaf

* Daun singkong (Indonesian for "cassava leaf")

## Slang names for good-quality cannabis

* Chronic
* Dank
* Ganja
* Gas
* Hydro
* Koota
* Loud
* Nug
* Sinsemilla

## Slang names for poor-quality cannabis

* Brickweed
* Cabbage
* Ditch weed
* Nixon
* Schwag
* Shake
* Reggie

## Slang names for a cannabis cigarette

* 2 long
* Airplane
* Alligator cigarette
* Bifter, bifta
* Bomber
* Bone
* Camberwell carrot
* Cow
* Cripple
* Doink
* Doobie
* Fatty
* Jazz cigarette
* Joint
* L pape
* Left-handed cigarette
* Magic dragon
* Number
* Phatty
* Pinner
* Reefer
* Roach
* Spliff
* Stogie
* Tommy Chong
* Yontson
* Zol

## Slang names for a package or a specific amount of cannabis

* 40 Sack
* Dime bag
* Dollar
* Dub
* Eight ball
* Eighth
* Elbow
* Lid
* Nickel bag
* OZ
* Q
* QP
* Quarter
* Stash
* Bow
* Zip

## Slang names for consuming cannabis

* 420
* Burning bush
* Getting High
* Hot box
* Session
* Toke
* Vape

## Slang names for cannabis' effects

* Buzz
* Baked
* Cottonmouth
* Couch-lock
* Fried
* High
* Lit up
* Mashed
* Munchies
* Nature's holiday
* Roasted
* Stoned
* Toasted
* Wasted

## Slang names for a person who consumes cannabis

* Burnout
* Connoisseur
* Ent
* Gardener
* Hippie
* Pothead
* Stoner
* Tea head
* Viper
* Beekeeper