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Gotta stick with the classics.
Jazz cabbage or the Devil’s lettuce
Devil's lettuce, Mary Jane and "marahuana" (in the Hank Hill voice) are probably my favorites that immediately come to mind
sticky icky in hank hill voice is pretty fun
I try to avoid terms that demonize or leads to alluding to war on drugs.
So the only correct term, is cannabis.
I don’t call my kids or my adhd meds meth, speed, amphetamines, etc. so I refuse to acknowledge the same for this medicine.
I respect that. What about "traditional" names like ganja?
Wacky tobacky
I absolutely abhor tobacco way too much to use that.
Also the first time I actually heard it used was that country song, so I hate it even more on top of that.
Although I do respect that outside that context it is kinda funny. But not my choice.
The Sticky Icky
jk that stuff ~~does not exist anymore~~ is rare now. Just this dessicated prepackaged nonsense.
When we were youths, I read the Beatles had a code phrase, something like let's have a laugh(?). Then, a friend and I were laughing a little too much when we saw Joe Walsh's record titled Got Any Gum? That became our code phrase.
that stuff does not exist anymore
Lies! You just need to grow it yourself or make friends with a grower. I live in a legal state and have two great dispensaries in my town, but I still frequent a few local growers more often since it's cheaper and better!
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage. It is true, I have visited old friends up in the Bay Area not too long ago, and the real stuff can still be acquired but it is no longer common or easy to acquire. The idea of local growers is really great. It should be a farmer's market commodity. That would be brilliant. But, no, some time back, legal dispensaries in California were forced to package everything. Prior to that, when they were initially launched, they'd weigh out the fresh stuff in front of you and put it in a container that didn't make you want to wring their necks. The packaging alone is an atrocity against the environment.
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage.
Has brought "this garbage" as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?
Because if it's the former, I'd like to know why you think that is, and if you think that cartel violence would've been smaller if instead of slowly decriminalising and having problems with clashing with federal law, it could've been made 100% legal (but regulated) instantly back some years ago?
Because sometimes I tend to think that cartels won't want to give away their markets and since they may also wield indirect political influence, some decriminalisation will help them and some will hurt them.
And I think if it was legal properly and easily as other products the cartel couldn't compete just by being violent because of the amount of people participating in supply. They'd actually have to make good weed. And if they're just growing weed instead of gunning people down they're not really a problem anymore.
And since they could actually use the courts then, and it's smarter for business than straight up wars/gun violence.. They'd become just like another corporation in any other market.
I'm in backwards Finland. Been growing for some decades. Supply has increased and Finland doesn't need to import weed from anywhere so we don't have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees. But since Germany legalised, we're prolly gonna follow in like 15 years time.
Has brought “this garbage” as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?
Caused more of the dehydrated stuff. It's not even garbage before it's processed, of course. The cartel factor is something I'm imagining is a whole other problem as I'm not fully informed on that but some of it was in response to commercialization being something they could exploit. My mom lives out in a rural area and she told me a lot of her conservative neighbors jumped on the bandwagon, put up greenhouses on their farms without permits. Enough time has passed where most of them even got busted and the more cartel-connected greenhouses (at least near her) were all raided and slashed to the ground, are now abandoned ecological disasters.
I agree with you the rollout and the naivete of legislation contributed to the opportunities for organized crime to rush in and fill the void.
Supply has increased and Finland doesn’t need to import weed from anywhere so we don’t have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees.
Yeah, we have never needed to import so supply and demand isn't the only driver. The fact that we are Alta California, connected to Baja California explains the sort of Breaking Bad networks that can flow up and down. I no longer live in the Bay Area so I don't hear too much about this but I knew people who described a whole other world, say North of San Francisco. I'm ashamed to say I grew up exploring California but, like most folks, true Northern California is an enigma to most of us. I believe the people I know who have firsthand descriptions of it. We've been friends for a long time and they had friends who were running their own illegal ops going way back to before our clumsy legalization.
Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.
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Reefer
At some point my lines got crossed between "Beefarino", a fictional food stuff that was fed to a horse in an episode of Seinfeld which led to handsome cab ending levels of equine flatulence, and "reefer". Out loud I think I say "weed" most often, but in my internal monologue I call it "reeferino" well over half the time.
I used to call it kale for a while
That's an insult to weed man.
Weed, herb, or pot. In order of frequency.
Occasionally the more fun names like devils lettuce and wacky tobacky haha
In french, the most common name is probably "beu" which is a contraction of "beuher" which is verlan (a type of slang where you reverse the word) for "herbe".
This was distorted in a movie to "beuze" , which was then given the verlan treatment again (this happens often) to "zeb", hence my personal favorite "zebuline". Mind you, that's not a common name that's a personal one I use often.
We had Mama Cahuna for a while when I was little, has a fun ring to it imo.
Favorite word is a better question but in common speech I'll generally just say weed.
Not sure of its origin, but it's been called Bubatz in Germany for a couple years now, so I sometimes, mostly jokingly, say Bubatz. My SO and I usually say Bubert because couples speak or Weedle like the Pokemon because 'weed'
Ganj
Herb or flower
Gigglebush
Flower
Pingu or "take a kayak."
I mostly use cannabis, especially if I'm taking about cbd, cbn, cbg. Often weed if i mean thc.
when my wife or I asked each other if we want to go out for a smoke, we call it a "poof"
I dated somebody whose family used that as a synonym for farting. So thank you for taking it outside!
Mary Juana
Kush is my most frequent, but jazz cabbage is probably my favorite
I like dope because of the ambiguity.
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Jive Parsley & Cabbage
Electric lettuce
Scott Green
Dank.
CBD.
Living in a prohibition state it helps make it sound legal.
I call it grass, sometimes dope, lol! Showing my age, too 🙃!
Boof
Probably jazz cabbage or the Devil's lettuce.
My brother and I use several terms interchangeably. Usually just weed, but medicine and flower, and sometimes herb get used a bit when we feel like changing it up.
Pretty boring selection most of the time.
Oh, almost forgot "stuff". Yeah we're kind of boring lol.
Weed or cabbage.
I usually call it "pot," but then multiple people said I sound like an old person, so now I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I guess I'll start calling it "dope."
Yeah “pot” is the best term
— an old person
Dank
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