Street names for weed in different countries

Fri, 11/Feb/22

Using different slang for weed from around the world is fun, undoubtedly. Even though marijuana street names have developed within stoners’ communities in different countries historically for hiding, yet another reason for weed slang is showing devotion to cannabis culture. It is the same explanation, for why so many words exist in languages for playing football or addressing loved ones.

Mary Jane is Marijuana personified

Here we have shared a top-notch selection of the best weed terms, including their street names, from different countries around the world. It’s cool to have one or two extra in the vocabulary.

Common street names for marijuana in English

At the beginning of the last century, the now-official “marijuana” term was a street name for weed too. What they smoked was called cannabis, but marijuana landed in English as a nickname. The other traditional slang terms for weed are reefer, weed, dope, pot, grass, dank, loud, etc.

Marijuana (international)

Marijuana is an obvious combination of two Hispanic feminine names: María and Juana. The urban legend states that the word “marijuana” was designated artificially to support the war on plants in the United States in the middle of the past century.

The Latin (Mexican) culture was badly accepted by the American society of the time, and the law enforcement wished to advantage on a Hispanic nickname for cannabis against the marijuana culture. This is how María and Juana got bundled together to represent “marijuana”, and is doing so ever since.
1 – María is a name of Mary, the Mother of God.

2 – Juana refers to Anne, the grandmother of God.

In 1800s marijuana used to be a slang word for hooker

Another version displays that the marijuana word landed in the United States much earlier, in the late 1800s, from Mexico, again, where the double name “Maria Juana” was used as a slang word for both — recreational marijuana and addressing a random courtesan.

Mary Jane

Mary Jane as a weed term in its turn is a conversion of Spanish feminine names Maria and Juana to English. Mary is the replacement for María, and Jane is the equivalent for Juana. That is how Mary Jane has appeared for naming marijuana, also to personify it.

Herb

Herb is a widely used term for any weed, present in Bob Marley’s vocabulary, who flavored herb as a word. In the modern world, “herb” specifies industrial marijuana, from that we have cloth, construction, etc. Herb still keeps its original meaning too, yet rarely used this way.

Joint and blunt

— Joint is a traditional slang name for a rolled-up marijuana cigarette, and a general word to name anything rolled to be smoked as a marijuana cigarette.

— Blunt is a big and fat hand-rolled marijuana cigar (not a cigarette). People may call a joint of enormous size jokingly a blunt.

Spliff

Spliff is a more European word for a joint, rather than American. A spliff is usually smaller than a joint. Spliff is used to name a leftover of an unfinished joint (aka butt) regardless of whether that leftover was a joint or a spliff before burning.

Reefer

Reefer is slang for a joint or a blunt, already a history. You may be 99% sure the speaking person either is old or communicates a lot to the elder generation of stoners.

What do we call “filters” of hand-rolled joints?

A tip of a hand-rolled joint, which we hold in our fingers when smoking, is called a “roach” or a “crutch”. Both words, roach, and crutch, are used in equal measure, we hardly can determine which of the two is more popular in English, both are.

Slang for high-quality cannabis in English

Frosty nug vs sticky bud

Nug and bud both stand for marijuana flowers, usually of supreme quality. However, bud is also a lovely name for any marijuana flower, while nug is for an exceptional flower, when you suddenly feel “bud” is an understatement. Bud is like “a bud”, and nug is like “the nug”. Interchangeable in most cases.

Gas vs dank

Gas is a slang word for weed, it alludes to the famous Diesel smell of the Diesel marijuana strain of high-end quality. Gas word for weed is already not limited to the Diesel strains but fits for any exceptional weed. Yet another weed word in slang to specify the quality of weed is Dank, which may also work as an adjective.

Loud

Loud is a relatively new word in weed slang, and it stands for high quality too. It is loud in terms of smell than stinky nugs produce, and it suppresses all other smells.

What is dab?

Dab is a small piece of hashish, marijuana resin, or concentrate to puff at once. For this, we use a bong, a pipe, or a dub rig. If no “special equipment” you have to take a dab, you can also put a dab into a hand-rolled tobacco cigarette (if you are a smoker). Anyhow, dab stands for a piece of concentrate of a size to take one hit.

Marijuana street names in different countries

How to say marijuana in Spanish slang?

Slang words for marijuana are not totally equal in different Hispanic countries, however, there is a universal weed word everyone understands, it is “porro”.

Pórro

In all Spanish-speaking countries, in Spain and in Latin America, the universal slang word for weed is “pórro”. The same word refers to a single joint, to a single bud, and may mean a handful of weed, depending on the context. Any weed is porro, but a joint is a porro too.

Porro derives from the Latin word “pórrum”, which stands for leek. Porro has landed in Spanish as ajo porro, where ajo is garlic, and ajo porro together is leek. Count it as a hint, if you need an excuse, once you look for porro in a fruit market, ha-ha.

Cogóllo / cógo

For the flowers of higher quality they use the “cogollo” slang word. They pronounce it [cogósho] in Latin America, and [cogóyo] in Spain, Cuba and Mexico. The word cogollo, used for marijuana of high quality, literally means “bud”, the plural is cogollos.

Flores

Flores, just like cogollos, is a normal word, and it means literally “flowers”, any flowers in regular language, and marijuana flowers in slang. Both flores and cogollos may describe buds of excellent or fair quality. A single flower is flor, plural — flores.

Mota

In Spain and Mexico, the most popular slang word for marijuana is “mota”.

Faso

Faso is a slang word for weed used in Uruguay and Argentina, interchangeable with porro. Faso is less known compared to all-purpose porro. Stoners know what faso is, but folks who don’t smoke know porro but know faso more rarely.

Slang words for weed in Brazil

Maconha

in Brazil the main slang word for marijuana — is maconha. Keep “h” silent like in Spanish, not pronounced at all but it modifies ‘n’ into a soft ‘ñ’. It will be macóña if we write in Spanish.

Fino

A joint in the streets of Brazil is called fino, the same word describes “thin”.

How to say marijuana in Africa

Chamba

In Malawi and their neighboring countries Zambia and Tanzania they call marijuana — chamba, which is a marijuana strain growing in the north of the country: a highly psychoactive pure Sativa with the aroma of sweet fruits, also spicy. In Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia the word chamba is also used to refer to any marijuana of fair quality.

Marketed in the US as “Malawi Chamba”, top-notch chamba and chamba seeds may be found in dispensaries and seed banks, it is the real African strain.

Dagga vs zolo

In South Africa, Botswana, and where else the Afrikaans language (the mix of African languages and Dutch) is spoken, a common slang name for any weed is dagga. Another weed word is zolo, totally interchangable.

What they call marijuana in India?

Ganja

In India, they use “ganja” to refer to marijuana. Hardly accounted as a slang word as it is the most original name for marijuana. In India ganja is often legal or decriminalized for religious use, depending on the state.

In the city of Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities, and one of the most sacred places of the Hindu world, aged 2500 years, weed is used freely to exercise religion.

Bhang

The slang word “bhang” applies to hashish. Also, bhang is marijuana-infused milk cooked with spices, where hashish is a dominant ingredient of the recipe. Such highly psychoactive edibles, infused with bhang, are available in private shops of Varanasi over the counter for religious purposes.

Slang names for weed in Sri Lanka

Ganja

People of Sri Lanka, of course, know the word “ganja”, which is not a slang name for them but just how it is called, the original name of weed.

Kandi

In the middle of Sri Lanka island, there is a county, called Kandi, in the mountains. In their land grows strong potent marijuana, and they call this strain by the county’s name — kandi. Often happens, in such cases, kandi nowadays is used as a general name for high-quality marijuana.

What the call marijuana in Russia

Plan

Plan is the word for weed in slang in Russia. In regular language “plan” is the same noun with the same meaning as “a plan” in English, and this is the most common and recognized weed slang for marijuana. Plan is a universal neutral term with minimal negative aspects possible.

Kosak and dudka

Kosak and Dudka are absolutely equal, both mean a single hand-made joint. Pronounce kosak as [kosiák] with soft ‘s’. Like you read /cognac/, read the same way /cogsac/ (hope the hint helps).

Russians rarely roll joints using regular papers. However, the most traditional way is to use “Belomor”, cheap old-school cigarettes made of the same finest materials during the latest 70+ years. You make one belomor empty of tobacco, and reload it with marijuana, as if you are in the Treasure Island book, and you load an old-fashioned cannon with powder. Totally not a classic rolling, though.

Anashá

A little bit old-fashioned slang word for marijuana — is anashá, it comes from somewhere around Kazakhstan, the word might be Persian origin, means “the queen”. It sounds mild and charming.

Bóshki

Bóshki is a noun in Russian weed slang for buds of a better quality. Bóshki is always plural.

Slang name for weed in Germany

Hanf

In Germany, the slang word for weed is “hanf”, literally hemp.

Slang names for weed in France

L’herbe

French slang word for weed is l’herbe, literally “herb” (‘h’ is silent).

Le beuh

French use le beuh to refer to marijuana of any quality, i.e. marijuana in general. The word “le beuh” literally translates to “weed”.

Kif

Kif is originally a Moroccan slang word for hashish. Subsequently, France uses kif to refer to hashish too, due to the proximity to Morocco with their famous hashish traditions.

What do they call hashish in Morocco?

Morocco takes a very special place in the cannabis stage. Moroccan hashish is the world’s well-recognized product of distinct quality. Morocco is among the top largest producers of marijuana in the world, UN reports. The slang term for hashish in Morocco is “kif” which has a wider cultural spread far beyond the boundaries of Morocco.

That’s weed.

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Marijuana famous people

Fri, 30/Jul/21

This is the Hall of fame of famous people of the marijuana culture, and marijuana industry, also history. The list is ordered randomly, positions mean nothing. We are keeping this list updated, yet slowly.

Raphael Mechoulam

Dr Raphael Mechoulam is an Israeli scientist, who discovered, explained, isolated, and fully synthesized THC. Delta-9 tetra hydro cannabiniol, also known as the THC, is the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, one that makes us high.

Haile Selassie I

His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I was the emperor and the last king of Ethiopia, and a central figure of Rastafari religion. The Rastafari followers faithfully regard Haile Selassie I as a divine person, and a direct descendant of the biblical King Solomon and Queen of Sheba.

Rameses II

Rameses II was a pharaoh of Egypt about 3300 years ago. Scientists recently proved mummies of pharaohs and their high priests were positive on tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine. It makes pharaohs the first rulers in history, officially documented, who have ideologically advocated weed.

Robert Nesta Marley

Bob Marley (full name Robert Nesta Marley) is a marijuana advocate, Rastafari follower, cultural leader for many people, and famous Jamaican reggae musician.
Marley — « I would say to the people, Be still, and know that His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the Almighty. Now, the Bible seh so, Babylon newspaper seh so, and I and the children seh so. Yunno? So I don’t see how much more reveal our people want. Wha’ dem want? A white God, well God come black. True true.
»

Jim Belushi

Jim Belushi, American actor. After watching his “Real Men” movie I started thinking he was a stoner. Check out the Belushi’s Farm.

Jim Ross

Jim Ross / by ZeWeed.com

Jim Ross kept alive a unique marijuana strain by cloning it for 20 years, away from eyes. He alone saved the Matanuska Thunderfuck (MTF) genetics for the world. MTF is also marketed as Alaskan Thunderfuck.

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To marijuana marketers: “It’s not the Wild West over there”, FTC says

Tue, 29/Dec/20

Ole Ole outs in free! The FTC, the federal trade commission, just spread around the weed community a friendly message about unscientific claims in marijuana marketing materials, which are allowed no more. I find it way significant, I suggest, for the marijuana blogs, in order to keep things reasonable, beautiful, shining, and — more important — in alignment with the law. Exactly the thing, which we all desire for our weed blogs and cannabis websites, no doubt!

I love the wording:

It’s not the Wild West out there

“It is not the Wild West out there” — says the statement on the FTC official website. It simply means, but is not limited to, that no one is allowed anymore to invent freely what medical issues cannabis solves, it’s over now, and it is good news for us for the cannabis market. Finally!

From now on the health-related representations for weed products, joints, edibles, and concentrates, are subject to the same established requirements of scientific substantiation just like any other product in the US market as a whole. The FTC applies the mentioned rule to all advertised health claims in the marijuana industry (I’m unsure if “spiritual effects” may hit the criteria to be a health claim, ha-ha, I’m kidding).

Exclusively trustworthy information must target the consumers, which is obvious if we want a sustainable market here. I agree, it’s already been making me sick too, as soon as the list of “alarmingly risky health issues, when you urgently need a patch of weed!” has already reached the point of a goddamn contest for the longest list of the scariest health conditions.

This FTC’s enforcement is supposed to sweep any unproven representations that marijuana products would treat unexisting sicknesses, including those marijuana does not treat so far, until such will be discovered or disapproved.

The Official List of the approved claims about medical marijuana is on the official FTC website, just one click away. And herein-below we have the medical conditions which medical marijuana does not help!. A few of them may seem questionable, however, the rules of the game so far:

Well, we need to leave a disclaimer here, that we are a private marijuana blog, where the authors are just a gang of desperate stoners, but for the up to date information you always reach out to the FTC👍

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The Best Ways to Store Your Bud

Tue, 27/Nov/18

Trying to keep your weed funky fresh? It’s important to consider where you are storing your stash, especially when dealing with larger quantities. Weed is like wine, it can get better with age, and keeping it in the right conditions makes all the difference. There are a plethora of storage containers and accessories on the market, and a number of DIY tips that will help preserve the freshness and taste of your cannabis. Here are some of our favorites methods for stash storage.

Tips for Storing Your Bud

Ditch The Plastic

Plastic bags and containers are some of the worst ways to store your weed for a few reasons. Static from plastic can destroy the little hairs on the flowers, called trichomes, which can lead to cannabinoid degradation, meaning you’ll wind up with less potent flower.

Plastic bags and containers are neither air or light proof, making your bud susceptible to UV light and undesirable temperatures. This exposure can cause your bud to dry out and lose its potency very quickly. You should only use plastic for short-term transportation of weed, and not as a long-term storage system. We recommend using foil or paper instead of plastic if you’re in a storage pinch.

Maintain Ideal Temperatures

Conditions that are too hot or cold will damage the plant material and result in loss of cannabinoids. Don’t put your weed in the fridge/freezer and avoid storing it in place where the temperature fluctuates. The ideal temperature range for cannabis is 32°F and 68°F.

Control Humidity

The average stoner is more concerned with their weed drying out, but too much moisture can be a problem as well. If your weed is too moist, bacteria and mold can grow on the flowers, ruining your experience and making it potentially dangerous to inhale. It’s best to maintain humidity levels between 59%-63% to avoid degradation from excess moisture or drying. Products like the Bodeva Humidity Pack are great accessories to keep handy for humidity control.

Avoid Extended Light Exposure

UV light is one of the biggest accelerators of cannabinoid degradation. It’s important to store your weed in a cool, dark place where there will be little to no light exposure.

Best Storage Containers for Cannabis

The Classic Mason Jar

If you’re a stoner on a budget, a mason jar is a perfect place to store your bud. Glass is a great material for storing weed, as it does not emit or absorb the smell. It’s important to keep the jar in a cool, dark place to ensure it maintains a temperature between 32°F and 68°F and is not exposed to light to avoid cannabinoid degradation. Humidity is also a factor, so for those that want to be extra careful, we recommend getting a humidity control accessory such as the Herbal Boveda Pack to keep in the jar as well.

Stainless-steel Containers

Stainless-steel containers are more expensive than glass jars, but offer a bit more protection overall. They are made with food-grade materials and have an airtight seal that locks in odor and protects against excess moisture. Stainless-steel containers are also opaque compared to glass, so they safeguard against UV light exposure.

There are a number of stainless-steel products available, ranging from basic tin canisters to larger containers with humidity control additions. We recommend a CVault Cannabis Container if you want a little more from your storage product without spending too much.

Cannabis Humidors

Typically used to store cigars, you can now get humidors made specifically to keep your weed stash from getting moldy or dry. Humidors were originally made from cedar, a very porous wood that absorbs moisture and secretes oils that add to the tobacco flavor. Cannabis humidors are made from more neutral woods such as Mahogany, Cherry or Walnut, which are still very porous but won’t disrupt the natural flavor of the weed. Some humidors also come equipped with a humidifier and hygrometer to further maintain humidity levels.

Cannabis humidors are perfect for a stoner who appreciates the finer things (strains) in life. They are definitely an investment, but their sleek design makes them portable and discrete, and they come in a number of sizes. We recommend checking out Cannador if you’re interested in getting a classy cannabis humidor.

Stash Boxes

Stash boxes are great for a stoner on the move. Cheaper than a humidor, the low-profile, compact container fits all your essential smoking paraphernalia. They come in all shapes and sizes, and some may include additional smoking accessories. They are also smell-proof, discrete, and offer protection from light exposure. Stash boxes help keep all your accessories organized and easy to access. They are not airtight, so we recommend using them for travel or short-term storage.

Silicone Stash Containers

Silicone containers are great for those who enjoy cannabis concentrates. These containers are made of medical-grade silicone and are airtight and odor proof. They are designed to be small and discrete and make using concentrates like wax and oil easy and mess free. Silicone containers are also inexpensive and great for both long and short-term storage.

About Terra

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