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Mary Jane, a weed poem, mocking Robert Burns

Fri, 01/Sep/23

What would you do having an affection for poetry in your heart and a “purple haze” in your head? The combination of the two made us embark on a funny weed poem project. Eventually, we, the project team, tried our best to mimic Robert Burns, no less!

It resulted in a lovely devotion to marijuana in a form of a ballad, and you judge if it was good or not. The weed poem “The Heart of Mary Jane” we have baked is just below in this post. But we speak at first about Robert Burns, and why his poetry has attracted so much of our attention and influenced out work.

Who is Robert Burns?

Robert Burns was a ferocious Scottish alcoholic of the 18th century. He happened to be also a genius, who made a major contribution to the poetry of the Romantic Era, carved his name in stone in a hall of fame of arts, and reached immortality.

In his lyrics, Robert Burns expressed love, of course, and also his passion for freedom and Scotch whisky: “I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought.” – Awesome!

Freedom and whisky gang together

So does weed. Only a like-minded dude and a thoughtful person could state that “Freedom and whisky gang together”, we have realized. His attachment to Scotland and Scotch admires many men. After all, whisky and marijuana often coincide too, and we adore whisky (exceptionally single malt of course) the same as much as we love marijuana. Yet not simultaneously.

Do you know, that there is a Lowland single malt brand after his name, that all of Scotland would not celebrate a birthday of “some guy” voluntarily and every year for two centuries already and counting?

What is Robert Burns night?

On the 25th of January people joyfully gather together for getting desperately drunk on that day, quote and sing excerpts from his lyrics. Many Scots throw a Burns supper in the night. Grand affairs are also common throughout the country.

Burns’ shanties, poems, folk songs, and ballads constitute a fair part of tradition for such parties, where his epic masterpiece “Tam O’Shanter” takes a very special place during nation-wide buzz!

Tam O’Shanter poem by Robert Burns

Tam O’Shanter is our favorite narrative. It is about an enthusiastic drunkard Tam, who felt an erotic excitement (“stood, like one bewitched, and thought his very eyes enriched”) when hallucinated in the dark a charming witch Nannie Dee dancing. Either she was not a phantasm and Tam saw “the graceful dance of witches” for real. We choose she was real!

“Her cutty sark, o’ Paisley harn,
That while a lassie she had worn,
In longitude tho’ sorely scanty,
It was her best, and she was vauntie.
Ah! little kend thy reverend grannie
That sark she coft for her wee Nannie
Wi’ twa pund Scots (’twas a’ her riches)
Wad ever graced a dance of witches!”

The “Tam O’Shanter” ballad counts 1500+ words, which is huge for merely a poem. It is regarded to be philosophical in many ways. It contains a whole lot of historical information about everyday life in old Scotland, many proverbial sayings, and metaphors.

One of such is…

Well done, Cutty Sark!

The young witch has been wearing a far too short (cutty) linen chemise, where “sark” is a Scottish word standing for “chemise”. No surprise, poor Thomas became over-charmed with the erotic sight of dancing Nannie, then losing his control over emotion he shouted out “Well done, Cutty Sark” by that disclosing his location and barely escaped the chase in the end.

“Well done, Cutty Sark” subsequently became a catchphrase in the English language for expressing the emotion of extreme satisfaction and excitement, somewhat higher than merely a bravo. “Weel” is the Scots equivalent for “Well”, find it in this piece below:

“And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch’d,
And thought his very een [eyes] enrich’d;

Till first ae caper, syne anither,
Tam tint [lost] his reason a’ thegither,
And roars out, “Weel done, Cutty Sark!”
And in an instant all was dark:
And scarcely had he Maggie [his horse] rallied,
When out the hellish legion sallied.

Ah, Tam! Ah, Tam! Thou’ll get thy fairin’!
In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!

Of course, none of Robert Burns’ poems could ever miss out on mentioning firewater effects:

“Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi’ tippeny [ale], we fear nae evil!
Wi’ usquabae [whisky], we’ll face the devil!
The swats sae ream’d in Tammie’s noddle,
Fair play, he car’d na deils a boddle.”

John Barleycorn means whisky personified. The latter two lines are, roughly: “the buzz swarmed in Tam’s head and he cared not about the cash he was spending”. Ye-ah, man, we understand.

“No, wha this tale o’ truth shall read,
Ilk man and mother’s son take heed;
Whene’er to drink you are inclin’d,
Or cutty sarks run in your mind,
Think! ye may buy joys o’er dear –
Remember Tam O’Shanter’s mare.”

A destructive force of heavenly beauty, he’s said? Especially under influence of psychoactive compounds like alcohol, or, say, marijuana, he’s said? It’s okay, who cares!! 😜👍

The legendary British tea clipper “Cutty Sark” got named after Nannie Dee. She was the last and the fastest of the kind, busy carrying opium, hashish, and tea from China and India to Europe. The figurehead of the ship was a bare-breasted Nannie.

Robert Burns was a tough guy, we can see now. That is why he is our pick for parodying particularly his work for transforming it into a funny weed poem. But just we take the other of his glorious works, “John Barleycorn”!

John Barleycorn poem by Robert Burns

Yet another heartwarming poem by Robert Burns, “John Barleycorn”, is a complete devotion to whisky, again. This time old Rabbie used the imaginary suffering of John Barleycorn, a personified barley crop, to describe in every detail the process of the grain being cultivated and harvested, buried alive as seed, then “tortured” in the mill:

“They wasted, o’er a scorching flame,
The marrow of his bones.
But a miller us’d him worst of all,
For he crush’d him between two stones.”

Later they’ve got him sunk in water to become malt:

“They filled up a darksome pit
With water to the brim.
They heaved in John Barleycorn,
There let him sink or swim. ”

And, at the end of the hardship the “blood” of John Barleycorn is the world’s best alcoholic drink:

“And they hae taen his very heart’s blood,
And drank it round and round;
And still the more and more they drank,
Their joy did more abound.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold,
Of noble enterprise.
For if you do but taste his blood,
‘Twill make your courage rise.

‘Twill make a man forget his woe,
‘Twill heighten all his joy,
Twill make the widow’s heart to sing,
Tho’ the tear were in her eye.

Then let us toast John Barleycorn,
Each man a glass in hand,
And may his great posterity
Ne’er fail in old Scotland!”

Finally…

How did old Rabbie influence our weed poem?

John Barleycorn, the Rabbie’s genius prank, contrasted the suffering of barley (John Barleycorn) with bringing ultimate joy and courage to people at the end of the distillation enterprise.

That got us thinking to mimic the rhythm, the style, and the brilliant idea of Burns’ John Barleycorn in application to the personified marijuana seed. What a beautiful piece of art it would be, we decided and hit the road.

We have voted the personified marijuana is Mary Jane (how else?), and in our marijuana ballad, she survives the hardship of her life journey while she unwinds from seed to weed for us to smoke and for pleasure.

We have reached out to a poet, Brendon J. O’Brien from Trinidad and Tobago, to help us to fulfill the mission, and he has illustrated the humble life of Mary Jane in the following verse:

Mary Jane weed poem

“When Mary Jane had come of age,
Those ‘round her began to creep.
They plotted then to break her down
For some parts, they would keep.

They looked upon her cautiously
Saw her grow dark in sun.
When sweat did glisten on their eyes
They knew their wait was done.

They waited for the very time
That Mary seemed mature.
They grabbed her in the open field,
Held lightly but made sure.

They checked her well and were convinced
That Mary Jane had grown,
Was strong and sweet and swollen enough
For them to call their own

Before poor Mary Jane could move
They broke off her every limb
When that was done, they dragged her down
To a place much more grim.

Those men, they hung her bottom-up,
They left her there for days,
In the dry dark, till she might crack,
Till Mary’s light did fade.

They took her down, they pulled her close,
Took blade from head to shin
To cut whatever blemish clean,
Leave only Mary’s skin.

And from her skin came many things
When boiled and kept as drips,
Or ground up fine, and wrapped up tight,
And lit to someone’s lips.

Some men would use the girl’s remains
To hear some divine word.
Some others still took off her skin
Till awareness gleefully blurred.

Some look upon the men
Who did these things will such despair.
No one should use poor Mary’s heart
Those people would declare

But some need Mary’s heart
For much more urgent gain;
To calm their addled minds a while
Or free them from their pain.

From Mary’s sacrifice
Some people do regain control
From a sickness stealing bodies
Or worries claiming souls.

Some say what happened to the girl
Is vicious, inhumane.
But there are lives so surely changed
By the heart of Mary Jane.”

The End.

Did you know: the company who invented feminized seeds in 1990 (they were Dutch origin) is yet functions well as a company. As a seed bank, they produce and deliver feminized seeds. You can buy from them online.


The List of Mistakes that Beginner Growers make

Wed, 22/Feb/23

These are not exactly mistakes when you are into growing marijuana on your own because they are more likely a learning process. However, we have a list of most common mistakes that beginner growers make. And, applying these few simple rules shall give you a unique opportunity to commit greater mistakes on the further stages. There’s plenty of space for this in marijuana growing, haha.

How long does it take to grow a marijuana plant?

Patience you need to grow a marijuana plant – the otherwise is an often mistake, but you should not hurry at no stage of marijuana growing. In general, the full growing cycle takes about 4 to 6 months for a solid marijuana plant to ripe, where the term depends on many variables of the equation. Commercially offered seeds may give fruits as fast as 4-8 weeks.

How to decrease the marijuana growing term?

– Outdoor or indoor, where for the latter you can alter the term by changing the light regime: as soon as you set your light regime as 12 and 12 hours the plants immediately react ending the vegetation and just start flowering (producing buds that we smoke). Do not do that too early.

Apparently, for the outdoor, you cannot change the Sun astronomy, as it is the main and only source of light for the outdoor marijuana.

However, what you can do is select a proper date in the calendar when you plant seeds to have the Sun rolling over the sky in a 12 on 12 mode right when you need your future weed to flower. The very reason why some countries enjoy two harvests of marijuana per year.

– The genetics of seeds that you use influence the how-long question too. Autoflowering seeds are independent of the light regime but they take a certain amount of time for vegetation and then start flowering regardless of where the light is.

Autoflowering cannabis grows as fast as 4-5 weeks.

Feminized cannabis grows as fast as 6-8 weeks.

Autoflowers offered in the market usually need a shorter period from seed to weed and are considered to be the easier effort for beginner growers.

– Playing with nutrients for your marijuana plants, and this includes building a hydroponic garden, ease your waiting too. May it be a harder way to learn and perfect your skills, however the “plants on steroids” (enforced nutrients) shall perform fast similar to you wishing to grow your body promptly in a gym adding proper nutrients.

– Using clones shall make the vegetation shorter just logically. Doing so you skip the seed germination stage and seedling at all. There are pros and cons and a lot of arguments about growing marijuana from clones. We suggest it is not bad to use the clones but just using the clones is a different business and it certainly delivers a shorter growing term for your marijuana.

This or that, or a combination of the listed, but you are to accept that all plants are naturally slow, including the marijuana plants.

Being a first-timer, you’d better not cut the growing term too much but let it go the natural course for a cannabis plant to grow taking as long as it needs under the current environmental conditions.

The obvious exception is choosing an autoflowering seed or another kind of seed (like Ruderalis) with a genetically modified growing term (or should I better say a milder gene editing? Yes, this one as it reflects the idea of feminized seeds better), either embarking on a quest of growing your marijuana from a clone. The latter shall never grant you knowledge about how to germinate, nor what a seedling is, but we still recommend exploring the natural cycle before you alter it.

Note that the light regime alteration and leveraging on the chemistry of the nutrients are the advanced techniques.

How to grow marijuana easy

There is an easy way to stay away from the common growing issues. For this, you may treat a marijuana plant just as a regular plant, as if it’s no different from a potato or a tomato. You may lose a bit in quality (depending on what you count as “quality”) but this is the very idea of how you may grow marijuana easy, no stress, no sweat.

In all cases taking care of soil is the best efficient way, as it requires less effort compared to all other issues soil deficiency may produce; but you only once mess about soil making a DIY mix, then only watch how the magic happens for your joy.

How’s that possible to grow marijuana easy?

Because a marijuana plant is a natural thing and, after millions of years of evolution it can survive and give fruits without your assistance. Hence you may help weed to grow herself, and she’ll as high as in an Amsterdam coffee shop but in your household, satisfying.

At least this list of mistakes beginner growers gives a good idea where you look at along the whole process of your a hustle-free growing.

There are almost no bothering neither boring things in growing marijuana, apparently the mysterious fragrance shall encourage you every time you enter the grow space 😉

How to grow marijuana for free

One word: Soil.

Soil is the very source of everything for marijuana plants, all that they need to flourish well, yet the soil is too often underestimated by the first-timers; myself included.

Most of the most common mistakes that beginner growers make. The wrong soil can ruin everything. The proper soil can make all your efforts easy going all way up to growing your weed for free, or almost free, and it is as important as a seed itself.

The list of what you need to grow marijuana for free

1) Seed. Once upon a time we have picked a couple of seeds from street marijuana, and it has worked, and we’ve got high. This was an effective experiment of growing marijuana both successfully and free of charge. However, if you allow yourself a few buck investment taking a “professional seed” from a seed bank you’ll just gain a better chance to succeed.

Acknowledge that as a beginner grower, you may fail. But using a professional seed from a seed bank your odds are higher. But a free marijuana seed shall give you free knowledge of trial and error.

TIP! Pay the most of your attention to the cannabis seed germination stage. This is when the whole thing starts, and a seed gives a small root out of itself, such is called germination. Before you even send a marijuana seed into the soil you make it germinated in a Petri Dish. Very important.

2) Soil. Again, you can take a professionally mixed soil which is not a million bucks in price. But you can also use soil from your garden and it shall perform too, reasoning that a marijuana plant is a natural thing, while “wild soil” already contains hopefully an amount of desired nutrients for cannabis plants as long as other plants do grow in it all the way.

TIP! A rule of thumb is that random soil usually is too dense for a marijuana plant. You require to make it loose by mixing it with sand or crushed brick, which are also free of charge. Such shall allow more oxygen to come to the roots of your marijuana plant, also giving a better way for the nutrients.

3) Indoor or outdoor? Well, this depends on the climate overall and the current season in your region. We mention herein how to grow marijuana for free supposing you take the right season and climate.

In our experiment about using random seeds of street weed, we have put two already germinated marijuana seeds into flower pots but we have placed one pot on a balcony and the other we kept at home. The balcony plant went stronger and it reached its ripe. But the room plant went weak and sick too early and died after a few weeks.

The reason? The more natural environment makes a cannabis plant naturally stronger, as long as it is exposed to wind and rain and a temperature range it lives a normal life, so to say.

4) Water and light are very important for your future success with marijuana growing as a beginner grower. Please about further on in this post.

Finding the right soil for cannabis

We have mentioned above how important the soil is. It delivers all nutrients through the roots through your whole marijuana plant all way up to the buds. Therefore you pay the most attention to finding the right soil for cannabis, and here we share a few tips:

1) Where from? Once you have excavated a potful of soil from your garden, consider also taking other soil from “somewhere else” if you have several marijuana plants for your beginner’s effort. This is for seeing the difference between this and that soil.

2) Make the soil loose. Except that you’ve purchased a professionally mixed soil, in all other cases for a DIY soil you always make the soil loose by adding sand or crushed clay brick, some people use carbon for the purpose.

Loose and crumbly soil is always better for marijuana as soon as it provides better access for water and oxygen to the roots of a marijuana plant.

3) Ventilation. Make holes in your pot for better ventilation, and for the excess water to go out easily. Such shall prevent the roots of your marijuana plant from rot and a lack of oxygen.

4) Mites vs worms. Keep an eye on who else lives in your soil. There are useful beasties living in soil, and there are harmful ones (yet another reason to take soil from different places into different pots to see how marijuana plants shall go on growing in this and that case).

A tip? Worms are good, they provide better ventilation of your soil, also they process the soil elements into what plants “eat”. The other beasties such as mites and insects are not good and you’d better get rid of them, either take care of avoiding them from the start.

There are “professional” worms existing on the market, you can buy them to enhance your soil mix. We suggest they are not expensive.

5) PH level, also referred to as “acidity”, is important for marijuana growing. We suggest in wild soil the PH level is already fine, especially if you make it outdoors in your garden. But for the indoor growing, and in a case you are going to use nutrients hard, you keep an eye on a PH level.

For a marijuana plant the PH level is in a range from 5.7 to 6.2 for hydroponic or indoor, and up to 7.0 outdoor. There are relatively cheap PH meters in the market, designed either for aquariums or specifically for growing, both types may fit.

Otherwise, to keep your experiment as free as possible, you use that wild soil, as we mentioned, and you go outdoors (or balcony) so the plants are taking the most of nutrients from nature. Once you add nutrients the PH level is going to change, then you need to be checking on it periodically.

Choosing a seed

Many sources say, growing marijuana from an anonymous seed may be flooded with surprises and may hard your efforts, this is partly true. However, as soon as you’ve got a seed from weed that you’ve just smoked that makes your seed not that far anonymous, but yet.

Taking a seed from a trusted seed bank is still a good option and a minimal investment indeed. At least you shall know for sure that a possible fail shall not give credit to the seed. On the other hand, why not try, and more important the seed is a living thing, so shall be the future cannabis plant, you can just let nature go its way, otherwise buy seeds from a seed bank.

If you have decided to have a “some weed seed” consider the following advice

1) Ripe. The marijuana seed for planting should be ripe. That shall mean the color of a cannabis seed must be dark brown, not black, not green. Also, it must have curvy stripes on its surface.

2) Solid. The marijuana seed should be solid, bearing no cracks. Yes, this is a sort of obvious, but we saw beginner growers being so desperate that they take a damaged seed. The effort is doomed even before they got started.

3) Germination. Pay the best attention to germination, this is when a seed shows a small root. Read the easy way how to germinate weed seed below:

How to germinate weed seeds

– To germinate a seed you put a cotton cloth on the bottom of a shallow and wide cup or a container made of neutral material. That may be a plastic container used in the food industry, or a glass Petri Dish, that we find most convenient. No metal due to its acidity, and no possibly toxic material.

– Generously moisture the cloth with water. Use clean water. Do not be too greedy about the amount of cloth, have it clean, made of cotton, and let it form a sort of a bed for a seed.

– Place the seeds into that cloth. It should not be lying on a surface but be deep into cloth.

– Moisture another piece of cloth and cover the seed, or the seeds if you have few, with it.

– If you have a few seeds in one container give them space for sending out roots freely, for that place them apart from each other.

– Let the oxygen penetrate the container. Open it up once a day to ventilate, but you keep it in a dark warm place all other time.

– The whole germination may take a week, up to two weeks, so you be patient.

– Add water periodically to keep the micro-environment well moist, but not flooded.

Once your seed germinated you have a good chance to succeed. Weed may outcome being not of the best quality if it is a street weed seed, but what shall make that weed so important is that it shall be your weed.

What else do you need to know picking a random seed from street marijuana

The existence of a seed defines that it was a hermaphrodite plant where you found that seed. Professional growers only grow female plants, and those have no seeds at all. The offspring of your anonymous street marijuana plant, where you picked your anonymous marijuana seed, shall have a great chance of being a hermaphrodite too.

Such may result but not necessarily a lower THC level and poorer trichomes but be sure it’ll give you some high anyway. The logic is simple: you have already got high from weed wherein you have found that seed.

Marijuana overwatering

Marijuana overwatering is a very common mistake for beginner growers, especially for first-timers. Cannabis plants do not require a lot of water.

The good growers’ advice on watering your cannabis plant is: you put your pointer finger one inch down into the soil – until you feel moisture or see your finger is moist as it is off the soil, you need no more water yet.

Do not over-water your marijuana plant under no circumstances. Such may kill your whole plantation.

LED lights for growing marijuana

Light is essential for marijuana plants, as it is for any plant. If your plants grow indoors, then you need LED lights designed for growing and there is no other way. This is pretty much an investment. The whole LED lights set may cost you 200-400 dollars and shall add a ton to your monthly electricity bill for a few consequent months.

Besides, you can be f**ed by a wrong LED lights vendor delivering a wrong specter of light. You’d better learn about it before you buy any lights, and read comments about how reliable is the vendor you pick.

How do we decrease weed lighting cost?

The sunlight is the best for plants, better than anything artificial like LED lights, and it’s free. You try being outdoors in the garden or on the balcony, but make sure you are at the right season when it’s warm enough outdoors.

More important: marijuana plants switch from vegetation to flowering when the light regime becomes 12 and 12 hours. It means the Sun shines 12 hours a day and it’s dark the other 12 hours.

The light regime is the worst beginner growers’ mistake. You shall need to switch your LED lights into the 12/12 regime at a proper moment, and for outdoors you’d better check for the Sun’s astronomy in your region to gain the 12/12 sunlight regime at the end of the vegetation stage.

How do we avoid light-related problems the easiest way?

1) Use autoflowering seeds from a seed bank or a friend, because the autoflowering seeds do not rely on the light regime but they are designed to start flowering by time and not by light change. We have already mentioned, that the autoflowering seeds feature a shorter growing term overall.

2) Use Ruderalis, if you can find one, which I doubt. However, the autoflowering seeds mix the genetics of Cannabis Ruderalis to be independent of light. Cannabis Ruderalis is a wild plant originating from Sri Lanka and India, those have a lot of weed with strong genetics growing wild.

No panic if you still lack lighting or fail the regime setup. This shall give smaller buds, a weaker plant, but it shall give some buds and some plant. Of course, no great achievement if such happens, but this is your first try and you learn.

How much space do I need for cannabis plants?

Marijuana plants do need space for all three reasons: sufficient space for roots to avoid competition with other plants, a space for growing tall, and a space for growing wide. The latter is to prevent touching the neighboring plants too much.

1) For the roots: think about a big bucket, say, a 10 to 12-liter bucket (or a pot of this size) shall solve the problem. Do not forget to ventilate it as we mentioned earlier in this post. If you are planting marijuana outdoors give the same space wide, having no other plants (cannabis or not) just next to your weed.

2) For the tall: make it 1,5 – 2,0 meters over the soil level if you grow indoors or in a tent. You shall also need fresh air inside of your growing space, then you deliver proper ventilation to your plants.

There are certain techniques to use a smaller space by changing the geometry of the stems, but this is already an advanced level, and we talk here about beginner growers’ mistakes solely.

TIP! if you decide to buy commercial seeds from a seed bank, and you lack space yet, then you consider strains of a low height. There are very low ones in the market, as low as 50-70 cm.

Yet another tip: if you switch from a vegetation stage to a flowering stage by changing the LED light in your indoor growing space, then you can save on the height of that growing space by switching the light regime a little bit earlier. Plants shall continue growing when flowering but they shall not do that intensively as during the vegetation stage.

For the outdoors, there is no such issue, unless your neighbors are unfriendly. Use a fence for God’s sake, or, again, those seeds of low-height genetics. We should warn you about neighbors, should we?

3) For the wide: say, 2×2 meters is a bit wider than you need. Having lack of space, use 1×1 meter space. There is no strict rule about it, but just your marijuana plants should not be one by another.

Do not give too much care to your marijuana plants

Yes, this makes a certain problem more often than we can imagine, because you want your weed, and you value your efforts, but this is your first time and you know practically nothing.

Therefore, you’d better be patient, you’d better accept there shall be mistakes, you’d better watch to learn than expecting the frostiest harvest of all time from your first attempt.

Do not over-care your plants, give them time, wait and be watching more rather than doing, and don’t be too much of a mom to your plants.

A good example of over-care is over-watering, as we mentioned here, and the next two listed beginners’ mistakes are such as well:

Cutting marijuana leaves

You’ve heard of course that cutting marijuana leaves during the flowering stage may dramatically increase your future harvest of buds.

How does cutting marijuana leaves perform?

Once you cut tips of the marijuana leaves, either very tips, or up to one-half of the leaves, or just decimating the whole leaves of the plant, you save nutrients delivered into the leaves, as those get smaller in size, and the freed amount of nutrients goes all into buds making the latter bigger, higher, frostier.

However, this may form a real problem for a beginner grower due to the lacking experience. Many superior professional growers do not recommend for absolute beginners to use scissors to cut marijuana leaves at all on the first try, excluding maybe a few too obvious cases.

Do not over-dose the nutrients

Imagine that you have decided to use the nutrients, even though skipping it shall cut the cost even though requiring proper soil, proper light, proper space, etc. To use nutrients staying away from overdosing when you are a beginner grower there is a safe way:

Use a simple trick until you learn this science better: add nutrients in very small amounts carefully and watch how the plant reacts but give sufficient time for the reaction.

Any change in color of any part of the plant or any other change, anything seeming abnormal, may mean (but not necessarily) an overdose of nutrients or a nutrient. The overdose of nutrients may even kill a plant.

There are exceptions about the color change, like, “going purple” may reflect a too low temperature or another environmental issue, or stress (where overdosing is stress too).

Growing for the first time without nutrients at all or just tiny to small doses shall grant you a better understanding of the whole process. Because in case of an unknown issue you shall have less range of guess about what you’ll have done wrong.

Keep notes while you grow weed

A good piece of advice for a grower of any experience is to log whatever you are doing to the plants and whatever is happening to the plants. This shall help to learn the whole process, and to track the experiments, how your ideas, the weather, the season, and the nutrients influence the plants. You shall find these notes useful for your next trials, this is how the knowledge is accumulated.

Marking plants with small tags is a good idea too in any case, especially when you treat them differently, like, a different nutrient regime, different soil, light, genetics, whatever differently you apply to your marijuana plants.

When to harvest marijuana

Choosing when to harvest marijuana as a beginner grower you may miss the right moment, or cut the bud too early. The latter is coursed by impatience (of course, you already know how important is to stay patient in a plant business, do you?) and the former is merely greed about higher THC. Needless to say that losing a whole harvest at the very end after weeks and weeks of growing efforts is an “epic fail”.

Trichomes you watch to catch the right moment for harvesting your marijuana buds.

Some people advance to using a microscope to detect the best condition of the trichomes, but a 10x magnifying glass (jewelers use such and sell in their shops) fits well enough. Alternatively – a good pair of eyes, trichomes are actually visible.

For a beginner grower, the best time for harvesting marijuana comes when approximately 60% of trichomes are amber, and about 40% remain milky-white. There is an argument about how much trichomes should get ripe, which means amber color, and we suggest this is a matter of personal preference. We cut when amber to milky reaches roughly 60/40.

Ready to hit the road now?

As a rule of thumb you always keep in mind two simple ideas: “never panic” and a “no rush”, this is the best way to win in growing your marijuana.

We dare to say that no beginner in the whole world ever avoided mistakes that beginner growers make. That is why they are called this way. Just stay come and give time to your plants before you doom them to fixing a nonexistent issue.

Anything that may ever happen to your marijuana plants shall work for your experience. Your sticky frosty buds, which you are getting in the end, are the best in the world, because they are the buds, that you have grown.

Peace and love.


Ancient Goddess of Love, the Aphrodite Star, and the planet Venus

Mon, 28/Mar/22

Santa Ana, Inanna, Ishtar, Venus and Aphrodite, in fact, is the same divine personality, and they all share the same original myth.

We start from Anahita — the Aryan (Ancient Iranian) Goddess of love and war known to humanity for 6000+ years. She is found later in the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamian nations and far beyond them till nowadays.

Her glorious time-travel lasts over thousands of years is not yet over, and she is in every culture and everywhere over the geography. The divine influence of the Goddess of love conquers every continent of Earth and takes its place in almost every religion.

Conquer? Yes, she is the Goddess of war at the same time!

The nations have changed, the languages have disappeared, Babylon got ruined, while Anahita, the love personified stays with us all the time for thousands of years and on. Anahita is the contradictory Goddess of Love and War, eternally young and beautiful, we know her better as Aphrodite or Santa Anna. She bears even more names in the cultures of the world.

Queen of the Night, the Goddess of Love and War

Anahita (Ishtar) the Queen of the Night

ANAHITA was simultaneously the ancient Goddess of Love and the Goddess of War in the Aryan (Ancient Iranian) period, translates into a very long time ago, when Chinese hardly had a scripting and Egyptians were only building their Pyramids.

THEN, as Anahita migrated into the Mesopotamian cults, already closer to us, yet still very far ago, people worshiped her as “Ishtar” and/or “Inanna” and used a few of her other names of the same root through the different languages of the region. In Ancient Europe she got well-recognized as “Aphrodite” and later “Venus” in the Greek-Roman beliefs, and then she became “Santa Anna” when she landed into Christianity, keeping the traditional relation to the Morning star just like every version of Anahita before her.

Always curvy, sexy and perfect, her fame is supported continuously worldwide throughout the unstoppable cultural works, motion pictures, video-games, cartoons, paintings, monuments, printable 3D-art, practically everywhere, and everybody knows her; and/or her counterparts.

Olivia Wilde as Princess Inanna (Ishtar) in Year One movie, and Jack Black as Chosen One

Olivia Wilde as Princess Inanna (Ishtar) in “Year One” (2009) motion picture, and Jack Black as Chosen One

Whatever the name, in fact she is the same divine personality, the representation of Love, or better say she is Love per se, the ancients reckoned. She stands tall for purity, love and creation. Her planet is Venus, every time, for thousands of years. We’ve collected and compiled a number of myths and historical records about the mysterious Anahita, Ishtar or Aphrodite, the multicultural and officially the most beautiful woman on Earth and Heaven.

Anahita, the Goddess of love, war and contradiction

From what we know about Ana, or Anahita, for the first time in the history record she appears in the Aryan (Ancient Iranian) religion, subtract 6000 years from today. Found in texts and depicted in the so-called cylindrical seals.

Anahita the Ancient Goddess of Love and War and Purity, the virgin deity

Anahita (Ishtar), Akkadian seal, 2300 BC

Anahita as a word in their language translates into “Purity”, and she is also a deity of water along with love and war, where Love => Purity => Water is simple logic to agree. I dare to say the divine “water management” in nature, in its ample scope, perfectly aligns with love and creation as her principal activities, and logically extends to fertility, sexuality, physical and political power.

Anahita is…

the Goddess of Love! Extended to: Passion, Life, Purity, Creation, etc.

the Goddess of War! Extended to: Death, Fear, Destruction, etc.

the Goddess of Contradiction! Extended to: Justice, Political Power, etc.

Ishtar (Anahita) the Ancient Persian Goddess of Love and War by hypnothalamus at Deviantart

Ishtar (Anahita) Love and War @hypnothalamus

Igniting the brilliance of Love among the Aryan (Ancient Iranian) culture, the magnificent rays of her divine star spread The Power of LOVE further on into all directions: every single Mesopotamian nation got her sacred fire, so did the Norse people, Mediterranean islands, Persia, Greece, Carthage and Rome, Israel, India and the Middle East, practically everyone.

Anahita, The Goddess of Love, continuously develops herself sending Love into every next pantheon and every branch of religion, all the way up to the modern beliefs:

✴ Anahita — Aryan (Ancient Iranian), also Zoroastrian,

✴ Inanna — Sumerian, Persian,

✴ Durga — Hindu and Nepalese, aka Bhavani

✴ Ishtar or Istar — Babylonian, Persian, Akkadian, Assyrian,

✴ Astarte — Canaanite, Phoenician, aka Anat

✴ Tanit — Malta and Carthage,

✴ Freya — in the Norse (Viking) mythology

✴ Aphrodite — Greek version,

✴ Venus — Roman version,

✴ Santa Anna — in Christianity, the grandma of Jesus.

I’m sure this is not even a full list, yet comprehensive enough. The longer you dig into the myth, the more you find — endlessly — because Anahita, Ishtar, Aphrodite or Ana (let’s use her modern name for awhile) is the MOST CONTINUOUSLY WORSHIPED DEITY IN THE HUMANKIND HISTORY!

Anahita as Love personified is the most continuously worshiped deity of all time

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The cosmic beauty, the universal power and all horrors of destruction altogether, she is like water creating life and being able to crush a rock, sink a ship, make an ocean where there is desert, or make a desert where there is life. Ancients reckoned Love was the Universe itself, the driving power for everything. War and Love partner together in the spirit of Anahita, the Ancient GODDESS OF LOVE AND WAR.
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✴ We cannot leave unnoticed the recognition of her name as “Ana” in yet another modern use: “ANASHA” is the Persian-origin street name for marijuana in Russia and its imperial whereabouts — the straight forward translation of “Anasha” is “Queen” or “Queen of Love”, as the word contains “ana” (goddess of love) and “sha” (the feminine form of “shakh” = “king”).

Anasha as an euphemism for marijuana which is in use widely even now, spreading out from the former territory of the Golden Horde (an early medieval state established by Genghis Khan) which is Kazakhstan in the present time. Anasha is well-recognized in Russia as “marijuana” and in other nearby states.

Durga aka Bhavani riding a Lion at the Varaha Cave Basrelief

Durga riding on a lion at Varaha Cave (source:wiki)

✴ Anahita rides on the LION, either in a chariot with one or two lions harnessed or simply on the lion’s back. Sometimes holding a lion. This Lion later became the Lion of Babylon when Ancient Iranian Anahita changed to Ancient Babylonian (Mesopotamian) Ishtar.

✴ When depicted, Anahita, Inanna or Ishtar is often accompanied by the eight-point star which is called “Star of Venus” or “Star of Ishtar”. This star is a symbol of Venus as a planet and as a goddess of love, standing for freedom, love and spiritual purity as her principal purpose; and war as a necessity.

Star of Venus = Star of Ishtar

Star of Venus

✴ You’ve of course recognized the phonetic similarity between “Ishtar”, the Persian version of the goddess of love and war, and “Star” as a modern word. Adding up, there is a certain similarity in sound between the Canaanite version of the love goddess “Astarte” and the modern word “Astra” of the Latin-origin, and it also means “star”, as in “astronaut”.

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There is an empirical guess, which is growing on me, that Ana, Anahita, and Inanna ARE THE NAMES, and they basically represent “purity” as a straight forward translation. The other group of words, such as Ishtar or Astarte ARE THE NICKNAMES representing a star as an object in the sky with rays and glow. These are not “versions” of the name, but names and nicknames. Michael Jordan is also “Air”, and a good example for the said.
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✴ ISHTAR (Inanna) is the goddess of love and war in Ancient Mesopotamia, Persia and in the Middle East as a whole region and beyond. Nations changed, countries died, Ishtar stayed. Worshiped in Babylon, worshiped by Persians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Canaanites, and all others. ISHTAR in the depictions appears as the eternally young, stunningly beautiful maiden, she is in charge of love affairs, wisdom, political power and war, and because she is pure, she also stands for justice. The planet of ISHTAR is VENUS.

NASA shot of Venus in the Sky, the Goddess of Love and War and Creation, the patron of pirates and seafarers

NASA’s shot of VENUS the planet

✴ VENUS as the planet appears magnificent, as a miracle for the naked eye, unbelievably, and this is NOT some artist’s impression on the photography, but Venus in fact shines this bright, and its halo is this shape indeed shooting the long, sharp and purely bright rays.

✴ VENUS as the name of the planet is “Anahid” in the Persian language because Venus is the planet of Anahita, both words Anahita and Anahid refer to Purity.

✴ Romans believed they were the descendants of VENUS (Aphrodite) the goddess of love as through her son Aeneas, the participant of the Trojan War, who fled to Italy after the fall of Troy and his direct descendants were Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome as a city. Here is the genealogy.

✴ VENUS (Aphrodite) as the goddess provoked the Trojan War using cunningly the Apple of Discord, and then she was wishing to fight the war as a warrior by herself but changed her opinion at the last minute. She was a Warrior and a smart, cunning politician too, yet not exclusively a passionate lover of the incredible sexual ferociousness; overestimated at times.

✴ Aphrodite (VENUS) was the patron of seafarers, free traders, corsairs and pirates. Yet another link to Anahita who governed all water, including rivers and oceans. I can guess the planet Venus could be used for some navigation at the sea and, no doubt, serve as a symbol of hope.

✴ Aphrodite (VENUS) and her most permanent love affair with Ares (MARS) the God of War has resulted that she is the mother to Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror), Harmonia and Eros. She had more children, we mentioned a few for sake to demonstrate the dual-nature of the ancient gods.

VENUS as the planet, Star of Ishtar as a symbol, likeliness in the names and contents of the myths, along with their devotion to love, war and purity — compose one Deity of these beautiful goddesses.

We take a closer look at the ear-ring of Princess Inanna from the “Year One” movie now. Honestly, there are more than eight rays in Olivia Wilde’s earring, maybe merely a coincidence, but I love to think this is the Star of Venus that she’s wearing. What other star can wear Ishtar or Inanna? And I love this movie, after all.

Olivia Wilde as Princess Inanna, wearing Star of Venus earring

Olivia Wilde (Princess Inanna) wears the Star of Venus earring

The Morning Star

The planet Venus appears in the sky for a short period of time, never higher than 40-something degrees over the horizon. It shines extremely bright reflecting a lot of sun light from its dense atmosphere; as bright as the full Moon even though Venus is much farther than the Moon.

Venus, by Titian, year 1520

Venus, by Titian (1520)

VENUS as the planet is making a pretty tricky voyage over the night sky comparing to “much more stable” distant stars. She appears in the sky in the West, moments after the sunset and not for long, for a few days. Then she is not visible at all for another few days, but comes back after a while and from the opposite side — in the East, at the dawn, and people call her the Morning Star in this period. The “hop” happens every 584 days because Venus “overtakes” Earth when both are orbiting the Sun, like if in a hippodrome, and that is why she comes up from the other side.

Santa Anna the Grandma of Jesus

✴ Remember whose birth was marked by the Morning Star? Of course we celebrate his birthday every year, Joshua of Nazareth aka JESUS, was born in about 0 AD in the Middle East. His maternal grandmother was SANTA ANA. The same name. The same planet. Purity and Creation. Boom!

✴ There is also the military hypostasis of the Goddess of Love in the Christian pantheon, for example, when she’s incarnated to be a furious warrior yet keeping purity and faith at her best — the Maid of Orleans, Saint Joan of Arc, the warrior. As for the perception of the Hebrew language, Joanna as a name applies the same origin as for “Ana” enforced by the Hebrew name of God, which is Jah or Yah, and it is added to the beginning of the word: Joah + Ana. The Hispanic version: Juana.

Saint Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, the warrior

Joan of Arc by @MiguelCoimbra

✴ The Russian Imperial Order of Santa Anna is shaped clearly as the Star of Venus or Ishtar. No one could ever dispute the purity and love of Santa Anna, of course not. However, this is a military award reflecting the militaristic approach of the Goddess of War.

Russian Imperial Order of Santa Anna features the Star of Venus as its shape

Russian Imperial Order of Santa Anna @imagesource

✴ Malta was once colonized by Phoenicians in the same historical period when they established Carthage, about 1000 and 800 BC. Those were skillful seafarers and free traders of their time, worshiping Tanit (Anahita) very much in the new lands. Tanit inherited Love, War, Purity and Water, all other features of Anahita, and she was obviously the patron of seafarers just as Aphrodite was. In the modern Maltese language, the Milky Way, our Galaxy, is called “The Way of Santa Anna”.

“Omnia Vincit Amor” and Marijuana

The proverbial verse “omnia vincit amor” (“love wins everything”) got created by Virgil in the 1st century BC, met in his poem “Aeneas”. I loved it even before, and now it grows on me, while this story about goddesses of love and war add even more sense. The whole world is the result of Love as the conquering power invading hearts and filling them with spiritual Purity. Love creates Life.

✴ JUANA is the Spanish version of the name “Joanna” mentioned here in the context of Joan of Arc, clearly a combination of “Jah” and “Ana”, where the latter represents Anahita, our Ancient Goddess of Love, and the former is the name of God as in Hebrew, and in the Rastafari religion.

✴ MARIA is for purity, of course, but originating from the Persian version of the name “Merriam”, which in its turn means REBELLIOUS AS THE SEA. Find latin roots in Maria and Merriam, respectively “mar” as in “maritime” and “mer” as in “mermaid”. Suggested that the spiritual purity, love, rebellious nature of the sea and its power — constitute FREEDOM.

Do you see the Star of Venus in Marijuana Leaf now?

Star of Venus (Ishtar) the goddess of love found in the Marijuana Leaf

Star of Venus (ISHTAR) in Marijuana Leaf

✴ Maria and Juana are together make MARIJUANA word. The ultimate freedom as ample as the ocean, the sacred purity of love and the whole kingdom of God — are in every bud that we toke. Yay!

Maria (freedom) + Jah (god) + Ana (love). This is Marijuana.


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 slang word in English is Marijuana personified

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.

Marijuana buds rolling animation

That’s weed.