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I always call it pot, which I understand outs me as an old person. But there are so many names for chronic, all over the world. What is your favorite?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Pakalolo. I never actually call it that though because I'm not in Hawaii, and I doubt anyone outside of the state knows it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta stick with the classics.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Jazz cabbage or the Devil’s lettuce

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Devil's lettuce, Mary Jane and "marahuana" (in the Hank Hill voice) are probably my favorites that immediately come to mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

sticky icky in hank hill voice is pretty fun

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I respect that. What about "traditional" names like ganja?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to call it kale for a while

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an insult to weed man.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like you don’t have an adventurous palate 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was juicing kale for a while.. It tasted like bitter stagnant mud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn’t juice that shit. I love it in salads and soups. The texture makes it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Weed, herb, or pot. In order of frequency.

Occasionally the more fun names like devils lettuce and wacky tobacky haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Herb or flower

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Favorite word is a better question but in common speech I'll generally just say weed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We had Mama Cahuna for a while when I was little, has a fun ring to it imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like dope because of the ambiguity.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kush is my most frequent, but jazz cabbage is probably my favorite

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mostly use cannabis, especially if I'm taking about cbd, cbn, cbg. Often weed if i mean thc.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

when my wife or I asked each other if we want to go out for a smoke, we call it a "poof"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dated somebody whose family used that as a synonym for farting. So thank you for taking it outside!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pingu or "take a kayak."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Scott Green

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jive Parsley & Cabbage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

CBD.

Living in a prohibition state it helps make it sound legal.

[–] fuzzy_feeling 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Electric lettuce

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I call it grass, sometimes dope, lol! Showing my age, too 🙃!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah “pot” is the best term

— an old person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Weed or cabbage.

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