J
J or Jay - a joint.
Jacked Up - somebody really excited.
Jar - specific quantity of 1,000 capsules or tablets. Like a jar of [1,000] whites, reds or hits of acid.
Joint - a marijuana cigarette. Originally a can or ounce of weed was estimated to make 40 joints.
Joint Hog - what it implies, somebody who hogs the joint, a bogart.
Junkie - heroin addict, a mess. Stay away from Junkies so you don't get ripped off, or adopt their lifestyle.
K
Kansas Weed - farmed hemp with no or low THC content that was left over from WWII farming days. This hemp still grows wild in many mid western states. Usage was around 1970, and meant weed that you couldn't get stoned on. With due respect to Kansas, it has better weed and reputation for weed now.
Keif, Kief, Keef - loose pollen and resin, which is very dry and sometimes pressed, not quite hash. Very popular in Morocco, where keif is produced in large quantities. Not bound well, grainy, powdery concentrate from buds.
Key - a kilo, 1,000 grams, or brick of marijuana. A small island where smugglers hit land, as in the Florida Keys.
Keyed - when you reached your desired high.
Kilo - 2.2 pounds or 1000 grams, a metric measurement. Same thing as a key or brick of weed.
L
Laughing Grass - grass that makes you laugh. One of the best highs.
Launder - to take drug money [wash it] and make it look like legal income.
LB - pound [lb.] or 16 ounces of weed.
Leafy - too many leaves in your stash and not enough buds.
Lebanese Blond - a light colored type of hashish from Lebanon.
Lebanese Red - a red or rust colored hashish from Lebanon.
Left Overs - rolling up all your roaches into a new joint. A cocktail.
Lid - a measurement of grass. Origin from use of the lid as a rolling surface on a metal Prince Albert tobacco can, and the amount placed on the lid to sell. About an eighth of an ounce, also approximately the size of a small matchbox. Later usage was measurement equal to a can, or 1 ounce.
Light Weight - somebody who can't smoke too much.
Lines - lines of powdered cocaine rolled out with a razor blade, credit card or other object, also called spider legs.
Load - means a smuggler's load or cargo of illegal drugs. The amount smuggled. It can mean jail or prison time, as in "the judge gave me a load [of time]."
Loaded - high on weed, or some other drug.
LSD - a mold found on a grain of wheat, and chemically reproduced for a psychedelic colorful high. Illegal in the U.S. Also known as acid. Owsley was the preferred chemist for acid. Orange Sunshine, Purple Haze and Window Pane were all popular types.
M
M - marijuana.
Mainline - a hype, a needle user. Mainline is direct to a vein. "He mainlines."
Mama Coca - mythical Goddess of cocaine, reported by explorer Colombus and those after him.
Man - a cop or cops. The man who can arrest you and put you away.
Marbled - stoned.
Marijuana - cannabis in any natural unprocessed form, either growing or harvested.
Marijuana Medic - your dealer, or connection. The person who has what you want. Your Doctor.
Mary Jane - marijuana, grass, weed, pot, cannabis.
Maui Wowie - a strong strain of weed grown on the Island of Maui.
Matchbox - a container for stash, depending on size, a large matchbox was a measurement for an ounce whereas a small matchbox was a measure for about an eighth of weed.
Mellow - your high is just right. Getting high to get the edge off and you're where you want to be. I'm mellow. Passing on a hit because your mellow.
Mellowed Out - just the place where you want to be. Peaceful with your high.
Mescaline - synthetic peyote, like acid with colors and trails. Usually purple and in tablet form.
Mexican Brown - heroin that looks like finely ground pepper. Don't use this.
Micky - joint with weed and hash. "I rolled you a Micky."
Mini Cross Tops - small white tablets with an X on one side, a stimulant.
Moroccan - Hash or keif with origination in Morocco, just south of Spain and in Africa.
Mota - grass, weed, rope.
Mule - a person who is a transporter in the smuggling scene, a runner. Usually works for the smuggler or is part of his crew. Transports a quantity of pounds for the smuggler.
Munchies - when you have the urge to eat after smoking. The snacks around to eat when stoned.
Mushroom - as in magic mushroom, a laughing mellow high.
N
Narc - a narcotics officer.
Nepalese - hashish from the country of Nepal high in Himalayan mountains.
Nail - a custom built compartment to hide a mule's or smuggler's load.
Number - a joint or blunt. "Do you have a number?" "Wanna smoke a number?"
Nug or Nugget - a bud of grass.
O
Offed - sold some drugs. "I offed a few pounds."
Owsley - LSD chemist, the brand name for LSD or acid, the Bay Area chemist of choice.
Ounce - 28 grams, a U.S. standard measure for cannabis, which is bought by the ounce, pound, or gram. Also a can, lid, Oz., bag, etc.
Out of Sight - origin: Cape Canaveral on a good rocket shot into space, used to exclaim something really good or outstanding. "That lady is out of sight."
Oz or OZEE - slang for an ounce of weed. Down under in New Zealand and Australia, it's O ZED.
P
Pakistani - hashish from Pakistan. Usually a slab of dark hash.
Panama Red - a legendary cannabis with a rusty color bud, smuggled into the U.S. in the late '60s and early '70s. Some claim it was from Panama, while others claim it was from British Honduras, now the English speaking Central American country of Belize. Some claim it never existed, but it did. A song, good nickname, etc.
Panhandle - to beg for money. Hold your hand out and ask for money. Panhandle is also reference to the thin part of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park which runs along Oak and Fell Streets, near the Haight - Ashbury area. Star Trek movie was filmed on the panhandle, it's where the Enterprise was parked and cloaked.
Papers - cigarette rolling papers.
Paranoid - scared, either rationally or irrationally. The pot or acid can be too strong for the smoker and he loses it, or the cops are after him. The right amount is merely recognition of caution. Catch 22 - just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
Paraphernalia - the smokers accessories available by mail or at your local headshop. These can be illegal if used for the wrong purpose.
Parsley - PCP, angel dust mixed with parsley or weed and smoked.
Party Lights - a cop who turned his red and blue lights on you.
PCP - animal tranquilizer, in crystal, liquid, or powder form, mixed with weed or parsley and smoked.
Pink - newer user who suffers from paranoia and giggling.
People's Park - a place in Berkeley, CA, where riots occurred. The cyclone fence was pushed over on to the ground, and people put their furniture in the streets, and set it on fire. The National Guard came out and fired tear gas on the rioters. Rioters unscrewed fire hydrants and passed out wet towels which they put over their heads and faces to stop the stinging.
Peyote - small round cactus, used for centuries by American Indians for colorful induced religious experiences. Green cactus with short frayed, white string like pieces. Remove the arsenic, the hard particle just under the fray. Dried and ground up, it looks like nutmeg or brown pepper. Eaten or smoked to give a colorful high.
Pinhead - a thin joint. A closed minded person. Somebody who interrupts your high.
Pinner - a thin joint mostly paper. Either it's the last of your stash or some really good pot.
Popo - police.
Popped - busted, arrested by the cops.
Pot - a term used for cannabis. Origin: where people pooled their money into a pot to buy grass, like an ante into a pot before playing a hand of poker. The money pot became the grass pot. "I want my [part of the] pot !"
Pot Hound - somebody who can always find weed.
Pound - 16 ounces. A pound bag of grass.
Primo - top quality weed, like chronic. Hash can be a primo hash.
Prince - name for weed, from Prince Albert tobacco can.
Psychedelic - a colorful smooth laughing high. A drug induced new dimension.
Pusher - a person who will sell you any type of drug and is actually pushy about it. He wants you hooked on heroin or something else so he can get your every paycheck. Stay away.
Purple Haze - famous hit of acid, in Jimmy Hendrix song. It really existed.
Q
Quill - a joint.
R
Razor Blade - used to chop up cocaine. Also used are the thin edge of a credit card, or knife.
Red - name for grass, from red Prince Albert tobacco can. Bud color and hairs can be red too.
Reds - downers, depressant, Seconal made by Eli Lilly in a red capsule.
Reg or Regs - low to mid range Mexican weed. It can mean either bricks or small stash.
Resin - the THC found in the female plant, used in making hashish. Resin gets you high in any form.
Rhubarb - a condom, rubber protection for sex. "Did you bring a Rhubarb."
Righteous - good, fair, outstanding. Such as I made a righteous deal, or he's a righteous person.
Ripped - means really stoned or loaded.
Ripped Off - robbed in a drug transaction. Cash or drugs are stolen. Paying good money for bad or bunk weed. In the early '70s if you bought Kansas weed in California you were ripped off. Also a rip off artist, con man.
Roach - the small end of a smoked joint. The paper looks brown and burned down to the roach.
Roach Clip - a holder for the roach. Alligator clips, tweezers, a split paper match, or just about anything will work as a roach clip. Purpose is for safety, not to burn your fingers.
Rope - grass, weed, mota, hemp.
Runner - a transporter of marijuana for a smuggler or part of his crew, a mule.
Rush - a euphoric feeling which comes over your entire body.
S
Sage - weed, grass, cannabis. The actual sage herb when lit smells like burning marijuana. Also an enlightened teacher or person.
Schwag - nutsty weed, also swag.
Score - to get something. Like, I scored some weed. I scored with that foxy lady. Better off than before, because you scored.
Sinsemilla - the totally or mostly seedless bud of a cannabis plant. Supposed to have higher THC.
Sensi - sinsemilla, colas, buds, mostly or completely seedless.
Seedy - too many seeds in your stash. You can't smoke the seeds.
Shake - the smaller particles of cannabis after you break up a brick, or clean seeds out of buds. Shake is the smaller particles in the bottom of a bag and is always ready to roll up into a joint.
Shark Fin - a flat thin sheet of hash, shaped like a shark's fin.
Shotgun - where the joint is reversed and the burning end is placed into a mouth and smoke is blown out of the mouth end to a ready smoker. The first vaporizer. Also guys in Nam would reverse the joint and then blow the smoke through the chamber end of a 12 gauge pump action 'shotgun' and the smoker would breath in the smoke from the shotguns muzzle. It gives a fast and massive high.
Sierra Roach Clip - a pine needle wrapped around the roach.
Skeleton Key Hole - circle of sunshine at the crotch, when the right lady wears tight pants.
Skink - a skinny nasty looking lady.
Skins - large rolling papers.
Skunk Weed - smells like a skunk.
Slab- as in a large flat piece of hashish.
Slate - slab, a large flat piece of hashish which may resemble a slate rock roofing shingle.
Smoke - cannabis, weed, grass, stash, marijuana. "Do you have some smoke?"
Smoker - a bud smoker.
Smuggler - an illegal cannabis importer, a drug smuggler, one who faces arrest, and long prison time and fines if caught. Transports by cargo container, plane, boat, car, truck, backpack or some other secret and creative method.
Sniffing Candy - cocaine, a very addictive substance. Stay away and you won't loose your home.
Snitch - one who talks to the man and who will get you busted.
Snort - to inhale cocaine powder up one's nostrils usually through a straw or off a knife blade, from a small coke spoon or from a rolled up dollar bill. The engraved ink on a dollar will stop part of the cocaine and although used is really not desirable. Stay away from cocaine.
Snow - cocaine. Stay off this stuff.
Space Cadet - a new stoner, who is learning about drugs and getting stoned.
Spaced Out - stoned in another world.
Speed - crystal meth.
Speed Freak - somebody hooked on crystal meth.
Speed Kills - there is no truer statement about crystal meth.
Spider Leg(s) - rolled out line(s) of cocaine, usually on a mirror.
Stash - the amount of marijuana stashed on your person or elsewhere. Small amount or a smugglers load or stash.
Stems - throwaway from stash. The unsmokable cannabis sticks and branches.
Stemy - bought too many stems in your stash.
Stress - nutsty weed. Have to smoke more bowls to try to get high which stresses a smoker out. Like farming hemp with low or no THC content.
Sticky-Icky - buds that are hella sticky.
Stoked - euphoric high, used by surfers to describe the feeling of the perfect wave, and stoners to describe their high, as in "I'm stoked."
Stoned - high on weed. It can be barely stoned or really stoned. If really stoned you might not talk or move, and since you are perfectly still, you are basically a stone.
Straight - a person who doesn't get stoned on weed and doesn't understand the drug culture. Also when a stoner isn't stoned he's straight.
Stomped On - this term refers to cutting drugs with a non drug. Cocaine used to be sold with the caveat that it was stomped on 3 or 4 times. This told the buyer the purity of the product.
Sunshine - famous orange tablet or hit of acid. Also the circle of sunshine showing at the crotch when a lady wears tight pants. Skeleton key hole.
Swag, Schwag - hemp with no or low THC content, Bunk. Also stands for Scientific Wild Ass Guess.
Swallows - one who is inexperienced with smoking and swallows the smoke into the stomach. A Bud Bunny who can smoke may swallow something else. As Austin Powers said, "Is it spits or swallows?"
T
Tab - a tablet or pressed pill as opposed to a capsule. As in a tab or hit of acid.
Taste - free sample.
Temple Balls - round balls of hashish, usually shiny black, sometimes dark brown. Nepalese Temple Balls are the most famous type of hashish with the cannabis and hash originally produced by religious orders in the Himalayan mountains. Can be gum ball or baseball in size.
The One - early Bay Area hash oil in about 1971. Made by the Cosmic Traveler.
Thai Sticks - uniform rolls of weed bound by hemp strips around a small bamboo twig. Sausage shape and about 5- 10 inches long. Brought back to the U.S. by Viet Nam soldiers in the '60s and early '70s. Some good ass weed. Available in Amsterdam, but mostly dried out and not as uniform as what our heros brought back to us.
THC - the chemical, get high content in cannabis. Usually varies from 0-16%.
Thirteen - M is the 13th letter of the alphabet. 13 means marijuana.
Tight - a feeling when stoned. "My head's tight now." Also a description of something real cool.
Toasted - stoned. Maybe so stoned that there's no more smoking tonight. End of the party.
Toke - a hit or puff taken of marijuana smoke.
Toker - one who smokes.
Tracks - needle marks running up and down an arm or leg. Railroad tracks from multiple needle marks. If a hype gets too many tracks they will usually switch to hitting up between their toes.
Trails - while high seeing an illusion following something. Like a comet trail. Flowing and following, an object can appear to be moving and followed by it's own spread out image.
Trip - using LSD or acid.
Triple beam - a standard cannabis dealer's scale to weigh bricks and grams on.
Trippin' - usually as with LSD or acid. "Trippin' out on acid."
Tube - a pipe.
Tulip - a specially rolled joint with a big bulge full of weed at or near the end.
Tweeked Out - laughing your ass off, or even paranoid. Somebody who lost it.
Twisted - really stoned, or the ends of a joint may be twisted shut.
Twister - an irregular shaped joint, or a joint that gets you twisted.
U
Up Line - any person in the drug operation or chain who is above the buyer of drugs. Up line connection or dealer.
Uppers - stimulants, white tablets with an X on one side.
V
Venom - THC content.
Viper - a smoker.
W
Wad - a dealer's pocket full of cash.
Wasted - really stoned to the point of being wasted.
Waxed - a state of being real stoned.
Wax Paper Bag - these were used to hold stash after the loss of popularity of Prince Albert cans.
Waxed Pepper - joint.
Weed - cannabis, marijuana, grass in natural or harvested state.
Wet Lipped - slobber on a joint. Putting your mouth on the joint and soaking it. Don't smoke with these people. "She wet lipped my joint."
Whites - uppers, stimulants, cross tops. White tablets with a X on one side.
Wigged Out - freaked out, scared, perhaps not to an extreme.
Winterland - place where great concerts were held in San Francisco.
Wonked Out - really stoned.
Z
Zapped - high enough, smoked enough, tired, ready for bed. "I'm zapped."
Zipped - very high.
Zippo - Great lighter, doubles as a roach clip.
Zombie - smoked till you can't move.
Zonked Out - totally stoned out, or end of the party, ready to sleep.
Zonker - real good weed. "I got some zonker smoke."
Hippy-Head/Stoner' Glossary
Bag: A subject of interest, as in "That's her new bag."
Babylon: Mainstream societry as created by the Capitalist war machine; the "straight" world.
Bread: Money.
Bummer: A sad state of affairs..also an annoying friend or situation.
Burned out: Exhausted, tired or totally bored.
Chick: Hippie girl.
Cool: How beautiful, great, interesting, as in, "You're so cool."
Crash: To sleep, or in extreme cases, to "pass out."
Dig: To take pleasure in and/or understand, as in "Can you dig it?" "I can dig it."
Down with: Something you also "Put Down" or dissaprove of--like "Down with War."
Drop in: To cut your hair, put your bra back on and get a 9 to 5.
Drop out: To go back to the land, not work in the 'system' or society, off the grid.
(The) Dream: The utopian society that hippies hoped to create.
Foxy Lady: Really cute or sexy hippie chick.
Freak: A dyed-in-the-wool hippie (used as a compliment)..also used for someone who takes a lot of Acid..like "Acid Freak"
Grass: Marijuana. Also, Acapulco red, Aunt Mary, bammy, bhang, brocolli, bud, Buddha, chiba, dank, doob, dope, endo, four tenty, funk, ganja, green, hay, herb, hydro, indo, jay, kif, Marley, Mary Jane, Maui wowie, nug, pakalolo, pot, reefer, shake, good nuts, shrub, sinsemilla, skunk, smoke, stuff, tea, wacky tobacky, weed.
Groove: To really enjoy--"Groovin on the tunes."
Groovy: Really cool--"stylin"-"fresh"--"What a groovy Old Lady you have."
Head: One who indulges in a subject of interest, as in "pothead." "deadhead," or "acidhead."
(The) Man: The establishment, or any type of authority figure or instituion, Cops.
Old Lady: Be carfeul now! SunInMoon loves the name but women's lib put it down and is most irritating to today's "chicks"...usually I spell it "Ole Lady"-Man,what a world. It lovingly means girlfriend, partner or wife.
Old Man: Boyfriend partner or husband. Another loving expression.
Outa Sight: Totally cool, the greatest, wonderful.."What an outa sight CD."
Pigs: The police, cops, fuzz, any person with a badge and can arrest you.
Rap: To talk or discuss issues. "I need to rap to you."
Split: To leave, go away. "I'm splitting..see you later."
Square or Straight: Someone who is not a hippie or cool-mainstream.
Trip: An unusual experience good or bad.
Tune In : To focus on, seperate the lies from the truth, be infomed, be conscious.
Turn on: To please through the introduction of drugs or some other stimulation. To be exicited about something.
Wasted: The feeling of being burned out.
Wheels: Your car, bus or truck.