List of slang names for cannabis

More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use.

Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer.

Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis.

[2][3][4] Whether all of these terms are slang names is disputed by some scholars, including writers at The Boston Globe and Reason Magazine.

[10][26] Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:[27]

Pot , a common slang name for cannabis, on a sign at a 2012 cannabis rights demonstration in New York City
Weed , a commonly used slang name for cannabis, written on a banner at a Yippie smoke-in in Ohio in 1978