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Dictionary for Heads

This is, very much, a work in progress. Enjoy.

A

Acid Freak - somebody who loves to take LSD, also known as acid. You can usually spot them.

Afghani - a finely processed hashish from Afghanistan. Dark slabs or 1/2" thin long bricks of hash from Afghanistan. These may come in many different shapes depending on how smuggled. Good taste, blue-gray smoke, good high. In the late '60s the price for an ounce ranged from $60 to $80 in the San Francisco area. Some early Afghani and Pakistani hash was allegedly bound with motor oil, and the smoke looked the same color as from an oil burning car. If available today, this hash might cost $300 to $500 for an ounce in the U.S.

Amsterdam - smoke city in the Netherlands, where coffee shops [smoke shops] are abundant and display menus of their hashish and weed. You can go there and openly smoke what you want. Also pre-rolled cones (joints) are available.

Angel Dust - PCP (animal tranquilizer) laced parsley, or weed which is smoked. Popularized by the Hell's Angels, who had labs, made and sold this chemical. Hence the name Angel dust, which also implies the high of floating. Not recommended for use. Comes in crystal or on the parsley.

AK - better than mid range quality of weed.

Al - name, means weed in older usage. Al was short for the red Prince Albert can, the standard underground cannabis container for an ounce of weed. Al, Prince, or Red.

Armadillo Express - a smuggling operation from Jalisco, Mexico in the 70s. They were armed and dangerous, running many loads of high quality grass into the U.S. Mexican officials were allegedly paid off along their well used travel route. This name was stamped on the white tissue paper wrapped around big bricks, which were then wrapped in plastic wrap. Bricks usually weighed 3 lbs. and looked bigger than a loaf of bread.

B

B. C. - high quality bud from British Columbia, Canada. Also cocaine from Bogota, Colombia.

Back up - somebody you have who is not seen for a large drug deal. Unseen bodyguards. If the deal goes bad they move in to stop the ripoff or save your ass. Usually will have guns.

Bag - a measurement of cannabis. Usually an ounce, or an eighth of an ounce. Used as nickel or dime bag too, referring to the cost. When the Prince Albert can lost usage weed was hidden in wax paper bags. Later came the plastic Glad bag (ever wonder about the name 'GLAD'?) with a flap, then zip lock bags.

Baggie - the plastic Glad bag for holding stash.

Baked - really high, stoned, loaded on weed.

Bale - a big brick, usually 40 lbs. or more, however any pressed brick over 10 pounds can be called a bale.

Balloon - an uninflated balloon, used by heroin addicts to hold their heroin. Carried in the mouth or even (dangerously) swallowed for smuggling or when busted to hide the stash. Red is the preferred color.

Banana - shape of a joint, also name for a joint.

Blasted - really stoned.

Blazed - really stoned on weed. Smoked a lot of weed.

Blaze one - to fire up a joint.

Blow - cocaine, actually you vacuum the crushed powder up your nose.

Blunt- a marijuana cigarette or rolled in a tobacco leaf as in Blunts. Also joint, stick, reefer, smoke, cone, and many other slang words. A seam cut along a cigar where tobacco is removed and cannabis is placed to smoke.

Bogart - won't give up the joint. Holding it too long while others are waiting to take a hit.

Bong - an illegal term for a wide open mouth water pipe. A tube pipe. Bong is a prohibited word in pipe shops throughout the U.S. Don't use this term in a pipe shop as you will be thrown out.

Boo - name used for cannabis by jazz musicians in the late 30s to 50s.

Bomber - a huge joint. Could be rolled 4 to 10 inches long, and assembled from many papers.

Border - the imaginary or legal international line between 2 different countries. This is the line smugglers cross with their illegal cargo. Also the line where you have reached your high. You made it to the border.

Brick - a pressed kilo (2.2 pounds or 1000 grams) of cannabis or coke in the shape of a brick. Although the U.S. uses standard measurements, the usage caught on. Bricks can weigh much more or less than a kilo. Bricks can be made any size, but if over 10 pounds they are usually referred to as bales. You always "break up" a brick when you pull the pressed cannabis buds apart.

Brownie - a marijuana brownie baked with weed in the mix.

Bud - the concentration of growth on a female cannabis plant for purposes of reproduction. The desired part of a cannabis plant for use in smoking, keif and hash production. Colas.

Bud Bunny - female who likes to smoke bud and jump into bed.

Bud Life - The ezine of the lifestyles of marijuana smokers and smugglers, www.budlife420.com

Bunk - bad weed, like the low THC content of farmed hemp.

Bummer - bad time, bad trip, person or event which brings you down.

Burned - when a drug deal goes bad. Either your money is gone or you bought some bunk. Ripped off in a bad transaction. Robbed.

Burned Out - had too much smoke and ready for bed. Smoking too much over a long time.

Bush - means marijuana either growing or dried. Father and son Presidents of the United States, both promoting the war on drugs. Tired, as in he's bushed.

Bush Oak - an Okie or red neck who likes to smoke weed.

Busted - arrested during a drug deal, or for possession.

Buzz - the buzzing sound you may hear or a body buzz from smoking good weed. "I have a buzz on." "I'm buzzed."

Contest

Bud Life is running a contest to add to the dictionary for heads.

The rules are these:

• Contest starts 1 June 2002.
• Contest ends 1 August 2002.
• There will be five winners.
• Each winner will receive the "Frog From Above" CD by the band Buzzd.
• You can submit as many different definitions as you want.
• All submissions become the property of Bud Life.
• Panama Red will judge.
• Winners will be announced 1 September 2002 via Smoke Signals, our email list, and on this page.
• We will also send an email to each winner requesting a name and mailing address to which to ship the CD.

To enter, click here.

Let the game begin.