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Dictionary for Heads

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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."

C

Can - noun, an ounce of weed. Place where weed was kept, as in a Prince Albert tobacco can, standard bulk measurement for approximately 1 ounce of cannabis, can - means one ounce. In later usage a can was the measurement and name for a 1 ounce bag of weed.

Cancun - beautiful Mexican city on the Gulf of Mexico. A Caribbean beach town, with modern hotels, bars, local and tourist women, and with an old town too. Cuban cigars, Sam's Club, and whatever you need. Pyramids are just south of Cancun, as is the country of Belize.

Candy - cocaine. Not recommended. Easily addictive and expensive habit.

Canoe - uneven burning of a joint along one side. A little spit will slow it down and even it out.

Cannabis - noun, Latin for marijuana. In 2 species, sativa, and indica. A weed with green finger like leaves, growing into a bush. The male flowers and pollinates the sticky budding female hairs producing small seeds. THC is a natural psychotropic byproduct of the ready to produce female. This plant grows naturally in all parts of the world and is found naturally growing in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and other mid western states. Used for cooking, oils, production of hemp for rope, clothing, bird seed, and numerous other uses. In the U.S. it was legal until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, and now is subject to total eradication from the face of the earth by the U.S. war on drugs. Many users smoke this for recreation and to ease pain. Many users plant their seeds along rivers, lakes and ponds, to help this endangered plant. Millions of people have been arrested, and lost their property to the government for possession and use of this weed.

Cap - a capsule as opposed to a pressed pill or tablet. A bullet in or from a gun.

Carburetor - a supercharged hit, made possible when another opening is allowed to open. A hole on a pipe or tube to adjust the smoke. Originally a cardboard paper towel tube made into a pipe with foil, and when your hand was released over the end you opened the carburetor.

Cashed - when your bud is burned into ashes. Time to fill up another bowl?

Caterpillar - a nice fat joint.

Chilim - a simple straight pipe held vertically, usage mostly in Morocco. Usually made of clay.

China White - 90-100% pure white powder heroin from Viet Nam, or another Asian country. sometimes used by G.Is. and shipped home in letters.

Chippie - somebody who says they quit drugs, and still parties, but less. Not being true about what they say. Cheating but probably cheating themselves. Used in cocaine circles.

Chips - highway patrol or state troopers.

Chronic - is damned good weed.

Clone - a duplicate plant, easily made by cutting a branch off a bush and putting it in a rooting hormone and water, or soil where it will grow its own roots and become an adult plant.

Cobra head - a shape of finger hash pinched at the end to resemble a cobra's head. Nepalese hash.

Coca Plant - a small slow growing tree similar to a coffee bean plant. Grows in South America, Java, at elevations of 1,000 to 5,000 feet and is best at a temperature of 70 degrees. Frost will kill these delicate plants. Small round green leaves are harvested at about 18 months, and the best years of production for these plants living up to 40 years is from 4 to 8 years. Always trimmed back, these trees are kept about 2-1/2 to 5 feet tall. 1-1/2 acres may produce an annual yield of 800 to 950 kilos of these green leaves, which can be harvested all year long. Indians chewed these leaves to break down the alkaloid substance called cocaine. This gave them stamina, and also rotted out their teeth. Spanish encouraged the Natives to use these leaves to get more work out of them; in mining, oyster pearl diving, and other hard labor. Still legal today for Indians who sell the green leaves out of shopping carts pushed down the sidewalks of Bogota, Colombia and in other areas. Processing into cocaine is accomplished by breaking down the cell structure of green leaves in a shallow pool and with use of chemicals. The leaves are removed and the liquid dried, and packaged.

Cocktail - taking all your roaches and mixing them into a new joint. Putting a roach, hash or pot into the end of your cigarette.

Colas - the large buds on a growing plant, or cut to dry.

Cold Turkey - going on the wagon and not smoking any weed; taking the biggest hit possible, holding it and passing out, cold turkey.

Collapsed - this describes a heroin junkie, who shot up so many times his/her veins collapsed.

Colombian Gold - a type of cannabis grown in Colombia, with a tobacco color bud. A good high.

Commercial - Mexican weed that is just the regular crop. Also Reg. Nothing exotic, just the average grade Mexican weed.

Concentrate - hash oil, or trying to get straight from a high.

Cone - a joint, the norm in Amsterdam is one where weed is mixed with tobacco. Cones are rolled bigger on the lit end and smaller at the lip end. Sometimes they have a filter. You can buy ready made cones in tapered plastic holders, or just the empty cone and load it your self.

Connection - your hook up, your dealer where you get your weed.

Cooker - somebody who makes speed or meth. Stay away from cookers and their product.

Cop and Kop - to score some drugs. I copped some weed. Also the man.

Crash - time to go to bed. Party is over and it's time to crash. "I'm crashing now." "Let's crash." "Are you crashing [sleeping] here tonight?"

Creeper - a bud that comes out of your bowl when lit; or a canoeing joint.

Crew - the support team for a smuggler. A crew may help in many ways, like surveillance, setting up deals, advance travel, but usually they refuel a plane, operate a boat, help unload and stash the cargo. If loyal they won't talk and may distribute amounts of the stash to wholesalers and large dealers. A crew can give a smuggler insulation from meeting people, or can blab the whole operation and get the smuggler busted. Crews are usually paid in weed which they sell to get cash.

Crisp, Crispy - toasted, stoned, high, etc. Are you crispy yet?

Cross Tops - uppers, stimulants, white tablets with an X on one side.

Crystal - meth, speed, or PCP.

Cured - method of drying weed, is curing weed. Weed could be sprayed or dipped into other substances like embalming fluid, and be cured with the fluid.

D

Dank - better than chronic, hella good weed.

Dealer - a fair person who sells drugs, and has good quality for a good price. He is available but not pushy in trying to sell his product. Distinguished from a pusher, who will do whatever he can to get your every paycheck. Dealers usually do not go beyond cannabis.

Dome - head. "I got domed last night."

Doobie - a joint.

Dove(s) - kilo or brick of cocaine. Cocaine is white so a dove is like a giant bar of Dove soap.

Dovetail - the shape on the mouth end of a joint. Mouth end in a flat, wide, dovetail shape.

Downline - a person below the smuggler in any aspect of selling drugs. It can be a wholesaler or the ultimate consumer.

Downers - depressants like Seconal, also known as reds. Reds come in capsules.

Drip - one who uses cocaine may have a nasal drip.

Dry - no weed around, or bad weed for high prices. After the harvest is sold and before the next crop becomes available. Hold back some weed to make it through the dry season. Historically from around Feb.- June. If you find good shit when it's dry you will pay a high price.

E

Eight-Forty - means by 8:40 p.m. you're twice as high as 4:20.

Eighth - 3.5 grams, 1/8th ounce bag of weed.

English Sniffing Candy - older term (1800s) for cocaine.

F

Farm - place where somebody is growing weed.

Far Out - cool, a novel observation, etc.

Fifth - as in 5th amendment. Don't be a witness against yourself, invoke the 5th till you get hold of an attorney.

Fillmore - area in San Francisco which was predominantly a black neighborhood. Concert hall on Fillmore St. where Bill Graham had his first concerts before moving to Fillmore West.

Finger - parts of a cannabis leaf, or the shape of hash and opium. Finger hash is common. To turn somebody into the cops.

Finger Hash - hash shaped like a finger, or Tootsie Roll. Nepalese finger hash.

Fink - snitch, one who can't be trusted, and may be giving info to the man.

Fire One Up - to light up a joint.

Flake - cocaine in flake form.

Flower Child - Hippie.

Fluff - cocaine chopped up into a fine powder, using a razor blade, knife, credit card, or other tool.

Flying High - acid trip, like in Country Joe's song.

Four-Twenty - 4:20 p.m., a time after school is over and time to light up a blunt or joint. Party time for marijuana smokers. April 20th when the world parties together. Marijuana day.

Four-Twenty-One - means chronic tardiness. You're already late for your 4:20 smoke.

Fourth - as in 4th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was to limit government from searches without a warrant. The 4th has been gutted by all courts and legislatures. A search warrant is almost meaningless today to protect your home, car, and person from search. Still you must always assert the 4th and stand on your right. You can move to suppress in court.

Fox - a pretty lady.

Freak - usually an acid freak, one who takes LSD or acid. Also one who is unstable when stoned.

Freaked Out - losing it, paranoid during an acid trip. He freaked out. Are you freaking out?

Freeze - associated with cocaine, as in a gum freeze, tooth freeze, or head freeze.

Front - to front drugs, give the drugs in advance of payment. This allows the downline person to sell the drugs and then deliver the money. Problems are downline fronting and ripoffs. Also a downliner might partake in too much of the front and not have enough to sell. This involves a trust and if not repaid the downliner might get hurt if he doesn't repay the fronter or gets robbed. Also a legitimate appearing operation or business for a drug operation.

Fronter - the person who fronts the weed.

Frost - the white color on leaves and buds usually indicating high potency.

G

Ganja or Ghanja - marijuana.

Germinate - to take seeds, add water and get them to sprout.

Glassy - a smokers eyes may get a glassy look.

Gold - a color found on cannabis hairs, and buds may dry this color. Acapulco Gold is a famous legendary cannabis bud for smokers. In nature and usage the color may vary from blond to brown.

Gram - measurement of weight. 1/1000th of a kilo. You can get busted for a gram too.

Grass - noun, means cannabis or marijuana of any variety in natural or dried form.

Green Bud - homegrown buds picked too soon.

Gringo - a Mexican term for U.S. citizens. When General Pershing occupied the Mexician border the U.S. army wore green uniforms. The Mexican's who wanted the U.S. Army out of their business said Green go [home] or Gringo. Today's usage is much less inflammatory than previous use. Today a U.S. friend or stranger could be called a Gringo without insult.

H

Haight - reference to Haight - Ashbury area in San Francisco. Popular during 1965-72 as a place to score hashish, weed, LSD, peyote, and whatever else you could imagine. It is actually an intersection of these two streets 2 blocks from the Golden Gate Park panhandle. Flower Child hangout of the Hippie days where drugs were openly sold and scored from strangers selling them on the sidewalk.

Hairs - the hairs on a female bud. Found in many colors from blond to black.

Hash or Hashish - a hard concentration of resin from cannabis buds. Good smoke.

Hash Oil - a sticky tar like concentration of hashish. In 1971, this was introduced in the Bay Area by a person who called him/herself the Cosmic Traveler.

Haul - a load of weed. The smuggler made a big haul. Also refers to the cash profit made.

Head Shop - a place to buy accessories, like papers, pipes, black light posters, etc.

Hella - means a lot.

Hemp - the lowest THC content cannabis. Usually related to farming and other nonsmoking uses. Hemp is used for making rope, clothes, paper, oil, fuel, and has many other uses.

High - euphoric state.

Hip - knows the culture, and you can trust this person. Cool person and you can let your guard down with them.

Hippie - a peace loving person who wants to go back to independent life on the land, perhaps to communal living with others. Definitely smokes pot and make take some LSD. Lifestyle was popular in the 60s and 70s, with lots of free sex. Free spirited, person who wants to be independent of the government, corporations, and self reliant.

Hit - to take some smoke off a joint or pipe. A pill or capsule of a drug. I bought a hit of acid.

Hit Up - inject a drug with a needle.

Holding - in possession of stash. "Are you holding?" Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Home Grown - weed that you grow or a connection grows. Natural buds which are not pressed.

Hookah - an eastern water pipe with a hose or many hoses for different smokers to use.

Hook Up - to meet, usually with your fellow smokers or to buy or sell weed. You wanna hook up? When can we hook up? Also to have sex, as "I hooked up with her."

Honor Among Thieves - unwritten code of ethics and honor of legitimate and yet outlaw dealers. A pusher has no honor and can't be trusted.

Hubbly Bubbly - a hookah water pipe with a tube or many tubes for smokers. Watch Alice ...

Hydro - a soiless liquid method of growing your own.

Hype - a needle user. Heroin user. A hype is usually full of excuses and a rip off. Don't let one come to your place.

I

Indica - a species of cannabis.

Indian - hashish from India.

Insulation - a person or persons who handle aspects of a drug operation, and never meet the smuggler or other people in the chain of operation. Not knowing who is behind it gives insulation from the law to others in the operation. Dealing only with people you know and letting them deal with people they know, and who you don't know and don't want to meet.

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 - shitty 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 - shitty 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.

X

None

Y

None

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."