List of slang names for cannabis


More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for marijuana and hashish, the dried leaves and flowers harvested from cannabis for drug use, including:

Slang names for cannabis

Slang names for marijuana or hashish

Most slang names for cannabis date to the jazz era, when it was called Weed, Reefer, Gauge, Jive. Weed is a commonly used slang term for marijuana. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.
Whether all of these terms are slang names is disputed by some scholars, including writers at The Boston Globe and Reason Magazine. Slang names for cannabis that were identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2017–2018 and are not corroborated by another source include:

Nigeria

Kaya, wee-wee, igbo, oja, gbana, blau, kpoli and abana.

Sweden

Flower/fruit
Hash