CBD.
Living in a prohibition state it helps make it sound legal.
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My brother and I use several terms interchangeably. Usually just weed, but medicine and flower, and sometimes herb get used a bit when we feel like changing it up.
Pretty boring selection most of the time.
Oh, almost forgot "stuff". Yeah we're kind of boring lol.
Weed.
Gotta stick with the classics.
Pingu or "take a kayak."
when my wife or I asked each other if we want to go out for a smoke, we call it a "poof"
Boon.
I try to avoid terms that demonize or leads to alluding to war on drugs.
So the only correct term, is cannabis.
I don’t call my kids or my adhd meds meth, speed, amphetamines, etc. so I refuse to acknowledge the same for this medicine.
I respect that. What about "traditional" names like ganja?
Dank.
Electric lettuce
I usually call it "pot," but then multiple people said I sound like an old person, so now I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I guess I'll start calling it "dope."
Yeah “pot” is the best term
— an old person
Jazz cabbage or the Devil’s lettuce
In french, the most common name is probably "beu" which is a contraction of "beuher" which is verlan (a type of slang where you reverse the word) for "herbe".
This was distorted in a movie to "beuze" , which was then given the verlan treatment again (this happens often) to "zeb", hence my personal favorite "zebuline". Mind you, that's not a common name that's a personal one I use often.
We had Mama Cahuna for a while when I was little, has a fun ring to it imo.
Scott Green
Devil's lettuce, Mary Jane and "marahuana" (in the Hank Hill voice) are probably my favorites that immediately come to mind
sticky icky in hank hill voice is pretty fun
Herb or flower
Wacky tobacky
I absolutely abhor tobacco way too much to use that.
Also the first time I actually heard it used was that country song, so I hate it even more on top of that.
Although I do respect that outside that context it is kinda funny. But not my choice.
The Sticky Icky
jk that stuff ~~does not exist anymore~~ is rare now. Just this dessicated prepackaged nonsense.
When we were youths, I read the Beatles had a code phrase, something like let's have a laugh(?). Then, a friend and I were laughing a little too much when we saw Joe Walsh's record titled Got Any Gum? That became our code phrase.
that stuff does not exist anymore
Lies! You just need to grow it yourself or make friends with a grower. I live in a legal state and have two great dispensaries in my town, but I still frequent a few local growers more often since it's cheaper and better!
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage. It is true, I have visited old friends up in the Bay Area not too long ago, and the real stuff can still be acquired but it is no longer common or easy to acquire. The idea of local growers is really great. It should be a farmer's market commodity. That would be brilliant. But, no, some time back, legal dispensaries in California were forced to package everything. Prior to that, when they were initially launched, they'd weigh out the fresh stuff in front of you and put it in a container that didn't make you want to wring their necks. The packaging alone is an atrocity against the environment.
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage.
Has brought "this garbage" as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?
Because if it's the former, I'd like to know why you think that is, and if you think that cartel violence would've been smaller if instead of slowly decriminalising and having problems with clashing with federal law, it could've been made 100% legal (but regulated) instantly back some years ago?
Because sometimes I tend to think that cartels won't want to give away their markets and since they may also wield indirect political influence, some decriminalisation will help them and some will hurt them.
And I think if it was legal properly and easily as other products the cartel couldn't compete just by being violent because of the amount of people participating in supply. They'd actually have to make good weed. And if they're just growing weed instead of gunning people down they're not really a problem anymore.
And since they could actually use the courts then, and it's smarter for business than straight up wars/gun violence.. They'd become just like another corporation in any other market.
I'm in backwards Finland. Been growing for some decades. Supply has increased and Finland doesn't need to import weed from anywhere so we don't have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees. But since Germany legalised, we're prolly gonna follow in like 15 years time.
Has brought “this garbage” as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?
Caused more of the dehydrated stuff. It's not even garbage before it's processed, of course. The cartel factor is something I'm imagining is a whole other problem as I'm not fully informed on that but some of it was in response to commercialization being something they could exploit. My mom lives out in a rural area and she told me a lot of her conservative neighbors jumped on the bandwagon, put up greenhouses on their farms without permits. Enough time has passed where most of them even got busted and the more cartel-connected greenhouses (at least near her) were all raided and slashed to the ground, are now abandoned ecological disasters.
I agree with you the rollout and the naivete of legislation contributed to the opportunities for organized crime to rush in and fill the void.
Supply has increased and Finland doesn’t need to import weed from anywhere so we don’t have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees.
Yeah, we have never needed to import so supply and demand isn't the only driver. The fact that we are Alta California, connected to Baja California explains the sort of Breaking Bad networks that can flow up and down. I no longer live in the Bay Area so I don't hear too much about this but I knew people who described a whole other world, say North of San Francisco. I'm ashamed to say I grew up exploring California but, like most folks, true Northern California is an enigma to most of us. I believe the people I know who have firsthand descriptions of it. We've been friends for a long time and they had friends who were running their own illegal ops going way back to before our clumsy legalization.
Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.
Oh yeah the borders are much softer there and the interactions politically far more complex.
We just share a large landborder with Russia and that's pretty much empty all around it. We've even designed roads to only run parallel to the border around there, so if Russia were to invade, there's no roads leading directly inwards towards the country.
That's where any legitimate organised crime threat in Finland would've come. But since we're also very small and Russian government acts very much like the Russian mafia, lol, our equivalent of the FBI, KRP, very much keeps on it's toes.
California has a 40mil population, Finland like 5.5. In California, there's a 40% population of Hispanics and Latinos. From our 5.5 there's less than 1.7% who even speak Russian.
I'm just saying that even putting all the drug trade aside, trade of every sort, cultural exchange and just exchange of people and migration and ideas in general, is, I daresay, more common there.
Because while we have small borders with northern Sweden and Norway as well, there's not much industrial scale drug growing going on up there by cartels. :D
Now with the added sanctions towards Russia in the past years, it seems some hash route shut down. A bit annoying, they manage good hash nowadays. (It was black and tough as the bottom of your shoe in the early 00's.)
Yeah back to the business, I know exactly the type of shit you're talking about, which is why I grow my own. I think industrial trimming, then drying and the buds getting tumbled a ton while absolutely bone dry is what causes quite a lot of the shit quality.
It's very different if you hand trim and slowly cure them, never letting the relative humidity drop below like 55%. The two-way RH bags I use for curing are 62% or 59%. But I haven't tried trying to dry with just those and a long long time, I usually allow them to hang dry a few days before putting them into humidity controlled boxes. I could try the full 62% cure though, but it would be better if there was also proper ventilation.
Oh yeah homegrowing indoors has been very much a really popular thing pretty globally for like 15 years since LEDs started breaking through. Before that you'd have huge HPS lamps. It's not any different, theyre just hotter and louder and less efficient etc, and you'd need to actually have an actual grow room.
Now with tiny leds people can do all sorts of sneaky micro groweries as well.
Instead of discussing this I should be trimmin and training my plants which are just going to flower. I'm too lazy
Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.
No, we don't. People idealise it a bit too much. It's different, and probably objectively better on average, but I would definitely not back up that statement. We're far more authoritarian than you'd think. I'll link a thread after I browse for it and edit and you can have a bit of a gander as to what I mean instead of us having to get into it here
The thread starting from my comment here https://lemmy.world/comment/15812994
Reefer
I used to call it kale for a while
That's an insult to weed man.
Sounds like you don’t have an adventurous palate 😁
I was juicing kale for a while.. It tasted like bitter stagnant mud.
I wouldn’t juice that shit. I love it in salads and soups. The texture makes it.
Ganj
I mostly use cannabis, especially if I'm taking about cbd, cbn, cbg. Often weed if i mean thc.
Weed, herb, or pot. In order of frequency.
Occasionally the more fun names like devils lettuce and wacky tobacky haha
Kush is my most frequent, but jazz cabbage is probably my favorite
Not sure of its origin, but it's been called Bubatz in Germany for a couple years now, so I sometimes, mostly jokingly, say Bubatz. My SO and I usually say Bubert because couples speak or Weedle like the Pokemon because 'weed'
Favorite word is a better question but in common speech I'll generally just say weed.
Mary Juana
I like dope because of the ambiguity.
Jive Parsley & Cabbage
Gigglebush
Flower
ott
Dank
Boof
Probably jazz cabbage or the Devil's lettuce.
Weed or cabbage.