"Pot"

this is one of those threads that you will either understand completely, or not at all. i have always put bad connotations on the word "pot". nowadays when somebody who is ignorant and against marijuana, they usually refer to it as pot. on anti marijuana commercials and websites, they always use that word, and now i never use it and neither do my friends. whenever someone says "pot" i get a strong urge to correct them. tell them to say weed or marijuana or something. i would never take offense to being called a stoner, because thats what i am. i interpret that as "one who gets stoned every now and then". but i would be offended if someone called me a pothead because they make it sound like im high all the time and im a brainless blob or something. for me it just kind of puts a more "judgemental" twist on what theyre saying.

does anyone agree? it might sound crazy, but it really pisses me off because i have never heard anyone who was against weed say something that wasnt complete bullshit.

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Originally Posted by punkrockzero

...nowadays when somebody who is ignorant and against marijuana, they usually refer to it as pot. on anti marijuana commercials and websites, they always use that word, and now i never use it and neither do my friends. whenever someone says "pot" i get a strong urge to correct them. tell them to say weed or marijuana or something. i would never take offense to being called a stoner, because thats what i am. i interpret that as "one who gets stoned every now and then"....

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call it cannabis herb, not weed, not marijuana, not pot, not dope. thats just me. i strictly call it herb, and cannabis, cuz thats what it is.

I call it dope

I get upset if someone calls me a burnout, that might just be a local term though........I thought anti-weed websites usually call it marijuana???

The word 'marijuana' was used by the perpetuators of cannabis prohibition because the word 'marijuana' is espanol in origin.

It has been cited, many times, that the perpetuators of prohibition used racism quite flagrantly to appeal to racism in the masses (which was especially common in the era) in order to further drive their cause. Marijuana was a term used for a judgemental twist on Cannabis, long ago!

I either call it pot or dope, myself. I try to limit my syllables to about 3 per drunken slur.

eh id prefare to be called a pothead over being called a junkie.

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Originally Posted by punkrockzero

this is one of those threads that you will either understand completely, or not at all.

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i think you mean, this is one of those threads where you have too BE stoned to understand. and i just killed the rest of my hash in my bong, so here i am, i understand exactly what your saying, i hate the word pot, probobly most annoying than anyone else could call it, besides marijuana, marijuana is the name that got it banned in the first place people.

ive always thoght of "pot" or "the pot" as a heroin binge, (witch i have never done by the way, haha.)

im going to smoke a ciggarette, and ciggarette is a lame name to. i like to use the word fag. it really stumps people when you say fag in the us, they are like "ARE YOU HOMOPHOBIC! OH MY GOSG YOU IGNORANT ASSHOLE!"
have a nice day

Pot, marijuana, dank, chronic, wood, sticky icky...no matter what you call it, some peoples minds will never change.

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Originally Posted by 420RoundTheClock

I call it dope

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go to skid row and ask for a $20sack of dope, and see what you get. calling it a drug, labeling it as DOPE is the reason it is so looked down upon. dopehead. have you ever been called that? more importantly, have you ever known (done) someone who has done herion before? or maybe you have a friend who is a junkie? but i doubt it, from what i decipher, you're young, and have never been around dope (the real dope) or people who do dope on a cosistant basis. you think you are looked down upon by your friends/fam whatever for smoking herb or hanging out with your friends who do the same? go make some "dopehead" friends, and you'll be calling it herb in a flash.

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Originally Posted by punkrockzero

this is one of those threads that you will either understand completely, or not at all. i have always put bad connotations on the word "pot". nowadays when somebody who is ignorant and against marijuana, they usually refer to it as pot. on anti marijuana commercials and websites, they always use that word, and now i never use it and neither do my friends. whenever someone says "pot" i get a strong urge to correct them. tell them to say weed or marijuana or something. i would never take offense to being called a stoner, because thats what i am. i interpret that as "one who gets stoned every now and then". but i would be offended if someone called me a pothead because they make it sound like im high all the time and im a brainless blob or something. for me it just kind of puts a more "judgemental" twist on what theyre saying.

does anyone agree? it might sound crazy, but it really pisses me off because i have never heard anyone who was against weed say something that wasnt complete bullshit.

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I totally agree with you i just call it weed and mainly people who are against it call it whacky backy of pot

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Originally Posted by Cooler Then Jesus

...i hate the word pot, probobly most annoying than anyone else could call it, besides marijuana, marijuana is the name that got it banned in the first place people.

...ive always thoght of "pot" or "the pot" as a heroin binge, (witch i have never done by the way, haha.)

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yo, when i come down to san francisco, you and me gotta meet up, we are on the same mind frame. :thumbsup: :smokin:
by the way, i get my caregivers card tomorow so we have to hit up some of those bay area clubs :stoned:

Never thought twice about the word pot... I thought about the word fanny and it's pretty gay...

I occasionally use the word pot, but I prefer it to Marijuana which is also slang, pot is quick and easy, I just really say whatever comes to mind, if I'm being direct I use cannabis. Herb, green, bud, pot, MJ, marijuana, any will do for me.

Pot is short for the Mexican word "Potaguaya", meaning "Marijuana leaves". Pot can grow wild and, therefore, is the classiest Weed. Dope is Heroin.

Pot does sound a bit funny to say, so I mainly stick to bud or weed. Hell, I could throw everyone a change-up and call it something new every day. It matters not, and just b/c a few old timers and nay-sayers call it "pot" doesn't make it the devil's word.

Fuck, it's OUR word. I want it back. Gimme.

I used to call it cannabis or marijuana until my friend told me I sounded "white". Yes I am black and he did actually say that. So now I say weed around them but most of the time use dank or cannabis or marijuana when I talk to those who dont mind it. But yeah, I totally agree about the pot word :D.

I went to my eye doctor, yesterday, and he told me that the vision in my left eye was knocked off. I told him of how "I left the hospital with an eye patch because I had severe double-vision. I smoked pot, a few times and it came off." And then continued the conversation. His left lips started to smile, at the exact moment that I said "pot", but, he quickly wiped it off when I didn't smile.

I just normally call it "Bud"....Nothing wrong with that

Some times i say You got those Dank Headies...just becasue its funny to say

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Originally Posted by WaKeNvAp

call it cannabis herb, not weed, not marijuana, not pot, not dope. thats just me. i strictly call it herb, and cannabis, cuz thats what it is.

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I think it's actually classed as a weed.....I assume thats where the name "Weed" came from.....

But yeah I really dont like the name "Pot", It;s what my parents call it....hahaha It seems completly irrelevant to what it actually is...

Ya i don't like saying pot. I'll say weed, smoke, Green,erb

i feel ya bud, but what really gets me is when people call it dope. My dad calls me a dopehead and tells me i smoke dope too much. I just wanna tear my hair out when i hear that shit.
FUCK!!!
Everyone who is against smoking cannabis for recreational purposes can KISS MY BROWN ASS.

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Originally Posted by DeadConcious

We should start a movement and get people to call it pan.

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Or Pol.

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Originally Posted by iwantFUEGO

Everyone who is against smoking cannabis for recreational purposes can KISS MY BROWN ASS.

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What do you have against recreational users? They didn't confuse heroin, and it's effects on dopamine receptors, with Pot and it's effects on the dopamine receptors. Heroin fucks with your dopamine receptors, hence the term "dope". Marijuana does not. Hence, the term "cannabinoid receptors". Heroin = dope Pot = can.

lol you misundertsood im guessing..

Pot is just a word that refers to marijuana i take
no offense to it. Weed is worse in my opinion it
makes me think of weeds I pull out of my garden.
Most of the time i just call it smoke, bud and some-
times pot. I even call it weed sometimes i don't think
im hurting my plants feelings but I could be wrong.

i call sweet miss mary jane whatever the fuck i want.

I call it weed, pot, Mary, whatever but never dope. Dope is something junkies use.

i have a friend who yells at me if i say anything but cannabis... i usually say weed, herb, or ganja

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Originally Posted by likemclever

I call it weed, pot, Mary, whatever but never dope. Dope is something junkies use.

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agreed. dope makes me think heroin automatically :(

Me and my friends usually call it green or weed or bud....thats usually it.

I agree with you, man. Among my friends, we call it it's names: Mary Jane, pot, "Wudz" my personal name for it =).

But among peers who are on the fence with the issue, I strictly use the term marijuana, herb, and cannabis. It's important how you portray yourself sensible, open-minded, and well-educated when you talk about marijuana; you're representing it and yourself at the same time. Politicians won't move their asses on the issue, so the "word" has to go by word of mouth between us citizens for anything to get done.

i usually call it weed. I personally think pot seems like an odd word so i dont use it, and no one uses dope here, especially since the main "hard" drug where i live seems to be crack, with heroin being non-existent

I hate to say it but the name has nothing to do with legalization
issues. I do agree on how a person that uses cannabis should
act, as if they have an IQ higher than a lab rat so that we are not
pigeon hold into the dumb stoner stigma.
We have to infiltrate the system to bring about change. Merely
changing our vocabulary is not going to have the biggest impact
on current laws.

@yabs post
Simply smoking pot gave me a burn-out label, long ago.

I might be the only one in the room that went to college, knows how to grow one of the easiest plants on planet earth, a plant, which, in all of their brilliance, they have killed countless specimens of, the only one that can play a musical instrument, the only one that can use a computer, or the only one that can divide by fractions in the whole fucking room of jackasses, and I'll still get called a burn out by them, because I smoke weed and they don't, or did smoke weed when we were all in school and they didn't, or because I actually did something besides sit on their couch with them while I got high...

Just saying the word calyx around some of them and they think I'm fucken making up words left and right.

So, whatever. I've got almost 10 years of stereotypical banter from people who resigned themselves to amounting to barely affording their apartment, and its still going strong. I want to live in one of these happy-tale worlds, where people see you for what you've done instead of calling you whatever the D.A.R.E. guy told them in school.

I am captain responsible to a T, but, ask anyone that knows me from school or in passing, and I'm a burnout.

I never got anything but prejudice. While I actually did shit, got a degree, made some decent scratch off of being in a band, grew pounds, hiked mountains everyday for the kick of being able to, these people resigned themselves to marrying eachother straight out of highschool while their health deteriorates from living off of cheetohs, and I'm still a burnout, according to these wonderfull people.

I mean, it would be nice to think that being responsible would help us shake this shit off of us, but I've got about 10 years of proof that people that don't smoke pot think we're losing braincells faster than they are at their liquor binge fests. Then, you got he dumbass shit-attitude stoners that still live in their parents' toolsheds that do nothing to improve their situation but bitch about how life sucks, and even they think you're a damned burnout because you smoke bud.

I am very afraid that we'll never win this battle. They still spend millions of dollars on anti marijuana commercials during a time of extreme defecits, even. That should be a sign of shit not changing this century. I accepted it long ago and I just laugh at the ignorance of people who judge you at face value for the spliff in your hand. I just don;t think most or any of this stigma will be erased for many, many... until the world blows up.

Good luck in life to them is all you can really say about it.

I usually call it weed, chronic, chron, or bud

"Pot" just sounds hilarious to me haha its sounds like something your mom would say. And around me no one uses "dope" except maybe parents and younger kids.

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Originally Posted by yabatab

I hate to say it but the name has nothing to do with legalization
issues.

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I agree, but as far as names go it's important to paint a true picture in the mind of who you're talking to. Calling it Reefer, skunk, or dope can only work against you when you're trying to paint cannabis in a positive light.

It's not going to make-or-break the cannabis legalization issue, but it's the same reason why trial lawyers always refer to their client by "Jeff Dobson" and the other guy as "That man" or "the defendant".

As an act of protest, I now call cannabis... Well, its hard to pronounce because its writen in fire, but my lighter speaks it fluently.

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Originally Posted by Stellar

@yabs post
Simply smoking pot gave me a burn-out label, long ago.

I might be the only one in the room that went to college, knows how to grow one of the easiest plants on planet earth, a plant, which, in all of their brilliance, they have killed countless specimens of, the only one that can play a musical instrument, the only one that can use a computer, or the only one that can divide by fractions in the whole fucking room of jackasses, and I'll still get called a burn out by them, because I smoke weed and they don't, or did smoke weed when we were all in school and they didn't, or because I actually did something besides sit on their couch with them while I got high...

Just saying the word calyx around some of them and they think I'm fucken making up words left and right.

So, whatever. I've got almost 10 years of stereotypical banter from people who resigned themselves to amounting to barely affording their apartment, and its still going strong. I want to live in one of these happy-tale worlds, where people see you for what you've done instead of calling you whatever the D.A.R.E. guy told them in school.

I am captain responsible to a T, but, ask anyone that knows me from school or in passing, and I'm a burnout.

I never got anything but prejudice. While I actually did shit, got a degree, made some decent scratch off of being in a band, grew pounds, hiked mountains everyday for the kick of being able to, these people resigned themselves to marrying eachother straight out of highschool while their health deteriorates from living off of cheetohs, and I'm still a burnout, according to these wonderfull people.

I mean, it would be nice to think that being responsible would help us shake this shit off of us, but I've got about 10 years of proof that people that don't smoke pot think we're losing braincells faster than they are at their liquor binge fests. Then, you got he dumbass shit-attitude stoners that still live in their parents' toolsheds that do nothing to improve their situation but bitch about how life sucks, and even they think you're a damned burnout because you smoke bud.

I am very afraid that we'll never win this battle. They still spend millions of dollars on anti marijuana commercials during a time of extreme defecits, even. That should be a sign of shit not changing this century. I accepted it long ago and I just laugh at the ignorance of people who judge you at face value for the spliff in your hand. I just don;t think most or any of this stigma will be erased for many, many... until the world blows up.

Good luck in life to them is all you can really say about it.

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I enjoyed reading that it reassures my theory that we are not
all brain dead zombies, that act as if we are characters in some
movie based around marijuana.
Yes the people that pass judgment on an individual that decide
to use cannabis are standing in there living room with some brainwashing
television show on a cigarette in one hand and a martini in the
other. More than likely having a bad prescription drug habit to
boot.
God for bid someone smokes pot though. They might go crazy and
rob some old lady for her church collection money to support their
reefer habit.

i call it "madnus" a term me and some buddies coined while trying to enter a name with 6 letters in san francisco rush for our high scores. i only call it madnus.

and it must be spelled with a "u"

When I say the words pot or marijuana it's usually in some satirical way.
Like if someone would be like: "I can't remember so and so"
I'll be like: All that POT! just to take the piss

Or if someones lighting up a joint I might say:

"Are you smoking MARIJAUNA?" in some stupid attemp to be dave chappele...

But yeah, I don't mind using the word marijuana. I hate the words pot and dope.

I usually call it bud, draw, weed, skunk, cannabis, reefer...