Origin of the term stoned (slang)

[gypski]

When I got started, stoners were freaks (short for hippie freaks). :hippy:

I can only suppose that the term came from Jefferson Airplane's feed your head in White Rabbit!! And feeding your head was getting stoned/tripping!! :S2:

gypski Reviewed by gypski on 12-20-2010. Origin of the term stoned (slang) Because I got stoned, and I like to make pipes out of stone, I was wonder how the term stoned came to become associated with smoking cannabis-marijuana-marihuana. In my search of the term I found that it was first used in 1952. Hummmmm, the Beat Generation, the Beatniks, Ginsburg, Beatniks, Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs. So, I hypothesize, that the term stems from smoking cannabis through a stone pipe. I'm basing this hypothesis on the knowledge that back in the old days, before Rating: 5