"Pot"

[Nylo]

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.

[dopesmoker]

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

[yabatab]

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.

[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.

[Smoking Ganja]

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.

[Nylo]

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

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".

[Stellar]

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.

[yabatab]

@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 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.

[james420]

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"

[Reefer Rogue]

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...