Flowering Stage
The reproductive phase of the cannabis plant when buds form, driven by light cycle changes and culminating in...
Foxtailing
A bud growth pattern where new calyxes stack on top of older ones, forming spire-like towers instead of dense,...
Ganja
A Sanskrit-derived word for cannabis, most closely associated with Indian tradition and Rastafari religious pr...
Garcia y Vega Wraps
A brand of tobacco-based cigar wraps and blunt wraps historically popular for rolling cannabis in the United S...
Gas (slang)
Cannabis slang for flower with a pungent, fuel-like aroma, typically associated with high potency in consumer...
Genotype
The genetic code a cannabis plant inherits from its parents — distinct from how that plant actually grows out.
Grass
A mid-20th-century American slang term for cannabis, popularized in the 1960s counterculture and now considere...
Grav Labs
American glass brand known for scientific-glass bongs, the Helix line, and mass-market accessibility in headsh...
HID Lights
High-intensity discharge lamps — the old workhorse of indoor cannabis cultivation, now being displaced by LED.
Hair Follicle Test
A drug test that detects cannabis metabolites trapped in growing hair, offering the longest detection window o...
Head
Slang for a cannabis user, a cerebral high, or the cap of a mature trichome — meaning depends entirely on cont...
Head High
Slang for a cannabis effect concentrated in the head — alert, talkative, idea-driven — as opposed to a heavy b...
Hippie-Era Cannabis Vocabulary
A short glossary of 1960s and 1970s cannabis slang, with notes on what the words actually meant versus what po...
Horizontal Integration
When a cannabis company expands by acquiring or merging with competitors at the same stage of the supply chain...
Internode
The section of stem between two nodes on a cannabis plant, used as a quick proxy for plant structure and stret...
Internode Spacing
The distance between sets of leaves and branches on a cannabis stem — a basic indicator of plant structure, li...
Isolate
A cannabis extract refined to a single cannabinoid, typically 95%+ pure crystalline powder with no terpenes or...
Joint
A hand-rolled cannabis cigarette made with rolling papers, the most common and recognizable way to smoke weed...
Kelvin (color temperature)
A unit describing the color of light emitted by a grow lamp, used to match light spectrum to plant growth stag...
Kief
The loose powder of resin glands that falls off cannabis flower, made up mostly of broken trichome heads.
King Size Papers
Extra-long rolling papers, typically 100-110mm, designed for larger joints that burn longer and hold more cann...
Kush
A family of cannabis cultivars descended from landrace plants of the Hindu Kush mountain region, plus a market...
Live Rosin
A solventless cannabis concentrate pressed from ice-water hash made from fresh-frozen plants, prized for flavo...
Local Cannabis Tax
A tax levied by a city, county, or municipality on cannabis sales or cultivation, layered on top of state and...