[hayday]

I have been around awhile. I get weed & grass . I bought $10.00 lids , I remember the old guys talking about cans but about the only things I remember about calling weed Pot was Top rolling papers spelled backwards and something else about a soldiers helmet .


Does anyone know how Pot got to be called such?

[III%]

Pot” as slang for marijuana has been in common usage since at least the 1930s and the subject of lively dispute among etymologists pretty much since day one. The most popular theory about the origin of “pot” traces it to the Spanish phrase “potacion de guaya,” or “drink of grief,” supposedly referring to a concoction of wine in which marijuana buds have been steeped. It is also said that “potiguaya” or similar words are used in Spanish to mean marijuana leaves. The only problem with these theories is that no one has yet found “potacion de guaya” or its relatives actually being used in Spanish. That, to put it mildly, is a pretty big problem.

[7thson]

IDK,but weed and grass sound much better.

[rolandomota]

It Must be when people started growing the seeds they got in pots potted plants or pot for short it worked as a code word for weed back in the day

[zoic]

Originally Posted by hayday

Does anyone know how Pot got to be called such?

Googled it, here you go from Dictionary.com, also verified from word-detective.com

How did the word for a common kitchen instrument become slang for marijuana? Actually, the origin of pot has nothing to do with the culinary tools. The word came into use in America in the late 1930s. It is a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya that came from potación de guaya, a wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped.

I love this stuff, give me more.

[Bud Green Sr.]

I don't know either, but I have a couple pictures I took in Alabama in the mid 70's, of signs at the end of people's driveways, that said "Pot plants for sale"!

[Gry]

The word came into use in America in the late 1930s. It is a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya that came from potación de guaya, a wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped.
Too fucking neat !
Can we have some more ?

[St. Phatty]

Potaguaya sounds good -

but even if the alcohol acts as a solvent for the THC -

doesn't the THC need to be heated or something

to get a Cannabis type buzz off the Potaguaya ?

[MJPassion]

Originally Posted by St. Phatty

Potaguaya sounds good -

but even if the alcohol acts as a solvent for the THC -

doesn't the THC need to be heated or something

to get a Cannabis type buzz off the Potaguaya ?

Nope... No heat needed at all.
I steeped 12g of hash in a bottle of Rumplemintz & 1 shot would knock ya da funk out for the night w a gnarly pot hangover the next morning.

[420somewhere]

I never thought about it