Why Do White People Call Marijuana "Pot"?

[GNS]

Weed, sensi, Ganja, trees, Herb, keekee or simply marijuana.
Crackas be trippin
Lol @ pot
If I hear that again I'm definitely asking

 

[VIBE]

when I was a smoker, I called it green... and called getting high... getting elevated or just elevate..

 

[stevenpiper]

I also heard some people refer to it as "edibles."

 

[OGDirtyD]

The origin of pot has nothing to do with the culinary tool. 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. It literally means “the drink of grief.”

 

[konceptjones]

On a related note: Why do so many black folks refer to heroin as “HAIR-RON”?

I be thinkin’....

“Damn. Am I the only black person who knows how to pronounce ‘heroin’”?

Shits weird.

Shit actually annoys the fuck outta me.