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More Marijuanalingo: “Stack”

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Mikal

Leaf nodes stacking up on “Blue Dream.” Apples ripening in the background.

“My plants are starting to stack” or “my plants are stacking,” refers to the marijuana plants switching from vegetative growth into flowering phase as the days shorten. In vegetative growth, the leaves are huge and the internodes (the length of stalk between leaf nodes) are long. As the plants prepare to flower, leaf production slows and internode distance shortens, so the nodes where flowers emerge from are said to “stack up,” ultimately becoming the dense masses known as colas.

I also learned a new use of the word stack: a stack of money, usually a thousand dollars, though someone else said he worked for a guy who called $2K a stack.

Oh, if only it were mine…

These days, no one says “per pound” when quoting a price. It’s just “19” or “21” (i.e. $1900/lb or $2100/lb). If you say something about “19” or “21” or whatever, everyone will know you’re talking about the price for a pound of weed.

While I’m here this evening, here’s a bonus bit of lingo: P (pronounced “pee”). A pound of weed. When I first got here in ’95, people called them elbows, derived from of the abbreviation “lb.” I haven’t heard that in years, though.

Using all this in context, it might go like this:

Buyer: You got any Ps you want to move?
Grower: Yeah, four. How much you paying?
Buyer: Two.
Grower: Okay.
Buyer: Four Ps for two each…that’s eight stacks.”

(Translated: Four pounds of weed at $2,000 per pound will cost $8,000 and will likely be paid in eight pre-counted $1,000 stacks of cash.)

There, that’s just enough information for you to come here and try to buy weed while sounding like a dorky undercover cop.

Posted in marijuanalingo | 2 Comments
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2 thoughts on “More Marijuanalingo: “Stack””

  1. beachcomber says:
    August 17, 2012 at 8:13 am

    While I have no intention of actually using the lingo, I appreciate the explanation. Now I can read the Craigslist ads without that stupid question mark popping up over my head.

  2. Mikal says:
    August 17, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Ha ha! Well, I doubt those terms will be in most Craigslist ads, except for using unexplained numbers to refer to the price in hundreds of dollars per pound. Many CL ads are full of other jargon, though, meant to sugar-coat the fact that what they’re doing is more or less a drug deal.

    I did see one recently where the poster wanted to buy something like “high grade outdoor medical” for “2” or something like that.

    So, readers, if you find good Craigslist pot ads, please post them here, with translations for lay readers.

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