215: Proposition 215, California’s 1996 medical marijuana law. Also, shorthand term for the doctor’s recommendation that allows one to use or grow marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Back-to-the-Land: A migration movement from cities to rural areas by American youth that began in the late 1960s.
Bank of the Woods: Cash savings that are buried or hidden on one’s property, often in plastic tubes, glass jars, or recycled pickle or pepperoncini barrels.
CAMP: The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting. A multi-agency task force created in 1983 with the goal of eradicating marijuana cultivation throughout California.
CAMP’ed: A verb used by pot growers to describe a garden that has been destroyed or confiscated by law enforcement.
Cartels: Criminal organizations blamed by law enforcement for massive grows found on public land, despite lack of evidence linking them to Mexican organized crime.
Depping: Light deprivation; an agricultural technique of covering outdoor pot plants with a black tarp to simulate nightfall and induce flowering and an early harvest.
Diesel dope: Marijuana grown under lights powered by diesel-powered generators.
Fronting: Providing pot to a dealer on condition that you will be paid once the dealer sells it to someone else.
Guerrilla growing: Growing pot on someone else’s land or public land without permission. More common among small growers before medical marijuana; now largely attributed to cartels.
Grow or Scene: A marijuana garden.
Grower: Someone who grows pot; could be six plants or six hundred.
Hempheimers: Marijuana-induced forgetfulness.
Hipneck: A hippie-redneck hybrid. Such a person might be named Sunshine, drive a big truck, and grow a lot of marijuana.
Homestead: A home built by its owner, often located off the electrical grid with no indoor plumbing and with a small marijuana patch growing out back next to the vegetable garden.
Humboldt time: A relaxed notion of time; the opposite of punctual.
Humboldt twenty: A hundred-dollar bill.
Marijuanaries: Places envisioned for some time in the future where tourists can visit and sample pot and learn about how it is grown and harvested.
Pot Princess: An attractive young woman who dates wealthy growers who have giant trucks and gardens. Also known by the more negative term “potstitute.”