pothead
Americannoun
noun
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- potheaded adjective
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The advice that seasoned potheads sometimes give new users—“start low and go slow”—is probably good advice for society as a whole, at least until we better understand what we are dealing with.
From The New Yorker
We were both 1967 potheads, so we smoked a joint and that was the beginning of a long, long friendship.”
From Fox News
“Young people from all over the world will come to smoke weed in Montreal, and we will soon become a country of potheads,” he said as he rode his electric scooter through downtown Montreal.
From New York Times
And yet I did wonder how such a ropy pothead has managed to maneuver that heavy instrument onto a dolly with no apparent sweat.
From New York Times
“It’s not lazy pothead stoners smoking weed all day in their parents’ basement.”
From Washington Times
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