Code Words: The Secret Language of the Underground

Before dispensaries, cannabis slang helped buyers and sellers talk without saying weed. Code Words traces the underground language of marijuana from Louis Armstrong’s “muggles” and Mezz Mezzrow’s “mezzrolls” to dime bags, lids, pizza, T-shirts, and 420, revealing how prohibition created a private vocabulary that legalization is slowly erasing from cultural memory.

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