GETTING HIGH with Ronnie!

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English with Ronnie


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Hi, guys. My name is Ronnie. What's your name? Cool. Today, we're going to get high. We're
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going to get high learning English. We're going to talk about marijuana. Do you know
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what marijuana is? I'm going to teach you some slang words about marijuana. I must warn
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you, though: If you don't like marijuana, turn off the video. Don't watch it. Don't
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even look at it. And don't complain. Don't go in the comments and go, "Ronnie, I don't
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like marijuana." I don't care if you don't like marijuana. It's not for you to decide.
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So if you want to get high with me, sit back; smoke a fatty; smoke a joint. I'm going to
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teach you some really cool slang. This will help you understand movies. Maybe you're at
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the movie theater, and you're watching a funny movie, a comedy. Everyone around you is laughing,
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but you don't know why. Maybe someone in the movie made a marijuana reference. Maybe someone
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said one of these crazy slang words that mean "marijuana", and you don't know what it means.
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So I'm going to teach you how to understand movies and how to get high with some marijuana
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slang. My name is Ronnie, by the way.
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Usually, when we use slang, we don't say the end of words as well. We don't say "getting";
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we say "gettin'". So "gettin' high" is this lesson. A long, long time ago, we had this
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word called "marijuana". Now, I think this word is Spanish because some people would
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say "mary-juana", but it's actually "mary-huana". It's very unusual that we would use the word
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"marijuana", especially in the movies or for speaking with our friends. So you see all
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these words here? These are very few examples of slang that we use to only talk about marijuana.
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Let's go through them. Let's learn some pronunciation. Probably one of the most common ones is "weed".
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So you might hear someone say, "Hey, man. You got some weed?" They mean "marijuana".
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We also refer to it as "green" because it's green. Some people may call it "smoke" because
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you smoke it. Does this make sense yet? It's also called "bud" because if you look at a
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marijuana plant, it's actually the bud of the plant that grows out the of the leaf.
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And you have to be careful because if you're growing marijuana, it's illegal, and you have
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to separate the male and the female plants. The male plants we use for hemp, and we can
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make clothes out of it and hemp seeds. The female plants are actually the plants -- thank
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you, ladies -- that produce the sweet, sweet smoke of Mary Jane, marijuana. So there's
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"buds", which makes sense because it's the babies -- are on the female plants. So we
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call them "buds".
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A word, I think, stolen from Jamaica -- yeah, man -- is "ganja". "Ganja" just means "weed".
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"Grass" -- again, because it's green. See? We also call it "herb". "Reefer" -- back in
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the 1960's in good ole' United States of America, there's a very famous movie called "Reefer
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Madness". And they were sending out propaganda to people that if you smoked marijuana or
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if you smoked a little bit of the refer or the green it would make you crazy, and you
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would want to kill people; you'd probably eat some babies. Probably, if you had a marijuana
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cigarette at one time, you would probably die. Again, that was propaganda from America.
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Just to be funny, some people call it "wacky tabacky". I think it's more of a funny one
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than what we would normally say. "Pot" is another really common word. I don't know why.
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Maybe it's growing in a pot. And somebody might say, "Do you want a toke?" A "toke"
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means a drag of a joint or a smoke of a joint.
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All of these words are just a small amount of slang for the actual drug of marijuana.
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Now, you actually have to know what to do with the marijuana. I've seen some crazy Facebook
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ads where people say "injecting marijuana". Guess what, people. You do not inject marijuana.
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Thank you. If you did that, you would probably die. Don't try this at home, people. How to
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do it? We usually smoke it. Now, you can also eat marijuana. You can put it into butter
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or into oil, and you can get these crazy things called "magic muffins" or "weed cookies".
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If you do that, I'm sure they would be very delicious. I don't know. Or do I?
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We call -- the thing that I was smoking earlier, that I smoked all of -- a "joint". What you're
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going to have to do is you're going to have to get some kind of rolling papers. Commonly,
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people will reference Zig Zag. And you're going to put the marijuana inside and roll
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-- the verb "roll" a joint. You need a lighter. You light it, and you smoke it. So the most
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common word we call it is a "joint". We also call it a "spliff", a "doobie" -- Uh-oh. Do
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you know the band called "The Doobie Brothers"? Uh-ho. Do you think they smoked marijuana?
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Also from our 1960's government propaganda, you could call this a "reefer", one of my
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favorites, a "fatty". A "fatty" means that the joint is really big and fat. There's lot
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of marijuana in it. Also, another one that a lot of rappers talk about, yo, is a "blunt".
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Now, a "blunt" is a little bit different from a fatty, a reefer, a doobie, a spliff, and
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a joint. A "blunt", you use cigar paper, and you take the tobacco out of the cigar paper,
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and you put the marijuana inside, and then you roll it again. This means that your joint
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is the size of a cigar. It's quite large. So you will hear especially Snoop Dogg or
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Snoop Lion or whatever his name is now, talk about rolling "blunts" with his G Crew Doggs.
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So a "blunt" is just a big, hollowed out cigar.
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Another thing that you can do if you so desire is something called a "bong". A "bong" is
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like a water pipe. You would put -- you can make a bong out of anything. You can make
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it out of an apple. You can make it out of a bottle. You can make it out of a hamburger?
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No. Not a hamburger. Anything that you can make two holes in and a hole at the top, you've
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got yourself a bong. So the basic premise of a bong is you need a straw or something,
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and you need a place to put the marijuana. Add a little hole, and then a hole in the
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top. What you're going to do is you're going to light it, and the marijuana smoke is going
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to come up, and you're going to smoke it. We say "hit the bong". This means you're inhaling
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the marijuana smoke that you have lit. Another way to do it that is not from a joint is a
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pipe. Pipe is another way to smoke the weed, the wacky tabacky. You put the marijuana in
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here, and again, you light it, and you smoke, you inhale the smoke from this side of the
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pipe. If you put your mouth here, you'll burn it. Don't do that. Smoke it from here.
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You'll hear people calling people such names as "a stoner". Or someone's a "pot head".
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These words -- they do have a little bit of a negative feeling to them, a negative connotation.
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Maybe your mom will say, "That person is a stoner. He's such a pot head." A "stoner"
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or a "pot head" is someone who smokes reefer almost every day. And they can use a spliff,
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a doobie; they can use a blunt, a bong, a pipe -- it's your choice; it's their choice.
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But it implies that they smoke too much green. They're just smoking too much.
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You will hear a lot of slang in movies, in songs. People say, "I'm so high, man." And
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you go, "Well, you're standing on the ground. You're not high at all, and you're quite short."
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But, "I'm so high" means that you have smoked a lot of bud and you are feeling the effects
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of the weed. People will also say, "I'm stoned; I'm baked; or I'm blasted." Okay? Be careful
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with your -ED endings here. You want to get your pronunciation proper on this. So "stoned",
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"baked", and "blasted". All of these expressions are the same as, "I'm high" or "I'm so high".
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It means you are feeling the effects of the ganja, man.
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One thing that may happen to you after you inhale that reefer is your mouth becomes really
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dry and you need water. You need so much water that you could drink seven of these water
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bottles. People say, "I got the pasties." Grammatically correct? Hell, no. Slang? Yeah.
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You hear people say, "Wow, man. I've got the pasties." Sometimes, they get white saliva
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in the corners of their mouths. How attractive, pot smokers! That works. But if you get the
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pasties, it means your mouth is really, really dry -- some people call it "cotton mouth"
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-- and you need a beer or something to drink.
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Another thing that is kind of an after effect of your marijuana high is "the munchies".
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You will hear people say, "Oh, man, I've got the munchies so bad", or "I've got the munchies."
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"Munchies" means you want to eat everything a lot, and it doesn't matter in what order.
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So you could eat cake and then potato chips and then oh, my God, a pizza, and then -- oh,
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why not? I'm just going to have a hamburger. And then, some ice cream wouldn't be bad right
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now. And then grilled cheese sandwich, nachos -- you have completely eaten everything in
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your refrigerator. You are so full that you're going to pass out. But you had such a good
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time. You were so high. Did you have fun?
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Gettin' high with Ronnie's always fun. Goodbye.
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