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My friend called me while I was at work last night, and he told me he got his medical marijuana card. He also told me that medical marijuana is the dankest marijuana he's ever smoked.

Your opinions? He paid $100+ for the card, and he said that the downside of the medical marijuana is that it's expensive and you don't get hooked up if you buy in bulk.

I don't want to be the excuse they use to take it away from sick people. I've never had that much of a problem finding it. It would be nice to be able to just walk into a store and get some instead of going through the huge ass hassle, but I'll wait for full legalization...(yeah, I know...I know...)

Marriage-oo-juana is bad, om-kay?

is dank weed good or bad ??? god I feel old

Damn, I need one of those.

is dank weed good or bad ???Good.

Good.

Well I was guessing dank meant bad. Damn young uns messin' with the meanings of perfectly good words...

Well I was guessing dank meant bad. Damn young uns messin' with the meanings of perfectly good words...

I bet I am older than you and Greed and Death and I know what Dank means. You two need to get with the program. :tongue:

I bet I am older than you and Greed and Death and I know what Dank means. You two need to get with the program. :tongue:

At 48 I really couldn't give damn any more as to whether 'cool' is still 'cool' or what the latest slang is for good or bad - they are just transient parts of language passing in time like the smoke from a burned out Toyota.

At 48 I really couldn't give damn any more as to whether 'cool' is still 'cool' or what the latest slang is for good or bad - they are just transient parts of language passing in time like the smoke from a burned out Toyota.

Alright you are older than I. Anyway I know what you mean. The way I know is I employ a large number of 20 somethings. Keeps me in the loop. Not saying that my life is improved by any means because I know what dank means. ;)

Alright you are older than I. Anyway I know what you mean. The way I know is I employ a large number of 20 somethings. Keeps me in the loop. Not saying that my life is improved by any means because I know what dank means. ;)

For the record, I am a twenty-something--twenty-two to be precise--and I had no idea it meant good in this sense.

But then I am extremely ignorant of the popular culture for my age group, as I do not exactly do much in the way of social interaction.

For the record, I am a twenty-something--twenty-two to be precise--and I had no idea it meant good in this sense.

But then I am extremely ignorant of the popular culture for my age group, as I do not exactly do much in the way of social interaction.

I would get high with you, even if I had to grab your head and blow it in your ear like a cat.

For the record, I am a twenty-something--twenty-two to be precise--and I had no idea it meant good in this sense.

But then I am extremely ignorant of the popular culture for my age group, as I do not exactly do much in the way of social interaction.

So then dank means good?

I would get high with you, even if I had to grab your head and blow it in your ear like a cat.

I just got a wonderful mental image.

I would get high with you, even if I had to grab your head and blow it in your ear like a cat.
No thank you. I have no interest in any sort of recreational drug.

So then dank means good?
No, it means damp, humid, moist. I have no idea why that somehow turned into meaning good...in this context I assumed it meant bad.

I would get high with you, even if I had to grab your head and blow it in your ear like a cat.

I got the other ear.

Back in my day, we called it 'chemo', as in short for chemotherapy, as medical marijuana was originally used to combat the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients.

I had no idea what dank means. Mind you, I don't smoke pot with people that young.

No, it means damp, humid, moist. I have no idea why that somehow turned into meaning good...in this context I assumed it meant bad.

Because smoking pot when it's dank (damp, humid, moist) results in a much more pleasant experience than when it's all dried up. Just like tobacco, if you smoke it when it's dry, it burns your throat and lungs. Hence, dank = good.

Because smoking pot when it's dank (damp, humid, moist) results in a much more pleasant experience than when it's all dried up. Just like tobacco, if you smoke it when it's dry, it burns your throat and lungs. Hence, dank = good.

Ooooh.

That makes sense.

Because smoking pot when it's dank (damp, humid, moist) results in a much more pleasant experience than when it's all dried up. Just like tobacco, if you smoke it when it's dry, it burns your throat and lungs. Hence, dank = good.

Yeah but as we all know, once it is dried, it is more potent, so dank must mean bad!

Because smoking pot when it's dank (damp, humid, moist) results in a much more pleasant experience than when it's all dried up. Just like tobacco, if you smoke it when it's dry, it burns your throat and lungs. Hence, dank = good.

And now you know!

Because smoking pot when it's dank (damp, humid, moist) results in a much more pleasant experience than when it's all dried up. Just like tobacco, if you smoke it when it's dry, it burns your throat and lungs. Hence, dank = good.

but dank means unpleasantly moist.

but dank means unpleasantly moist.

Words in the English language can only ever have one possible meaning, it's true.

Words in the English language can only ever have one possible meaning, it's true.

Unless that word is 'Gay'.

Ohh yeah or 'Chav'

Words in the English language can only ever have one possible meaning, it's true.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank

The dictionary only list one.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank

The dictionary only list one.

I'm not going to involve myself in a semantic debate with someone who is so obviously being deliberately obtuse as a trolling mechanism. I'll concede defeat if it will shut you the hell up.

My friend called me while I was at work last night, and he told me he got his medical marijuana card. He also told me that medical marijuana is the dankest marijuana he's ever smoked.

Your opinions? He paid $100+ for the card, and he said that the downside of the medical marijuana is that it's expensive and you don't get hooked up if you buy in bulk.

The medical weed is also different as the one you buy in a coffee shop (or on the streets). The THC is much lower but on the other hand it is medical sterile and should not contain any fungus by instance.

http://www.marijuanadictionary.com/

The medical weed is also different as the one you buy in a coffee shop (or on the streets). The THC is much lower but on the other hand it is medical sterile and should not contain any fungus by instance.

This is incorrect. Well, to be pedantic, is it mostly incorrect. Medical marijuana is about 13% THC, which ranks it higher than the street marijuana that most USians consume, which is about as low as 7%. Amsterdam's coffee shops tend to be about 18% or 19%, which is about as high as you can get.

So, I would say that MM is about in the middle to powerful range. Good for partyers, but not for chronic users who may need the more powerful skunk variants.

This is incorrect. Well, to be pedantic, is it mostly incorrect. Medical marijuana is about 13% THC, which ranks it higher than the street marijuana that most USians consume, which is about as low as 7%. Amsterdam's coffee shops tend to be about 18% or 19%, which is about as high as you can get.

So, I would say that MM is about in the middle to powerful range. Good for partyers, but not for chronic users who may need the more powerful skunk variants.

Do you have a source for that? And what do they say about White Widow (just curious :p) ?

My friend is pretty knowledgeable about different types of weed, although he prob. doesn't know the "average level of THC". He just said that the medical marijuana he bought is the dankest marijuana he's ever smoked.

Do you have a source for that? And what do they say about White Widow (just curious :p) ?

March 2005 - Health Canada begins distributing medical marihuana "Lot 4". This product has a THC level of approximately 13.89 percent and consists of dried flowering head material only.

http://www.medicalmarijuanainformation.com/incanada/history.php

The average levels of THC in marijuana sold in United States rose from 3.5% in 1988 to 7% in 2003 and 8.5% in 2006.[83]

"Skunk" cannabis is a potent strain of cannabis, grown through selective breeding and usually hydroponics, that is a cross-breed of Cannabis sativa and C. indica. Skunk cannabis potency ranges usually from 6% to 15% and rarely as high as 20%. The average THC level in coffeehouses in the Netherlands is about 18–19%.[84]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)

White Widow is one of the more potent breeds of skunk. I enjoy it.

I'm not going to involve myself in a semantic debate with someone who is so obviously being deliberately obtuse as a trolling mechanism. I'll concede defeat if it will shut you the hell up.

I am just curious about a word usage that doesn't make sense to anyone not a stoner. Your using a word for moist with a negative connotation to describe something positive.

Moist would be a neutral connotation.
Pleasantly moist a positive connotation.

Dewy would also be a positive connotation though perhaps a bit of stretch to change from meaning healthily moist to good moist for pot.

http://www.medicalmarijuanainformation.com/incanada/history.php



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)

White Widow is one of the more potent breeds of skunk. I enjoy it.

It is super and indeed not for starters :)

While I was a student I liked weed a lot, but suddenly it was over. I had no reason for it. Now, I still do it once or twice a year.

The difference now is that you see it on my face that i've used it. Even the next day :)

I am just curious about a word usage that doesn't make sense to anyone not a stoner.
That's the thing with subcultures.

I am just curious about a word usage that doesn't make sense to anyone not a stoner. Your using a word for moist with a negative connotation to describe something positive.

Moist would be a neutral connotation.
Pleasantly moist a positive connotation.

Dewy would also be a positive connotation though perhaps a bit of stretch to change from meaning healthily moist to good moist for pot.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dank&l=1

No thank you. I have no interest in any sort of recreational drug.


No, it means damp, humid, moist. I have no idea why that somehow turned into meaning good...in this context I assumed it meant bad.

Presumably "dank" weed is dank because it has a lot of resin, thus is very potent.

Presumably "dank" weed is dank because it has a lot of resin, thus is very potent.
First I heard of it was in Green Velvet's song (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nvcy_green-velvet-dank_music) of the same name.

I am just curious about a word usage that doesn't make sense to anyone not a stoner. Your using a word for moist with a negative connotation to describe something positive.

Moist would be a neutral connotation.
Pleasantly moist a positive connotation.

Dewy would also be a positive connotation though perhaps a bit of stretch to change from meaning healthily moist to good moist for pot.

Because the moisture itself is not the source of pleasure, but rather a sign of its quality. Dank weed does not provide tactile pleasure the way baby oil on a naked woman does.

Because pot is strictly forbidden (though not so strictly withheld) there's a certain rebellious quality to the private discourse of its advocacy. As such, the harsher sounding words become the favored ones for use.

One does not puff on a marijuana cigarette. Such a phrase is far too soft a sound to describe a group of people gathered around a smoldering roll of paper each anxiously awaiting their turn to be wracked with coughing spasms and shortly feel the sort of rapturous pleasure that all those women in the bath-oil and shampoo commercials pretend to feel.

So instead, one "takes a hit."

"Dank" has a similar blunt-impact quality to it whose connotations are more appropriate to the emotional resonance stoners are looking for than "moist."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank

The dictionary only list one.

Dictionaries, especially American ones, tend to be a bit behind the times with language. Especially the language of subcultures. The phrase McJob was in circulation for about a year before any dictionaries included it.

Words in general tend to shift their meaning from the officially recognized one to the one that people seem to think it should mean.

For example, the word "demean" simply means "to behave a particular way." But that "eeee" sound puts people in mind of unpleasant things. So "demean" came to be used strictly to mean "behave in a way that lessens you." To simply "to lower someone socially."

"Behave" on the other hand has that long "ayyyy" sound, so we associate it with good things. When you say that someone "behaved," no one asks if they behaved well or badly. Good is assumed. Very few words that mean something bad enter general use with that long 'a.' They exist of course, but over time they tend to lose out to words that fit the bill better. No one says they are "ailing." They say they feel "sick," or "ill" or "like shit."

I am just curious about a word usage that doesn't make sense to anyone not a stoner. Your using a word for moist with a negative connotation to describe something positive.

Moist would be a neutral connotation.
Pleasantly moist a positive connotation.

Dewy would also be a positive connotation though perhaps a bit of stretch to change from meaning healthily moist to good moist for pot.

It's almost like it's slang or something. Imagine. And the green fairy? Not a real fairy.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank

The dictionary only list one.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dank

Sense 2.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dank

Sense 2.

a question a dictionary with no definition beyond the use in descriptions of pot.

That's the thing with subcultures.

The other thing with subcultures is they will likely abandon the terminology in 10-15 years.

The other thing with subcultures is they will likely abandon the terminology in 10-15 years.
Why do you say this?

If anything, pot culture has preserved terms from up to 50 years ago and more ('joint', 'roach', 'toke', etc).

Why do you say this?

If anything, pot culture has preserved terms from up to 50 years ago and more ('joint', 'roach', 'toke', etc).

Where as words like Gage, muggles and Mezz have died out.

Do most stoners today know where the band jefferson airplane got its name ?



Doobie seems to be on the way out as well. though that 70's show might revive it.

Well I was guessing dank meant bad. Damn young uns messin' with the meanings of perfectly good words...

Dank means bad.

Well I was guessing dank meant bad. Damn young uns messin' with the meanings of perfectly good words...

Dank means bad.

I'm going to say this one last time, as clear as I can.

Dank originally simply meant "wet." It comes from the Norse for "watering hole."

But "dank" is too percussive a word for something as mild as moisture, especially when it has to compete with others that do the job so much better. Like moist, wet, or soggy.

In English, words that do not well evoke the emotional essence of the thing they describe tend to become specialized. In the case of "dank" it became limited to moisture that has some element of surprise or shock, such as that felt upon entering a musty basement, opening a bag full of sweaty gym clothes, or a pipe full of very resinous pot. It just so happens that there are very few cases in which it is a good thing to be surprised by how wet something has become. Pot is about the only one. In almost any other context if you want a word that connotes surprise and means moisture, it's going to be a bad thing, so when dictionary writers try to decide what "dank," means, context will almost always tell them "unpleasantly moist."

No, dank means bad.

Now everybody is confused, if only the OP had used an unambiguous term like 'high thc content' or 'dashed spiffing' or 'jolly good'....

No, dank means bad.

the solution to this problem is simple.

KILL the stoners.

the solution to this problem is simple.

KILL the stoners.

All of them? That would a) take a while b) mean that I would have to kill half my friends.

All of them? That would a) take a while b) mean that I would have to kill half my friends.

Well lets just keep it illegal with unreasonable harsh sentences and throw them in jail. Silly stoners pot would be legal if you didn't make up words.

No, dank means bad.

No. When discussing a swamp or basement or abandoned house, dank will tend to mean "unpleasently moist". When discussing weed, dank means "good". Words can have several meanings, particularly if it comes into use as slang. Sort of how "That's sick" is a good thing with slang, but a bad thing with standard English.

Well lets just keep it illegal with unreasonable harsh sentences and throw them in jail. Silly stoners pot would be legal if you didn't make up words.

Umm but... arn't all words made up?