One of slang's most enduring and beloved names for marijuana — devil's lettuce leans into the old moral-panic framing of cannabis as sinister and forbidden, but today it's said almost entirely with a wink. The contrast between the mundane vegetable imagery of 'lettuce' and the dramatic 'devil' is what makes it so good. It's the kind of term that implies you know exactly how absurd the stigma around weed has always been.
He claims he doesn't smoke, but someone definitely put devil's lettuce in those brownies.
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(slang) Marijuana.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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