Every subculture has a set of commonly used words and phrases. Pot culture is no different. I believe it’s this common language that brings us closer together. In this quick study I wanted to explore the language used within online marijuana communities.
Subject
Perhaps one of the largest pot communities is /r/trees, a subreddit dedicated to cannabis. I wanted to know what words were used most frequently, so here’s what I did:
Data
I analyzed the 500 most popular posts. I narrow the post listings down to the top posts of all time. Next, I copied and pasted each title into a word document. The words were then pasted into worditout to generate a word cloud. This provided a visualization of the word frequency.
Thoughts
It’s no surprise that ‘marijuana’ took an overwhelming lead.
Several states made it onto the cloud (Colorado & Maine), but I was surprised that California didn’t make the list. Luckily, the word ‘state’ did make it.
I think /r/trees wants weed to be legal. I found legalization, legal, legalized, legalizing, and legalize made it to the cloud.
There are 2 (with an extra variation) gender specific words and they are all male oriented – guy(s) and dad
I’m very pleased to see ‘Snoop’ made the list.
There are a ton of other interesting words in the cloud; however, I’m going to just let you explore it on your own. If you see anything interesting let me know in the comment section at the bottom of the page. Thanks!
Really glad to see all those voting terms up there like “vote,” and “ballot”! If we want to legalize cannabis we gotta VOTE!
Yes!!! 🙂