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a philosopher who forgot the question but absolutely nailed the snack response

means A person who habitually uses cannabis, especially one known for a relaxed, spacey, or unmotivated demeanor.

from From "stone" in the slang sense of being intoxicated — itself from the older phrase "stoned," meaning so drunk or drugged you might as well have been hit with a stone. The "-er" simply names the doer. "Stoned" carried the boozy meaning first; it drifted toward cannabis in mid-20th-century American slang, and "stoner" hardened into a label for the dedicated practitioner. (No connection, despite the imagery, to actual rocks — though the dazed stillness it describes does have a certain geological quality.)

munchies
THC tricks the brain into smelling food more intensely
time warp
cannabis genuinely distorts your perception of passing time
red eyes
THC dilates blood vessels in the eyeballs
couch lock
indica strains physically sedate the body's muscles
word origin
slang surged with 1960s counterculture, not before
for instance

cheech and chong — comedy duo who built career on stoner humor from 1970s-80s with albums and films

cypress hill — rap group from 1991 los angeles explicitly centered stoner culture in hip-hop

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