# French Canadian Slang for Marijuana **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540 "2012-05-30T13:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540/21 "2012-06-03T02:55:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540/22 "2012-06-03T06:24:02Z")
> [@BleizDu](#): > > “Beuh”, as in “il fume de la beuh”, is used in France, is it used by French-Canadians? Pretty sure verlan is a France French peculiarity, a Parisian France French even I believe (even though of course popular verlan terms spread across the country). Beuh is short for beuh-èr, which is verlan for herbe. (for our Anglophone readers: verlan is in essence just French Pig Latin, only more gangsta :)) [QUOTE=EmilyG] Bonus word: “camé” means “stoned.” [/QUOTE] Really ? Interesting. Is it used as an adjective ? Like, would stoners not be able to shut up about how camés they are right now ? In France it’s most often a noun meaning “junkie” and it’s a coke/heroin word rather than a weed-associated one. “Se camer”, the verb, is also sometimes used to mean “taking hard drugs”, but it’s very pejorative and not that common any more. Here, “stoned” is most often “défoncé” (or “foncedé”, naturally). ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540/23 "2012-06-03T06:59:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Pretty sure verlan is a France French peculiarity, a Parisian France French even I believe (even though of course popular verlan terms spread across the country). Beuh is short for beuh-èr, which is verlan for herbe. Oh. Man. I know a lot of verlan but it had never crossed my mind that beuh-èr came from herbe :smack: Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540/24 "2012-06-03T12:20:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Really ? Interesting. Is it used as an adjective ? Like, would stoners not be able to shut up about how camés they are right now ? > In France it’s most often a noun meaning “junkie” and it’s a coke/heroin word rather than a weed-associated one. “Se camer”, the verb, is also sometimes used to mean “taking hard drugs”, but it’s very pejorative and not that common any more. I want to point out that I have never heard _camé_ used in Canada. The most common way to say someone is stoned in Québec is _stone_. Note that it’s “stone” and note “stoned”. Even though I’m a native, I haven’t lived there in quite a while, so in the off chance that it might be a new trend, I did a Google search of Canadian sites in French for the phrase “_complètement camé_” and got 6 results, all of which are texts that were obviously written in France (based on the language). On the other hand, “_complètement stone_” gives 325 or so results. Not a huge number, but clearly people from Québec writing in slang. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-canadian-slang-for-marijuana/623540.md?page=1)