If you haven’t figured it out by now, being stoned is a euphoric sensation you experience following the consumption of cannabis. It is a result of the cannabis plant’s many psychoactive components, though mainly Tetrahydrocannabinol (or THC). It is certainly possible to get uncomfortably stoned, but nobody has ever died from it.
Stoned may refer to:
- Substance intoxication, particularly cannabis intoxication
- Petrification, process of organic matter turning into stone
- Stoning, a form of punishment where a group throws stones at the victim
- Stoning (metalworking), a method to sharpen the edges of steel tools
- Stoned (computer virus), a boot-sector virus created in 1987
English
Etymology
From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed.
The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of
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