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Recent Examples of potheadJim Jones has opened up about recently experiencing sobriety for the first time in over three decades, as the unabashed pothead recently had to give up the vice for an extended period.—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Jan. 2025 Julie has nice conversations with Kenny and Randall, and is on the road to full pothead at this point.—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024 Breakout star Snoop still entices a mindless constituency through partisan pothead epithets that might even embarrass RINOs on the GOP debate stage.—Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023 He was suspended for nearly three seasons and became a national punchline as the pothead who threw away his career.—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for pothead
Each of the many phishing centers answers to Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), a douchey 28-year-old rich-kid cokehead who tools around his office on a skateboard in extraordinarily ugly outfits (that puke-green suit!) and bad highlights.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2024
It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
The pair are the godfathers of the stoner comedy genre thanks to Up In Smoke, their 1978 debut film followed by Nice Dreams and other movies, all of which influenced generations of films from Dave Chappelle’s Half Baked to Seth Rogen’s Pineapple Express.
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Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
And, for a movie featuring so many stoners, Dazed is mammothly ambitious: Few other films say as much about starting, sticking around in, and leaving high school.
Later, another encounter with James leads both of them to the aforementioned house as the druggie is looking to get rich quick with the $50,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of the kids.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
Of the three leads, Rahim is the most unrecognizable, having gone full Jared Leto-in-Dallas Buyers Club to portray a druggie at the very end of his tether.
Sure, the idea of more power always sounds better to confirmed speed freaks such as myself, but simply turning up the wick wouldn’t keep with the RBW ethos—and might throw that balance fully out of whack, in fact.
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Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.
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