Marijuana.
Pasto and mota are basically synonyms in Puerto Rico. They are used interchangeably or together as a pair—pasto y mota—to refer to weed.
“Marihuana, pasto, perico, fentanilo, capea lo tuyo hoy.”
— Alexandra Lúgaro
Pasto literally means grass. Mota (or the diminutive motita) is direct slang for marijuana.
Closest English equivalents
- “Grass,” “weed,” or “pot.”
- Pasto y mota literally pairs two words for weed, like saying “weed and grass.”
Usage
- Vamos a fumar pasto. — Let’s smoke weed.
- ¿Dónde consigo mota? — Where can I get weed?
- Ese tipo siempre está en pasto y mota. — That guy is always into weed.
- Huele a pasto aquí, cabrón. — It smells like weed in here, dude.
Variants
- Pasto — grass; weed.
- Mota — weed.
- Pasto y mota — the pair, often said together.
- Hierba / yerba — another common synonym.
- Tronco — the joint or blunt itself.
Related terms
- Fumeta — someone who smokes regularly; a pothead.
- Fumeteo — the activity of smoking.
- Ganja — cannabis; a more widely recognized term.