What does this teenage lingo mean?

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Yesterday, after school, my daughter (17) was on FaceTime to her friend, and her friend kept saying how it was funny how my daughter 'whitied' (not sure about the spelling, sounds like whiteed) last weekend and my daughter laughed when she mentioned it. Last weekend they went to a party- so I assume it means she got drunk? I don't mind if she did, I'm just not used to teenage talk (I'm 47) so I don't know what the words mean.

If anyone can give me insight as to what this means then it'd be much appreciated

Yup throwing a whitee / whited means going white and throwing up after smoking weed.

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If you don't want your daughter to use cannabis then you could try these testing kits. If she was an self-supporting adult then she can do what she likes but as a child who, I assume, you are supporting then you may not be ok with her using weed.

My kids used to go to a school overseas where the students were drug tested from time to time. It was a condition of going to the school. If you were found to have taken any drugs your were expelled. We liked it.

I don't think drugs testing your child is necessarily the best way to approach this issue.

I'd probably have a conversation first.

Understatement

I will admit it happened to me once. I was not a weed smoker at all generally but I was at a friends party and was drinking wine, and I tried it. I don't think I had that much but I was drunk. I had to meet someone at a pub and I remember running there really really fast (unusual for me to be running in itself) and when I arrived I just felt so dizzy and sick I couldn't stand up. Someone laid me down on some seats for about 2 hours, I was awake the whole time but couldn't move or speak at all as it just made me feel so sick and so dizzy. Eventually the room spinning and awful feeling of not being able to move passed and I was starving hungry but had the shakes for hours and hours after. So I wasn't unconscious but more debilitated for a period of time. And as white as a sheet!

May I suggest downloading the app urban dictionary for future reference?

You tend to only do it once, if that's any consolation. feels sick

Hopefully if she has pulled a whitey it will put her off smoking weed in the future- it certainly worked for me because pulling a whitey is the worst feeling in the world

Scotland here and a whitey is only ever used in relation to dope or grass, never booze.

I don't think drugs testing your child is necessarily the best way to approach this issue.

I'd probably have a conversation first.

Understatement

Obviously! 💁🏻

Of course I would talk to them first but if you couldn't trust your DC and were worried they were using weed then the drug tests could be a useful tool. I was always more worried about the DC using cannabis than them drinking too much. Cannabis use by teens is a really bad idea from a mental health point of view. Most teen users will be fine but not all. I wouldn't want my kids to take that risk.

Definitely weed.

The pro cannabis army will purport that it's totally harmless. It isn't.

Maybe 20 years ago it was a milder herbal relaxant and less potent but now it's been bred and re-bred so that it is STRONG with mind-altering capability.

My XP smoked a lot of this modern type skunk and he would sometimes have psychotic episodes on the stuff - it's got names like bubblegum and it's is bloody strong stuff. It also causes paranoia and he'd sometimes act REALLY weird on it.

I'm sure OP doesn't want her DD smoking it and neither would I want my DD either. Thank goodness you happened to hear that exchange OP. You can often tell when someone's been smoking as their eyes are all bloodshot and their lids heavy.

More to the point is who is she hanging around with, where is this weed coming from, you can't know whether other stuff is being putting in with the weed (it can be mixed with other class As and you wouldn't know), is the environment DD is socialising in right, is that friendship group acceptable to you, what about access to other class A drugs because dealers often offer other stuff as well as cannabis such as coke. It's a slippery slope in my opinion.

I guess it will be best to encourage her to come to the decision that she really shouldn't use it again and giving her statements/phrases she can say to get herself out of feeling pressure to imbibe "Oh god, no, it made me feel really sick last time, I'll pass - yuck!!".

SE England here and never ever heard it used about drinking too much. It is/was a strictly weed-related thing.

Do not agree with other PPs that it's a big deal for you to know that your daughter was smoking weed, since you said you don't mind if she got drunk, which probably would have been more dangerous to her anyway.

When I lived in London a few years ago "pulling a whitey" was what people said about someone being ill on the tube on a Monday after a big weekend, not really whether that big weekend was drink, drugs or smoking weed. They held up the tube as had to be taken off.

It's weed. Any teens that use it to refer to alcohol are using it incorrectly. Whitey has been used for at LEAST 30 years amount the drugs communities. It's universally known and accepted in all areas. I imagine people using it to refer to alcohol heard it first concerning drugs and think they are cool by using the term. That's said OP, your teen and her friend may also use the term in the wrong context.

I'm in Scotland, central belt and have only ever heard it used in reference to smoking too much weed and being sick/passing out so I would have to disagree unfortunately that in Scotland it is only to do with alcohol. Not what you want to hear probably!
Exactly this.

Op ? Any comment ?

yes weed related (SE here) & someone who habitually smokes too much is known as a 'whitey' (from 16yo dd)

In Scotland here, and have heard the expression used for being sick from both weed or drink.
I'm fairly sure it was originally weed-related, but it's not necessarily now. I've heard my own friends saying it (we're all between 34-38) and there was no weed on our night out.

Leggit, it's not wrong, it's lingo, which is different in different areas. Whiting has always been alcohol related puking where I'm from, that isn't incorrect it's different.

It used to refer to sickness after caning the bong. Never heard it related to drink

OP - if ever you're confused by teen-speak, Urban Dictionary is your friend:

Whitey - here

Sorry - hadn't re-read the thread after refreshing and see that this link has already been posted/

Does anyone have the link or name of the Netflix documentary? I've had a look, but not sure which one you were talking about....sounds good

As soon as people start talking about "Skunk" as if it has any meaning at all with regards to cannabis, you know you are safe to ignore anything they have to say on the issue
I don't smoke drugs at all, I've always hated it, but I know many who do and grow their own so I know how much misinformation is out there about it.

I don't know if this link will work, but here goes!
www.netflix.com/title/80116346?s=i
It's called "High - how drugs work".

Can I also just point out that literally no dealer ever mixed expensive class a substances into cheap weed. You don't need to be a junkie to see why that's not a good business plan. It's true that strains are bred stronger and there are mental health implications from that - the documentary linked above touches on that, was v interesting.

Sorry Pollyanna I misread your post and now see I misinterpreted the bit about mixing drugs and dealers. It's not true that all dealers deal everything though - I was very partial to a spliff in my college years and had several dealers who never so much as looked at anything harder. I am sorry about your experience with your ex - we have had other drugs cause problems in the family and I well know how damaging it can be. I in no way meant to do down or refute your personal experience there