Cannabis Menu Glossary: Terms You'll See on Amsterdam Menus

Weed, hash, “5g pack,” Cali, last menu seen—coffeeshop menus throw a lot of shorthand at you. Here’s the plain-English version, so you can read the line in front of you without guessing what the shop meant.

The products

Four product categories cover nearly every line on a menu: three sell by weight, one by piece.

Weed. Dried flower, sold by weight. It is the category with the most observed listings in our data, and on the price pages it appears as 1g lines and multi-gram packs in separate blocks. In the October window, weed 1g listings had a median of €13 per gram across 139 listings from 27 shops.

Hash. Pressed resin, also sold by weight. In the 30 days to 21 October 2026, single-gram hash listings had a median of €15 per gram across 93 listings from 26 shops, with the upper quarter far above that (p75 €40). Pack formats are kept in their own block, the same as weed packs.

Joints and pre-rolls. Ready-rolled units sold per piece. They carry no printed weight, so their prices stay unit prices and never enter a per-gram median. The October median was €7.50 per unit across 192 listings from 24 shops; the highest unit prices are likely multipacks, so the tails are not read as typical joints.

Extracts. Concentrates sold by weight or in packs, and the most expensive category per gram in our fresh window: a €57.50 median for 1g listings across 40 listings from 22 shops, with pack listings at a €60 median. Packs and 1g lines stay in separate blocks here as well.

Amounts and units

Weight produces per-gram prices; pieces produce unit prices. That’s the whole game, honestly - every other rule about comparing prices falls out of it.

Gram (1g). The standard weight line on most menus. A 1g price is already a per-gram price and needs no conversion, which is why 1g lines are the cleanest row in any comparison. It is also the cleanest unit to compare across shops, because no division is needed.

5g pack. A multi-gram bundle with a printed total and usually a printed weight. Divided out it gives a per-gram value, but the pack stays in its own format block, because a bundle is a different offer from a loose gram. Weed 5g packs had a €14 per-gram median across 187 listings in the October window, against €13 for 1g listings. When a pack looks far more expensive per gram than the 1g lines do, the menu may be printing a bundle, and a bundle is a different offer again.

Per-gram price. A total divided by the weight printed on the same line. It exists only when the menu prints a weight; a line without one stays a unit price forever, because there is nothing to divide.

Unit price. A price per piece, used for joints, edibles and extras. Compared only against other pieces of the same category, and never mixed into a per-gram ranking. The October median for joints was €7.50 per unit, and the same per-piece logic applies to edibles and extras.

Labels on the name

These ride along on the product name. All are transcribed as printed and none is verified by this site.

Strain name. The shop’s own label for the product, transcribed as printed. The same name at two shops can describe different products. The shared-name guide treats names as search keys rather than verified identities.

Indica, sativa, hybrid. Category labels shops attach to lines. This site records them as printed and verifies nothing behind them; they are menu wording, not facts this site can check, and they carry no effect or health information here.

THC% and CBD%. Percentages printed by the shop. Read them as what the menu says: no lab verification exists behind a transcribed number, and the same caution applies at every shop that prints one. A percentage is a claim about content, and this site reports claims, not measurements.

Cali and other origin labels. Origin-style prefixes that form part of the menu wording. Keep different variants separate in a comparison. The Cali-versus-Dutch guide explains why those words are not certifications.

Dates and prices

Two fields decide how current any price is.

Menu date (last menu seen). The date printed on the source menu, kept with its price rather than replaced by a file name or crawl timestamp. Last menu seen extends this to shop level: the date of the newest menu captured for that shop. Fresh means within the recent observation window; older dated evidence is last known, and comparisons against current medians are indicative. The last-menu-seen guide explains the labels and the distinction between captured and dated records.

Median. The middle listing when every listing of a format is ranked by price. For weed 1g in the October window the median was €13 per gram across 139 listings from 27 shops. The median, not the cheapest listing, leads the price pages. It answers what a typical listing said, which is a different question from what the cheapest listing said.

Read a whole line rather than translating one word

Imagine a name you recognise appearing under the weed heading, with a pack label beside it. The familiar name may catch your eye first, but the heading and pack label do more practical work. They tell you which category the shop has assigned and which offer the price belongs to. Looking up the name alone would leave that offer unresolved.

Now imagine the same name on a pre-roll line. The name has stayed the same while the format has changed. The second line is a ready-rolled unit, so its price does not belong beside the loose-flower per-gram figure. You have not found contradictory definitions. You have found the same printed label attached to different offers.

Read the surrounding heading when a line is abbreviated. A short line can inherit its category or unit from the section above it. If that context is missing from a cropped photo, leave the interpretation open rather than supplying the unit from memory. A recognisable product name is not evidence of a missing weight.

Missing words are not permission to guess

A menu that prints a total without a weight gives you a total, not a hidden per-gram price waiting to be calculated. The glossary cannot recover an omitted denominator. Keep the line in its printed format until you can check the complete menu or ask what the offer contains.

The same restraint applies to origin wording. A name without an origin label should not inherit one because you have seen that name in a Cali section elsewhere. Origin-style words are part of the observed line, and their absence is not proof of any particular alternative. This is why category, variant and format remain separate fields rather than being inferred from the strain name.

When a percentage appears, preserve what the label actually says. THC and CBD are different printed fields; a percentage without a clear label should not be assigned to either by guesswork. Reading a label accurately is different from verifying the contents it describes. The glossary helps with the first task, while this archive cannot perform the second.

Turn unfamiliar vocabulary into a precise question

At the counter, point to the line and ask about the part that is unclear. For a pack, the useful question is what quantity the printed total buys. For a pre-roll, it is what the listed unit refers to. For an abbreviated name, ask which full wording the shop uses rather than assuming the abbreviation has one universal expansion.

That approach also helps when you return to the archive. You can distinguish a question about transcription from a question about the product. The source photo may settle whether a label was printed; it cannot settle whether two shops supplied identical flower. Keep those questions apart and the glossary becomes a practical reading tool rather than a collection of definitions you have to memorise.

What a glossary cannot settle

Menus use these terms loosely, shops differ, and this site transcribes rather than adjudicates. Nothing here is a legal or medical definition, and nothing is verified in person, so verify on site. The site is 18+ info only, no sales. A glossary cannot tell you what a term means at one particular shop today; that requires the shop’s current menu and explanation. It cannot rank products or make a printed label more true by defining it. What it can do is make the format, date and sample understandable. For the terms in action, the strain directory lists observed names, and the price tables carry medians by category and format.

Put the words back into their menu line

When an unfamiliar term appears, read the whole line rather than searching the term in isolation. A familiar strain name can sit under weed, hash or a ready-rolled item; each heading changes what the price refers to. Then look for a printed quantity. “5g pack” gives you a total for a bundle, while “per piece” does not become a per-gram price just because the product name is familiar. Finally, keep the menu date with the wording. The glossary explains common archive language, but the shop may use a label differently or change the offer. Compare the printed line with its source image where available and ask the counter about ambiguity. That small sequence—heading, unit, date—prevents a vocabulary match from turning into a false price comparison.