Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a drug user, spec. of marijuana.

1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
1982		W. Safire What’s the Good Word? 218: Few THC users, or ‘stoners’ in some circles, like to restrict themselves to hash.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 181: Everyone [...] was dancing, except the stoners, who just sat and stared at the stage.
1999		Guardian Guide 21–27 Aug. 98: Dropping heavy hints that the governor was a big stoner in his grappling days.
2003		Guardian G2 20 Oct. 5: Tommy Chong, venerable stoner and partner of Cheech Martin, has received a nine-month sentence for selling hookahs.
2008		G. Pelecanos Way Home (2009) 14: The hard yahoo stoner was a preferable costume to him over the privileged Jew.
2011		Observer 19 June 11/4: Snoop Dogg [...] the stoner with an admirable work ethic.
2016		Huffington Post Politics 3 Jan. 🌐 Comedian tommy Chong is one of the world’s most famous stoners.
2018		G. Gilmore Class Act [ebook] ‘I bumped into Orange. You know, the stoner?’.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1979		D. Gram Foxes (1980) 71: She had just made him buy from a stoner boy [...] four downs for $12, a bargain.
1986		Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 4 Jan. We [...] went to a boring party. We only stayed five minutes and then went to a stoner party at Gary’s friend’s house.
2020		Guardian G2 10 Apr. 4/2: Chong is one half of the most famous stoner comics.
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 14: The stoner guard scrambled out of the booth.

3. (US teen) a delinquent.

1993

Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words 172: Stoner – a delinquent or rebellious youth.