compellance weed, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

compellance weed n.

[under its influence one is supposedly ‘compelled’ to do something. This hardly fits, however, with the normal image of the marijuana user as a rather comatose figure. Note compelling oil/powder, a sweet-smelling oil or powder prepared by an obeahman and used in the hope of winning over or controlling a lover or defeating an evil spirit]

(W.I.) marijuana.

1943		cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).
c.1950		‘Man PIabba’ at www.mudcat.org 🌐 Corailla bush, deevy-deevy granchon, / And the old compellance weed.