moota, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

moota n.

also mootah, mooter, mootie, mootos, muta, mutah

[Sp. mota, a clod of turf, a handful of earth, thus the link to grass n.⁴. Note also weaving jargon mota, an imperfection or tangle in wool or cotton, thus the link to a ‘tangled’ mind]

(drugs) marijuana; a marijuana cigarette.

1937		E. Stanley ‘Marihuana As A Developer Of Criminals’ n.p.: In America, particularly in the South and Southwestern portions of the United States, it is called marihuana. It is popularly known amongst the criminal element as ‘muggles’, or ‘mooter’.
1938		R.P. Walton Marihuana 30: A large number of boys and girls of school age buy and smoke ‘mootas’.
1938		D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 106/1: mutah. Marijuana.
1940		‘Jargon of Marihuana Addicts’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 336/2: The cigarettes are usually called reefers, but other names are: [...] mootas, mooters, mooties.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 52: Rapp smoked his muta while he played the new guitar.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 312: [...] mootie [...] moota Marihuana.
1954		E. Hunter ‘. . . Or Leave It Alone’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 58: Everybody knows mootah isn’t habit-forming.
1959		F. Newton Jazz Scene 292: muta: marijuana.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore 114: Mooter – [...] marijuana. [Ibid.] 116: Mutah – [...] marijuana.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 180: moota [...] mooters [...] mootie. [Ibid.] 187: muta.
1994		Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 33: I would sit around in my room, smooking mootahs.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 15: Moota/mutah — Marijuana [...] Mooters — Marijuana cigarette. [...] Mootie — Marijuana. [...] Mootos — Marijuana. [...] Muta — Marijuana.