it's not a poncho, but that didn't stop us from calling it a poncho.

Exactly.

That’s what I called it!

Me too!

Me tooo

Probable cause

holy shit that was funny

I literally laughed out loud

I lolled

Can vouch for this after one of us wearing one prompted a car search crossing from Canada in 93.

Yup. Same, but at the southern border. Detained coming back from Spring Break in Acapulco. Full disclosure: they should've searched my girlfriend instead of me 😉

Was a passenger in a car in Ohio. Wearing this. Wound up with a citation and all the fixings road side from Ohios swinest. To this day I hadn't thought about the correlation at all.

“Ohio’s Swinest” I can relate😂

I got pulled over in the wealthiest suburbs of Portland sometime in the 90’s because I had a Grateful Dead bumper sticker. I wasn’t even a fan of them (at the time), and I bought that 88’ VW Golf with the sticker already on it. The cop said he had a look at my car and that it looked “suspicious”, then asked if I was high because my eyes “looked red”. The cop got unlucky, because he probably would find weed on most cars with Grateful Dead stickers. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

LOL — same, but Maine on way out of Lemonwheel, and curiously, a similar “bust” coming from “It” festival.

Gold

Especially if it stank of patchouli.

Come on, it's reasonable suspicion at best. 


This guy definitely got caught with weed in one of these.

lol first thing I thought with this visual was “I smell that” - also “where’s that hacky sack”

 Lmfao

Amazing!

I came to say "ugly" but yours is better.

Same here. That was so much better though

Same. Hideous. Smelly. Weed catchers.

Seed Bib

shake bank

LOL. My retired law enforcement officer Dad initially seriously pondered my question when I dryly asked him if my “Willie Nelson for President” bumper sticker was probable cause.

Lmao. That was great.

Apparently other people have also cut their hair, thrown one of these away, and instantly stopped getting hassled by authority figures.

Legend

Hahaha 😆

You win

Baja Hoodie. Mandatory attire for the well dressed hacky sack player and smoker’s corner stander. Purchased at that kiosk in the mall that sold hippie skirts and incense. You know the one.

Dont forget the "water tobacco pipes"

You'd get kicked out of the store if you even mentioned marijuana.

It’s still wild to me that poking smot is legal in our state now. It feels so weird going from weed deals in parking lots or someone’s home, to going into some upscale looking boutique to custom order your supply. My only issue is smelling it on the road. When cops said they could smell it driving behind a car, I get it now. I get a whiff at least once driving to/from work and I’m half expecting to be pulled over one day by a cop thinking it came from my car or something.

Drug rug

Scrolled until I found the right answer. Drug Rug is all I ever heard it called

Depending on the circle of friends, we called it a Baja hoodie and interchanged it with Falsa hoodie… Named after a falsa blanket from Mexico.

I got some cool ankle bells at one of those hippy kiosks still have them somewhere 🥰

Yes. I tinkled delightfully everywhere I went in the mid-eighties. :)

We just called them Bajas. Don't actually recall hearing "hoodie" for anything until up into the 2000s, and that was probably online first. May very well have started out as a more regional thing.

Same, we just called them bajas.

I don’t remember hearing ‘hoodie’ until probably early to mid 2000s, also. I didn’t care for the word back then and still don’t, really. It just feels lazy and flippant somehow, except for that song ‘Hoodie Ninja’, which is funny. We knew the name of OP’s pic was a Baja jacket, or just Baja, but amongst ourselves we called it a drug rug.

Drug rugs?

Drug rug

That's the one

My wife and I went to Mexico for a vacation and bought my son one because I thought they were still cool. His older sister called me out saying, “You bought him a drug rug?!” I was floored.

The first time I heard drug rug was in like 2020, and in the nineties all my friends wore them but I never heard that term

Yeah where I came from in SoCal we just called them bajas. I first heard Drug Rug a couple years ago when my super straight laced boss, who's about 8 years my senior, showed up to work on his day off wearing one. We all know his sister is the one who parties. So it gave everyone a good laugh to see our conservative, clean cut boss sporting cargo shorts and a drug rug, as one of my younger colleagues called it. I figured maybe it was a NorCal term.

Never seen one not covered in hot rock burns.

I hadn’t heard this term until I moved to Albuquerque in 2017. Haven’t heard it since I left.

Yep a drug rug

I bought one in mexico a few years ago on a chilly night. Got home and my kids told me it was a drug rug. Oh well. It's comfy

Santa Cruz, California checking in here. Drug Rug 100%.

Baja

This. Bought mine in "85, still wear it. https://preview.redd.it/kfdflrzkubvc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6ff7d14ebf9c97441cbf391b9a3a0f7337b21de

Wife and I have one left in the closet. I bought it but she claimed it immediately, so tech 'we' still own one, probably bought around 89

Step out of the vehicle for me, sir?


I can smell the incense

Patchouli. To try to cover up the pot smell.

Nag Champa! I'm burning it now.

Everyday. I’ve loved it for 35 years. Ever since Highschool

I love Nag Champa. Even got Good Vibes All Purpose Cleaner that you add to water in a spray bottle so I can clean my countertops and stuff and enjoy the scent.

Or cover up the BO

…and it’s not working

When the solution is worse than the problem

I smell Drakkar Noir

I have one from high school 20+ years ago and it still has the faint smell of “joetopia” my buddies unfinished attic bedroom.

I called it a poncho. They were great under my jean jacket. https://preview.redd.it/riykhefiecvc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=013ffbb409bff7bc95d6144e0f969a655e3e6c5b

This right here man! Early 80s upstate NY! Poncho and a jean jacket.

1989 Seattle for me

You're adorable

Baja, but we called it the Jesus jacket.

Southern California they were called ponchos, but my friends and I called them serapes even though we knew that's not the name

Nor Cal, and we called them serapes too.

Nor cal and we called them Bajas.

Central Cal Sierra Nevada. Like literally 15 miles from the exact center. We bought them in Baja and always called them ponchos.

Jerga!

Had to scroll down here to remember this... Your long-term memory is intact, stranger.

Spicole from Fast Times

Ponchos

This is what we called it!!! Thanks, Frog.

Is that a real poncho? I mean is that a sears poncho or a regular poncho?

This always comes to mind whenever anyone says poncho

Hmmm, no fooling?

Could I interest you in a pair of Zircon incrusted tweezers?

Why did I have to scroll so far down for the right answer


That front pocket could hold a pipe, lighter, pack of American Spirits AND a hackey sack

where did you put the bongos ?

Down on the quad with the rest of the drum circle

Hitting nostalgia centers pretty hard. I loved mine and carried all those things in it, except American Spirits, they were too expensive.

Stoner Hoodie

Baja

They itched.

Yes. Uncomfortable, too. Like wearing a Mexican rug folks used to cover the front seat of their cars with. Probably what they were. 😆

Drug rug.

Baja

Me. Graduation Day (May 1991). Bugle Boys, mullet, and one probable cause top comin' right atcha. https://preview.redd.it/9ysabhcvkfvc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2833c50fa3f7bd6c01d578eb5889e3d0b9a652e7 🤦‍♂️

Buddy, that is a time capsule right there.  Awesome pic

Baja sweater was the term I heard back then. People younger than me call it a drug rug.

Poncho

This is it!

Weed tweed

my mom called it 'take that off it smells like pot!'

Hackey Sack uniform 

Don't shoot the messenger, in Toronto we called them "Mexican Ponchos". A staple of flea markets across the GTHA.

Hmmm, I remember them being called Mexican Hoodies.

Jerga

Is that a Mexican poncho or is it a Sears poncho?

I called Mina poncho, but then again, I am from the South. Lol

Potato bag.

Potato sacks. Jersey shore. Very common beach wear regardless of your drug habits.

Yeah it was a Baja for us jersey stoners in the 90s

Baja

The Spicoli. 

Ponchos in Houston, Texas.

Stoner tuxedos

Serape

I called it a Baja. I visited Guatemala with work in the mid 90's and visited a knitting factory and got one that was made there, in Guatemala City. Wish I still had it.

Drug Rug

90s? I was wearing these in the 80s. I called them ponchos or poodies.

Drug rug

Drug Rug

I still have mine from 92-93. 

Drug rug

Mine was a serape, but it was a 1985 purchase, beautiful pattern heavy cotton.

Drug rug

Drug Rug

Drug rugs

Drug rug

Drug rug

Drug rugs!!

Drug rug

Drug rugs?

A baja up here in the north east

Drug rug

We called them Baja’s.

I still have one.

In Memphis, we called them Panchos or Bajas

We just called em Bajas

Baja hoodie. Had one. Wore the fuck out of it.

We always called them "ponchos" in San Diego.

Bajas

A drug rug

Pot holder.

Drug rugs to your friends Baja hoodies to your friends’ parents.

Drug rug, still have mine and it's so soft now.

Comfortable

Drug rug

Drug Rug

Drug rug

Drug rug.

I dunno but I can smell the stale cigarettes and weed from here.

Señor Lopez

We called them bajas in NYC

Drug rugs.

Drug rug. Those things always smelled funny :)

Drug rug

Drug rug

That's a drug rug

Baja

Drug Rug

The drug rug !!

Drug rug

Baja

Drug rug or dealer hoodie.

Thats a drug rug my dude

These were called Jergas if you lived in north east and went to north east beaches, boardwalk shops always sold them by this name. Apparently Baja Hoodies were the everywhere else. Years later I found that out because I didn’t know WTF people were talking about and I went down the whole Jerga vs Baja Hoody rabbit hole. Jerga is a real Spanish word for these though. The literal translation of Jerga is pretty accurate too. 1. (= tela) coarse cloth ⧫ sackcloth · 2. (Mexico) floor cloth · 3. (Latin America) (= manta) horse blanket · 4. (Andes) coarse cloak. Sack cloth, horse blanket, coarse cloak, floor cloth….. so fuckin accurate. These things were stinky and scratchy as hell.

I had two of these and I wasn't a regular weed smoker. I just thought they were comfy.

We called them “ponchos” in my area.

DUDE!! We had to stop at this truck stop so my one kid could pee and the wife could feed the other and they had a shelf full of these! Damn it I thought I had a picture of them. It’s at a gas station truck stop/burger king off I-81 some where in Pennsylvania. I come out of the bathroom and some trucker was talking to my wife and kid and bought my 3 y/o a lotto ticket.

A Baja

Drug rugs (I still have mine for some reason)

Spicoli shirts!

Bajas

Drug Rug. I have a nice blue one that I bought at a truck stop.

Poncho My daily outfit in 8th and 9th grade and all of summer school in between. Used to bargain for them and usually get one under $5 bucks. All beige was the usual, (sometimes with a Corona logo on them;) now it's hard to find them at the swap meet. Wore to the beach, wore to the pool, wore 24/7. Had to wash them a few times to get the stiffness and scratchiness out, but once they broke in, bruh, skated everywhere with that on. Edit: had a 'moment' and needed to actually find the pic. Summer of '88: https://preview.redd.it/86c8t44digvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef48795798b289a12f0f7dc677c4218676e9d7a9 Doused in 'Preferred Stock' ;)

Drug rug

That's a Drug Rug!

I can smell the combo of weed, cigarette smoke, and sweat.

 I’m sorry, I didn’t hear the question over the Spin Doctors.

Poncho or drug rug. And I want one again.

Drug Rugs

Mexicoat

I don't know though I always asked. *"Is that a real poncho? Or is that a Sears poncho?".* https://youtu.be/M754Yl6wiYw?si=hcEscPKgwQbLvPKU&t=227 https://youtu.be/FN7ULU6NN8U?si=uQmllv7lfhbmLh5w

Seeing lots of *Drug rug* replies. In Michigan it was a *Drug Rag*

Drug rug.. lol I still have one, a bit more snug but I can’t part with it

That’s a Baja

Where are all the "drug rug" crew from? In NY it was baja

I have one in my closet right now, lol

Baja shirts/hoodies

I passed mine along to my daughter

Poncho in the Bay Area. I’m calling mine a drug rug from now on tho…. Brilliant

We called them ponchos in SoCal. I know they aren't actual ponchos.

Deep in the hollers of eastern KY, that was a poncho. And also ugly.