hotbox
v.— «“My cat loves getting stoned too, but I’m concerned for her health as well, do you think I’m wrong to let her passive smoke my weed?” “Ditto…my roommates love to hotbox a room, and usually invite my cat in to join them.”» —“Cats’ reaction to Mary Jane” by rbenson@is.dal.ca (Ryan Benson) Usenet: alt.drugs Mar. 3, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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