stoned

stoned
   drunk or under the influence of illegal narcotics
   It is hard to see what the discomfort of St Stephen and others had to do with this common use.
   The day Butler's Military Cross was gazetted they both got stoned out of their minds. (Price, 1979 — they were very drunk)
   He did his best work half-stoned. When you stare at motels for a living, you need to be stoned. (Grisham, 1992, referring to an investigator who habitually smoked cannabis. Here, as usual in this context, the half equals the whole)

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