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Cultural figureheads such as Bob Marley popularized Rastafari and ganja through reggae music. In 1976, Peter Tosh defended the use of ganja in the song "Legalize It". [14] The hip hop group Cypress Hill revived the term in the United States in 2004 in a song titled "Ganja Bus", followed by other artists, including rapper Eminem, in the 2009 song "Must Be the Ganja".
Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Sumerians had no specific word for "weeds," seeing all plants as having some use. The English word "weed" can be traced back to the Old English weod, which refers to woad, rather than a category of plant as in the modern usage; in early medieval European herbals, each plant is regarded as having its own "virtues".
Marijuana, or marihuana, is a name for the cannabis plant, and more specifically, a drug preparation from it. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] "Marijuana" as a term varies in usage, definition and legal application around the world. [ 4 ]
Cannabis plants produce a unique family of terpeno-phenolic compounds called cannabinoids, some of which produce the "high" which may be experienced from consuming marijuana. There are 483 identifiable chemical constituents known to exist in the cannabis plant, [53] and at least 85 different cannabinoids have been isolated from the plant. [54]
In Akkadian, cannabis was known as qunubu (๐ฏ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐). [2] The word was adopted in to the Hebrew language as qaneh bosem (ืงึธื ึถื ืึนึผืฉืื). [2] The Germanic word that gives rise to English hemp (Old English hænep, Common Germanic *hanapi-z) may be an early Germanic loan (predating Grimm's law) from the same source.
A retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia and items related to cannabis culture. hemp English, or common name for the entire plant cannabis, legally named marijuana or marihuana in some jurisdictions. [2] Other names for hemp include:
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Putative plant varieties or sub-varieties of cannabis. [77] Cannabis ruderalis; Cannabis sativa; Cannabis tea: English. Tea infused with cannabis. [78] Charas: Hindi. Traditional resin made from live cannabis plant. [21] Charlotte's Web: Industry trade name for cannabis sativa strain. [73] Cola English. Part of a cannabis plant. [21] [74] Colombian