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Cannabis is widely used in Pakistan, and smoked as charas (hashish) or consumed as a drink as bhang. [12] According to a 2013 report 6.4 million people in Pakistan consume cannabis. [ 13 ] With the legalization of Cannabidiol (CBD) , the country is looking ahead to export non-psychoactive hemp and other derivatives to international markets.
A slang word meaning police informant. space cake A slang name for a cannabis edible. [56] spliff A slang word for cannabis cigarette. [1] [See joint.] stash Word used to describe a supply of cannabis. [24] stash box Any container used for concealing cannabis or valuables. [24] [See drug paraphernalia.] stoned
Alphonse de Candolle described hashish as an "environmental material"; he included the Egyptians of the 18th century primarily cultivating cannabis for hashish in his list of places where the plant (which he primarily saw as a textile producer) was not popular. [5] Hemp English, name for cannabis plant. [8] [22] Hennep Dutch. [37] Hursīnī
Pot, a common slang name for cannabis, on a sign at a 2012 cannabis rights demonstration in New York City. More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use. [1] This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.
Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context, is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is wanted. Some plants that are widely regarded as weeds are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. For this reason, some plants are sometimes called beneficial weeds.
Cannabis (/ ˈ k æ n ə b ɪ s /), [2] commonly known as marijuana (/ ˌ m æ r ə ˈ w ɑː n ə /), [3] weed, and pot, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the Cannabis plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various traditional ...
The definition of a weed is a plant out of place. Defining them this way means any plant could potentially be considered a weed. A volunteer tomato plant that sprouts up in the carrot patch would ...
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]