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  2. List of names for cannabis - Wikipedia

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    Spanish, [15] from Greek "kánnabos" and Andalusi Romance "quinnam". [16] Originally, also poetically used to refer to objects made of hemp. [17] The dictionary definition of cáñamo at Wiktionary. canapa Italian; [18] an 1894 Italian botany study of the plant notes the word has the same etymology as the French "chanvre". [19]

  3. List of slang names for cannabis - Wikipedia

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    Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis. New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century. [2] [3] [4]

  4. Glossary of cannabis terms - Wikipedia

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    In California, before medical marijuana was legalized by voters in 1996, Mary Jane "Brownie Mary" Rathbun (1922–1999) who was arrested three times for baking cannabis brownies using her Social Security to buy ingredients and cannabis that was donated, giving them away free to AIDS and cancer patients, was able to successfully defend herself ...

  5. Nahuatlismo - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish word petate has given rise to other commo nahuatlisms such as petatearse (“to die”), petatear (meaning “to bluff” in a card game), and petatazo (the smell of marijuana). The Spanish word tiza is a nahuatlism used to refer to sticks of chalk. The word is seldom used in Mexico, with the Hellenism gis used in its place.

  6. Marijuana (word) - Wikipedia

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    The word marihuana used in the title of a 1936 drug exploitation film. The word entered English usage in the late 19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known appearance of a form of the word in English is in Hubert Howe Bancroft's 1873 The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. [12]

  7. Category:Spanish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words

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  9. Ganja - Wikipedia

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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".