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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]
Má, a Chinese name for hemp, predates written history and has been used to describe medical marijuana since at least 2700 BCE. It is the earliest recorded name. [48] [49] Hemp is recorded in the Book of Documents. [5] [26] Ma-kaña Bantu. [50] Maconha Portuguese. [51] Marijuana: Americanized Mexican Spanish.
marihuana or marijuana A slang word for cannabis, the legal name in some jurisdictions. Marihuana 1936 American anti-marijuana propaganda film that depicts alcoholic drinks and cannabis use leading to tragedies, including pregnancy, police shootouts, and a gateway to heroin use and a life of crime. [See prohibition.] marijuana enthusiast
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".
The number of arrests for marijuana distribution and marijuana possession with intent to distribute was 1,378 in 2010, and 234 in 2015. [33] In 2016, however, more than 400 people were arrested in D.C. for public consumption of marijuana, and numbers remained high in 2017.
Getty Images It's no wonder that much of Washington, D.C. and its slang have roots in the world of politics. While some of D.C.'s local lingo has made it to citizens "outside the Beltway" via ...
A slang scholar, Jonathon Green, noted in 2017 that even though various countries and US states were decriminalizing and legalizing cannabis, more slang terms were still being coined; he suggested that while the original need for euphemisms was because of the illegality, it had become part of the culture as those using the slang terms did not ...
The term "kush" is now also used as a slang word for cannabis. [2] The origins of Kush Cannabis are from landrace plants mainly in Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan and North-Western India [3] with the name coming from the Hindu Kush mountain range.