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  2. List of names for cannabis - Wikipedia

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    An ancient Akkadian name originating before the 5th century (400 CE). [47] 麻 (Má) 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

  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. Nelson, British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.Known as "The Queen City" and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush, Nelson is one of the three cities forming the commercial and population core of the West Kootenay region, the ...

  5. Cannabis (drug) - Wikipedia

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    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, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various ...

  6. Synthetic cannabinoids - Wikipedia

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    Nelson claims that relative to marijuana, products containing synthetic cannabinoids "are really quite different, and the effects are much more unpredictable. It's dangerous". [ 47 ] Since the term synthetic does not apply to the plant, but rather to the cannabinoid that the plant contains ( THC ), the term synthetic cannabinoid is more ...

  7. List of celebrities who own cannabis businesses - Wikipedia

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    Willie Nelson: Willie's Reserve: Willie Nelson endorses his own brand of Cannabis-based products sold in Colorado and Arizona. [29] Seth Rogen: Houseplant: Seth co-founded the company with Canadian screenwriter Evan Goldberg in 2021. [30] Lil Wayne: GKUA In December 2019, Carter announced his own cannabis brand under the name of GKUA Ultra ...

  8. Cannabis - Wikipedia

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    Cannabis (/ ˈ k æ n ə b ɪ s /) [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized: Cannabis sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis.

  9. Rockefeller Drug Laws - Wikipedia

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    The laws are named after Nelson Rockefeller, who was the state's governor at the time the laws were adopted. Rockefeller had previously backed drug rehabilitation, job training and housing as strategies, having seen drugs as a social problem rather than a criminal one, but did an about-face during a period of mounting national anxiety about ...