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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]
Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone by Dana Larsen – a marijuana-laden book-length parody was released in the United States and Canada in October 2007 by Cannabis Culture magazine. [8] The story parallels the original books, but instead of a wizard, Hairy Pothead is a "Weedster" and attends Hempwards School of Herbcraft and Weedery.
The original Yippie smoke-in, first held in 1971 to protest the arrest of Dana Beal on marijuana charges, now the longest running annual cannabis rights "protestival", Marijuana Harvestfest, or Madison Hempfest, as it is also known, was organized by Ben Masel until his death in 2011. The multi-day event has an estimated attendance of 4,000 ...
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Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, [2] is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae. [3]
Zachary Smith, a Northern Kentucky resident, attended a South Carolina boarding school for issues with pills and marijuana in 2006. His mother, Sharon, remembered that he had to earn the right to sit in a chair, to drink anything other than milk or water, and to make phone calls.
Heavy cannabis use could negatively impact certain types of memory, largest study of its kind to date has found. Image credit: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
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 ]