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marijuana
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
marijuana \marijuana\ n.
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A strong-smelling Asian plant ( Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC). [Also spelled marihuana.]
Syn: cannabis, ganja, pot, grass, marihuana, Cannabis sativa.
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The dried leaves or the female flowers of the hemp plant, which is smoked or chewed to obtain a euphoric effect. The flowers usually have a higher concentration of the active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol.
Syn: cannabis, ganja, pot, grass, marihuana, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, Mary Jane.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918, altered by influence of Spanish proper name Maria Juana "Mary Jane" from mariguan (1894), from Mexican Spanish marihuana, of uncertain origin.Marijuana ... makes you sensitive. Courtesy has a great deal to do with being sensitive. Unfortunately marijuana makes you the kind of sensitive where you insist on everyone listening to the drum solo in Iron Butterfly's 'In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida' fifty or sixty times. [P.J. O'Rourke, "Modern Manners," 1983]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis%20(drug)''. 2 The hemp plant itself, ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis%20sativa''.
WordNet
n. a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared [syn: marihuana, ganja, Cannabis sativa]
the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect [syn: cannabis, marihuana, ganja]
Wikipedia
Marijuana is a term for the dried flowers and subtending leaves and stems of the female Cannabis plant, used for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug.
It may also refer to:
- Marijuana (word), history and usage of the term
- Marijuana (EP), an EP by the band Brujeria
- "Marijuana" (song), a song by recording artist Kid Cudi
- Marihuana (novel), a 1941 novella by Cornell Woolrich
- Marihuana (film), a 1936 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper
Marijuana EP is an EP released by Brujeria. The song "Marijuana" is the death metal parody of the pop hit " Macarena". Two vinyl versions exist - green and black. Early vinyl copies came with matches.
"Marijuana" or "marihuana", etc., is a name for the cannabis plant and more specifically a drug preparation from it. Marijuana as a term varies in usage, definition and legal application around the world. Some jurisdictions define "marijuana" as the whole cannabis plant or any part of it, while others refer to "marijuana" as a portion of the Cannabis plant that containing high levels of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Some jurisdictions recognize "marijuana" as a distinctive strain of cannabis, the other being hemp. The form "marihuana" is first attested in Mexican Spanish; it then spread to other varieties of Spanish and to English, French, and other languages.
"Marijuana" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi, taken from his second studio album Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010). The song was produced by Cudi, alongside American record producer Dot da Genius, who provided the song's guitar solo.
Usage examples of "marijuana".
The cops finally put Barger on ice in 1973 when he sentenced to 10 years for possession of heroin for sale ar possession of marijuana and other drugs.
Each bottle arrives with a piece of paper stating that the urine contains no detectable amounts of amphetamines, barbiturates, methadone, opiates, metabolized cocaine, benzodiazepine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
And I doubt they would burn it or blow it up if there really is marijuana, or meth, stored in the attic.
Spike departed to meet Abu for tennis, whistling like a parakeet in a marijuana field, and she fell back asleep to dream of whitecapped waves.
I knew he had done me a favor three years ago when he noll prossed a marijuana distribution case against Tim Dugan.
Grinspoon told him the defendant was one of thousands of people who claim that marijuana is the best thing they can find for controlling the kind of painful spasms associated with quadriplegia, multiple sclerosis, and traumatic nerve injury.
There is an enveloping smell, a resiny odor not unlike marijuana, the sharp smell that comes off an expensive beer.
Here the main offenders had been a marijuana and cocaine trafficker by the name of Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros and a Mexican friend of his, Felix Gallardo.
Marijuana trafficker Alien Long recalled how he was accosted by one of these characters inNew York.
Czarnecki like an elderly cowbird while Assistant District Attorney Kevin Foster read the charges: speeding 74 in a 65 zone, driving while impaired, simple possession of marijuana.
At the moment, most of the work, supervised by a cheery seventy-year-old Dutch dopehead with gray hair in ropy dreadlocks that swing at his waist, is devoted to improving tobacco and marijuana.
The Outlaws also control methamphetamine laboratories in Georgia and, along with other outlaw motorcycle gangs, plan to supply the US eastern seaboard and midwest with marijuana from Hawaii.
One mild overcast Saturday nearly a year after Frenesi had moved out, Zoyd and Prairie, returning from a midday stroll down the alley to the Gordita Pier and back, found inside their house who but Hector, posed dramatically in the front room next to the biggest block of pressed marijuana Zoyd had ever seen in his life, too big to have fit through any door yet towering there, mysteriously, a shaggy monolithic slab reaching almost to the ceiling.
He had a nice smile and a firm handclasp, and he had had the courtesy to put out his cigarette when she came in, though the room still reeked with the sickly, cloying smell of marijuana.
Tonight the lobsterman was there, with an ancient woman who could only be his mother, and the Pissants, and two teenage couples, long blonde hair and sunburned, reeking of marijuana and summer money.