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Civilized says author Chester Himes referred to smoking pot in a short story from Other dictionaries attribute the term to the s as well , saying it probably comes from a Spanish term for cannabis leaves. There is no concrete answer as to where the word originated. In an industry that is still getting its start, the stigma of lazy, unmotivated or even unintelligent people smoking up doobies and getting nothing done is extremely damaging.
Journalists struggle with using the right terminology for their audiences as well. There are more than 1, nicknames for cannabis , some more familiar than others. Ganga, weed, reefer and bud are some of the most-used and familiar, while alfalfa, Green Goddess and muggle —a 's term for a pot smoker and not a non-magical person — are less well-known. Marijuana doesn't remotely resemble the shape of a cooking pot, nor is it the color of one.
So where did this odd-ish term come from? The theory goes that Mexican immigrants in the crosshairs of revolution fled their country to make lives in the U. Before I trained my nose on how to sniff out the dominant terpenes in cannabis, buying weed was a hazy, opaque mess.
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