One Marijuana, and hundreds of names !!!
There are various slangs and street names by which marijuana is called, some of the popular ones are:
Smoking pot, munchies, getaway drug, cannabis ,ganja, dope, Jane, herb, gangster, Mary Jane, boom, chronic, ace, Aunt Mary, black bart , doobee, golden, leaf hash, haze, hemp, hydrophonic, kif, leaf, northern lights, Queen's Ann's Lace , spliff, skunk, sinsomilla, GOM......good old marijuana, grass, weed, bud, jay, reefer, blunt, boom, White Widow, Northern Lights, Hawaiian, Skunk, Citrals, Afghan, Ganja Dwar, Early misty, Sky walker, Presidential, Durban poison, Mauwie Wauwie, Purple haze, Bob Marley, Carmelicious, White Queen, First girl, Skunk red, white widow, big bud, super skunk, easy rider, OG Kush, Louis XIII…
Introduction
What is Marijuana?
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Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical compound found in marijuana is delta-9-tetruahydrocannabinol, or THC .
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How Marijuana is consumed or rather misused?
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Marijuana is generally smoked as a cigarette (joint) or in a pipe. It is also smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with a mixture of marijuana and tobacco.
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Marijuana can also be mixed in food such as cookies, brewed as a tea, or mixed in alcohol. When it is consumed this way it takes longer time to absorb in the body but has longer effect on the body.
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Hashish is the concentrated form of marijuana, in thick, black and gooey form it is called hash oil.
Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odour.