Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis sativa), native to Central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
- noun Any of several mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drugs, such as ganja, hashish, or marijuana, prepared from various parts of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of urticaceous plants, of a single species, C. Indica. See
bhang and hemp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Bot.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceæ; hemp.
- proper noun The Indian hemp plant plant
Cannabis sativa syn.Cannabis Indica . See Cannabis Indica, below. - proper noun the Indian hemp, now considered a variety of the common hemp (
Cannabis sativa ), originating in Asia but now grown widely around the world. It can be formed into a tough fiber that is used to make rope and tough fabric. The dried leaves and female flowers are smoked or chewed by people to produce a euphoric or hallucinogenic effect, caused mainly by the substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contained in it. The THC-containing products of Cannabis are classified as a controlled substance, and posession and sale are illegal in most states of the United States. Once classified as a narcotic, the plant is now more commonly referred to in the category of euphoric or hallucinogenic agents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tall annual
dioecious plant (Cannabis , especially Cannabissativa ), native to central Asia and having alternate,palmately divided leaves and toughbast fibers. - noun A mildly
euphoriant , intoxicatinghallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a separate incident, police uncovered what they described as a cannabis factory at a building on the Carnpark Road in Katesbridge, Co Down.
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The Heritage Memorandum repeats the claim that cannabis is a "gateway drug" that can lead users "to more dangerous drugs."
Tim Lynch: Pot Shots at Prop 19 Fall Flat Tim Lynch 2010
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"The debate moves from whether cannabis is going to be legal to how cannabis is going to be legal," he said.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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Maybe cannabis is effective for pain or nausea of cancer.
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There are two basic breeding lines in cannabis hybridization: the wild species, Cannabis sativa, and a subspecies named indica.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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In particular, the absence of legal means for coffee shops to obtain cannabis has highlighted their association with organized crime.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown Stanley Pignal 2010
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There are no displays of hemp leaves or any other sign that cannabis is for sale, in line with strict advertising rules, though multiple portraits of Bob Marley hint at the core business.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown Stanley Pignal 2010
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The Heritage Memorandum repeats the claim that cannabis is a "gateway drug" that can lead users "to more dangerous drugs."
Tim Lynch: Pot Shots at Prop 19 Fall Flat Tim Lynch 2010
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Coinciding with a tightening of laws regarding prostitution - another tolerated industry - the authorities 'new stance on cannabis is raising questions about whether Dutch society is moving away from laissez-faire traditions, which have included some of the earliest gay-friendly policies in Europe and the provision of free contraception to teenage girls.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown Stanley Pignal 2010
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Suppose you convinced anti-medical-marijuana people that cannabis is indeed the only effective treatment for many patients, that they would suffer horribly without it, and that legalizing it for those patients would not lead to more illegal use by teenagers.
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