: 94 Cannabis is not known to have been present in the Americas before Spanish contact, making an indigenous word an unlikely source. Haugen finds no semantic basis for a connection to mallihuan, suggesting that the phonetic similarity may be "a case of accidental homophony".
Anslinger in the 1930s, during his campaigns against the drug. Author Martin Booth notes that this etymology was popularized by Harry J. Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term may come from the Nahuatl mallihuan, meaning "prisoner".
The term, originally spelled variously as "marihuana", "mariguana", etc., originated in Mexican Spanish. 2.2 Contemporary pop culture and counterculture use.The form "marihuana" is first attested in Mexican Spanish it then spread to other varieties of Spanish and to English, French, and other languages. For legal, research and statistical reference, "marijuana" generally refers to only the dried leaves and flowering tops (herbal cannabis), with by-products such as hashish or hash oil being uniquely defined and regulated. Some jurisdictions recognize "marijuana" as a distinctive strain of cannabis, the other being hemp.
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 contains high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). "Marijuana" as a term varies in usage, definition and legal application around the world. Marijuana, or marihuana, is a name for the cannabis plant and more specifically a drug preparation from it. The Devils Harvest - The Truth About Marijuana.The Smoke of Hell (1942)
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