[mar-uh-wah-nuh] 
| 1. | hemp (def. 1). |
| 2. | the dried leaves and female flowers of the hemp plant, used in cigarette form as a narcotic or hallucinogen. |
[hemp] | 1. | Also called Indian hemp, marijuana. a tall, coarse plant, Cannabis sativa, that is native to Asia but naturalized or cultivated in many parts of the world and is the source of a valuable fiber as well as drugs such as marijuana and hashish. Compare cannabis. |
| 2. | the tough fiber of this plant, used for making rope, coarse fabric, etc. |
| 3. | any of various plants resembling hemp. |
| 4. | any of various fibers similar to hemp. |
| 5. | a narcotic drug, as marijuana or hashish, prepared from the hemp plant. |
| mar·i·jua·na also mar·i·hua·na (mār'ə-wä'nə) n.
[Spanish marihuana.] |
hemp
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"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]
marijuana mar·i·jua·na or mar·i·hua·na (mār'ə-wä'nə)
n.
The cannabis plant.
A preparation made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant, usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria.
