marijuana
pronunciation
How to pronounce marijuana in British English:
UK [ˌmærəˈwɑ:nə]
How to pronounce marijuana in American English:
US [ˌmærəˈwɑːnə]
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- Noun:
- a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared
- 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
Word Origin
- marijuana (n.)
- 1918, altered by influence of Spanish proper name Maria Juana "Mary Jane" from mariguan (1894), from Mexican Spanish marihuana, of uncertain origin.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]
Example
- 1. After all , marijuana is still illegal under federal law .
- 2. Recognizing marijuana 's growing market potential , companies big and small are scrambling to get ideas patented .
- 3. Banks have been reticent to provide services to companies in the burgeoning marijuana industry because the legality is murky .
- 4. Late friday the u.s. government released new rules that allow banks to work with licensed marijuana businesses .
- 5. He has since forthrightly acknowledged both that fact and his long-time recreational use of marijuana besides .