# marijuana

Pronunciation: US say "mair-i-WAH-nuh" /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/; UK say "ma-ri-WAH-nuh" /ˌmæɹɪˈwɑː.nə/

## Noun

1. The flower clusters of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or consumed to produce a feeling of euphoria.
   - Simple: The flowers of the cannabis plant, which people smoke or eat to get high.
   - _The smell of marijuana drifted over the crowd as the band took the stage._
   - _Voters approved a measure allowing adults to buy marijuana from licensed stores._
2. Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant, as a living plant rather than the drug made from it.
   - Simple: The cannabis plant itself, as it grows, not the drug made from it.
   - _Wild marijuana grows along the ditches in parts of the Midwest._
   - _Officers pulled up more than two hundred marijuana plants from a hidden plot in the national forest._

## Origin

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish marihuana, from mariguana, and first attested in 1874 in the publications of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Its form was altered by a folk etymology linking it to the name María Juana (“Mary Jane”).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/marijuana (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).