From Mary Jane to marijuana: The ever-evolving language for cannabis

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The recreational drug that secured its place in popular culture long ago is entering a new era of respectability. But what do we call it now, wonders Laura M Holson

, has seen the shift in recent years. Not long ago, she met with an executive to talk about his company’s products. “He physically winced when I said the word ‘pot’, ” she recalled. “Businesses don’t want to call it ‘weed’.”Like anything, the history of pot, weed or whatever you want to call it is complicated. During the Jazz Age, when singers wrote odes to the plant, it was called dope, reefer and tea.

 

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I’ve always called it smoking a “Miss Finster”

It’s dank.. forever

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