Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants.
Cannabis may also refer to:
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Cannabis (drug), a psychoactive drug made from the cannabis plant, most often
marijuana
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the cannabis plant. Native to Central or South Asia, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various tra ...
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hashish
Hashish ( ar, حشيش, ()), also known as hash, "dry herb, hay" is a drug made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes. European Monitorin ...
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Medical cannabis
Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana (MMJ), is cannabis and cannabinoids that are prescribed by physicians for their patients. The use of cannabis as medicine has not been rigorously tested due to production and governmental restrictions ...
, cannabis and cannabinoids prescribed by physicians for their patients
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''Cannabis'' (film), a 1970 crime film
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''Cannabis'' (film score), by Serge Gainsbourg
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''Cannabis'' (TV series), a 2016 French-language TV series
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Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America'', a 2019 nonfiction graphic novel by Box Brown
See also
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Etymology of cannabis
The plant name ''Cannabis'' is derived originally from a Scythian or Thracian word, which loaned into Persian as ', then into Greek as (') and subsequently into Latin as '. The Germanic word that gives rise to English '' hemp'' (Old English ', C ...
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Glossary of cannabis terms
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List of names for cannabis
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List of names for cannabis strains
''Cannabis'' has many different names, including more than 1,200 slang terms, and more than 2,300 names for individual strains. Additionally, there are many names to describe the state of being under the influence of the substance. This list is ...
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Hemp
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a botanical class of ''Cannabis sativa'' cultivars grown specifically for industrial or medicinal use. It can be used to make a wide range of products. Along with bamboo, hemp is among the fastest growing plants o ...
, a variety of ''Cannabis sativa'' grown specifically for industrial use
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Marijuana (disambiguation)
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