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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Mexican Spanish
Origin: mariguana, marihuana

marijuana

 noun
     
Related topics: Drug Culture
mar‧i‧jua‧na [uncountable]
MDD an illegal drug smoked like a cigarette, made from the dried leaves of the hemp plant [= cannabis]
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