Stoner Dictionary | Ganja

Ganja: noun 1. a slang term for marijuana

Example: “I took a puff of that sweet, sweet ganja and let my mind float to space.”

Associated most often with thoughts of Jamaican palm trees and colorful Rasta hats, its another word for good ol’ MaryJane. It is said that ganja is not a Jamaican word at all but an original Sanskrit word meaning “hemp.” Popularized in reggae music and culture, ganja is one of the cooler names for our dear old friend and a favorite among many marijuana circles. If ever you’re in a tropical mood break out the herb, find a hammock, and blast some Bob Marley, it’s time to relax.

Some Awesome Ganja Quotes:

“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

~William F. Buckley, Jr. 

“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the “will of the people” goes out the window.”

~Bill Maher 

“Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It’s an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.”

~Peter McWilliams

“It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.”

~Louis Armstrong

“I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.”

~Steve Martin

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