The N.Y. Times takes a lengthy trip through what people have called cannabis through the centuries.
- Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster (the dictionary people) says, “Words we think of today as leftovers from the 1960s are really leftover from the 1930s,” he said. But it is important to look even further back, he added. Terms like cannabis and ganja go back centuries, and have long been used to describe the plant and its medicinal properties.”
