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US
/ˈkænəbəs/
]
[ UK /kˈænɐbˌɪs/ ]
[ UK /kˈænɐbˌɪs/ ]
NOUN
- any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
- the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
How To Use cannabis In A Sentence
- Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
- He was addicted to a stronger strain of skunk cannabis but demand for it won't disappear if marijuana is legalised. Times, Sunday Times
- The research will also reignite the debate over the use of cannabis for other medicinal purposes.
- The model here is the Dutch program of allowing users to smoke pot in licensed cannabis shops.
- He smoked cannabis on an industrial scale.
- Both tobacco and cannabis have a similar range of carcinogenic substances.
- A woman from Leyland Road was cautioned for possessing cannabis.
- Anticipating actual legal reform, the development of cannabis beverages, lozenges, skin patches or other forms of delivery could be encouraged to diminish pulmonary hazards.
- In particular, the absence of legal means for coffee shops to obtain cannabis has highlighted their association with organized crime. Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
- If blind eyes are turned to some drug use, such as cannabis, on the (utterly mistaken) assumption that it is relatively unharmful, this destroys the consistency that is the absolute requirement to hold a moral and behavioural line.
