What is Marijuana?

In this attempt to define Marijuana this paper will discuss it in all aspects possible, including street/slang terms, how it is used, what it is used for, and how it affects the body. Mainly due to its variety of uses, Cannabis has been taken across the Globe. We cannot know for certain which use of the plant came first, but remains of hemp fibers have been found in the earliest archeological sites in Asia. “There is evidence of fiber in China dating from 4000 B.C., and hemp rope and thread from Turkistan dating from 3000 B.C. Stone beaters for pounding hemp fiber and hemp cord have also been found in ancient sites in Taiwan. Hemp fabrics have been found in Turkey dating to 800 B.C. and there is some evidence of use in Ancient Egypt between three and four thousand years ago (marijuana.nl).”
Over the many years that marijuana has been in the United States it has been given a large number of street or slang terms. Some of these slang terms include: Pot, weed, trees, smoke, gre...