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Here’s What People Called Pot in the 1940s

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 04/21/2015 - 15:59

"Two or three long puffs usually suffice after a while to produce a light jag," TIME explained in 1943. "The smoker is then said to be 'high'"

 

 

 

In 1934, when marijuana first appeared in the pages of TIME, it was with an asterisk that clarifiedthat it was “a drug, long common in Mexico, made from a variety of hemp weed.” In the years that followed, the drug showed up in the news a few times, mostly associated with the idea of reefer madness. By 1943 when TIME published its first full article about what the magazine called “the weed,” readers would still be unfamiliar with much of the terminology used.

And, even though marijuana is moving toward legalization in many places in the United States, some of that terminology — giggle-smokes! — is likely to be unfamiliar to

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