Reefer, cannabis, pot or weed? What marijuana search terms Californians are currently using

 

Using Google Trends, the Times-Standard compared California’s searching habits over the past seven days for some of the more commonly used marijuana terms: cannabis, weed, marijuana and pot.

Before diving in, a quick note on how Google gauges search term popularity. The popularity of a term is calculated on a scale from zero to 100, “where 100 is the location with the most popularity as a fraction of total searches in that location, a value of 50 indicates a location which is half as popular, and a value of zero indicates a location where the term was less than 1 percent as popular as the peak,” according to Google.

Statewide, “weed” was the most popular term this past week, followed by “pot,” “marijuana” and “cannabis” coming in last, according to the data. However, it is important to note that over the past 30 days, “pot” was the more popular...

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