ganja

ganja
n
marihuana. This is one of the many names for cannabis which has been heard in various milieus over the last fifty years or so. At present the term is popular in the Caribbean and among blacks and young white smokers in Brit-ain. It comes originally from the San-skrit ganja, via Hindi.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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