Cannabis vs Reefer - What's the difference?
cannabis | reefer |
A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis'', especially ''Cannabis sativa ), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.
(nautical) Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
*1922 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Oxford 2002 (Selected Stories ), p. 85:
*:Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.
A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.
(slang, uncountable) marijuana.
*1982 , (Grandmaster Flash), :
*:Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer , I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.
