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Hashish vs Ganja - What's the difference?

hashish | ganja |

As a noun hashish

is the leaves and tender parts of the indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.

As a proper noun ganja is

the second largest city of azerbaijan; the birthplace of the great persian poet.

hashish

English

Alternative forms

* hasheesh

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
  • * 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 44:
    • Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh ," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
  • * 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
    • You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
  • A cannabis extract (See ).
  • (slang) marijuana generally.

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    * hash

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    ganja

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) marijuana, as used for smoking.

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