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*Grass* is English slang for cannabis, recorded in American English by 1932. It applies a … speaker approved of cannabis, used it, or was simply reporting someone else's speech. ## A headline for legalisation The illustrated cover above supplies a direct example of the word’s political use. *San Francisco Good Times*, volume 5, number 4, dated 11–24 February 1972, announced a new push to legalise grass. The [People’s Graphic Design Archive](https://peoplesgdarchive.org/item/758/good-times-vol-5-no-4) dates the issue to 11 February; the [surviving-copy description](https://www.lornebair.com/pages/books/48909/underground-newspapers/san-francisco-good-times-vol-5-no-4-february-11-24-1972) identifies its publisher as the Trystero Company. By the 1960s and 1970s, grass had become especially familiar in American counterculture. The word also circulated through counterculture literature and popular music, as well as the language of legalisation activism. The newspaper provides a dated example of that wider vocabulary in print. Underground newspapers gave that conversational vocabulary a public platform alongside political campaigns and cultural reporting. This cover makes the connection explicit: the informal substance name appears in a demand for a change in law. Its central illustration concerns economic collapse, however, and should not be interpreted as a depiction of cannabis. The paper’s type, aged newsprint and unrelated cover stories are part of the evidence. They place the headline in an actual publication rather than turning it into a detached modern slogan. Neither the newspaper nor the decade invented the word: the recorded 1932 cannabis sense is considerably earlier. ## The word and the offence In the [United States](/country/us/), the [1937 Marihuana Tax Act](/history/us-ma … umented American cannabis sense by 1932, not a verified account of one person coining it.

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src ../../src/assets/culture/grass-good-times-1972.jpg · fit contain · alt Front page of the 1972 San Francisco Good Times underground newspaper featuring the headline Big New Push to Legalize Grass above a black-and-white illustration. · caption Big New Push to Legalize Grass — the front page of San Francisco Good Times, February 1972, documenting cannabis slang in American counterculture and legalization activism. · credit San Francisco Good Times / The Trystero Company, 1972 · credit url https://peoplesgdarchive.org/item/758/good-times-vol-5-no-4

*Pot* is English slang for cannabis. It names the substance generally, rather than a part … therefore be treated as an origin theory, not an established recipe behind the word. ## A word on a protest sign The archival photograph of the [1965 demonstration](/history/us-ginsberg-cannabis-demonstration-1965/) shows Allen Ginsberg in snowy Greenwich Village, holding a placard declaring “Pot Is a Reality Kick.” Demonstrators outside the Women’s House of Detention on Greenwich Avenue demanded the release of people arrested for cannabis use or possession. Behind him, other participants’ signs urge people to smoke pot and repeal prohibition. The [Library of Congress record](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99403586/) identifies the photograph in its New York World-Telegram and the Sun collection; the catalog dates the image to 10 January 1965. Related demonstrations occurred in December 1964, which can account for differing dates in reproductions. Ginsberg became an early public advocate for cannabis legalisation. His participation moved the familiar word from private conversation onto a public demand, challenging the social stigma attached to users. The image documents the vocabulary of that movement, not the invention of the term. Pot’s recorded English use predates both this protest and the wider 1960s counterculture. ## Slang beside the statutory name In the [United States](/country/us/), *pot* circulated al … supports that distinction more securely than any single account of where the slang began.

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Library of Congress — Allen Ginsberg at a marijuana legalization demonstration, LC-USZ62-123108 Stephen Petrus — Greenwich Village Fights the Heroin Epidemic, 1958–1963 (Gotham Center) 2 unchanged

src ../../src/assets/culture/pot-ginsberg-protest-1965.webp · fit contain · alt Black-and-white photograph of poet Allen Ginsberg standing in the snow holding a handmade POT IS A REALITY KICK sign, surrounded by marijuana legalization protesters. · caption Allen Ginsberg demonstrating for cannabis legalization in Greenwich Village, New York, 1965, holding a sign declaring 'Pot Is a Reality Kick'. · credit United Press International / Library of Congress · credit url https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99403586/

In New Zealand a *tinny*, or *tinnie*, is a small amount of cannabis wrapped in tinfoil. … f the claims came from police officers who were not named. ## The police and the courts [Stuff’s 2018 Huntly investigation](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/102054505/westside-stories-inside-a-huntly-tinny-house) gives the word a visible material form. Christel Yardley’s photograph shows small foil parcels, including one opened to expose the cannabis. The accompanying report identifies 31 tinnies found ready for sale in a food pantry. The image documents this particular search; it does not establish that every tinny house had the other offences described in the investigation. For the police, tinny houses are a target that can be counted. In 2011 officers in Countie … -zealand-referendum-2020/) on a regulated legal market was lost by 50.7 per cent to 48.4.

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Phillipa Yalden — Westside Stories: Inside a Huntly tinny house (Stuff, 15 March 2018) 4 unchanged

src ../../src/assets/culture/tinny-huntly-2018.webp · fit contain · alt Small portions of cannabis individually wrapped in aluminium foil, photographed during a New Zealand tinny-house investigation. · caption Cannabis tinnies documented during a 2018 police investigation in Huntly, New Zealand. · credit Christel Yardley / Stuff · credit url https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/102054505/westside-stories-inside-a-huntly-tinny-house

*Wiet* is Dutch for herbal cannabis. The [Dutch government's terminology guide](https://w … different ranges. The relevant statute's definition matters more than a retail label. ## Reading a menu Romain’s photograph in the [Siberië menu archive](https://www.coffeeshopmenus.org/Siberie/Menus/Siberie.html), dated 16 July 2013, shows *WIET* and *HASJ* as separate categories. Under wiet, *buitenwiet* distinguishes outdoor-grown cannabis from *binnenwiet*, grown indoors. The hashish section includes *nederhasj*, a corresponding label for Dutch-produced resin. The photograph preserves the spelling, prices and categories used by one Amsterdam coffeeshop at that time. *Nederwiet* means Dutch-grown herbal cannabis; it describes origin rather than a single variety. *Mediwiet* refers to cannabis used medicinally, while *wietpas* means “weed pass,” the access scheme associated with coffeeshop membership and restrictions on non-residents. These compounds answer different questions: where the plant grew, why it is used, or who may buy it. They should not all be read as names for products on a menu. ## A familiar name in an exceptional market The [Netherlands](/country/nl/) separated cannabis from hard drugs in its [1976 toleration policy](/history/netherlands-toleration-1976/). Coffeeshops emerged during the 1970s. That policy is central to the [coffeeshop](/culture/traditions/the-coffeeshop/) as a socia … not *wiet* and *marihuana*. In [2025](/history/netherlands-regulated-supply-only-2025/), coffeeshops in the ten municipalities participating in the regulated-supply experiment moved to sales from approved growers onlyentered its experimental phase in ten municipalities, with requirements for regulated cannabis supply and a longer transition for hashish. The reform concerns supply arrangements in specified places, not a new botanical meaning … oduct name across discussions of both the tolerated market and its regulated experiment. The *wietpas* vocabulary belongs to access restrictions, especially the [2012 introduction of membership and resident criteria](/history/netherlands-residents-only-2012/). It should not be mistaken for a nationwide declaration that cannabis was legal. A menu describes a retail offer; the toleration policy describes when authorities refrain from prosecuting otherwise prohibited sales.

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Coffeeshopmenus.org — Siberië menu archive, 16 July 2013, contributor Romain 2 unchanged

src ../../src/assets/culture/wiet-siberie-menu-2013.jpg · fit contain · alt Photograph of an Amsterdam coffeeshop menu with the Dutch words WIET and HASJ printed vertically, alongside lists of cannabis varieties and prices. · caption Wiet and hasj listed separately on a Dutch coffeeshop menu in Amsterdam, 2013. The Dutch word wiet derives from English weed. · credit Romain / Coffeeshopmenus.org · credit url https://www.coffeeshopmenus.org/Siberie/Menus/Siberie.html

*Zamal* is what cannabis is called on Réunion, the French island east of Madagascar. Poet … Réunion. *Zamal* is now counted among the Malagasy words for cannabis, beside *rangani*. The [Paris museum’s Commerson specimen](https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00108129), MNHN-P-P00108129, records *Cannabis sativa* collected on Île Bourbon, the island’s former name. This is botanical evidence of the plant’s early presence, not evidence that the sheet was labelled *zamal*. The precise introduction of cannabis to Réunion remains uncertain. ## Words around the plant | Word | Meaning | Recorded by | |---|---|---| | *jamala* | Hem … mixed with tobacco; some users prefer it to zamal as quicker and stronger | OFDT, 2022 | Zamal is primarily a regional name for cannabis, although it can also distinguish local varieties from imported ones. It should not be reduced to the name of a single genetically distinct strain. The temper idiom carries a prejudice. Benoist found that Creoles thought zamal made the Ma … st about €5 a gram, ten times its price a decade earlier; the hybrids sold for about €10.

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Réunionnais du Monde — Zamal thérapeutique : feu vert du gouvernement (20 October 2020), photographs credited to Chanvre Réunion Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle — Cannabis sativa, Commerson specimen MNHN-P-P00108129 6 unchanged

src ../../src/assets/culture/zamal-reunion-landscape.jpg · fit contain · alt Cannabis growing outdoors below the green mountainous landscape of Réunion Island. · caption Cannabis growing in Réunion’s mountainous landscape, where the plant is known locally as zamal. Photograph published in 2020. · credit Association Chanvre Réunion / Réunionnais du Monde · credit url https://www.reunionnaisdumonde.com/magazine/actualites/zamal-therapeutique-feu-vert-du-gouvernement/

In mainland South-East Asia cannabis was a kitchen plant before it was a drug in anyone's law. It was a seasoning and a household medicine. Prohibition arrived from outside, in the twentieth Twentieth-century prohibition, shaped by international drug control, changed the legal position of these older practices. Enforcement differed between countries and was enforced late or not at allperiods. The "happy" restaurants that tourists know are the visible end of an older and quieter c … Cambodians think of it as something for older people; it is not popular with the young. [Austin Bush’s 2021 reporting](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannabis-marijuana-in-thai-food) identifies an eel curry calling for tender cannabis leaves in *Mae Khrua Hua Pa*, first printed in 1908 and generally considered Thailand’s oldest published cookbook. The recipe places cannabis among ordinary ingredients rather than presenting it as a novelty. Thai cooks used it in soups, curries and stir-fries for fragrance and savoury flavour; intoxication was not necessarily the purpose. ## Outlawed on paper | Country | First ban | In practice | |---|---|---| | [Thailand](/co … cambodia-drug-campaign-2017/), and Laos applies the death penalty in some drug cases. ## Elsewhere Cooking with cannabis isA photographed revival The lead photograph records a modern revival of this cooking, not peculiar to the region. It has its own entries where it belongs to a particular custom: the drinkshistorical meal. Bush photographed minced pork with holy basil and sweets of [bhangdried cannabis leaves at Holi](/culture/traditions/bhang-at-holi/)Ban Lao Reung in IndiaPrachinburi in 2021. The fresh leaf on top is visible, Morocco's *majoun* (see [kif andwhile the sebsi](/culture/traditions/kif-and-source identifies dried leaves among the-sebsi/)), the hashish sweets of [Egypt](/culture/traditions/hashish-in-egypt/), cooked ingredients. His visit also documented soups seasoned with leaf powder and the hemp-seed soup of Silesia, [siemieniotka](/culture/traditions/siemieniotka/)cooks returning cannabis to noodle broth. What sets SouthThese are regional dishes prepared in a working restaurant. Cambodia’s tourist-East Asia apart is that the leaf was an everyday seasoning, notoriented happy pizzas belong to a festivaldifferent setting, even when both draw on the region’s longer familiarity with cannabis as food or a preparation for its effect. ## Thailand comes back to it In [2019](/history/thailand-medical-2019/) Thailand becam … one the law now recognises, and the new recreational trade the one it is trying to close.

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Austin Bush — In Thailand, Traditional Cannabis Cuisine Is Back on the Menu (Gastro Obscura, 8 April 2021) 4 unchanged

src ../../src/assets/culture/thai-cannabis-stir-fry-2021.jpg · fit contain · alt Thai minced pork and basil stir-fry served in a white bowl, garnished with a fresh cannabis leaf. · caption Traditional Thai stir-fried pork with holy basil and cannabis leaves, served at Ban Lao Reung restaurant in Prachinburi, Thailand. Photograph by Austin Bush, 2021. · credit Austin Bush / Gastro Obscura · credit url https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannabis-marijuana-in-thai-food