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Canyac

The name Panama's 1935 Judicial Register gives for cannabis, "commonly known locally as Canyac or Kan Jac".

Spanish
Canyac

Also Kan Jac

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Panama’s courts had a local name for the plant before they had a modern drug law. The 1935 Judicial Register calls cannabis “commonly known locally as Canyac or Kan Jac” — the only recorded Panamanian Spanish name for it. Panama calls cannabis Canyac in 1935.[1]

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Panama1935 Judicial Register; "commonly known locally as Canyac or Kan Jac"archived
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