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How to pronounce ganja in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cannabis, marihuana, marijuana
Type of controlled substance, soft drug
Has types locoweed, weed, acapulco gold, dope, gage, grass, green goddess, mary jane, mexican green, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke
Type Words
Synonyms cannabis sativa, marihuana, marijuana
Type of cannabis, hemp

Examples of ganja

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Ganja is out as the main ingredient, replaced by gritty steam-powered machinery.
From the npr.org
When was the last time a pot head went home high on only ganja and beat his wife?
From the economist.com
Ganja may cause the giggles, but legalization shouldn't be a laughing matter.
From the huffingtonpost.com
In 30 other states ganja is among the top three on the list of cash crops.
From the thenewstribune.com
Ganja has a fearful potency, but it isn't as strong as Marley's music.
From the time.com
The reason why they will never make ganja legal is that it is too easy to grow it yourself.
From the guardian.co.uk
The dreadlocks and wafting scent of ganja definitely draw attention.
From the thenewstribune.com
The island's ganja farmers, to use their word, had been tipped off.
From the economist.com
There would be a time-shifting fog of ganja and barbecued goat.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • Marijuana: a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared
  • Cannabis: the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
  • Ganja (Persian: u06AFu0646u062Cu0647u200Eu200E; in Azerbaijani: Gu0259ncu0259, u049Cu04D9u043Du04B9u04D9) is Azerbaijan's second largest city with a population close to 820,000. It was named Elisabethpol (Russian: u0415u043Bu0438u0437u0430u0432u0435u0442u043Fu043Eu0301u043Bu044C, tr. Yelizavetpol; IPA:u00A0) in the Russian Empire period. The city regained its original name Ganja in 1920 during the first part of its incorporation into the Soviet Union...
  • Marijuana
  • Appears in quotations dating from 1800 in the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • [from gaja, Hindi word for India's potent marijuana, consisting of the flowering tops and leaves of the hemp plant, where most of the psychoactive resin is concentrated] marijuana
  • (n) marijuana. Synonym: weed, hemp, grass. Freq: occasional. You want to come smoke tonight. Pete bought some Ganja earlier.
  • A moderately potent form of Indian cannabis, marked by a greater THC content than bhang.
  • Jamaican term for Marihuana. Tourists will hear this word a lot in Jamaica, often accompanied by pssst, pssst. It could also be discreetly mumbled between greetings or yelled with surprising openness from behind the fence. ...