List of names for cannabis

Garcia de Orta recorded the name as "bangue",[10] as did Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.

Dried preparations of the plant are also called ganja, one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana.

Alphonse de Candolle described hashish as an "environmental material"; he included the Egyptians of the 18th century primarily cultivating cannabis for hashish in his list of places where the plant (which he primarily saw as a textile producer) was not popular.

[59] A 2022 study in PLOS One, drawing data from almost 90,000 samples from six US states, representing the largest quantitative chemical mapping of commercial dispensary-grade cannabis flower samples to date, found that “commercial labels do not consistently align with the observed chemical diversity.” In other words, many strain names do not necessarily reflect the actual cannabinoid content or its perceived effects.

[90] The strain is a high quality bud originating in northeast Thailand, where it was grown by hill tribes since antiquity.

Most of the original bud was destroyed in the 1970s when the Thai government began its war on drugs.