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Marijuana is a mind-alerting substance that comes from the Cannabis sativa plant. Other names for it are weed, pot and dope.

Marijuana is known by a variety of other names, including pot, tea, grass, and weed. It is usually dried and crushed and put into pipes or formed into cigarettes (joints) for smoking.

What Is Marijuana? Marijuana — also called weed, grass, or pot, among other names — is a mind-altering substance that comes from the cannabis plant.

Despite years of moves to loosen marijuana restrictions, pot is still illegal at the federal level (with some new exceptions). Here's what's going on.

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It’s called cannabis use disorder and it’s on the rise, affecting about 3 in 10 people who use pot, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here’s how to know whether you or a loved one are addicted to marijuana — and what kinds of treatment exist.

Other common or street names: weed, pot, herb, bud, dope, spliff, reefer, grass, ganja, 420, chronic, Mary Jane, gangster, boom, skunk. There are over 200 street names for marijuana.

Our little town is going to pot and nobody seems to care. He worries that he'll go to pot if he retires. The whole squadron's gone to pot. We don't even have a flagpole. I didn't have a pool to train in and my technique went to pot.