Why do they call it "pot"?

I can't figure it out.

Is it because the resin balls you scrape out look like something that came from the toilet?

That's my best guess.

 

maybe cos its a plant and plants are grown in pots. i dunno, my guess is as good as yours.

 

Maybe... someone... hid their weed in a pot one day and code named it "pot"?

 

the posibilities are endless....

 

nevermind

 

well its a drug so u never know where the random words come from

lol

 

Well, here's one idea: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pot

not sure if that's accurate, though. Interesting at least.

 

potiguaya looks right

but id have gone with the fact that its the 'pot plant' probably. makes sense that its mexican word though, caus marijuana comes formteh mexican spelling marihuana

 

i wanna know why its blowjob and not suckjob... its not like the girl actually blows

 

maybe caus from observation it sorta like blowing up a baloon

 

or maybe its the job crack whores would do for blow

 

"marihuana" is the anglicized version of "marijuana", the mexican word. J's in spanish are said like h's, so when english speakers translated the word, they changed the j to an h.

 

so then why was it changed back again?
i gues marihuana works better with propaganda.. makes it sound more sinister and hispanic

 

i always see it spelled with a j

 

my school has a webpage about why "marihuana" is bad...

 

i see it spelled "j"

of course it would be gay pronouncing it "mary john uh"

 

marihuana is still considered an acceptable english spelling, but marijuana is also now the proper english word as well as spanish word. the "h" spelling as far as i know, hasn't been the most common one since the 50s when more and more people became familiar with the drug. the spelling "marihuana" while acceptible, is just somewhat archaic these days....not in widespread use. when i had to write a paper about it for highschool i decided to spell it marihuana the whole way through the paper just to throw people off. couldn't have points deducted for spelling cause it was correct and still in the dictionary, even if it's been out of favor for the past handful of decades....

 

cause its pot

 

that was the worst guess

 

who mine?