'Cannabis'; comes from Greek, and further back to early Sumerian and Babylonian. (a)N(a)B(a), or Q(a)N(a)B(a), the longest surviving root-word meaning: Cane, and B means two reeds, or two sexes, referring to the sexes of the plant.

'Marijuana' was popularised by Mexicans during the 1898 Spanish-American War where the 'dope' smoking army of Pancho Villa sang a song about a soldier who refuses to march without his 'stash'.

'Bango' is used in modern Egypt to describe domestically grown marijuana; where in Northern India, 'Begij' was used to describe cultivated marijuana and hashish.

'Bhang', used in India and Thailand, for the plants as well as preparations made from compounds of the plant to create a mild-euphoric feeling.

'Charas' refers to hashish produced by hand-rubbing and 'ganja' is an Indian word for marijuana, but is also used in Jamaica.

'Jungli' is used in Northern India to describe wild-grown marijuana and the Hashish made from it.

'Kif' is a Moroccan word for the cannabis plant, but also describes the means of smoking it with tobacco. In the West it has been adopted to describe Moroccan hashish.

'Shirac' Is an Afghanistan word used to describe high-quality hashish. The word means 'sticky' and comes from another word, meaning 'sweet'.

'Rebetika' is a Greek term which describes a type of folk music where the audience and musicians used hashish to compose and enjoy the music.