ganja

1. (especially India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.Examples: "Whilst a ganja-eater was catching fish on the bank of a river, a man from another country came and asked which was the road and what was his name; he replied that his name was "eater of six maunds of ganja.""; "There were altogether 2,202 admissions to the five asylums of this province during that time, and of that number it was ascertained that 641 were ganja smokers, 117 were spirit drinkers, and 8 were opium-eaters, the percentages being ganja 291 spririts 5'8, opium 036 per cent."; "In Bengal the natives talk of the ganja-bearing plant as the male and the weaker pollen-bearing plant as the female."Synonyms: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheebaCaribbeanIndiaSingaporeespeciallyuncountableusually