Quote Originally Posted by chris40
Does anyone know why one of the more popular nicknames for marijuana is pot? Personally I think its a stupid name and I hate it but it's the most widely used by non-smokers.

I'm not sure where the term pot came from, but the term Marijuana came from the Mexican-Spanish word for cheap tobacco. Bhang is dried leaves of uncultivated cannabis plants, or female plants with the resin removed. Ganja is the top of the female plant without the resin removed. Hashish is the dried resin from the top of the female plant. So there's those words defined.