Why do people call Marijuana "weed"?

[D.Boone]

because it grows like a weed it grows pretty much anywhere.

[beachguy in thongs]

weed 1 Pronunciation (wd)
n.
1.
a. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.
b. Rank growth of such plants.
2. A water plant, especially seaweed.
3. The leaves or stems of a plant as distinguished from the seeds: dill weed.
4. Something useless, detrimental, or worthless, especially an animal unfit for breeding.
5. Slang
a. Tobacco.
b. A cigarette.
c. Marijuana.
v. weed·ed, weed·ing, weeds
v.tr.
1. To clear of weeds.
2. To remove (weeds). Often used with out: weed out dandelions.
3. To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out: weed out unqualified applicants.
v.intr.
To remove weeds.

Shit can be good shit and shit can be bad, or foul.

[SativaTrip]

yeah it actually is......so so sorry for all the renameing 'oh that hurrts my feelings' pc crowd...even it if is about weed....marijuana get over what it should be called and think about what should be done.....oops i didn't mean that for you %90 'ers .

MOTHERFUCKIN SLAVES THAT IS>>>>..................it is a weed and i fuckin love it....that's all i need to know....i don't need to impress my friends to like what i want so why do i care if it's called what it is...just say soemthuing not true.....then i'll knock your face in , and then after i realize how mad you made me, i'l;ll knock it in again...because i don't have time for that shit.......lmao

[SativaTrip]

i hate dictionaries too, i bet you can get a different deffinition someplace...just because i read one whenever i see one lol even the dictionary guys are subjective idiots.....they are deff. a bunch of hoody hoos whatever that means lol

[da haze meister]

when i lived in philadelphia we had a particularly hot and humid summer, and me and my mom were weeding in the backyard and i saw what looked to be a weed plant, and im like mom, and shes like son go away for a second. i came back and it was gone.

[Up In Smoke 420]

when i lived in philadelphia we had a particularly hot and humid summer, and me and my mom were weeding in the backyard and i saw what looked to be a weed plant, and im like mom, and shes like son go away for a second. i came back and it was gone.

hahah ever find out where it went?

[beachguy in thongs]

Calling it a weed is kind of the viewpoint of the farmer who drives around on his Dixon Lawnmower, mowing down everything in sight, including his tomatoes.

[beachguy in thongs]

Smoking Weed sounds cool, though. You can't say that it doesn't...

[bonsaiguy]

From all I hear about growing weed, it doesnt sound like it is that easy to do. It sounds really complicated, so what do you mean it is so durable and grows like a weed...

It becomes more complicated if you choose to grow indoors. It's not a houseplant and requires a lot of light to flourish. Give it the right conditions and it does the rest itself. It does grow profusely outdoors and here in the midwest it can be found growing along roads and rr tracks all the time. In fact the railroads spray tons of herbicide along their tracks because of MJ and a lot of other weeds as well. A lot of this is a holdover from the WW1 and WW2 years when farmers were paid by the govt to switch their crops over to hemp to provide material for rope, mostly for the Navy. (hence the term "smoking rope") I believe that nylon was developed either late in WW2 or shortly thereafter and a lot of folks believe that growing hemp was outlawed because of the invention of nylon which could only take off in the American market if growing hemp was outlawed and the only way to do that was to associate it with the evil weed cannibis which was only smoked by mobsters, insane teens and of course, black jazz musicians and who cares about them. If I'm not mistaken it was introduced as a psychotropic substance primarily by those same black jazz musicians along with a huge influx of immigrants from Mexico.

Then again, I could be wrong.

[Dopa]

HAHA wtf? You should be asking why marijuana is called "pot". Weed is a far better name for it than some stupid long haired hippy calling it "pot". Anyone who is NOT a long haired hippy calls marijuana weed. Weed just sounds better anyway. Just my opinion. Anyone else annoyed when weed is called "pot"???