tree = 'marijuana'

[Joel S. Berson]

Haven't we already had the exegesis on tree vs. bush?

Joel

At 5/4/2012 04:03 PM, Michael Newman wrote:
>I heard this from NYC teens around 2000.
>Michael Newman
>Associate Professor of Linguistics
>Queens College/CUNY
>michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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>On May 4, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > From a 2011 Amazon.com review of the movie  _Bad Teacher_.
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> > "She smokes tree, shows movies in class and is gorgeous from head to toe."
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> > It's like "weed" but it's "tree."
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