[Ads-l] Antedating of "Grass" (= Marijuana)

[Shapiro, Fred]

grass (OED, 13., 1938)

1937 Down Beat Nov. 8/1 (RIPM Jazz Periodicals)

The cigarettes made out of the dried green leaves of the Indian hemp plant ... are referred to as "muggles," "reefers," "loco weed," "Mary Warner," "mooters," "grifo," "sonadora," "grass," "hay" and "tea." ... "I've been chugging away on grass ever since I was a kid in Texas."

Fred Shapiro

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