• FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Brits never use the term marijuana. They’re familiar with it from American media etc, but they call it Cannabis in UK and elsewhere.

    • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.comOP
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      9 months ago

      You’re completely right. I knew something didn’t sound right, when I was replicating the narrator voice.

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        9 months ago

        I have never ever heard a common British person call it marijuana or cannabis unless it was in a sarcastic manner as in “Oop you smoking a bit of the marijuana?”

        It’s always weed, lean, green or something other slang term.

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          9 months ago

          Well, this was in the context of a narrator clinically (yet also overdramatically) describing a person developing a “serious habit” of smoking weed, as if it’s the same thing as being addicted to fucking heroin or crack.