Garcia de Orta recorded the name as "bangue",^[10] as did Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.^[11] Used in British English, it can also be spelt "bang", and retains much of the original meaning. In American English it may refer to hemp or a tea made from hemp that is either drunk or smoked.^[9]

The Bhangmeter, a type of radiometer, is named as a pun on "Bhang".^[12]

The dictionary definition of bhang at Wiktionary.

Note: Bhangi is also a Hindi term for a person who uses bhang.^[14]

The dictionary definition of cáñamo at Wiktionary.

The dictionary definition of canapa at Wiktionary.

Latin.^[20]

English botanical name.^[21] Assigned in the mid-eighteenth century, cannabis and hemp describe the entire cannabis plant for all its uses. Dried preparations of the plant are also called ganja, one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana.^[22][23][21]

The dictionary definition of cannabis at Wiktionary.

The dictionary definition of chanvre at Wiktionary.

Alphonse de Candolle described hashish as an "environmental material"; he included the Egyptians of the 18th century primarily cultivating cannabis for hashish in his list of places where the plant (which he primarily saw as a textile producer) was not popular.^[5]

Bhang is culturally significant in India, and is not technically banned, as the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, specifically does not outlaw using seeds and leaves of the cannabis plant, of which the common tea drink is made. Bhang (referring to cannabis in general) can also be acquired medically.^[65][66] The narcotics act does not list bhang/cannabis, instead documenting both charas and ganja (as cannabis plant products) separately;^[66] in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, cannabis leaves are not included in the definition of cannabis for Indian legal purposes.^[67]

Traditional heirloom strain of cannabis,^[21][63] and method of preparation.^[84] The strain is a high quality bud originating in northeast Thailand, where it was grown by hill tribes since antiquity. The name comes from a traditional Thai method of preparing cannabis to be smoked, which involved wrapping cannabis bud around a stick.^[84] The stick was either bamboo or a hemp stalk, the bud may have been treated with hash oil before wrapping and would have been wrapped around the stick with fan leaves and/or silk string. The stick was then cured underground, and may be dipped in opium before smoking.^[84][85] The Thai stick cigars used Thai bud Cannabis sativa, which also became known as Thai stick. When the original Thai sticks were popular, dealers would sell any buds bound in string or to a stick under the name. Most of the original bud was destroyed in the 1970s when the Thai government began its war on drugs. Making Thai stick-style cannacigars out of other strains continued around the world,^[84][85] though the Thai government legalized medical cannabis again in 2018.^[86]