How did marijuana get the name ' pot '?

Question

How did marijuana get the name ' pot '?

Answer 1

We also call it "Dope"................

Ummmmmmm, I wonder why?  (it could have something to do with what it does to your brain)

Answer 2

That's what smoking that sh*t eventually turns your brainpan into-- an empty pot inside of a drooler's empty head.

Answer 3

Because you can grow it in a pot?

Answer 4

because marijuana was originally discovered by botanist Orville Pot.

Answer 5

Mexicans who brought weed into American culture about 60 years ago called the smoking pipe a "pot" since has a small pit or divit called a "bowl" where the marijuana goes, plus the words are interchangeable in their language.

Americans started calling the material pot instead of the pipe, it kinda got lost in translation and took a whole new meaning.

Answer 6

because in the 60 ties before it was declaired ilegal in England  flower power days thoes that smoked it always hat a pot or too on the window ledge  

Answer 7

It's short for "potiguaya", which is "marijuana leaves" in the mexican dialect of spanish.

Answer 8

probably because your mind goes to "pot" when you're on it.

Answer 9

From the spanish or mexican word potagua ya.