Language Lounge
A Monthly Column for Word Lovers
Weed WordsThu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015By Orin Hargraves
I live in the heart of a small lexical explosion—Boulder, Colorado, home to about 100,000 people (of whom 30,000 are university students), and about two dozen retail marijuana dispensaries. The lexical explosion is in the marketing vocabulary of a product that until recently, despite its being universally known and widely used, was contraband.
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