How to Use marijuana in a Sentence

marijuana

noun
  • Here are the best marijuana strains for the start of fall weather.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In the man’s car, police found a grinder and a small amount of marijuana.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • Now, voters may be asked to weigh in on marijuana again.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • High bills can be a tip-off that marijuana is being grown inside a house.
    — courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • One was found to have marijuana on him at the time of his arrest, the report said.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Heavy marijuana use may come with a two- to eight-fold higher risk of head and neck cancer.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The man had five grams of marijuana in his sweatshirt pocket.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
  • No marijuana plants were stolen — and there were giant footprints around the scene.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Then came the yacht kids, with their medical marijuana and toned physiques.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • The room where people could smoke marijuana would be sequestered from the rest of the retail store.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Farmer allegedly asked the witness to get his marijuana out of the car.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Police found small amounts of marijuana and cocaine in the house, but no heroin.
    — Fox News, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Both hemp and marijuana are sources for CBD-rich cannabis oils.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
  • Kansas Democrats tried to force a vote on legal marijuana last week.
    — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The friends would allegedly drink or smoke marijuana during the car rides.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Like many cannabis smokers, Jared Panks used marijuana as medicine.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Neither of us had enough money to purchase more marijuana.
    — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This was a bit of whimsy on her part, though as a teen-ager he’d once been arrested for smoking marijuana on the street.
    — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Anyone 21 or older can buy and carry up to an ounce of marijuana.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2020
  • To help, here are the best hacks to have a better marijuana experience.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Police seized 6,800 marijuana plants from that house, but no one was charged.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In the process of the passenger moving, police saw in the car marijuana.
    — cleveland, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Gang members use drugs as well as sell them—cocaine to stay alert for late-night invasions, marijuana to take the edge off.
    — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Officers found some marijuana that had been thrown from the car, but did not recover a gun, the report states.
    — Rachel Jones, charlotteobserver, 3 July 2018
  • Cator asked Williams to sell him some marijuana, according to the ruling.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, a different marijuana bill did make it through.
    — Eleanor Dearman updated August 15, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The change still doesn't make marijuana completely legal though.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Is a marijuana policy shift on the schedule?
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Mayes remained behind, told the remaining children to stay in their beds, and then went to hide and smoke marijuana in the attic.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 June 2026
  • The state should go into the pot business itself and grow marijuana in that fat Combine greenhouse.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019

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