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locoweed
noun
marijuana US, 1930
Directly from the name given to several species of poisonous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis which may cause frenzied behaviour in grazing stock; ultimately from Spanish loco (mad).- Hashish was used among the ancients to stimulate armies for ruthless killing. It has since become known as locoweed[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 102, 1948
- They must be mixing it with loco weed or something. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 51, 1959
- [P]oor Neal with his pockets full of innocent loco weed that grows wild in Texas getting an indefinite term. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 222, 17 April 1959: Letter to Carolyn Cassady
- If Horatio Alger had been born near a field of locoweed his story might have been a lot different. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 215, 1966
- “Well, I ain’t never seen no locoweed make a cow act like that,” said Harold[.] — Terry Southern, Texas Summer, p. 37, 1991
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 288, 2003
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