{"id":49031,"date":"2020-11-13T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=49031"},"modified":"2020-11-20T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:39:25","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-the-food-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/11\/13\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-the-food-of-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The \u201cfood of Paradise\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the words first recorded from 1975 in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Table 1) is \u201csinsemilla\u201d, although it is also mentioned in Jerry Kamstra\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Harper &amp; Row, 1974). Sinsemilla is a form of cannabis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Table 1.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Biomedical words (n=59) in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for which the earliest citations are from 1975 (out of a total of 294); I have found eight antedatings from 1 to 18 years<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49033\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020.jpg 783w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020-768x699.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020-640x583.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Antedatings: sinsemilla (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=x7tIAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=sinsemilla&amp;dq=sinsemilla&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiGwrnBvf3sAhWDUhUIHU04AJIQ6AEwAXoECAsQAg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1974<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); homodimer (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16591493\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1967<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); naphthalimide (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=tX_yTz8axqgC&amp;q=naphthalimide&amp;dq=naphthalimide&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi0wfPcuf3sAhVSu3EKHTosAHkQ6AEwA3oECEQQAg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1961<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">);anoxygenic (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1715313\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1965<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); medicalize (<\/span><a href=\"blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1964<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; see also my recent column on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/10\/16\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-medicalization\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">medicalization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); near-death [experience] (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.com\/stable\/40916733\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1965<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); organified (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3571904\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1965<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">); polyclone (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/watermark.silverchair.com\/21-2-203.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtkwggLVBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggLGMIICwgIBADCCArsGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMHlmlugH7V7kFCBR7AgEQgIICjBX22Vhs-ieb95ojndkYKVy50d2ugWF5QwrtAsLNZyauiWr1NuF04B4BKclO4OetUVWHEbrPNBwsebQHfbo1DEiQSc4nuQMZUzBiNkajdYN3IZccV6pqQ9nFj7wRuRkSOdm7abVArR-iHbrQ3ImIoYlCUubtQCH7pmb3728gUVVsKHLA1xuCNMmvQtGBwRMN4I17XZvcDJsAZQXB3yVT8IEHG4PQSJxNv_lcKB4WHzNQCbwWwiDCPJJltvEjua9ltJq2RV0gIZ70xgfEUpnmFwQzqxr38l2h1dzc9d3LZRhKUb6TKw-tKrdCKONLPvVddC3vvVMrLZaYdUdop9-o5Qg6gmiMyOXgSH-1O_7V-1SQ07qe6lSwhuxBX6cDxDmF-yIIN_xgd7-jIJbXTz04DHADL-LiR93GkUVoKOnAZSErPuZK6YTuQbNfKb1FKL5scA1BKEDGXKEg-q-E1bM83ZBDIvh1VrHb-C33020l86ajv2XCF4VyhVZeh7cB3WIPWqhIDH-LehTMcxK9vBtsZRaYNXGrbIQjPsJBLQfaQTjn79bp23ILIKP3T9oikcevjs_V-PLHO9B4ooKABol_dl-3XccNYLqI7-KukiFbflqfNk5GiwA_dQWXBUABTREU1hQeWcIJhJysgWHSL4WxK-y1rjsWgLyHglwUSkVp_IGlYfzS1QH3PafuAmVduKy0FQfaNP8TYO0GwNAg-eT3Y5bZ0mjmi1F-ab5NyHT3UNBwl9mA2uWapdDtqkhhoa2G_a3PdbNRDhPJQLmOsqlYyDFKvllvSQNwyx6O9ufPym7IF037qcl--TaSEOfDsaS4dWH5jIT9qBBCVaUvdcVYcsdd-nbXbdU1jy63S1k\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1957<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2020The term \u201cnon-A non-B\u201d can be found in many texts on symbolic logic; for example, in Leibnitz&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generales Inquisitiones de Analysi Notionum et Veritatum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1686): \u201cNon Ens est quod est mere privativum, seu omnium privativum, sive non-Y, hoc est non-A, non-B, non-C, etc. Idque est quod vulgo dicunt nihili nullas esse proprietates.\u201d This usage is not covered in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2021The term &#8220;Chronotype&#8221; was used in the titles of certain American newspapers in the mid-19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century and later (e.g. the Boston <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Chronotype<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 1846 to 1851 and the weekly <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rice Lake Chronotype<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which has been published since 1874, originally by the Chronotype Publishing Company).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herbs have been used medicinally and recreationally since at least Neanderthal times, as evidenced by pollen grains found in Iraqi burial sites, many of which are hypothesized to have been used for their medicinal properties. Medicinal plants were depicted on the walls of the caves at Lascaux, and there is evidence of the use of opium and psychedelic drugs during the Neolithic period. It is likely that cannabis was among them. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cannabis sativa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Papaver somniferum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/gree0070_ox_ac_uk\/Documents\/WORDS\/BMJ%20Opinion\/Published\/05.%20Cough%20drops.docx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">identified<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in mediaeval remains in Czech countries. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3460533\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hemp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was also used as a textile in prehistoric times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The IndoEuropean root KANN meant a reed, or more specifically hemp. Tube-like structures whose names derive from this include canal and channel, cane and cannula, canister, cannelloni, cannon, and canyon. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canna<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a genus of reeds and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cannabis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a genus of hemp. In Greek it was \u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03b2\u03b9\u03c2. In his book about recreational drugs, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/334\/7590\/429.2\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phantastica<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1924; Figure 1), the German \u201cfather of toxicology\u201d, Louis Lewin, suggested that it was a loanword from the Scythian and related to the Greek word \u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u1fb6\u03b2\u03bf\u03c2, a clashing noise, reminiscent of the noise made by smokers of hemp. In German, \u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03b2\u03b9\u03c2, via the Latin cannabaceus, hempen, became hanapaz, from which we get canvas, originally made from hemp or flax. Ancient Sanskrit gives us the name of an endogenous cannabinoid, anandamide, from ananda, bliss.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many classical allusions to plants that could have been cannabis. Herodotus reported that the Scythians cultivated a plant whose seeds produced an intoxicating vapour when heated. Diodorus Siculus reported that women of Thebes prepared a plant beverage that had an effect similar to that of nepenthes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49035\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_3.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_3-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Figure 1.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The cover of the 1998 edition of PHA Wirth\u2019s English translation of Lewin\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phantastica<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Different forms of cannabis have different names. Hemp is the common name for the plant, from the same linguistic root as hanapaz. Marijuana is a dried mixture of the crushed leaves and stalks of the plant. In Hawaii it\u2019s called takalolo, from taka = tobacco and lolo = paralysed, lazy, or feeble-minded. Ganja is the compressed flower heads. Hashish is the compressed resin extracted from the heads, and cannabis oil is extracted from it by dissolving it in alcohol. But these names are outnumbered by about 10 to one by the related slang terms (Table 2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Table 2.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Slang terms for various forms of cannabis for recreational use (main source: Neaman J, Silver C. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Other Words. A Thesaurus of Euphemisms<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Facts on File Inc, 1990)<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49034\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_2.jpg 695w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_2-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_2-640x717.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*The origin of the word \u201ctoke\u201d, to inhale smoke from a pipe or cigarette containing marijuana, which the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dates from 1952, is unknown, but probably nothing to do with Alice B Toklas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Male and female cannabis plants contain about the same amounts of the active ingredient, \u0394<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). However, when the female plant is pollinated by the male, its flower heads lose their THC. In order to prevent this, it has been a long-standing practice to remove male plants from the field when they are about to pollinate. The female flowers then fail to produce seeds, and the amount of THC in the heads increases markedly. The sterile female plants are known as sinsemilla\u2014literally \u201cwithout seeds\u201d (in Spanish sin semillas), also called sensamaya, according to Jerry Kamstra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Different preparations contain different amounts of THC. Plants grown commercially in areas where cannabis is legal may be restricted to contain less than 1% THC. Plants that grow wild contain 1\u20133% and sinsemilla contains 3\u20136%. Ganja, prepared from sinsemilla, contains 4\u20138%; hashish 10\u201315%; and cannabis oil 20\u201360%, usually at the lower end of the range.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/334\/7590\/429.2\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phantastica<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Louis Lewin noted that in 1378 Soudoun Sheikouni, Emir of the Arabian Joneima, tried to end abuse of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cannabis indica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by having all local plants destroyed; use of the plant increased. And when, in 1800, a French general in Egypt issued a Napoleonic edict prohibiting the use of hashish, instituted penalties for its use, closed down cafes and restaurants where it was available, and burned all imported stocks, it had as little effect. The history of attempts to control the use of recreational drugs is littered with failures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have access to legal cannabis you might want to try Brian Gysen\u2019s recipe for \u201chaschich fudge\u201d (sic), \u201cwhich anyone could whip up on a rainy day\u201d, given in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alice B Toklas Cook Book<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He called it the food of Paradise. It includes a pulverized bunch of \u201ccanibus sativa\u201d (\u201cobtaining which may present certain difficulties\u201d). The fudge, we are told, \u201cshould be eaten with care. Two pieces [about the size of a walnut] are quite sufficient.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/08\/07\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-anecdata\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-scaled.jpg 737w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-86x300.jpg 86w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-295x1024.jpg 295w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-768x2667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-442x1536.jpg 442w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-590x2048.jpg 590w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/11\/aronson_13_nov_2020_integer_again-640x2223.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the words first recorded from 1975 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED; Table 1) is \u201csinsemilla\u201d, although it is also mentioned in Jerry Kamstra\u2019s book Weed: Adventures of a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/11\/13\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-the-food-of-paradise\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":38359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5762],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeff-aronsons-words"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . 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