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The term 'kanapis' is borrowed from English and is the Common term for marijuana. Despite having a form similar to that of technical terms borrowed from English in the early modern period, it actually entered the language much earlier, right in the early period.

In contrast to Britain, where dangerous drugs like marijuana are illegal, the New World Order exercises basically no control over any recreational drug use, other than laws regarding purity and permissible excipients, which apply to sellers and are only reliably enforced if you purchase brand-name drugs from a major corporation, and laws against making non-medicinal drugs accessible to children (which in NWO law tends to mean pre-teens).

For those working directly for the NWO or a major corporation, there are also very severe restrictions against being intoxicated while at work, and you can be severely punished for creating a public hazard while intoxicated, such as operating a vehicle. Essentially, you can get in a lot of trouble if your drug use creates an inconvenience for the authorities and those in power, otherwise the law simply doesn't care.

Kanapis comes in many forms, and travellers need to be cautious even about food they may buy or be offered, as if you don't have adequate grasp of Common or don't carefully examine the item, or if you don't know where it came form at all, you may ingest cannabis without intending to. Common-speakers have a wide array of vocabulary for forms of this and other drugs, some of it only really found in Low Common and with a lot of regional variation, but it's also normal to refer to any form of marijuana with the general term of 'na kanapis', as well as referring to the plant this way.

Like most words for drugs, when used as a verb, 'kanapis' is an intransitive pali verb meaning to be intoxicated by cannabis.