Dagga
Dagga (Afrikaans pronunciation:
Etymology
While it's fairly well known that the first written use of the term was in Jan van Riebeeck’s journal in 1658 and spelled daccha, it was most likely as a reference to the indigenous "wild dagga" that has a similar leaf shape with the jagged edges. The two plants have a very different flower however and some scholars have questioned people's inability to tell them apart. hfbd
Another theory put forward by two scholars (Hahn and Lichtenstein) in 1963 proposed that the dutch word for tobacco, tabak, which was then referred to as twak, was morphed over time into twaga and later to toaga and finally into dagga. Brian du Toit, in his book, Cannabis in Africa (1980) disagreed suggesting the Khoekhoe word daXa-b (tobacco), is the root noun from which the word dagga was derived. Their word for green is !am and when added to daXa-b it resulted in amaXa-b namely green tobacco. This theory is supported by Jean Branford, who in her 1978 book, A Dictionary of South African English drew similar conclusions.[6]
1940s–present
In 1948 the
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References
- ^ Watt, John Mitchell (1961-01-01). "UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1961 Issue 3 - 002". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "The word Dagga". Dagga Couple. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ^ Wolmarans, Ernest (2014-04-21). "D-Day to legalise dagga in SA". The Citizen. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "Is dagga legal in South Africa, 18 September 2018?". NORML South Africa. 2018-09-18. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- Times Live. 2018-09-18. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ "History of dagga in the South African archaeological record". Wits. 2018-09-18. Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- IOL. 2018-09-18. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
- ^ "The word "Dagga"". Dagga Couple. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ^ "Dagga". Dagga Party. Retrieved April 29, 2019.