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Wordy weed

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Wordy weed
There are distinctive New Zealand names for cannabis, an illegal drug. Two of the best known are Coromandel green and electric puha.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 18 April 2009, p. 3

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Dianne Bardsley, English language in New Zealand – New words, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40333/wordy-weed (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Dianne Bardsley, published 3 December 2012.