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antiweed en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + weed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Opposing or countering weeds (unwanted plants).
    • Unfortunately for Fletcher's antiweed crusade and western farmers in general, this time had already passed. 2002, Clinton Lorne Evans, The war on weeds in the Prairie West: an environmental history:
    • For example, the creation of historical preservation districts or the passage of antiweed ordinances can be used to preserve a desired rural character. 2003, Matthew J. Lindstrom, Hugh Bartling, Suburban sprawl: culture, theory, and politics:
    • ...in the year 2000 it was still the third most widely used antiweed compound in North America. 2006, Vaclav Smil, Transforming the twentieth century: technical innovations and their consequences:
  2. (not-comparable) Opposing or countering weed (marijuana).
    • A large part of modern conservative antiweed sentiment is informed by the lingering influence of Anslinger's dishonest fearmongering. 2010, Will B. High, Weed-o-pe-dia, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 16:
    • In recent years, the sophistication of the antiweed forces both within Mexico and along the border has necessitated a specialization on the part of those involved in smuggling and dealing. 1974, Jerry Kamstra, Weed, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 189:
    • The Americans were also concerned. They had introduced their first national antiweed legislation—the Marihuana Tax Act—just a year earlier. 2021, Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope, W. W. Norton & Co., →ISBN:
    • Illegal weed tended to be more expensive where antiweed enforcement was more vigorous. 2022, Robin S. Goldstein, Daniel A. Sumner, Can Legal Weed Win?, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 22:
    • Okay, so even though the guy is antiweed—after all, Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) does quit smoking weed at the end of Knocked Up—Judd Apatow’s work appeals deeply to the stoner sensibility. 2009, I. M. Stoned, Weed, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 93:
    • Utah was the first US state to criminalize the use and possession of cannabis. Whitebread and Bonnie first presumed that this was due to the immigrant invasion, but further investigation revealed that Utah had only a tiny Mexican population. The antiweed laws were more influenced by that other American intoxicant, religion. 2016, Joe Dolce, Brave New Weed, Harper Wave, →ISBN, page 18: