The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CANNABIS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CANNABIS
- Is it possible that arrest is for this?
- Cop punching old dog, grass …
- “Drug arrest” in dog Latin?
- Interrupting major or minor star, seize drug
- Drug arrest takes place behind prison
- Pot or tin basin broken
- Drug I won’t allow is returned in containers
- Drug bust – one’s going after prison
- . Can catch one small plant
- Able to grab one small pot
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What does CANNABIS mean?
CANNABIS noun- A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
- A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
- The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.