 The word entered English usage in the late 19th century.According to the "Oxford English Dictionary", the first known appearance of a form of the word in English is in Hubert Howe Bancroft's 1873 "The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America".Other early variants include "mariguan" (1894), "marihuma" first recorded in 1905, "marihuano" in 1912, and "marahuana" in 1914.