CSI Stickyicky
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I see so many people call it Marijuana. Why?
I have decided to stop using the term "Marijuana" to describe the Cannabis plant. There are more ways to refer to reefer than ways to refer to vaginas.
The term "Marijuana" was blatantly used by WR Hurst and his cronies like HJ Anslinger, to demonize Cannabis. "Marijuana" was the term that helped the original laws against Cannabis to get formed.
Referring to reefer as "Marijuana" did 2 things:
1 It made people think it was some plant OTHER than hemp. (If people knew that this "mexican loco weed" was actually harmless old hemp, they would have seen through the bullshit)
2 It made people relate Cannabis use to Mexicans. (aaah, Mexicans! The newspaper says they are scary!)
Even today, "Marijuana" has a negative connotation to it. When you watch the news, and they bust a major criminal gang, how to they present that news to you? usually by spreading a bunch of guns and bales of various drugs on a table, then put in big letters, "POLICE SEIZE MARIJUANA"
When you take a class in public school where they teach you about drugs, the textbook tells you all about the dangers of "marijuana"
"marijuana" is not the technical term, or the proper term, it was actually put in place by people who had a calculated plan to demonize our beloved plant.
I think we as a community should find one of the many of other names it has, and call it by that.
Lets go smoke some pot, herb, ganja, weed, cannabis, dank, nuggets, ..... (help me continue this list, im sure with your help we can come up with hundreds of other things to call it)
I have decided to stop using the term "Marijuana" to describe the Cannabis plant. There are more ways to refer to reefer than ways to refer to vaginas.
The term "Marijuana" was blatantly used by WR Hurst and his cronies like HJ Anslinger, to demonize Cannabis. "Marijuana" was the term that helped the original laws against Cannabis to get formed.
Referring to reefer as "Marijuana" did 2 things:
1 It made people think it was some plant OTHER than hemp. (If people knew that this "mexican loco weed" was actually harmless old hemp, they would have seen through the bullshit)
2 It made people relate Cannabis use to Mexicans. (aaah, Mexicans! The newspaper says they are scary!)
Even today, "Marijuana" has a negative connotation to it. When you watch the news, and they bust a major criminal gang, how to they present that news to you? usually by spreading a bunch of guns and bales of various drugs on a table, then put in big letters, "POLICE SEIZE MARIJUANA"
When you take a class in public school where they teach you about drugs, the textbook tells you all about the dangers of "marijuana"
"marijuana" is not the technical term, or the proper term, it was actually put in place by people who had a calculated plan to demonize our beloved plant.
I think we as a community should find one of the many of other names it has, and call it by that.
Lets go smoke some pot, herb, ganja, weed, cannabis, dank, nuggets, ..... (help me continue this list, im sure with your help we can come up with hundreds of other things to call it)
