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Mostly off topic but when I read these stories I'm always irked at the use of "marijuana" instead of cannabis. Maybe because I'm in Toronto where cannabis is fu
by canadianwriter 5y ago
Mostly off topic but when I read these stories I'm always irked at the use of "marijuana" instead of cannabis. Maybe because I'm in Toronto where cannabis is fully legal and every store around me that sells it uses cannabis - not to mention the products all use that term as well.
Marijuana just seems like your using old, slightly racist terminology. And makes me think of 4/20 BLAZE IT kind of crap. Which is probably why companies here use cannabis to go after the non "taking this is my entire lifestyle" crowd.
- dahfizz 5y agoHow is "marijuana" racist?
- netizen-936824 5y agoThat's exactly what it is. I make a point to use the term cannabis, as marijuana is simply slang with racist connotations attached due to the propaganda of the war on drugs
- s1artibartfast 5y agoFor similar reasons, I refer to burritos as tortilla bean wraps.
- netizen-936824 5y agoAh yes, I remember all the propaganda hit pieces demonizing burritos.
- sturza 5y agoMarijuana is the dried leaves and flowers of the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant. I cannot imagine how the term is racist. But the fact thay it makes you think of 420, that’s just you.
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- Ericson2314 5y agoMarijuana was like a barely existing Spanish slang promoted at the beginning of cannabis being illegal in the first half of the 20th century to make cannabis seem more foreign and worthy of a ban. It's definitely suspicious at least. If you really want you can view it as more cynically exploiting existing prejudice than prejudiced in and of itself, but I am not sure that is much of an exoneration.
- 3np 5y agoLanguage evolves. The use is uncontroversial today and specifically refers to the flower. We're all aware of previously uncontroversial words that are taboo today. The reverse can happen as well.
- Ericson2314 5y agoSure, but also it just sounds weird to use a ramming together of names in Spanish as the formal word for anything in English. Especially when the thing comes from Asia.
- yodsanklai 5y agoI agree with parent. Cannabis and marijuana are synonymous. Marijuana is more negatively connoted. I'd prefer to use Cannabis which is more neutral.
- caseyohara 5y ago> The use of "marihuana" in American English increased dramatically in the 1930s, when it was preferred as an exotic-sounding alternative name during debates on the drug's use. It has been suggested that in the United States the word was promoted by opponents of the drug, who wanted to stigmatize it with a "foreign-sounding name". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word)#Early_use_of_the_term_marijuana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word)#Early_use_of_...
- couchand 5y agoIf you'll believe it, here in 2021 the state of New York passed a law with "marihuana" (sic) in the name!
- throw_m239339 5y agoSaying marijuana is fine. It is offensive toward literally no group of people. Seems to me that some people are always looking for something to get offended about nowadays in order to control everybody else's speech.