Stop using the word "marijuana"..it's called Cannabis

[RetroGrow]

there are a handful of words that aren't always appropriate (due to histories/etymologies being intertwined with atrocities), but those are very few in number. I don't think "marijuana" counts as one.

I have to disagree with this. The "M" word was the word used in the demonization process, appealing to people's xenophobia and cultivating their prejudices. The atrocities associated with this demonization are massive: locking people in cages, sometimes for life, persecuting entire classes of people, keeping the many medical benefits away from folks while pushing dangerous pharmaceutical replacements, keeping the nutritional benefits of the seeds from people, while also prohibiting the environmentally responsible process of paper/clothing/building materials manufacturing, in favor of environmentally unfriendly methods of paper, clothing, and building materials production, not to mention the fact that hemp fields remove massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, many times that of what trees remove. To me, these things are all atrocities, and so, I never use the "M" word, but will use many other terms, such as "herb", "bud", "weed", "smoke", "ganja", "pot", etc, etc.....

 

[rives]

This argument strikes me as being uncomfortably close to the horseshit about "the patriarchy", the battle flag of Northern Virginia, Civil War monuments, the flavor of the week when referring to blacks or gays, and whatever else overly sensitive people are trying to control.

Very few understand the real history behind things and wish to control everyone else's actions based on "feeeelings" that change with their hormonal cycles.

Get a grip. Call it whatever you like.

 

[Donn]

That's why they call it "dope!"

 

[Apache Kush]

I thought it was the three types, so no I was not aware then...in that sense..

Im sure most thought sativa for sativas is what i was kind of thinking ,
indica for wel indicas, and ruderlas for hemp...

learned somthing new

ill admit it

but marijuana is not even in the fucking ball park!

 

[Apache Kush]

If you had a really great lawyer you could get your case thrown out for labeling it wrong!

Technically thats C. Indica your honor. Case IS VOID!! ;o

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

Maybe we need to take back and own the M word?
Why let the Anti's own it?
I say maybe use it every chance you get, Marijuana helped children with seizures, Marijuana helps control Cancer, Marijuana, Marijuana, Marijuana, Marijuana, the more we say it the more we regain ownership of the word Marijuana, the Antis have had control long enough.
They got control by all of us letting them take control, I say take it back and use it at least 100 times each day, until the negative is gone and it is just marijuana, not something evil.
-SamS

I have to disagree with this. The "M" word was the word used in the demonization process, appealing to people's xenophobia and cultivating their prejudices. The atrocities associated with this demonization are massive: locking people in cages, sometimes for life, persecuting entire classes of people, keeping the many medical benefits away from folks while pushing dangerous pharmaceutical replacements, keeping the nutritional benefits of the seeds from people, while also prohibiting the environmentally responsible process of paper/clothing/building materials manufacturing, in favor of environmentally unfriendly methods of paper, clothing, and building materials production, not to mention the fact that hemp fields remove massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, many times that of what trees remove. To me, these things are all atrocities, and so, I never use the "M" word, but will use many other terms, such as "herb", "bud", "weed", "smoke", "ganja", "pot", etc, etc.....

 

[pekelo44]

It's known as marijuana around the world. Good luck getting cannabis to replace it.

The word Marijuana is a name given to Cannabis by Mexican people from Mexico so use Cannabis or Cannabis Sativa it's true name usually Mexican people refer this fine herb as marijuana

 

[Donn]

After all the abuse the plant has taken over the decades, if it's any consolation, it was also made legal in Washington State anyway under the name, "marijuana."

Initiative Measure No. 502 filed July 8, 2011

AN ACT Relating to marijuana; ...

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

PART I INTENT

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The people intend to stop treating adult marijuana use as a crime and try a new approach that: ...

Of course, there's some disagreement over the initiative, but in any case it's hardly demonizing the plant.

 

[Apache Kush]

 

[Apache Kush]

Ma is the chinese word for ''unconscious spaciness'' comfortable numb indeed

they invented or shall i say they, the Chinese, had the first writing system to record it, semantics

it not the mexicans, real mexican call it Mota

just fooling we are not seriously fighting about this or the NWO wins lol

 

[kaochiu]

Musically I hate both. Marijuana reminds me of a skinny ugly girl that pursued me as a child declaring her love and my friends taking the piss. Piss rhymes with cannabis, so, no good for rock lyrics. Whether it was intended as derogative it happened too long ago, things changed since. Language rules should measure people speaking, not dictate. If it would be a democratic law for it, it should be Cannajuana or Marinnabis and move on, but as it is, i prefer the anarchy and use one of its thousand names for every occasion. Try going to score in the ghetto
- May i have an ounce of your finest NLD cannabis, hooded person?
- At once, gentleman.

 

[Loc Dog]

I consider it my best friend. I do not like the M word, since it was invented by prohibitionists, to associate with SA's, which racists thought inferior. I like the C word, which is almost as good as the other C word.

 

[Jellyfish]

The Pixies called it Marijuana in their song, Gouge Away-

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[oldchuck]

Personally, I like Dagga best. Unfortunately, I'm not southern African.

 

[doob]

cannabis i can spell, that other word needs googling hehe

 

[shithawk420]

Oh for fucks sake who cares? Like I said before a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.some of you guys are WAY over thinking this.you still wanna use Latin, which nobody you normally talk to would know what your saying? Call it whatever you want just make sure the person your talking to knows what the fuck your saying.I know Latin by the way.officially a DEAD LANGUAGE

 

[doob]

A recent scientific program in the UK was called "Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial"

Within that they called the types "hash" and "skunk weed"

England keeping it real

 

[bombadil.360]

mofeta, thank you very much that does indeed answers my question.

it makes sense that preference goes to the terms that were first used; sort of like in the 'war of words', the first information published becomes more "factual" than information on the same subject published later on. human psychology, uh?

peace!

 

[Jellyfish]

The word Marijuana is a name given to Cannabis by Mexican people from Mexico so use Cannabis or Cannabis Sativa it's true name usually Mexican people refer this fine herb as marijuana

If it's good enough for the lovely people of Mexico, it's good enough for me. Ole'!

Marijuana- it's a lovely name, a woman's name, Mary Jane in english. Great for rhyming- gonna wanna marijuana soon. Hey Donna, let's smoke some marijuana, wanna?

 

[mrcreosote]

Cruising the high school halls circa '68 with yer buddies talking low about ganja, dagga, pakalolo because by then everyone was worried about that weird new guy in school that looked too old to be in high school and could be a narc.

The funny thing was that the next town over from us (where the rich kids lived) they actually outed an undercover cop posing as a student.
They tabbed him with some 4 way acid in the lunchroom and he was never seen in school again. The story goes that by the time school let out a group of rascals took him for a walk through the cemetery and started telling him some colorful ghost stories. They said they left him in the cemetery in fine health, except he was sobbing and had a load in his pants.

Those little scamps.

Marijuana, MJ, Mary Jane, Cannabis...All the same. If Marijuana was good enough for our South of the Border friends in the '30's, it's good enough for me. (Edit: Holy Cannabis, I must have read that somewhere)
Saying Cannabis doesn't really make me sound smarter, although if you called your dog Canis Lupus Familiaris, he might appreciate the upgrade from Dog if he tends to pretentiousness.
Hard to say with dogs though...you really have to know them.