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Sigfreedsolomon t1_iu3l5u5 wrote

Stop calling it marijuana- it’s a racist title designed to scare people.

It’s cannabis.

R/science should not be using racist colloquialisms.

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BoundariesAreFun OP t1_iu3mj3y wrote

I spent years feeling the same, but honestly at this point the word marijuana has been retaken (when cops want to be racist they use "marihuana"), and it doesn't scare people anymore. Tens of millions of people live in areas where they regularly pass legal marijuana stores. As someone who lives in LA and is visiting the Seattle area most stores use the term marijuana, and the majority of people refer to it as that, and I don't see that changing.

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Sigfreedsolomon t1_iu7w000 wrote

The word marijuana came from a report that also described cannabis as making “negroes sleep with white women”

Just because people have forgotten that, doesn’t make it right.

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BoundariesAreFun OP t1_iu817mh wrote

They referred to it as mariHuana then. It's around the time they did the "Marihuana Tax Act".

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Sponium t1_iu4dw2v wrote

I'm curious, what is the meaning and past history behind the word Marijuana for it to be considered racist or some?

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kazmerb t1_iu5eou0 wrote

Back when William Hearst started the campaign to ban hemp because he owned paper mills that printed his newspapers, and hemp would edge into his profit margins of the country switched to hemp paper from wood paper, they decided to play into the at the time political theater concerning Mexican laborers. They said that cannabis, or as the Mexicans call it “marijuana”, is a drug made by the devil and hemp, it’s cousin, was no better. So they directly connected hemp/cannabis to Mexicans stealing your jobs and women/daughters, and later on did the same thing with reefer madness/jazz/blacks.

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Sponium t1_iu5tba8 wrote

Allright, thanks for the little history mate, I get it now

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