BoundariesAreFun OP t1_iu3mj3y wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:07 AM

Reply to comment by Sigfreedsolomon in Study: Legalizing Marijuana Has No Impact on the Perceived Risk of Marijuana Use Among Children by BoundariesAreFun

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.

Sigfreedsolomon t1_iu7w000 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 6:16 AM

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.

BoundariesAreFun OP t1_iu817mh wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:32 AM

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