TIL that the term "marijuana" has a racist history, and meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.
TIL that the term "marijuana" has a racist history, and meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.
www.npr.org /sections/codeswitch/2013/07/14/201981025/the-mysterious-history-of-marijuana
Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant's formal name, cannabis. Numerous accounts say that "marijuana" came into popular usage in the U.S. in the early 20th century because anti-cannabis factions wanted to underscore the drug's "Mexican-ness." It was meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.
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Devil's lettuce is my favoruite
Mine has always been "The Whacky Tobacky"
Electric lettuce is not bad ether.
That's not racist, though, and this topic is about racist terms for cannabis.
Er, black devil's lettuce?
Sticky icky
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