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LT. GOVERNOR AND OTHER DIGNITARIES SCOLDED FOR USING THE WORD ‘MARIJUANA’

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 06/02/2015 - 18:24

On Friday, the Lt. Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and other members of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy came to talk with Emerald Triangle growers about marijuana regulation in preparation for possible legalization in 2016 and got an earful about why they should use the word cannabis instead.

 

The sheer enormity of the Lt. Governor of California arriving in this rural Southern Humboldt community to listen to cannabis farmers (and others) speak helped create an enthusiastic crowd for the out-of-town visitors. Nonetheless, one of the participants called the commission to task for using “racist” terminology. The word “marijuana,” he insisted, should be scrapped and “cannabis” used instead. The crowd enthusiastically agreed.

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Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom

Throughout the rest of the meeting, commission members struggled to switch to the usage preferred by the audience. At one point, Assemblymember Jim Wood apologized...

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