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Cannabis terminology: Here's why marijuana is a pejorative term

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sun, 09/13/2015 - 08:16

Words matter

There are hundreds of nicknames for cannabis. Pot, weed, dro, chronic, wacky tobaccy — the list is long. Some are bizarre. Others are hilarious.

But one of the most common nicknames, marijuana, is “downright nasty,” according to High Times writer John Gettman.

Gettman argues in a recent article for High Times that marijuana is a pejorative term that ought to be replaced by the proper cannabis terminology, which is — you guessed it — cannabis.

More from High Times:

Marijuana is what prohibition supporters called cannabis as they sought to demonize its use and criminalize its consumers.

The Spanish word “marijhuana” was adopted to reinforce the connection between the “devil’s weed” and Mexican immigrants who, allegedly, first introduced it to American society. Being anti-marijuana was also a way to be anti-immigrant. (Note: In the early 1970s, the Nixon Administration adopted a policy of standardizing the spelling of the

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