Freeman: The etymology of marijuana prohibition
Marijuana. It’s a word we’re all are familiar with, especially if you’ve been living in Colorado for the last five years.
It’s a word that can stir up emotions immediately, regardless of where your convictions lay. It is a word that is rampant in headlines across the U.S., increasingly so every day. It is a word that was introduced into our lexicon innocently enough, only to be kidnapped by the social media of the time and used to vilify and condemn a plant that never meant any harm.
Prior to 1910, the plant was referred to as cannabis and it was widely consumed medicinally. The American Medical Association commonly used cannabis in tinctures, syrups and extracts to treat and cure a huge variety of ailments, always referring to the plant as cannabis or hemp. Around 1910, the U.S. saw a large influx of legal Mexican immigrants fleeing a country torn by civil...
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