Quote Originally Posted by Natural Revolution
lmfao!!!!! Are you serious??

Cannabis is the latin scientific name for the plant, derived from the hebrew word Kaneh Bosm, which translates to "fragrant cane". Cannabis was also the term used to classify in the U.S. Pharmacopeia until the 1930s when they wanted to make it illegal to clear the way for synthetics. Cannabis was the word that the American public was familiar with on any level. Well it would be pretty hard to demonize a substance that people were already familiar with right?

Marijuana was the term used by Harry Anslinger, a man who was openly racist about Mexican immigrants and Black people. He used this word to associate Cannabis with the workers, who were generally considered dirty savages that threatened the American way of life. The word Marijuana in itself is not racist, but it's intent and application SURELY are. And there is absolutely nothing pretentious about the word Cannabis, sorry bro but you are wrong.
Listen, I think that the following organizations are very qualified, very "serious", and use the term Marijuana:

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Marijuana Law Reform - NORML


Global Marijuana March
2007 Global Marijuana March
Global Marijuana March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you have a problem with them as well, then so be it.



BTW, Harry J. Anslinger wasn't the first to go against Marijuana: A very good â??drug warâ? site: Why is Marijuana Illegal?

However, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)
Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). These laws tended to be specifically targeted against the Mexican-American population.
When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator's comment: "When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies." In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."