A proposed rule sent Thursday to the federal register recognizes medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse than some of the most dangerous drugs.
  • littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If you’re so up in arms about the inherent racism in the criminalization and exploitation of cannabis, maybe don’t use the manufactured term “marijuana”, hmm? Coined to sound foreign (yes, Spanish specifically), it’s part of the whole plan in the first place. 🤫

    • 3volver@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      manufactured term “marijuana”

      In accordance with my initial point that it’s a racist law to keep it illegal, I’ll use cannabis from now on. Reading the history of the usage of the term “marijuana/marihuana/mariguana”.

      It’s funny how we try to regulate a plant, yet the term cannabis could be referring to industrial hemp or the dankest highest THC concentration cultivar possible.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa#Cultivars

      Broadly, there are three main cultivar groups of cannabis that are cultivated today:

      Cultivars primarily cultivated for their fibre, characterized by long stems and little branching.[21]

      Cultivars grown for seed which can be eaten entirely raw or from which hemp oil is extracted.

      Cultivars grown for medicinal or recreational purposes, characterized by extensive branching to maximize the number of flowers.[21]

      A nominal if not legal distinction is often made between industrial hemp, with concentrations of psychoactive compounds far too low to be useful for that purpose, and marijuana.