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Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

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TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I find it interesting that most pro-weed organizations still use the term "marijuana" just because it's more familiar, while I see more and more that advocates in their own materials favor "cannabis", and Wikipedia sticks with "cannabis" in most articles.

But then this new bipartisan "Cannabis Caucus" in the US Congress uses the term "cannabis"; not sure if that's just alliteration or a more deliberate political choice.


Going back to the Capitol in Austin this week as part of a Veterans for Cannabis event, should be fun. And The Cannabis covered our event two weeks ago; the first year we had Marijuana Lobbying Day in Austin was 2011, with 25 people, and this year we're up to 375 people: http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/02/17/texas-marijuana-lobby-legislation-legalization/73530/

Considering how much 'marijuana' was used as a term to demonize cannabis (by associating it with those shifty mexicans, see), and then its widespread use by programs such as dare and in press releases by law enforcement and various arms of the war against drugs...
Well its really not surprising they use Cannabis.

Its also the taxonomic name so it gives a bit of formality and academic sobriety to the affair. At least i think thats the intention.

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Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

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SAM is just an anti-marijuana group.
They cant say outright MARIJUANA BAD because thats not an acceptable reason anymore* without the concern troll rider of "your'e kids are DOING THE POT".
Theyre dogwhistling it hard while trying to get more swing voters on their side. They wont even write a single line favorable for marijuana use.

*Thanks to electorally favorable support of marijuana legalization/decrim.

Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Feb 12, 2018

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

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Inspector Hound posted:

The scientific community has described cannabis intoxication as psychosis or psychosis-like or psychotomimetic for like seventy years

intentionally inducing psychosis to get high

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