Brubeck69
New Member
That word is at least four decades out of date. It is thrown around far too much and simply serves to perpetuate the ignorance. Even the people who want cannabis legalized insist on calling it 'marijuana'. Sorry but it just makes me cringe when I hear that word. Where I come from (Scotland) you would be considered a total fool if you went around calling it that. Nobody uses that word, its straight out of antiquated bullshit like 'reefer madness'
The backward, ignorant idiotic attitudes towards weed flying around in the US disgusts me. It is consistently demonised by so-called educators and the dull gray minds of the spoon fed masses that worry too much about shit like swine flu. Try going into any bar and telling people you smoke weed here you may as well be telling them you are a card carrying member of al-queda.
Its just mindbending some of the crap people spout if you ask them about pot. I especially detest the bullshit 'drug-test' culture in the US, as if the fact you enjoy weed affects your ability to do your job in some way and you must answer to your stupid boss for what you do with your own body in your own free time. It's like something out of fucking Nazi Germany, and everyone just accepts it !
My point is that as long as folk continue to call it 'Marijuana' which is derrogatory with very negative connotations and stigma, we have no hope of changing the attitudes of the ignoramouses that stand in the way of decriminalisation. We need to use the correct scientific term, Cannabis, before we have any hope of making progress in the right direction.
Oh, and yes yes the ignorant masses know it by marijuana and most wont know what cannabis is..blah blah blah. I think thats a good thing, and one of the best reasons for a change in the terminology. You cant justify perpetuating that stupid word to me just because of ignorance on a national scale. Its time for change. Even if its only a name.
The backward, ignorant idiotic attitudes towards weed flying around in the US disgusts me. It is consistently demonised by so-called educators and the dull gray minds of the spoon fed masses that worry too much about shit like swine flu. Try going into any bar and telling people you smoke weed here you may as well be telling them you are a card carrying member of al-queda.
Its just mindbending some of the crap people spout if you ask them about pot. I especially detest the bullshit 'drug-test' culture in the US, as if the fact you enjoy weed affects your ability to do your job in some way and you must answer to your stupid boss for what you do with your own body in your own free time. It's like something out of fucking Nazi Germany, and everyone just accepts it !
My point is that as long as folk continue to call it 'Marijuana' which is derrogatory with very negative connotations and stigma, we have no hope of changing the attitudes of the ignoramouses that stand in the way of decriminalisation. We need to use the correct scientific term, Cannabis, before we have any hope of making progress in the right direction.
Oh, and yes yes the ignorant masses know it by marijuana and most wont know what cannabis is..blah blah blah. I think thats a good thing, and one of the best reasons for a change in the terminology. You cant justify perpetuating that stupid word to me just because of ignorance on a national scale. Its time for change. Even if its only a name.