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Has anyone ever looked up the term "weed" and no not cannabis but the common term.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed

As you can see any plant can be a weed, all it has to be is a unwanted plant that takes away from other plants or in competition with crops.

Now I've seen the debate on strain names but what about what we call the plant in general?

Marijuana I feel is disrespectful to Latino culture because the term was created to make people afraid of Mexicans. :no:

Weed is a unwanted plant, a oak tree in a corn field is a "weed" because it's growing place it is not wanted and taking away from the corn crop.

So now, do you know why they use the term weed?
And anyone willing to grow the plant its not concidered a weed. so if anyone thinks cannabis is like a Dandelion or crab grass or thisle its not!

Side Note:Medical Marijuana" I hate the term also it should be Medical Cannabis.

Don't get me started on "pot" or "loud"

Listen to What terms people use when talking about it. The more knowledgeable people use the term Cannabis the lower information person will use terms like weed,pot, or loud.

I have to say Marijuana is the odd ball because it is the term us have to use here in the States when it comes to medicine which I believe is done on purpose by the guys behind the certain.

So Id like to push for more people to use the term cannabis or hell let's make up a new word for it that means "wanted plant" wait I think we call that a commodity!:dunno:

Please all sides comment i want to talk about this right here right now.if it gets heated thats ok but no one disrespects anyone I'll ask for immediate action.
 
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Harry Anslinger has a lot to answer for , he was a bigot and a racist and this is what powered his his prohibition campaign to make cannabis ilegal.

Cannabis has always had colloquial names, marijuana comes from Mary (mari) and John (Juan) and is of mexican origin

Harry anslinger was no fan of Mexicans or Afro Caribbeans both of who used Cannabis, So he started using the word marijuana/marihuanna which the white majority at the time had never heard and used it to demonise cannabis and also cause racial mistrust.

He made out it was the devils drug and would turn you into a sexual deviant and rapists as well as making people lazy.

Hemp was also used for clothing a rope etc but America also had Cotton which it had been making vast profits from for a couple of hundred years, by making all varieties of cannabis illegal meant hemp could not be grown for fabric production and gave cotton farmers the monopoly.

In states where hemp had been grown like Kentucky, attempts were made to eradicate it but it still kept popping up where it wasn't wanted like a Weed and still does to this day often in ditches but also in decent sized patches.

This is of course hemp with thc of about 0.04 % THC smoke a whole field and you might just get a headache, but it still looks the same as what by this time was refered to as Marijuana and colloquially weed.

As with all prohibition making it ilegal did not work, in fact prohibition has the opposite effect and makes more people use it and when people talk about ilegal substances they soon pick up new code words for it, boo (bamboo), tea, pot (tea pot) wacky tobaccy, grass and of course weed, the list goes on.

This next bit is from unexplained mysteries.com

Take a look at the word cannabis. Ever wonder what it means? Cannabis is a Greek word, though its root is African. In Greek, canna means 'canine' or 'dog' and bis or bi is the number two. So cannabis is the 'two dog plant'! That in itself is interesting to me. But the pot thickens.

There is a cannabis-loving tribe in Mali, West Africa called the Dogon tribe. A fairly well-documented group, the Dogons were visited by Herodotus, a Greek traveler and chronicler, around 300 BC. He was fortunate enough to have visited the Dogons during a year-long celebration that took place every 50 years. Explaining their celebration, the Dogons pointed to the brightest star in the Winter sky, Sirius, and said it was the 'Two-Dog Star' and that it was the home of the 'two-dog plant', cannabis. The two-dog plant, they said, was brought to our planet from the Goddess from the Two Dog Star. Their yearlong celebration was in honor of that star.

All of this would be easy to dismiss if not for the fact the Dogons possessed specific knowledge about the Sirian system for thousands of years before scientists with modern telescopes and equipment could catch up and prove them right. The Dogons had specific knowledge about Sirius B, a white dwarf star, which they call Po Tolo. They knew that it was white, that it was extremely small, and that its the heaviest star in its grouping. They were able to describe its elliptical orbit with Sirius A, its 50 year orbital period, and the fact that the star rotated on its own axis. Sirius B is invisible to the naked eye abd is so difficult to observe, even through a telescope, no pictures were taken until 1970.

They also described a third star in the Sirius system, which they called Emme Ya. In 1995, when two French astronomers published the results of a multi-year study that was apparently a small, red dwarf star within the Sirius star system, the Dogon idea of there being a Sirius C, aka Emme Ya, was suddenly taken much more seriously. If the Dogons were correct in all of their other knowledge about Sirius, why would they not be dead on with their claims of cannabis being from Sirius. It is, after all, named after that "Two-Dog Star'

Note: The Dog Star was highly venerated in ancient Mesopotamia, where its old Akkadian name was Mil-lik-ud (Dog Star Of the Sun) and in Babylonia, where it was called Kakkab-lik-ku (Star Of The Dog). The assyrians called Sirius Kal-bu-sa mas (the Dog of the Sun) and in Chaldea, it was known as Kak-shisha (The Dog Star That Leads)


Ganja
The East and West Indian word for marijuana from the Hindi language...The Indica strain of cannabis has the highest percentage of THC than any other strain grown...The word is used in the West Indies because of the East Indian influence from culptivating and smoking the buds of the plant...Ganja was brought by the East Indian slaves to the Carribean and then spread all over the world from there, but Indica Ganja originated in India. copied and pasted from urban dictionary




A fair few names for cannabis come from hindi/sanskrit such as dagga ,shiva ,shanti ,ganga ,durga, kali, parvati

Lambsbread a Jamcian name is said to be a reference to the shape of long sativa colas looking like lambs tails and the bread part because when sold they were slice like bread in to portion.

Collie is another Jamacian word originating from hindi/sanskrit, collie = Kali the lord of death.

Lambsbread collie weed is high quailty ganga sliced with a knife if you want to literal but really it just mean excellent cannabis.

Sensimillias is Spanish for without seeds and is usually shortened to sensi

Consemillas mean with seeds

 
well if you know the Harry anslinger story you prolly know they ran tests with their own doctors n health pros back then and again in the late 40's or early 50's n again was burried cuz they said(as we all know LMAO)it was not harmful.money and business is where it started and the fear tactics came into play n lies.lol. and with race ofcourse of the ignorance,it went that route cuz of the times.but a very lame lame deal.as i think we'd all agree.LOL!

Yer baaaaaked dude LMAO!!

it LOWWD!!LMFAO!! i think thats hilarious LOL! yeah I always called is herbs,or herbals or a cool soothing herbal refreshment lol:Sharing One:"AFN smoke out"
 
Can't forget that Kaneh Bosem is refered to in the Hebrew Bible as one of the few ingredients of the holy anointing oil. Hebrew scholars suggest this is obviously Cannabis.
 
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