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"Marijuana" vs. "Cannabis”

February 22, 2019 by Michael Polson

Why it can be okay to call it ‘marijuana’ instead of ‘cannabis’

The only thing I’d add to this discussion is that the term “cannabis” can accomplish a kind of science-washing and virtue-signaling that allows actors to rhetorically distance themselves from the political, racial, and social history of the plant and reuse it in sanitized, scientific-sounding claims for respectability.

February 22, 2019 /Michael Polson
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