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RE: Why the Term Marijuana is Unacceptable #5
That's still what a lot of "normal" people call it though. I can see both sides of the issue, or at least I could a few years ago. Now the word cannabis isn't as foreign to people as it used to be. During my entire smoking life, no one has ever called it cannabis when referring to it, but they also don't call it marijuana. It's usually weed. ha. Sometimes pot. Or ganj. Not ganja, but ganj ha.
we typically say "want to blaze" or "lets smoke one" as its very socially accepted in my circles. I wont single you out, but in this contexts I might as well call my house maid a servant or slave seeing as some populations refer to them as such. Not singling you out just making the inference that someone could generalize on a lot of demographics or groups of people but that typically doesn't lead to an educated population if Slang is a valued commodity.
At the end of the day, to me, it's about intent. No one intends harm when they use the word marijuana, so it doesn't bother me when I hear it. I never said I was against shedding light on the fact that it has a very negative origin, though. When I learned about it, I started saying cannabis. I just don't mind if people use the word marijuana. That's all.
If you actually have a house maid, congrats. You're doing better than I am in life! :)
Lol no I dont have a maid, it was just an easy to use concept for the purpose of my arguement.