CaliforniaSober@lemmy.catoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the term "marijuana" has a racist history, and meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.English
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2 months agoJust call it grass. It’s got history and style…
Just call it grass. It’s got history and style…
Wow them and the Flintstones. Winston rolls deep.
Consider ”hate credits”… like imagine the KKK can do whatever it wants so long as they claim to offset it with “hate credits”…
I had professors that instead of a text book had you buy a “reader” from a copy shop. It was just a big binder of photocopied pages from text books, academic journals and various published papers. I still hold on to a few of them as they were kinda like mix tapes of various ideas and info, way more interesting than a text book.
The local copy shops were bigger centers of piracy than Napster at the time.
With cannabis it’s always been a tool to break up ethnic communities. Grass was an excuse, strength and community was the target.