”Wait....what?”
Posted on 04/25/2022 10:29:29 AM PDT by servo1969
Democrats in Washington state are cracking down on marijuana — not the actual drug, the word itself.
The Evergreen State legislature recently passed a bill banning the word “marijuana” from official state law and documents over concerns that it is “racist.” At the same time, to help increase diversity in the cannabis business, a taxpayer-funded task force has been spending the last two years focusing on helping minorities in Washington state break into the marijuana business.
“The term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and racist,” Washington state Representative Melanie Morgan (D) said during testimony regarding the piece of legislation officially known as House Bill 1210, which she also sponsored.
“As recreational marijuana use became more popular, it was negatively associated with Mexican immigrants,” Morgan added. “Even though it seems simple because it’s just one word, the reality is we’re healing the wrongs that were committed against Black and Brown people around cannabis.”
Democratic Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill into law in March and it will go into effect in June.
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Yeah, and Rama of the jungle was everyone’s Bawana
But only jazz musicians were smokin’ marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too
-Jimmy Buffett
Melanie Morgan is a racist who hates anything in Spanish. Don’t even start me on the oppression of the word “Burrito”...
”Wait....what?”
Call it “Latin Lettuce”, and get the La Raza folks riled up.
They should just call it reefer like everybody else does.
This is really dangerous. Are democrats this stupid and not realiz that banning WORDS is going to go down a road no one wants to go down? Yeah, they do.
Corn was an old English generic word for cereal crops like wheat and oats. Then it was transferred to maize.
Typical liberal who lives in a fantasy world.
And “maize” was the Spanish colonizers word for whatever the hell the indigenous people called it.
How long until they attempt to change the name of the state?
They’ll just do what they did with King County, just say it’s named after Martin Luther King. I’m sure they’ll find a black guy named “Washington” to say it’s named after.
Where was marijuana first discovered/grown, anyway?
i would have, except “Washington state ” means Jay Inslee, and that means anything is possible.
“They’ll just do what they did with King County, just say it’s named after Martin Luther King. I’m sure they’ll find a black guy named “Washington” to say it’s named after.”
no one will believe this but Washington is named after a kind and conservative Black Man named George Washington Bush.
He originally was tried to settle in Oregon, but they were all racists who chased him across the river
The oldest apple tree in washington was planed by him, and still lives in Bush prarie, iirc he got the seeds from Johnnie Appleseed who loved cider
Mary-Jane is sexist.
Nope, never thought that.
Meanwhile, Sativa is the Latin, Scientiftpic name.
Latin is demeaning.
Scientific is supremacy.
There are two major species. Central and South Asia are believed to be where they originated.
This from the folks that renamed King County, Washington (named for some old white guy that was V.P. at the time) to King County, Washington after Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’m not sure what the cost was to replace all of the signs and logos and stationary from the symbol of a crown to a profile of MLK.
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