2008 Michigan Yes on Prop 1 - Response Ad

[teasnax]

FREE EDDY LEPP, CHARLES LYNCH and MARC EMERY [and from extradition]; and SUPPORT JACK HERER [read The Emperor Wears No Clothes if you have not] and RICK SIMPSON!!!!

[blindpig93]

the Chinese word for cannibus is (or sounds like) ma wang. this i heard from gnositc media podcast and is suposed to be the most ancient use of the any thing that sound like marijuana. the useage may be due to asian/polynisian influences in indiginous America from ancient times.

[Hashishin13]

I'm pretty sure marijuana has spread west, not east. Its most ancient use is china, then the middle east, then africa those are facts. I'm pretty sure it came from mexico and the caribean into the U.S., how it got to mexico/caribean I don't know for sure.

[blindpig93]

pacific coast american tribe had contact with polynesian ppl, some are known to be geneticly polynesian, trade existed since man was first on the continent

[Hashishin13]

Cool, I didn't know that. I heard that the Samoans were originally from Japan, were the polynesians Japanese too?

[lesenfantterribles]

since i'm the only comment on here i hope this gets your attention, mpp staff. Someone recently suggested we stop using the word 'marijuana' because that was the racist name given to a strand of mexican tobacco with cannabis in it. If that's true, we really should....

[CrusherDestroyer69]

i feel like that may be a rumor

[lesenfantterribles]

yeah just read a thing that says the origins of the name aren't really known. But Marijuana are the spanish names of mary and jane... makes sense

[teasnax]

i'm a proponent of correct nomenclature, as use of the fictitious word "marij/huana" perpetuates the mess we're in, in the first place. so far the earliest substantial etymology is the word kaneh-bosm/kannebos, from hebrew/aramaic roots.... if you do your research, you will see that the "m" word was created by H.J. Anslinger from the Maria Y Juana Mexican brand cigarettes. before that it was called hemp or cannabis and no one cared. media and propaganda are EVIL.

[lesenfantterribles]

thanks!

[teasnax]

just doing what i can, friend:^)

[Rupnath]

@teasnax ... You hit it on the head ... now that people are starting to talk about it in serious circles it needs some re branding ... It shouldn't be that hard to do socially as long as we stick to are guns ... the fact is that the m word is a pretty racist word and as long as we commit to telling that to people and CONSISTENTLY calling it cannibus, within a couple decades when it comes time for the voting to legalize ... we'll be talking about it in a whole different way

[teasnax]

right on.  i can't believe that it was only two years ago that i used the M word.... saying Cannabis is natural to me now and the thought of saying the misnomer is like a racial epithet!:^D i thought it sounded dirty way before i ever touched cannabis and it remains that way today!!!!