NH: Infighting Dogs Medical Pot (marijuana, New Hampshire) [13+]

This is what you do, allow a few shops to open with licenses funded by shop owners. Why does the government have to get involved? Tax the plant and enjoy the revenue. :) Live free or die!

Yeah your wrong, the plant was either called hemp or cannabis in America and most of the world before Anslinger started his scare campaign. He dug up a Mexican slang term and it has stuck to plant since. How else did a plant with origins in Asia get a Mexican name?

Awesome work Matt!

charles whitebread has published the most well-researched and sourced articles on the subject of the plant and its prohibition in the US. cannabis is the proper name of the plant as a drug. it is also the genus name, yes. read up on it and you'll see that the name marijuana is indeed racially charged. it played into the racism towards mexicans that was pushed through propaganda at the time. it's a very interesting history.

intrepgun: Marijuana isn't a "racially charged" term, it's the common name by which the plant is known. It's not a term used to "vilify" anyone, the mexicans themselves call it like that. "Cannabis" is the genus; so basically your argument would be that we should stop calling roses like that and call them "rosa" instead since that's the correct scientific term.

I'm not implying being a "pothead" should detract anyone from being for or against medical marijuana, just that I find it funny.