Why call it Marijuana?

Early in the 1900′s Marijuana was 100% legal, and it was either known as “Cannabis”, or “Hemp” to most people in America, if they even knew about it at all.
It was really just known about in the Sticks, and it was just commonly known about as a weed, like “Jimsonweed” is today.
The only people that may have referred to it as “Marijuana” are people in the very southern parts of states such as Texas, New Mexico, California, and any other state that used to be part of Mexico, and of course it was known as Marijuana in Mexico.
At this time there was some scientific breakthroughs with Marijuana, and it was about to take over the paper industry. The big paper companies didn’t want that, and one man began using his multiple News presses to begin printing stories about people smoking a new drug called “Marijuana”, and it was described as much much more terrible for society than it actually is.
They wanted people to really hate it, and most Americans at that time didn’t care for Mexican immigrants, and did not like that they were bringing their drug “Marijuana” into our country. Giving “Cannabis/Hemp” that Mexican twist, made it possible for them to make it the way it is today.
But the people of America didn’t know they were talking about Hemp, they didn’t know it was hemp that was going to be made illegal.

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