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A banner reading Legalize Marijuana on a van at a 1977 Yippie smoke-in in Washington, D.C.
Contemporary pop culture and counterculture use
The 1968 debut album of
YippieDavid Peel's Manhattan band
The Lower East Side, called Have a Marijuana, includes a song titled "I Like Marijuana." In 1969, Yippie Party founder
Abbie Hoffman wrote "We shall do it by building a new nation—a nation as rugged as the marijuana leaf." In the song
"Legalize It", recorded in 1975,
Peter Tosh sings "Some call it marijuana."[1][2]
I have removed the random mention of songs and plays etc... this is not the page to list every time the word is used....especially with sources that don't even mention the word.....all this can be seen at
Cannabis culture.--Moxy🍁 18:06, 2 June 2019 (UTC)reply
I disagree. Significant, notable pop-culture use of the term is, indeed, an appropriate part of the English use section. That's exactly what this article is about. Yes, of course you're right, this isn't the place to list every time the word has ever been mentioned anywhere. The intention is to include only important instances. My style of prose may not be to your liking and I admit my writing is imperfect. However, the material itself still belongs here. It can be tweaked, as needed, but should not be removed altogether, as you have done. --
The Hammer of Thor (
talk) 23:32, 2 June 2019 (UTC)reply
I'd been working on adding additional citations when this section was removed. The initial sources are reliable, Newsweek for instance, and they mention the word marijuana, the subject of this article. --
The Hammer of Thor (
talk) 23:59, 2 June 2019 (UTC)reply
What you would need is sources that make the claims your making ..So lets list the sources
The back cover of Woodstock Nation by Abbie Hoffman that mentions weed in passing in a manifesto
Help me out here. What exactly are these "claims" that I'm making? I thought you didn't like the section because it was nothing more than a list. Which is it? --
The Hammer of Thor (
talk) 00:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)reply
p.s. I corrected the AllMusic link to read Legalize It. (It's an unimportant detail, anyway. The Contemporary pop culture use subsection remains appropriate to the English use section of the article.)
The sources do not convey that these usages are different than any other thousands of usages in the entertainment industry. What would be of interest is the first time it's used in a song..... first newspaper acknowledgement of the word... first time in the movie. It's giving undue way to some random bands.....plays etc. If we cannot show the usages is culturally significant over they just use the word it's pointless and presents original research to our readers by giving undeweight to these bands Etc. What has to be asked is do the linked article or sources lead our readers to info on the relevance of the word usage..... or does it just show that the word is used without conveying its cultural significance or why it's in this article other than the word is used.
a paragraph that starts something generic like..."By the 1930s marijuana was a popular term used by Jazz musicians and in exploitation movies of the era like
She Shoulda Said No! That stigmatized the usage of the word"...etc...--Moxy🍁 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the additional source. I will try to rewrite the section, citing the references, so that we're both satisfied, I hope. --
The Hammer of Thor (
talk) 19:41, 15 June 2019 (UTC)reply
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Nobody thinks that the word is cognate with "Marjoram"? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
69.124.116.101 (
talk) 03:33, 4 June 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't know the etymology of "marijuana," but 麻仁 is definitely not from Semitic
Ma 麻, Old Chinese *C.mˤraj (where *C- refers to an unknown consonant) is a perfectly normal Chinese word meaning "hemp." Maren 麻仁 means "hemp seeds." Also perfectly normal Chinese. There's no reason to look for weird Semitic origins for any of this.--
98.111.164.239 (
talk) 05:30, 10 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Conflicting etymologies
There are conflicting etymology entries in separate sections of this article. Recommend someone with better understanding connect or correct the article.
Riddleme (
talk) 18:32, 28 May 2022 (UTC)reply