Cannabis is the real name. Calling it Marijuana instead was partly how they got it illegal so quietly and quickly. No one knew what Marijuana was, some kind of new Mexican menace they were told.
The name Marijuana means nothing in spanish. Just a slang for a girls name. Prohibitionists hate it when you use the proper botanical term Cannabis. Sounds to much like a plant...
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Supporters of the notorious Pancho Villa first used the name marijuana in 1895 in Sonora, Mexico. They called the mood-altering herb they smoked marijuana.
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http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz.../marijuana.jsp
Funny coincedence because timber/paper baron Randolph Hearst hated P. Villa.
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Villa's expropriations included 800,000 acres of Mexican timberland owned by newspaper baron William Randolf Hearst. Hearst, using his newspaper empire to construct the image of the lazy, degenerate, violent, job-stealing Mexican in the American public opinion. Hearst's newspapers hyped the Mexican threat just as they had hyped the Spanish American War.
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http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Pancho_Villa 