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Growing up is realizing alcohol would be banned if it was consumed majority by black people and weed would be legal if were majority consumed by white people

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Anonymous 3w

Weed is legal in a lot of places and banning alcohol didn't go well last time

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Anonymous 3w

There’s only an 18% difference.

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Anonymous 3w

Fun fact: weed was called “marijuana” in the US because they wanted to make it sound foreign and scary, so they used the Spanish word for it instead of simply “cannabis”

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Anonymous

#2 3w

Weed is even more similar

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#2 3w

I’m curious what this looks like over time. Did usage by white people increase significantly?

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Anonymous 3w

Colloquially though they’re used kind of interchangeably. In Europe they say “cannabis” afaik

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