What is the difference between cannabis and marijuana?

Answered Oct 5 2018 · Author has 3.9k answers and 2.8m answer views

The term Marijuana is a pejorative. You know what that means, right? It’s like calling me a ‘gimp’, “crip”, handicapped, person. All these things are not nice unless you are in the grouping of gender/race/disability that can call themselves this without offending. That’s the difference! Cannabis is the name of the plant. Thanks to Anslinger who was a bigot referred to cannabis as Marihuana (spelled this way with emphasis on the H) to refer to the Latino/a community as users who used the plant to “seduce, rape and addict” white people. It doesn’t seduce, rape or cause addiction nor does it c...