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A term borrowed from the Mexican slang word "marihuana" (with silent "h" and originally meaning "a badly rolled cigarette" before becoming more widely applied to female cannabis flowers cured for smoking), popularized in the U.S. by early 20th century news media. Its purpose was to exploit the widespread racist sentiment in the U.S. while distracting people from the fact that "marijuana" was actually the same as cannabis, a fundamentally important crop -- to the end of facilitating cannabis prohibition.
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