Pot times July 15, 2005
Pejorative Term
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1119/a05.htmlNewshawk: chip
Pubdate: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 PEJORATIVE TERM
Source: News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Copyright: 2005 The News and Observer Publishing Company
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Author: Lane Tracy
In the middle of an otherwise good article on hemp cultivation ( July 11 ) I was
shocked to encounter the following phrase: "the hemp bandwagon -- which has
been populated for years by the dreadlocked, environmentally conscious, and
pro-marijuana crowds." The use of the term "crowds" in this
context is obviously derogatory and the lumping together of these
"crowds" is egregious. As an environmentally conscious person (
and who shouldn't be? ), I do not think of myself as being part of a crowd,
although I sometimes wish I were. My daughter-in-law is often dreadlocked,
because she is part of the fashion-conscious people-of-color crowd, but she has
never expressed to me any opinion about hemp.
I don't have much to do with the "pro-marijuana crowd," but in general
they don't seem to me to be any worse than the reporters-in-jail crowd or the
journalists-with-their-heads-in-the-sand crowd.
Lane Tracy
Cary
