Ziva Cooper

and how they've changed over time in regard to both recreational and medicinal marijuana.

Now, I felt you bristle, some of you.

Even the word marijuana is contentious.

Marijuana is a word that has blurry origins.

It may have come from a Central American indigenous term,

Although it wasn't widely grown or used in that part of the world until after Spanish colonization, others say marijuana was coined by anti-drug propagandists who wanted to blame it as a plague to the moral fiber of the US by way of immigration from Mexico.

But as it stands, it's the most common word for the psychoactive buds of the plant, cannabis sativa.

Although cannabis as a term is edging that out.

And cannabis comes from this ancient, ancient Eastern Iranic people, meaning cannabis.

Now, the current legality, it gets very semantic, but hemp is different from marijuana, but both are cannabis sativa.

Now, hemp, it's the same species, but that has less than 0.3% THC, while marijuana refers to cultivars of cannabis with enough THC to be intoxicating when it's smoked or heated or refined.

So federal law uses marijuana as a legal term to denote intoxicating plants.

I'm already in the weeds with this.

And we took two interviews.

We folded them into a two-parter because this is such a huge, interesting, contentious topic socially and scientifically.

Honestly, I'm going to cover as much as I can and we've got a part two coming.

But anyway, let's first say a quick thank you to patrons of Ologies who make this show possible and submit questions to the guests ahead of time.

Part two is entirely your questions and they are sharp and smart and thoughtful.

So stay tuned for that next week.

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