Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant’s formal name, cannabis. Numerous accounts say that “marijuana” came into popular usage in the U.S. in the early 20th century because anti-cannabis factions wanted to underscore the drug’s “Mexican-ness.” It was meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.
Yeah it’s a traditional form of medicine for basically all of Europe. It was made foreign in the anti drug campaign. Something similar was done with opium (which is actually very bad)