Topic: [APPROVED] weed BUR

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

The bulk update request #6303 is active.

remove alias spliff (0) -> marijuana (4268)
remove alias blunt (38) -> marijuana (4268)
remove alias joint (80) -> marijuana (4268)
mass update edibles -> marijuana_edible
create implication marijuana_edible (12) -> marijuana (4268)

Reason: There are multiple ways to consume weed, and I think they should be individually taggable. Cigarette isn't aliased to tobacco.
Wikipedia calls a marijuana cigarette a joint) although perhaps we should use marijuana_cigarette for better clarity? Idk. I doubt anybody is out there tagging or searching "joint" referring to knees, though.

Marijuana_edible is a pretty clunky name but the wikipedia article is called cannabis edible, so...?
Would just "edibles" suffice as a name or is it too ambiguous? I assume it's too ambiguous.

After:

alias spliff -> joint
alias blunt -> joint
imply joint -> marijuana

Can certainly change these lines to marijuana_cigarette or cannabis_cigarette if preferred. Wait, should marijuana be renamed to cannabis? That's what wikipedia named their article)
Also fun fact for anyone who didn't know, the word marijuana was popularized in US English in order to stigmatize cannabis via racism. So that may be why cannabis is considered a more accurate name on wikipedia

There's also a smoking_weed tag, should that imply marijuana (after being renamed to smoking_marijuana) or alias to it and be searched for with marijuana smoking?

EDIT: The bulk update request #6303 (forum #387958) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

Updated by auto moderator

I'm not sure if we should alias together blunt and joint unkess I'm mistaken, a blunt always refers to essentially a hollowed out tobacco cigar stuffed with marijuana where as a joint is just marijuana in a normal rolling paper.

but this also might be a spade vs shovel-type, discussion where for tagging purposes the differentiation is unnecessary if not just impossible in a lot of situations.

sipothac said:
I'm not sure if we should alias together blunt and joint unkess I'm mistaken, a blunt always refers to essentially a hollowed out tobacco cigar stuffed with marijuana where as a joint is just marijuana in a normal rolling paper.

but this also might be a spade vs shovel-type, discussion where for tagging purposes the differentiation is unnecessary if not just impossible in a lot of situations.

Apparently you're right,) I had no idea. Not sure what to do about that, I'll update the BUR with whatever others suggest (either aliasing blunt back to marijuana, aliasing to joint, or implying it to marijuana as its own tag)

Edit: Do you guys think a smoking_joint tag that implies smoking_marijuana would be reasonable to add? We have smoking_cigarette and smoking_bong already. (I assume smoking_bong doesn't imply marijuana because historically people have used them to smoke other things too, like tobacco?)

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