It wasn't slang. Not in Mexico. We need not whitewash everything just because it gives us a better, less guilty feeling. And I absolutely disagree, as someone who's obviously pro-endprohibition, that legal use DE facto systemic wrongs constitute because the law opted for the term. The moment you ban the use of the term, you wipe the Mexican heritage of the term away because you need to erase the bad history around it. It's American stigma it's not a worldwide racist persuasion. Your historical errors are not everyone's.

There's better ways to deal with that than worldwide stigmatizing a term which has historical importance before 8 decades of propaganda.

The americanization is Hearst at work. Truly racist propaganda. The term... see wiki entry.

Should it be removed from American legal texts? Yes, most likely since never used before in anything official (think medical compendium). Should the term be “erased”... no, it’s history and absolutely not just racially biased.

PS: I wrote the post linked for Gore Files. It's wrong, in fact the earliest prohibition started as early as 1906, towards the end of the century before already actually. Reefer Madness was propaganda to protect commercial interest but the war on weed was since long going already.
Also of note: the first Geneva Convention excluded male plants from prohibition in the draft.

Had account mixup due to diff devices lol.

Bonus: what will/should these legal places do?