Culture & science 2017 🇲🇽 Mexico

MOTA Comix begins publishing in Mexico

Editorial PirataZ launches an independent Mexican cannabis comic publication. Its publisher describes the project as a space for alternative graphic expression and humour challenging prohibition and the criminalisation of consumers. The title uses established cannabis slang; it does not mark the origin of the word mota.^[1]^[2]

In the cultural atlas

Language · Spanish, of unknown originMotaMexican and Central American Spanish for marijuana since at least the end of the nineteenth century. In older Spanish it is a speck or a tuft of fluff; how it came to mean the plant is unknown.

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