The ACLU sent me a text

[conuly]

About their fight against the racist War on Drugs.

It includes what looks like a tea leaf emoji? Whatever sort of leaf this is, it’s not marijuana, even I know that. Maybe no emoji at all would’ve been the better call….

Comments

[erinptah]

Any chance it's one of those emojis that could be a wildly-different kind of leaf on the sender's device compared to yours...?

[conuly]

Not sure! More research is necessary.

[adrian_turtle]

It's so annoying that the reactionaries stole the "Boston Tea Party" symbols.

[smokingboot]

Leaves, the deadliest drug of all...

[hudebnik]

Well, marijuana is sometimes called "tea", isn't it? Although they could have equally well used a :pot emoji, and a :pot is practically the same as a :kettle or a :cauldron, and...

[silveradept]

Mmm, possibly. Or perhaps trees would have been better? Poppies? Some other thing?

[archersangel]

Emojis commonly used to represent marijuana or cannabis include 🌿 Herb, 🥦 Broccoli and 🌳 Deciduous Tree.

As there is no single emoji to represent cannabis, often emoji bigrams (two emojis in sequence) are used to represent cannabis culture or the consumption of cannabis on days such as 420.

Emojis listed here are only understood to represent cannabis when used in that specific context.
https://emojipedia.org/420

some people use 🍃 (Leaf Fluttering in Wind), so that may be what they were going for.

[conuly]

Ah, so this is why my posts about recipes for herbed broccoli always get removed!

[low_delta]

coca leaf? Are they pro-coca?