Parents Take on Exotic Name Choices
What is marijuana? Marijuana is a “psychoactive” drug, used for medical purposes. There are many strains available; to name a few Sour Diesel, Platinum OG, and many more. Use of this drug is illegal in most states but recently many states have made this legal, recreationally.
Weed loving parents name their first born daughter “Indica” after the famous marijuana strain. This strain is defined as more of a head high rather than a body high.
“Parents can name their kids whatever they want and if that is what they enjoy, that is on the parents,” senior Lainey Haigler said.
A child’s name may represent something special to the parents, these parents did in fact name the child “Indica” because of the love they have for the drug. Growing up as a child and being named something that could be seen as weird or cool could be dangerous. As a teen grows older, they may feel the name they were given has had a negative impact on them physically and or mentally.
“I was named after Bailey’s Irish Creme, so I feel that it would not bother me because being named after alcohol [can not be any different than being named after marijuana],” senior Bailey Tarrant said. “But I feel it would be frustrating getting made fun of.”
About a year after Indica was born, her sister, Sativa came along. Sativa is also a strain and this is classified as a body high.
“A name is a name, it can be anything [the parents] chose it to be,” junior Abi Walker said. “If the children do not like [their names], by legal age, they are able to change it.”
The parents first uploaded the names on Twitter back in 2018 and that tweet received harsh and hateful comments. But there are some who support the decisions. The parent’s decision to name their child something that strayed from the usual has impacted other parents open up their minds to the ideas of meaningful and exotic names for their kids. More and more people are beginning to use exotic names and this event has opened up many adult minds to the ideas of meaningful names.
“[The parents] can name the child what they want,” senior Zack Terwilliger said. “I definitely would not name my kid after a weed strain [it is wrong].”