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Comment author: Jiro 14 May 2015 03:51:55PM 0 points [-]

Tabooing Your Words has the purpose of removing a disagreement about word definitions from these discussions.

Tabooing your words is used when you personally are disagreeing with someone and you and them may not mean the same thing by the word. Tabooing your words is not used when discussing whether the word they use is misleading an audience. It doesn't actually matter that the proponents may think that "medical" means "relieves anxiety" thus qualifying recreational marijuana (as well as tobacco and alcohol) as medical; they know very well that the audience won't interpret it that way.

Am I intuiting this right

No.