Given name: Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. Don't believe me? Read this. Wonder what junior high is like for someone named Marijuana?
"Every single class, the teacher is taking attendance out loud, and as they slowly get down through the J's, I'm just like here it comes. 'Marianna? Marijuana?' And all the students turn to see who it is," she said. Later in life, it wouldn't get any easier when she tried to order tickets over the telephone or fill out paperwork. People thought she was joking, or they wanted to hit her with 20 questions about why she was called that.
Police officers don't take kindly to what they think are fake names, either.
And yes she answers the questions we all want to know... Like, does she consume either of her namesakes?






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