Seasons In Your Mind-Extra Page: Drug Songs

Radio station head honchos banned (or tried to) many of these songs for "promoting drug use," whilst most of them were actually AGAINST drug use. OK, the pot songs weren't, except for Neil Diamond's ridiculous The Pot Singer's Song (best heard in the proper frame of mind).

The "I don't have to listen to the song to know it's bad" types (or those who can interpret the writers words better than the writer) are only doing what's right for us! But those of of with a functioning brain would tend to disagree. Ah, censorship—sounds like a new page.

You'll not be shocked when you learn that Nixon started the useless and costly War On Drugs™ to incarcerate voices of dissent (heroin=blacks, pot=hippies). You see, you just can't toss them in jail—you gotta have some sort of reason.

There are many songs that we all love to listen to when we're in "that mood" (even if that mood was 30 years ago!) that aren't listed. You have your favs—me, too.

And guess what—Eight Miles High ain't on this list, 'caus for the umpteenth time—it ain't About Drugs!!!!!

For a more complete list of special phrases us hippies use to feed our needs, check out this 2018 Official (no, really) DEA Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel

used "on the street." Another fine example of the waste that is "War On Drugs™." Rumour has it the dopes have published a chart on what emojis kids theses days use—search fer it and keep up-to-date.

Pot dope, ganja, grass, hemp, loco weed, sativa, smoke, texas tea, weed
And I Wish I Were Stoned	Caravan	1/71
Bass Strings	Country Joe & The Fish	6/66
Comin' Into Los Angeles	Arlo Guthrie	9/69
Commercial	Spanky & Our Gang	8/67
Dealer	Traffic	3/68
Don't Bogart Me	The Fraternity Of Man	7/68
Don't Step On The Grass, Sam	Steppenwolf	9/68
Dope Again	The Serpent Power	12/67
Flying High	Country Joe & The Fish	4/67
Get High	The Sons Of Champlin	3/69
Gold And Silver [was Acapulco Gold And Silver]	Quicksilver Messenger Service	5/68
Gone To Pot	Fapardokly	2/68
Got To Get You Into My Life	The Beatles	8/66
Heighty Hi	Lee Michaels	7/69
Henry	New Riders Of The Purple Sage	8/71
High All The Time	Mad River	10/68
High Time	Grateful Dead	6/70
Hop High Ladies	The Holy Modal Rounders	2/64
I Got Stoned And I Missed It	Shel Silverstein	12/72
I Like Marijuana	David Peel & The Lower East Side	11/68
I Want To Get High	David Peel & The Lower East Side	11/68
Illegal Smile	John Prine	7/71
In The Morning	The Fraternity Of Man	6/68
Itchycoo Park	The Small Faces	9/67
Legend Of The USS Titanic	Jamie Brockett	5/69
Light Up or Leave Me Alone	Traffic	11/71
Mama Told Me (Not To Come)	Randy Newman	2/70
	Three Dog Night	5/70
Marijuana	Country Joe & The Fish	11/71
Marijuana	The Fugs	9/68
Marijuana Hell	Ron Nagle	3/71
Marrakesh Express (Hashish)	Crosby, Stills & Nash	5/69
Mexico	Jefferson Airplane	5/70
Mr Natural	Big Brother & The Holding Company	11/70
New Dope in Town	Spirit	8/69
Night Of The Long Grass	The Troggs	7/67
Okie From Muskogee	Merle Haggard	9/69
One Toke Over The Line	Brewer & Shipley	11/70
Only A Roach	Humble Pie	4/70
Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends	Phil Ochs	10/67
Panama Red	New Riders of the Purple Sage	9/73
The Pot Smoker's Song •	Neil Diamond	10/68
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35	Bob Dylan	5/66
Seeds & Stems (Again)	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	11/71
Smoking The Day Away	May Blitz	11/70
Stoned	The Rolling Stones	2/64
Stoned Is	Listening	12/68
Stoned Woman	Ten Years After	8/69
Strike A Match And Light Another	Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys	7/70
Sweet Leaf	Black Sabbath	8/71
Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues	Tom Paxton	5/68
That Acapulco Gold	Rainy Daze	12/66
Tokin's	Steve Miller Band	7/70
Too High To Eat	The Fraternity Of Man	8/69
Why Did I Get So High?	Peanut Butter Conspiracy	3/67
Zig Zag Man	Owen-B	?/70
Can't leave out:
The Smoke-Off	Shel Silverstein	8/78

Acid cubes, tabs, trips
Acid Head	The Velvet Illusions	5/67
The Acid Queen	The Who	5/69
Ah Feel Like Ahcid	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	10/68
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast	Pink Floyd	10/70
Bad Trip	The Ethix	?/67
Coming Down	The United States Of America	3/68
DCBA-25	Jefferson Airplane	2/67
A Girl Named Sandoz	Eric Burdon & The Animals	3/67
Hallucination Horrors	The Fugs	6/66
I Can Hear The Grass Grow	The Move	6/67
I Wanna Come Back (From The World Of LSD)	Fe-Fi Four Plus 2	?/67
Journey To The Center Of The Mind	The Amboy Dukes	5/68
Just Stopped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)	The First Edition	1/68
Legend Of A Mind	The Moody Blues	8/68
LSD	The Pretty Things	4/66
LSD-25	The Gamblers	?/66
Purple Haze	Jimi Hendrix	6/67
Sad, Sad Sunshine	Al Kooper	8/70
Sam Stone	John Prine	7/71
Section 43	Country Joe & The Fish	6/66
She Said She Said	The Beatles	8/66
Sunday Morning Coming Down	Johnny Cash	7/70
The Third Eye	The Dovers	4/66
Thursday (& Acid Commercial)	Country Joe & The Fish	11/67
Tomorrow Never Knows	The Beatles	8/66
The Trip (movie soundtrack)	The Electric Flag	8/67
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out	The Fugs	1/68
A Very Cellular Song	The Incredible String Band	6/68
White Rabbit	Jefferson Airplane	2/67

Coke all-american drug, blow, snow
Casey Jones	Grateful Dead	6/70
Cocaine	Tom Rush	?/63
	Dave Van Ronk & The Hudson Dusters	3/68
Cocaine Blues	Dave Van Ronk	?/63
Sweet Cocaine	Fred Neil	12/66, 2/71

Speed bennies, crank, crystal
Amphetamine Annie	Canned Heat	1/68
Amphetamine Gazelle	Mad River	10/68
Artificial Energy	The Byrds	1/68
Here Comes The Nice	Small Faces	7/67
New Amphetamine Shriek	The Fugs	6/66
Speed Kills	Beacon Street Union	2/68

Smack brown sugar, dope, horse, junk
Cold Turkey	John Lennon	10/69
Flowers Of Evil	Mountain	11/71
Heroin	The Velvet Underground	3/67
I'm Waiting For The Man	The Velvet Underground	3/67
Jumping Jack Flash	The Rolling Stones	5/68
King Heroin	James Brown	2/72
Needle And Spoon	Savoy Brown	4/70
The Needle And The Damage Done	Neil Young	2/72
Needle Of Death	Bert Jansch	?/65
The Pusher	Steppenwolf	2/68
Pusherman	Curtis Mayfield	7/72
Signed DC	Love	3/66
Sister Ray	The Velvet Underground	1/68

Others
Codine	Buffy Saint-Marie	3/64
	Quicksilver Messenger Service	6/68
Crystal Ship	The Doors	1/67
Doctor Robert	The Beatles	6/66
I Couldn't Get High	The Fugs	11/65, 6/70
Kicks	Paul Revers & The Raiders	2/66
Mother's Little Helper	The Rolling Stones	6/66
Mr Pharmacist	The Other Half	11/66
Sister Morphine	Marriane Faithfull	5/69
	The Rolling Stones	4/71
The STP Song	The Holy Modal Rounders	8/68
Too High Too Eat	The Fraternity Of Man	8/69

Note: Lists updated 3/7/20

Here's a good-natured look at the effects of pot. It was based on the book by Jack Margolis and Richard Clorfene (see notes 3 & 4). It helps the comedy if you're "in the mood."

	Child’s Garden of Grass: A Pre-Legalization Comedy
	Elektra EKS-75012
	5/71 BB [UK: N/R]

	Full Cover Inside Cover Book Source (2nd printing) Book Source (4th printing)

Side One
The History of Marijuana	-	1:19
Acquiring Marijuana •	-	2:25
General Effects	-	1:31
Creativity	-	2:12
Physical Effects	-	2:22
Psychological Effects	-	2:32
Time And Space •	-	2:19
Getting Hung-Up	-	2:27
Funniness	-	1:43
Side Two
Meditation	-	3:36
Eating Food •	-	0:49
Listening To Music •	-	2:10
Making Love	-	6:39
Physical And Intellectual Games	-	5:04

----------------------------------
Michael Gwynne and Carl Esser-narration
Voices-Alex Hassilev, Anna Lee Austin, Anton Greene, Carl Esser, Cyrus Faryar, Dorna May, Dr Franklin D Wacco, George
Savage, Jack S Margolis, John Horton, Marly Stone, Marv Howard, Murray Roman, Oz Knox, Peter Gallway, Renais Faryar,
Ron Jacobs,Tom Rounds
Alex Hassilev-Electronic Music
Jack Margolis and Jere Alan Brian-writers
§Photo Stylist-John Balsley
Produced by: Ron Jacobs

Bye Bye Bill

There used to be a record here that we could all goof on. It was Bill Cosby's 1972 Grammy winning album telling kids NOT to do drugs.

Meanwhile, the a-hole spots a cute female, slips her drugs and rapes her. Rot in ~~jail~~ [6/30/2021: luxury compound}, you sick m'f*ck*r.

Links!

High Times' Top 25 Pot Songs Of All Time
Wiki: Censorship of music