Phish: Marijuana

Well once upon a time in 1776,Thomas Jefferson signed his name on a piece of marijuana,and this document was a symbol of freedom and of liberty,at least for the rich, white gentry.As time marched along,this plant that I refer to has been used for everything,from medicine to the American flag.And now it seems to methat somewhere along the way,things got messed up, yeah, got a little messed up, Oh marijuana.A gift of God to my brothers and me.Oh marijuanaNow the government wants to test me when I pee.Well some say a conspiracyof the petro-chemical and pulp-paper industries combined in a crazy plot to kill the competition.Government hysteria, conflict of interest and monopoly,with total impunity.Yeah, so, if you dont buy the conspiracy,just think about the realitythat your tax dollars go to spray poison on the fields of a farmer in South America.And as an added bonus,you dont know who gets to smoke that poison pot.It could be someone that you even like.Oh marijuanaa gift of God to my brothers and meOh marijuananow the government wants to test me when I pee.Oh marijuanayou cant legislate your own morality.Oh marijuanathe government wants to test me when I __Reefer madness, chronic blindness,what is the half-life of bad propaganda?Hired to promote the status quo, but what is the shelf life of bad legislationPolicies fail, denied bail,you made him a demon now pay for his trip to prison.The hypocrite smirks, its a moral disgraceas he reads from a law that was writtenabout the same time that he hadhis last original thought.Well they said the man was dying, and the nausea and the pain left him wasting awayand unable to keep a meal down.So he tried everything a prescription could obtainbut to no avail.The side effects were worse than the pain.So now he breaks the lawto use the one thing that seems to help him out.And the people say, Oh youre just getting high.Not to change the subject but, didnt you ever wonder why getting highs a crime in the first place?Oh marijuana.Oh marijuanaOh marijuananow the government wants to test me when I pee.