Just Say Maybe: Rick James

And for the youngsters out there, a 'lid' was not an ounce of smoke, a lid was a baggie of weed 5 fingers tall by three fingers wide, and depending on the quality (homegrown to Purple Haze), ran for anywhere from $7-15.00.

It was filled with leaf, bud, stems & seeds & to clean it up to smoke you either used a tilted shoebox top or an album cover & a stiff piece of paper, (or in my case, my jr. high student i.d.) & scraped the contents up towards the top, letting the seeds & other non-smokable materials fall to the bottom. Then you broke out the zig-zags or your pipe & had a high old time.....

There are a lot more songs about drugs than mentioned here. Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" should have been in the top 10. "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles couldn't have been written straight. "Don't Bogart that Joint" (Little Feat & others) should be listed. On the country front, 2 of Charlie Daniels songs should be listed. "Long Haired Country Boy" (People say I'm no good, crazy as a loon. I get stoned in the morning . I get drunk in the afternoon--and the one about the trip to L.A. ("toking on a number and digging on the radio"). Hank Williams Jr sang "Hank, why do you drink, why do you roll smokes?" His son, Hank III sang about "whiskey, weed and women". I'm sure I could come up with a lot more if I had the time.

If there is a beatles song that should be on the list, it should be "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".

Funny thing here, though, (and I quote George Carlin here) is: "NOBODY EVER SAID IT, MAN!" Nobody ever asked if you had any MaryJane, and if anybody ever did, they were probably a narc.

ok now who is the braindead one who wrote this crap..i am thinkin they must have got hold of some good shit..or been residing on the freakin moon...how bout printing something we don't know

who do you think caused all of these problems with kids today? never had any of these problems in the usa before them.

WOW!! What kind of brains are we dealing with? After all these years do they actually think their informing the public of something new? Hahaha Rick James was barred from ever performing at Notre Dame In Indiana for not only singing that song, but for lighting one up on stage.

Wow, lol, I did not smoke it at that time, but we all knew what it was. Great song. But why talk about it now? Kind of weird.

DUH, YOU FINALLY FIGURED THIS OUT

Ok, let's be honest here. Who is surprised that 'Mary Jane' was marijuana? I'm not! Everybody knew what he was talking about! If you didn't then you must be one dumb ass person. I was a little kid when I heard that song and I still love it to this day. It doesn't matter that it was about marijuana. You writers are just running out of things to write about so you write articles about things that we've been knowing for years! Give it up!