# What is the best drug song?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 24, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633 "2005-02-24T02:46:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/1 "2005-02-24T02:46:12Z")
Someting by Cheech and Chong?
Don’t bogart that joint?
I pick **Down to seeds and Stems again** by **Commander Cody**.
Your choice?
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### Author:  [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/2 "2005-02-24T02:48:32Z")
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/3 "2005-02-24T02:51:53Z")
“Hand of Doom” by Black Sabbath
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/4 "2005-02-24T02:52:06Z")
Heroin - Velvet Underground
“Herrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooin
It’s my life, and it’s my wife
Because when I put a spike into my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I’m better off than dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don’t care anymore”
Uh…whatever you say, Lou.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/5 "2005-02-24T02:58:17Z")
_Puff the Magic Dragon_
What? Someone had to say it!
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/6 "2005-02-24T03:00:18Z")
Well for sheer impact (though not lyrical style, I’m afraid), I’d have to nominate “God Smack” by Alice in Chains.
Gave us a band name and a morbid prediction about the writer all at once.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/7 "2005-02-24T03:01:18Z")
Maybe _Semi-Charmed Life_. It’s not every song that says ‘Dying of Meth Addiction isn’t bad when you’re with me’.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/8 "2005-02-24T03:18:28Z")
My nominations:
_Sam Stone_ by **John Prine**
_That Smell_ by **Lynyrd Skynyd**
_The Needle and the Damage Done_ - by **Neil Young**
_Cocaine_ - by **Eric Clapton**
_Cocaine_ - by **Jackson Browne** (different song)
_Sister Morphine_ - by **The Rolling Stones**
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/9 "2005-02-24T03:31:28Z")
Jesse Winchester - Twigs And Seeds
Hawkwind - Reefer Madness
Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/10 "2005-02-24T03:42:26Z")
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Ben Harper - Burn One Down
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/11 "2005-02-24T04:16:40Z")
Johnny Cash - Blistered
The Clash - Hateful
The Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
Jim Stafford - Wildwood Weed
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/12 "2005-02-24T04:19:30Z")
Sublime did a pretty good cover of a song called _Smoke Two Joints_
It was originally done by - if I’m not mistaken - two brothers who called themselves The Toys, and never did any other songs.
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/13 "2005-02-24T04:20:03Z")
the crystal ship- the doors
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/14 "2005-02-24T04:25:40Z")
Hey, **Cisco** , I was just looking into that record on the web a few weeks back. **The Toyes** have a website. They are still together in one form or another, and touring, and have apparently never stopped since that record got banned from the radio all those years ago. Although you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who’s heard any of it, they made more music after the initial “hit”.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/15 "2005-02-24T04:27:23Z")
Humble Pie: Thirty Days in the Hole
Roy Harper: Drugs for Everybody
Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys: Strike a Match and Light Another
New Riders of the Purple Sage: Henry
United States of America: Coming Down
Beatles: everything from 1967 😃
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/16 "2005-02-24T04:35:02Z")
_Ebeneezer Goode_ - The Shamen
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/17 "2005-02-24T04:47:56Z")
_The Drug Suite_ - Stew
_Let’s Go Get Stoned_ - Ray Charles
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### Author:  [@FlippyFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlippyFly)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/18 "2005-02-24T04:56:03Z")
Velvet Underground - Waitin’ for my man (okay, it’s about buying drugs)
Dandy Warhols - Not if you were the last junkie on earth
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### Author:  [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/19 "2005-02-24T04:56:33Z")
Shanty by Jonathan Edwards.
Unclviny
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### Author:  [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/20 "2005-02-24T05:09:03Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> _Puff the Magic Dragon_
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> What? Someone had to say it!
You a pot head Fokker?
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