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Listen to the rap group Basehead on its new song I Need a Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout...
Many pro-pot songs simply represent a renewed candor about musicians' long- standing use of the drug. "I'm not trying to say, 'I smoke weed, so everyone else should,' " explains Basehead leader Michael Ivey. "It's more a form of honesty. It's part of my life." Onstage, the Southern rockers the Black Crowes perform under a 48-ft. by 24-ft. banner emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. Says the group's lead singer, Chris Robinson, who posed for the cover of High Times magazine smoking a joint: "Pot is an essential part of life on the road...
...streets and in their homes. "It makes people go out of their heads," says Edgar, 15. "My friends would stop me if I ever tried it." His mouth pursed with disgust, J.J., 15, says, "It makes people skinny and ugly." In South Central the only thing worse than a "basehead" is a "strawberry," a woman addict who trades sex for crack. J.J.'s mother is a basehead, and probably also a strawberry, but he won't discuss her. He'll fight anyone who does...
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