Legally Prescribed

from Uncle Sam by SC Static & Militant Marxman

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lyrics

Legally Prescribed

(Verse 1)
They try to blame us for puffin’ grade A bud
By still claiming marijuana is a gateway drug
While tobacco leaves 400,000 people laid to rest
A year with over 80,000 alcohol related deaths
In the U.S. so they told us a lie
Cause anybody who has ever gotten stoned is alive
Plus the hemp plant is more than just pot
And 8,000 years ago was being grown as a crop
Plus if you compared the acres of each
Hemp produces 4x more paper than trees
Even the original hemp paper drafts were involved
That our Declaration of Independence was written on
And used as cloth rope if handled efficiently
And used to be legal for most of America’s history
Till Harry Aslinger from the Bureau of Narcotics
In 1930 had decided to demoralize it
Through a propaganda campaign as a fallacy
Claiming to cause acts of violence and insanity
Then Congress banned weed to mandate grass
1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp Act
Even though they knew that weed was harmless and false
Still enforced mandatory minimum sentencing laws
So once you’re caught once, the worse it gets
Serving 2 to 10 years for a 1st offense
But yet they know it isn’t dangerous at all
And still till this day follow old racist laws
Then Nancy Reagan said to “Just Say No”
On every add, arcade game, and TV show
As one of the most hypocritical things they’d ever seen
Cause Aderol just like Methanol is an amphetamine
Which I find so preposterous
Cause Heroine was once even sold by doctors
To men and women, even gave it to children
Claiming their wouldn’t be any danger of addiction
Cause they used to prescribe and they still do
But now instead of Heroine it’s Opioids that kill you
Then OxyContin got introduced
By drug company Purdue which led to further abuse
Even encouraging doctors to push higher doses
Of OxyContin to patients in exchange for bonuses
Damn, knowingly and aware of it
Eventually causing more than double the deaths of Heroine
So they passed laws to make it harder to get
Then Heroine deaths started to sky rocket again
With the best interest of none represented
All stemming from this Heroine, prescription drug epidemic
Cause once they hook you it’s too heavy to cope
And Fentanyl is 50% more deadly than dope

(Chorus)
Cause there’s a war against drugs but it’s not being won
And there’s laws against guns but there’s shots being sprung
It’s like we’re intentionally counteracting these false laws
Escalating this epidemic into a lost cause
But allegations we’ve conveniently denied
As a way to regulate and easily divide
And blame weed and people like me for being high
But the real gateway is being Legally Prescribed

(Verse 2)
So it’s pointless overprotecting and policing
Prohibiting drug use is like preventing overeating
Cause while we assumed that prevention would undo
American food causes more deaths than drugs do
So as we look at all the harm that was caused
It’s a problem of morals not of economics at all
Because from an economic point of view
Our government protects the drug cartel to get loot
Enforced laws as an effort to show us
By keeping the goods out and arresting the growers
Cause it increases our profits the minute that we crime fight
Limits competition and keeps products at a high price
Since the Clinton 99’ administration
On March 1st announced it’s allies with other nations
To then multiply the drug runners profits
Wherever they compete to increase corruption and violence
While simultaneous entertainment is feeding us
Anti drug agendas by major government media
About how drugs were destroying our society
Meanwhile they’re being bought and sold as a commodity
By claiming it’s the greatest threat to our existence
Immediately effecting the public’s opinion
From the budget deficit being the main concern
Until the drug campaign came to take it’s turn
Which provides a perfect coverup for U.S. intervention
As an excuse to strengthen military presence
By increasing repression in the inner cities
And building support for their attack on civil liberties
Plus Bush Senior also targeted weed
0 deaths but arrested at the highest degree
Cause they increase use through these fake objectives
With the same campaign that they staged against it

(Chorus)
Cause there’s a war against drugs but it’s not being won
And there’s laws against guns but there’s shots being sprung
It’s like we’re intentionally counteracting these false laws
Escalating this epidemic into a lost cause
But allegations we’ve conveniently denied
As a way to regulate and easily divide
And blame weed and people like me for being high
But the real gateway is being Legally Prescribed