Oh, Shh. From W be easy Chicago and PRX this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis and I'm Greg

Cott. This year Illinois joins the list of states where recreational marijuana is legal.

It's a drug that has inspired much music.

Today we're going to share our favorite songs about Pot.

And after we're chilling with some of those tracks, we'll pump you up with another edition of the Rock Doctors where we're going to suggest some songs to get psyched for a female moy tie fighter.

Plus, we find out the unexpected song that got Australian singer-songwriter

Angie McMahon hooked on Sonics. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to don our white

coats for a segment that we like to call the Rock Doctors. We're going to suggest some

pump-up music for a science teacher who moonlights as a fierce moytai fighter. But first, marijuana and music.

736 episodes of sound opinions, Greg, it's kind of shocking we have yet to get to the

greatest popular music songs about pot.

I mean because let's face it from the very beginning from before the beginning there have

been songs about this drug. It's a new year. Sound opinions comes to you from Chicago.

Illinois is the latest state to make recreational marijuana use legal.

I think that we have been seeing this sweep the country to varying degrees.

You know, it's been a big deal here and it got us thinking about how this drug has influenced music both in terms of the sonics and the

lyrical content. We are not necessarily advocating the use of this drug. In fact,

it's like my least favorite but there are many many

songs of people who do yes indeed Jim I want to take it all the way back to the

1930s and before you say what is he talking about well not only were

there many many songs written about pot smoking in the 30s they were

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