Tommy Chong Lyrics

[Verse 1: Geo]
Ey. Whether you’re ballin or broke, wanna find The Most High?
Just follow the smoke

Everybody wanna fly but nobody wanna know
How the whole thing started.
Whenever you were born
Yeah go back farther
deep in the jungles in the Ganges river: 2000 BC
See Hindus and Sikhs, shitloads of weed
Very first plant cultivated for the fabric
And anytime they burned it the people started dancing
Medicine man put the people in the trance that they transported west
Brought by brown farmers
Shared with the Rastas and said it’s called Ganja
Greeks and the Turks traded gold for dope
And soon Shakespeare smoked the shit and wrote dramas
Soldiers Napoleon led brought civilians stashes of hash, took it back to France with em
Christopher Columbus: first drug smuggler
Slaves made to grow his shit, but smoked some of it
To laugh at the master plotting his disaster

And everywhere the immigrant went he had a drag there

[Verse 2: Geo]
I’m just stating the facts if I’m mistaken, my bad, I’m just the messenger
Spitting Wikipedia raps

I gotta Shawn Kemp in my pocket cutting in half is two Gary Paytons
Don’t ask do the math

I know cats who got killed for the sack who’d probably be alive if the market for that bama wasn’t bad
You put it in the hands of the many who mark territories in blood
Kind of scary, huh?

Ain’t even talking bout the ones with the badge
The ones still waging that war inside their head
The same ones who could probably use a couple hits

And I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of fuckers did
Make you want to roll up a j and say “shit, I ain’t gonna be the one to get caught for doing this”
Cool, you gotta know the rules, how to live
You wanna find the loopholes, do what I say

As long as you ain’t got 40 grams in your hand, can’t get you with a felony (delivery intent)
But anything less than that’s a misdemeanor

And legally a reason for police to take seizure
Even with initiatives passed decriminalizing the green grass
They don’t wanna see that

Might as well get you a forever green pass
Hit that dispensary fast, believe that

This law’s so flawed
The foundation’s done
The more things outlawed
The more outlaws run

George Washington himself probably puffed the chronic
Now his face get exchanged for this shit, ironic

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Thomas (Tommy) Chong is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, and cannabis activist.

He is a member of comedy duo Cheech & Chong alongside Cheech Marin, who is known for its cannabis-centered comedy content.

Tommy Chong has always been very outspoken about his usage of cannabis, so much so that when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 he said the hemp oil treatment he was using made him 99% cancer-free.

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June 14, 2011
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