![]() Vice President Spiro Agnew, who never missed a chance to denigrate the counterculture, reportedly called the song “blatant drug-culture propaganda” that “threatens to sap our national strength.” His boss, President Nixon, is said to have included the singers on his famous enemies list.īrewer and Shipley have never denied that they were, indeed, ripped when they wrote the song, but have stopped short of saying the song was about weed itself. Many stations, especially on the more commercial AM band, wouldn’t play it because of the drug content.
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