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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 11:10:38 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   Puff the magic dragon: A song about a little kid who smoked weed and as he got older he stopped smoking and his dragon friend commited suicide.

   The moral of the story: never stop smoking weed or your murder dragons!

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     Reach for the Stars :verified: (antares@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 12:35:27 JST Reach for the Stars :verified:

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     @freemo For what it's worth I offer the testimony of the creator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2RcXC8KSk

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     Free Peoples Free Press (freepeoplesfreepress@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 13:21:13 JST Free Peoples Free Press

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     @freemo

     13 Classic Songs You Didn’t Know Were Banned

     LAURA GRANDE | SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2017

     “Puff the Magic Dragon” (Peter, Paul and Mary, 1962)
     Reason: Alleged drug references

     It wasn’t until 1970, eight years after its initial release, that “Puff the Magic Dragon” came under fire. American Vice-President Spiro Agnew believed that rock music and its “blatant drug culture propaganda” was threatening to “sap our national strength unless we move hard and fast to bring it under control.” And that little magic dragon made Agnew’s hit list (along with The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”). Sure, the song references “autumn mist”, “little Jackie paper” and, well, a “dragon,” but the song’s composer, Peter Yarrow, denied that the song was anything more than fantasy.

     https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/2017/09/01/songs-didnt-know-banned/#:~:text=Reason%3A%20Alleged%20drug%20references,Magic%20Dragon%E2%80%9D%20came%20under%20fire.

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     ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 13:47:40 JST AmpBenzScientist

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     @freemo Weed has changed so much since we were that age. Seeds and stems man seeds and stems.