From: stephanh@ix.netcom.com(Stephan Heumann )
Subject: Marijuana's Medicine: Best lyrics and chords yet
Date: 1 Jan 1996 05:17:17 GMT


Marijuana's Medicine
 by S. Heumann. Released to the public domain.

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How sick do you have to be
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 to find compassion in Society?
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Marijuana's medicine;
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  anorexics with the munchies don't stay very thin.
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Em
If I had asthma, would you let me choke,
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Em
 by prohibiting one therapeutic toke?
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Glaucoma can make you go blind
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 while you drug-warring hypocrites kill the Kind.

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Em
How sick does a person have to be
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 to get compassion from this society?
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Herbal hemp is medicine
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 for cancer patients' chronic pain.
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They can keep their medications down
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 with some help from the safest drug around.
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They can tolerate their radiation
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 with some tolerance from this great nation.

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Flip-Flop Wilson, with your veto pen,
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 you know where to stick it and our vote will tell you when.
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Em
If sending messages is your concern,
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 here's one message you've been much too slow to learn:
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Cannabis is medicine.
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Em
 You're filling prisons for a war you'll never win.
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Making patients break your evil laws
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 serves no political or moral cause.

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Marijuana's medicine!