# **THE DANGEROUS PLANT** **[Verse 1]** They found a plant that calms the shaking, Helps the sick eat, helps the sleepless sleep, Then stamped it **DANGEROUS**, built a prison, And threw the gardener underneath. No lethal dose, no alley bodies, No reefer plague consuming towns— But politicians smelled an easy target, So they turned the truth upside down. They didn’t outlaw whiskey dinners, They didn’t raid the pharmacy— They kicked your door in for a flower And called that public safety. **[Pre-Chorus]** If danger was the measurement, The liquor aisle would be condemned— But booze has lobbyists in neckties, So they blamed the fucking plant instead! **[Chorus]** It was never about the danger! It was never about our health! It was power, votes, and prison quotas, Fear converted into wealth! You can’t patent dirt and sunshine, So they branded nature contraband— Cannabis was never the menace; The menace was the heavy hand! **[Verse 2]** It helps with pain and nausea, May quiet spasms, ease the dread, While legal little orange bottles Leave a trail of overdoses and dead. No, it isn’t perfect magic— Smoke is smoke, and driving high is dumb— But honesty destroys their fable: Its punishment outweighed the harm. They stole careers and split up families, Put human beings inside a cage, For growing something in a closet That frightened men from Nixon’s age. Then corporations changed the packaging, Put polished logos on the weed— Now rich men sell the same damn flower That got the poor a felony! **[Chorus]** It was never about the danger! It was never about our health! It was power, votes, and prison quotas, Fear converted into wealth! You can’t patent dirt and sunshine, So they branded nature contraband— Cannabis was never the menace; The menace was the heavy hand! **[Verse 3]** They called the patient an offender, Called the grower organized crime, While cigarettes bought politicians And alcohol sponsored prime time. They said the plant would breed insanity, Violence, laziness, decay— Then half the country smoked it peacefully And went to fucking work next day. A veteran finds a quiet evening, A cancer patient finds a meal, A traumatized and sleepless person Gets one blessed hour where peace feels real. And every benefit they questioned, Every life their laws derailed, Is an accusation written On the conscience of the state. **[Breakdown]** You want dangerous? Try poverty! Try desperation! Try a private cell! Try taking someone’s future For possessing something you now sell! You want reckless? Try propaganda! Try a sentence built on lies! Try preaching “law and order” While compassion fucking dies! **[Bridge]** Not harmless for everybody— Nothing honest ever is. Some people shouldn’t touch it, And the growing brain deserves respect. But risk demands education, Not a rifle, raid, or cage— You regulate the actual danger; You don’t manufacture rage! **[Final Chorus]** It was never about the danger! Now the evidence is clear— You made medicine into menace, Then sold the public manufactured fear! You criminalized the gardener While the poison merchants shook your hand— Cannabis was never the menace; The menace was the fucking ban! **[Outro – gang vocals]** Free the patient! Free the grower! Clear the records! End the scam! **A FLOWER NEVER NEEDED PRISON— BUT YOUR DRUG WAR FUCKING DID!** It was never about the danger! It was always about command! Cannabis was never the menace— **THE MENACE WAS THE HEAVY HAND!**
