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"Marijuana" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi, taken from his second studio album Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010). The song was produced by Cudi, alongside American record producer Dot da Genius, who provided the song's guitar solo. Background The song is an ode to cannabis. It is of special interest that the song lasts exactly four minutes and twenty seconds and Kid Cudi ends the song by saying "and 4:20", a reference to 420, a popular number in cannabis culture. In a 2013 interview, Cudi revealed that he had stopped smoking marijuana two years earlier, both for the sake of his child, and due to frustration with constantly being associated with the drug and stoner culture. He felt it became his gimmick: "I felt it around the time I was doing Man on the Moon II. I was like, “Man, I’m going to make a song called 'Marijuana.' I felt it would put me deeper in that little pocket. If you ask me, that’s the best smoking song ever made. I went out to achieve and accomplish that. Music video The song's music video, shot and directed by Shia LaBeouf, was filmed in Amsterdam back in 2010, when Cudi served as a judge for the High Times Cannabis Cup. LaBeouf originally reached out to Cudi through their mutual friend Cage, because he wanted to shoot a short film titled Maniac centered around "MANIAC," another song from Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager: "While we were brainstorming that, I had the gig to perform in Amsterdam. I was thinking about ways to do a video for 'Marijuana' because I knew I wanted to do something and I wanted to do the right thing," Cudi told MTV News from the set of his HBO series How to Make It in America. "And it just hit me one day, like, 'Yo, I can have Shia come with me and film the whole trip and we could do it like a real vintage documentary style of the entire trip.' What could be iller than that?"

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“Marijuana can act as the loosening agent, so that whatever has been banned from consciousness may come cascading forth. To uncover our deceptions without our usual rationalizations can be unpleasant, an experience that has turned many psychologically fragile individuals away from marijuana despite its therapeutic catharsis.”
— Joan Bello, The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual (2007), p. 50
“The Rastas, more than any other group, have elevated ganja to a central place in their religious practice and have developed a well-articulated ideology justifying its use and explaining its significance. ... Rastas regard the proscription of ganja use by Babylon's government as part of its strategy of social control.”
— Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers (Oxford University Press: 2002), pp. 60-61
“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”
— Stephen King.
“A young boy called up and asked me if I preferred grass or astroturf … And I told him that I had never smoked astroturf. I guess that I shouldn’t have said that.”
— Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, (1974), as quoted in The Times of San Mateo, California (30 April 1974), and at The Quote Investigator
“Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.”
— Jerzy Vetulani, Puls Medycyny, 2013
“When the stress burns my brain just like acid raindrops, Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop.”
— People Under the Stairs, "Acid Raindrops"

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“Marijuana can act as the loosening agent, so that whatever has been banned from consciousness may come cascading forth. To uncover our deceptions without our usual rationalizations can be unpleasant, an experience that has turned many psychologically fragile individuals away from marijuana despite its therapeutic catharsis.”
— Joan Bello, The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual (2007), p. 50
“The Rastas, more than any other group, have elevated ganja to a central place in their religious practice and have developed a well-articulated ideology justifying its use and explaining its significance. ... Rastas regard the proscription of ganja use by Babylon's government as part of its strategy of social control.”
— Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers (Oxford University Press: 2002), pp. 60-61
“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”
— Stephen King.
“A young boy called up and asked me if I preferred grass or astroturf … And I told him that I had never smoked astroturf. I guess that I shouldn’t have said that.”
— Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, (1974), as quoted in The Times of San Mateo, California (30 April 1974), and at The Quote Investigator
“Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.”
— Jerzy Vetulani, Puls Medycyny, 2013
“When the stress burns my brain just like acid raindrops, Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop.”
— People Under the Stairs, "Acid Raindrops"

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