Toasted Marijuana Song
Our good friend and loyal cannabis activist Alex Toast put out another version of his famous marijuana song. We hope you enjoy the music, words and video from some of the highs in the 2009-2011 push to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin.
A tune written about some specifics of the cannabis plant and biology.
Lyrics:
Take a hit of marijuana. It’s evil, that’s what they say.
But do you know what it does to you, in a biological way?
First it depends on the chemicals inside of the particular plant in the bowl.
You light up the pipe, and it lights up the night, but where do those chemicals go?
They go into the blood stream, and flow to the body’s receptors,
CB1 and CB2 as they are called.
Depending on the kind of herb that you are smoking
makes a difference which receptors are involved.
CB1 receptors are responsible for the euphoric and anticonvulsive effects found in cannabis.
The basal ganglia, limbic system, hippocampus, cerebellum, and the reproductive system is where they exist.
CB1 receptors pick up THC and Cannabidiol, both chemicals found in weed,
and they mimic the functions of anandamide, which your body creates out of need.
Cannabidiol or CBD is the chemical which makes fat ladies sing.
It acts as an antipsychotic, antiepileptic, neuroprotective, antispasmodic, among many other things.
There’s THC, CBD, CBN, CBC, TCN just to name a few
of the over 100 currently known cannabinoids which work effectively inside of you.
Each with their own specific chemical properties that help many unfortunate souls
with bad backs, cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and lots of other diseases too… So let’s help them be free…. to smoke a bowl.
🙂
Written by Alex Toast, April 2010
To find out more about this talented artist, please visit his YouTube Channel, FaceBook Page
