What is the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" about, is it marijuana?

peasypod

Perhaps if you play it backwards. http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm Leonard Lipton (co-writer): ["Puff" is about] loss of innocence, and having to face an adult world. It's surely not about drugs. I can tell you that at Cornell in 1959, no one smoked grass. I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Yarrow (co-writer): As the principal writer of the song, I can assure you it's a song about innocence lost. It's easier to interpret "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a drug song than "Puff, the Magic Dragon." This is just a funny rumor that was promulgated by Newsweek magazine [who ran a cover story about covert drug messages in pop music]. There is no basis for it. It's inane at this point and really unfortunate, because even in Hong Kong it's not played because of the allegation it's about drugs. But I assure you it's not. When 'Puff' was written, I was too innocent to know about drugs. What kind of a meanspirited SOB would write a children's song with a covert drug message? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Travers: Peter wrote the song in 1958 [sic], and it is not about marijuana. Believe me, if he wanted to write a song about marijuana, he would have written a song about marijuana. Jan 08 05, 5:41 PM

MrsAce

Taken from a poem that was written by a friend of Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. The reference to marijuana is an urban legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_the_Magic_Dragon Jan 08 05, 5:41 PM

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