Peter Yarrow (co-writer): As the principal writer of the song, I can assure you itвЂ™s a song about innocence lost. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids. I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. I can tell you that at Cornell in 1959, no one smoked grass. Leonard Lipton (co-writer): вЂњPuffвЂќ is about loss of innocence, and having to face an adult world. NewsweekВ magazine published an article in 1964 that addressed the theory that many pop-culture songs had hidden drug references including, вЂњPuff, the Magic Dragon.вЂќ When asked about the song, Leonard Lipton, Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers have claimed that the song truly was a song about the innocence of childhood being lost. вЂњHanahleeвЂќ resembles the small Hawaiian village of Hanalei, which was noted for cultivating вЂњsuperbвЂќ Marijuana. The вЂњautumn mistвЂќ lends itself to the idea of Marijuana smoke and/or being high. Little вЂњJackie PaperвЂќ and the sealing wax is thought to have referred to rolling papers used to roll the joints. Many have thought that the dragon, вЂњPuff,вЂќ referred to taking a вЂњdragвЂќ on something much like smoking a joint, perhaps. So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave, oh

Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no moreДЄnd Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Pirate ships would lower their flag when Puff roared out his name, ohДЄ dragon lives forever but not so little boys Noble Kings and Princes would bow whene'er they came Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal, PuffДЄnd brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff, oh The lyrics are as follows: Puff, the magic dragon lived by the seaДЄnd frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee It made perfect sense to many that the song could also be referring to marijuana since it was commonly being smoked for recreation. The vapor of morphine, heroin, opium and methamphetamine to name a few drugs that come to mind. вЂњChasing the DragonвЂќ was well known at the time as being Chinese slang for inhaling vapor.

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