Today I’m digging around in the Daily Audio Stash vaults and I find this acoustic number from Ben Scales called “Growing Marijuana in my Yard”.  Released in December 2002, it reached the top of the Bluegrass chart on February 10, 2003, and stayed there at Number 1 for 10 months, until MP3.com was shut down in December 2003. During that time it also reached Number 5 on the Country charts, surrounded by acts such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, George Strait, Mark Chesnutt, and Shania Twain (Mark’s grand-niece?).

Ben was invited to perform “Growing Marijuana” at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (“NORML”) conference in San Francisco in April 2003, after which High Times senior editor Steve Bloom called it “the musical highlight of the conference.” “So,” Ben says, “I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”

You can get more music and photos from Ben’s album, “Letter from God”, at his website www.benscales.com, where you can not only download the MP3 of this song, but you can also get the lyrics and the guitar chart, too.

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