How does a singer whose most famous song opens with “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee”, end up almost releasing his own line of marijuana from beyond the grave? The truth, like country music’s own relationship with illicit substances, is complicated - for country music isn’t all godliness and grace. In fact, a 2017 study found that country contained more drug references than any other genre.

Some are more brazen - or blazin’ - than others. For every hazy reference to wildflowers, seeds and stems, there’s a straight up call to arms; “When the straight and narrow gets a little too straight roll up a joint,” sings Kacey Musgraves on ‘Follow Your Arrow.’

As ever, country music’s real skill when it comes to songs about gettinghigh is the ability to elevate often truthfully mundane realities into something capable of relieving the mundane truth of everyday life. Self-medicating the pain of broken hearts, domestic boredom and bereavements, our ordinary lyrical subjects disappear into a purple haze and emerge fables, warnings, lessons, legends.

Hold on to your bucket hats; here’s Holler’s pick of the Best Country Songs About Getting High.

See the full tracklist for Holler's Best Country Music Songs About Getting High Playlist below:

1. 1.

   High Time

   Kacey Musgraves

2. 2.

   Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

   Willie Nelson

3. 3.

   Greener Pastures

   Brothers Osborne

4. 4.

   Weed Instead of Roses

   Ashley Monroe

5. 5.

   Get High

   Brandy Clark

6. 6.

   Stop Drop and Roll One

   Pistol Annies

7. 7.

   I Hope I'm Stoned (When Jesus Takes Me Home)

   Charlie Worsham and Old Crow Medicine Show

8. 8.

   I'm Getting Stoned

   Eric Church

9. 9.

   One Toke Over the Line

   Brewer & Shipley

10. 10.

    Wacky Tobaccy

    Toby Keith

11. 11.

    Stoned at the Jukebox

    Hank Williams Jr.

12. 12.

    High in the Country

    Brent Cobb

13. 13.

    Them Stems

    Chris Stapleton

14. 14.

    It's All Going To Pot

    Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard

15. 15.

    Beer, Weed, Cooches

    Wheeler Walker Jr.

16. 16.

    Mary Jane & Chardonnay

    Meg McRee

17. 17.

    Might As Well get Stoned

    Chris Stapleton

18. 18.

    Smokin' A Doobie

    Jon Pardi

19. 19.

    Our Grass Is Legal

    Hailey Whitters

20. 20.

    A Friend With Weed

    Kyle Daniel

21. 21.

    Wasted and Rollin'

    Amanda Shires

22. 22.

    High

    Lindi Ortega

23. 23.

    Heroin

    Jessie Murph

24. 24.

    Worry B Gone

    Guy Clark

25. 25.

    Up and Rolling

    North Mississippi Allstars

26. 26.

    When I'm Stoned

    Jason Boland & The Stragglers

27. 27.

    Little Too Stoned

    Alex Williams

28. 28.

    Smoking Your Weed

    Lucie Silvas

29. 29.

    High on Somethin'

    Lainey Wilson

30. 30.

    I Smoke Weed (feat. Ashland Craft and Brothers Osborne)

    HIXTAPE

31. 31.

    Red Eye Flight

    Mike Ryan

32. 32.

    Red Eyes

    John R. Miller

33. 33.

    Boys From Oklahoma

    Cross Canadian Ragweed

34. 34.

    Busted in Baylor Country

    Shooter Jennings

35. 35.

    Anything But Sober

    ERNEST

36. 36.

    Marijuana & Jalapenos

    Rich O'Toole

37. 37.

    Wildwood Weed

    Jim Stafford

38. 38.

    Getting High at Home

    Mike and the Moonpies

39. 39.

    California Sober

    Billy Strings and Willie Nelson

40. 40.

    Daddy's Weed

    Corey Smith

41. 41.

    I Like Smokin' Pot (A Lot)

    Wheeler Walker Jr.

42. 42.

    Horses & Weed

    Ian Munsick

43. 43.

    Burn One With John Prine

    Roger Harvey

44. 44.

    Stoned

    Parker MCollum

45. 45.

    WAKE N' BAKE

    Sadie Bass

46. 46.

    The Cannabis Cowboys

    The Cannabis Cowboys

47. 47.

    Willie Gave Up The Weed

    Buddy Jewell

48. 48.

    Marijuana, The Devil Flower

    Johnny Price

49. 49.

    Takin' Pills

    Pistol Annies

50. 50.

    Welcome to Hazeville

    Brantley Gilbert, Colt Ford, Lukas Nelson and Willie Nelson

51. 51.

    Seein' Double

    Nikki Lane

52. 52.

    Turtles All The Way Down

    Sturgill SImpson

53. 53.

    Whiskey, Weed & Women

    Hank Williams III

54. 54.

    Weed and Whiskey

    Corey Smith

55. 55.

    Illegal Smile

    John Prine

56. 56.

    Weed, Whiskey & Willie

    Brother Osborne

57. 57.

    Sunday Morning Coming Down

    Johnny Cash

58. 58.

    Stone & Alone

    Hank Williams III

59. 59.

    Long Haird Country Boy

    The Charlie Daniels Band

60. 60.

    Too Stoned To Cry

    Andrew Combs

61. 61.

    Toes

    Zac Brown Band

62. 62.

    Seed and Stems (Again)

    Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman

63. 63.

    Sun Daze

    Florida Georgia Line

64. 64.

    Soft Spot (For The Hard Stuff)

    Jesse Daniel

65. 65.

    Weed and Whiskey (feat. Billy F. Gibbons)

    Tim Montana

66. 66.

    Merry Christmas Mary Jane

    Katie Pruitt

67. 67.

    Worry B Gone

    Chris Stapleton

68. 68.

    Altitude Adjustment

    Midland

69. 69.

    Ready To Roll

    Blake Shelton

70. 70.

    Wine and Weed

    Carson Jeffrey

71. 71.

    Son of the Dirty South

    Brantley Gilbert and Jelly Roll

72. 72.

    High Beams

    Zach Bryan

73. 73.

    Willin'

    Linda Ronstadt

74. 74.

    Whitehouse Road

    Tyler Childers

75. 75.

    Follow Your Arrow

    Kacey Musgraves

76. 76.

    Cocaine Cowboys

    Margo Price

77. 77.

    Cocaine Country Dancing

    Paul Cauthen

78. 78.

    I Got Stoned and I Missed It

    Shel Silverstein

79. 79.

    Life of Sin

    Sturgill SImpson

80. 80.

    Family Tradition

    Hank Williams Jr.

81. 81.

    Hush Hush

    Pistol Annies

82. 82.

    Merry Go 'Round

    Kacey Musgraves

83. 83.

    Roll Me Up

    Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and Kris Kristofferson

84. 84.

    French Kissing Life

    Kenny Chesney

85. 85.

    Smoke a Little Smoke

    Eric Church

86. 86.

    High Cost of Living

    Jamey Johnson

87. 87.

    Rolling Stoned

    Upchurch

88. 88.

    Cheap Cocaine

    Willi Carlisle

89. 89.

    Cocaine Habit

    Old Crow Medicine Show

90. 90.

    Bag of Pills

    Arlo Mckinley

91. 91.

    This Damn Song

    Pecos & The Rooftops

92. 92.

    Too High To Cry

    Koe Wetzel

93. 93.

    Sea Stories

    Sturgill SImpson

94. 94.

    Fifth of May

    Zach Bryan

95. 95.

    Eat, Pray, Drugs

    Pillbox Patti

96. 96.

    Stoned

    Walker County

97. 97.

    Sex, Drugs and Country Music

    Wheeler Walker Jr.

98. 98.

    High On Jesus

    Kinky Friedman

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