 that was the kind of character study of what merle haggard and his co-writer thought that a small town person would think about the peace movement and the anti-war movement if people know the song it's we don't smoke marijuana in muskogee we don't take our trips on lsd we still wave old glory down at the courthouse etc but he supposedly said that muskogee oklahoma was the only place he didn't smoke marijuana in 1969.