While it’s easy to laugh at the Reefer Madness era of anti-drug propaganda, it has to be said that the eighties and nineties weren’t much more sophisticated. Nancy Regan’s “Just Say No” campaign was as memorable as it was ineffective, and the this is your brain on drugs ad didn’t change my mind about drugs either way, though it did put me off eggs for a while. Bizarrely, the PSA Paul Reuben made as a deal to get out of his own drug charges was painfully misguided- something about Pee Wee Herman looking deadpan into the camera telling me not to do crack made me want to do crack more than I ever had before or have had since.

Quite similarly, though perhaps deliberately, this appropriately named psychedelic funk band offers up an ecclesiastical warning that will make you want to go out and get a big bag of drugs.

Drugs – Brain on Drugs 6:59 mins/ 320 kbps/ 16.0MB

It’s possible that French remix duo Chateau Flight did just that when approaching their 2002 remix project, applying a delicate touch that sounds almost conspicuously laid back compared to the rest of their catalog- dedicating over half of the track’s seven minute running time to the hypnotic buildup before dropping a deep and unobtrusive beat.

Drugs Vs. Chateau Flight – Brain on Drugs 6:52 mins/ 192 kbps/ 9.45MB