Singing solicitors advise clients ‘Don’t Eat Your Weed’

The act of eating even a small amount of recreational marijuana is regarded as evidence tampering in Texas and transforms a small misdemeanour into a class B felony with a possible 10-year prison sentence.

The guitar playing duet of Will Hutson and Chris Harris came up with the song after a discussion in the office.

Mr Hutson told the Vice website: “ Y’know, nobody really likes songs about breach-of-contract. The biggest contract you can breach is a marriage, but I don’t do family law, so I couldn’t really go that route. Chris and I were sitting around one day talking about criminal law.

“He does mainly contracts and stuff like that. He does civil law, and I do the criminal side. And he was just blown away when I told him that it’s not an uncommon thing in the State of Texas for a person who gets pulled over with marijuana to try to hide it or throw it away.

“It’s not uncommon for a misdemeanor to turn into a felony that’s punishable by up to ten years in prison if you try to hide or destroy evidence with police officers present and you know that they are undertaking an investigation.”

He added: “So we started toying with the words and the idea. To give Chris credit, he wrote 90 percent of the song. It came out of him like puke from a prom date.

“It was real fast and furious. They say the best songs are written in under ten minutes, and this one sorta wrote itself. So that was our inspiration. It was kind of just a discussion about criminal law.”

Don’t Eat Your Weed