This is the drug user's eternal complaint: honestly, I ain't hurtin' nobody. People have been yelling "legalize it" for decades; Steve Marriott complicated the discussion just a weetad in this song, mixing the relatively harmless highs of pot and hash with the nastier tones of coke and heroin, with their much harder rep for seriously messing people up. His reference to "borstal" makes one wonder exactly what age he started but it was probably early; Marriott had a reputation as a tough in his school days which his small stature (he was about 5'4") made both tough to maintain, and, likely, imperative (didn't we all know somebody like that in school? I sure did). Nobody could squeeze more power out of a small songbox than Marriott; this song offers but a taste (try the live version of "Don't Need No Doctor" for a real tour de force, and "Black Coffee" for a really tasteful blues turn).