The speaker turns to marijuana ("So I just smoke / Let me feel stoned") to counter his lack of confidence ("That brave river / I can't sail / That lone feeling / That I might fail"). He either views this drug as the solution to his sadness and fear or he is being sarcastic when he says, "No more sadness / No more pain."
The speaker turns to marijuana ("So I just smoke / Let me feel stoned") to counter his lack of confidence ("That brave river / I can't sail / That lone feeling / That I might fail"). He either views this drug as the solution to his sadness and fear or he is being sarcastic when he says, "No more sadness / No more pain."