system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do weed references in popular songs often get bleeped out, but I can listen to "Cocaine" in its entirely?
gpt
The record companies bleep out the weed references themselves - governments don't do it for them.

They do it because it increases their sales. It lets the 'album' version be better than what you get by recording the radio or listening to youtube, incentivizing you to buy. It also lets them play the radio edit in high schools without fighting the administration or any censorship committees.