Did people actually smoke tea?

mama told me not to come
Yup, that ain't the way to have fun, son.
Thank you, Randy Newman.

I made an account here just to say that I was in the US Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor in the 1970's and the name for PCP back then with people I knew, at least in that area, was "T." PCP was being marketed as 100% pure synthetic THC, hence "T" and that's what people generally thought it was. And they smoked it. I knew that people in the states didn't know what "T" was and so I always figured the lyric "sleeping late and smoking T" was an inside joke for jetsetters that traveled to Hawaii a lot.