"dead men don't smoke marijuana" received critical acclaim; ty burr of "entertainment weekly", writing shortly after rogie's death, called the album "as mellow a monument as the man himself" and wrote rogie's guitar style "has the lulling pulse one associates with a fine afternoon buzz." "jazz times" wrote that the album possesses "[a] softly jubilant sound [that] rises up," and noted that rogie "wraps his baritone voice around sweet, syncopated folk songs in a style described with the term 'palm wine'." bret love of allmusic called the album "a sweet, stirring testament to an undeservedly little-known talent" which he hoped would immortalise rogie following his death. he praised the album's "deceptively simple charms" and complimented the "atmospheric, carefree feel of the tunes" which he felt evoked "images of relaxing times on breezy beaches watching lush, tropical sunsets."