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"We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest," Henley said of the Eagles. "'Hotel California' was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles. It was meant to be a metaphor for the United States, for the excesses this country has always been known for. It wasn't meant to be just about California or Beverly Hills. It was more or less taken that way, but we had broader intentions than that. When you love something, you have to point out the things that are going wrong."

I think you might be right with Hotel California being about getting high on the green bud.

There is another sinnister conspiracy theory trveling around the net regarding Hotel California...Urban legand...I don't know what to believe.

There is a "church" in San Francisco called The First Church Of Satan. The Eagles were said to be members of this so-called "church". (In other words, they are claimed to be devil worshippers). When it was first founded, it was on California Street. There is a line in the song where the guy asks for wine. The response he gets is, "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969". Wine is a symbol of the blood of Christ; 1969 was the year when the Satanic Bible was copyrighted and released. When you read the lyrics, notice that the line "(Such a lovely face)" is in parentheses. If you open the album cover you will see a party scene. Look at the windows near the top and in the middle window you will see a guy who looks like Ming The Merciless. This is Anton LaVey, founder of the satanic "church". The song is claimed to have backward-masked with the message "Satan organized, he organized his own religion".