Reefer Madness
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music. F…
Reefer Madness
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music. Film that relates the story, as told by high-school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high-school kids to come to Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital. Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy. —Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> The authorities are concerned over rampant narcotic use overtaking the community. They are especially worried about marijuana, both because it grows wild and thus is difficult to control, but also because of its effect, which includes possible insanity leading to dangerous behavior. One of those concerned is high-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll, who doesn't like how it's affecting the student at his school. Meanwhile, Jack Perry and Mae Coleman are marijuana pushers who host marijuana parties on behalf of their boss. Mae prefers to push to adults, but Jack has no problem getting teenagers hooked. Good kids and high-school sweethearts Bill Harper and Mary Lane have no idea of the nature of the parties in Mae's apartment, although some in their social circle, including Mary's brother Jimmy Lane, frequent those parties. A series of events leads Bill and Mary to Mae's apartment, which results in two tragic events, both the consequences marijuana use. The lives of those involved, both the guilty and the innocent, are forever altered because of the scourge called marijuana. —Huggo
Reefer Madness
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Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music. Film that relates the story, as told by high-school principal Dr.
Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high-school kids to come to Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered.
One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital. Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy.
—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> The authorities are concerned over rampant narcotic use overtaking the community. They are especially worried about marijuana, both because it grows wild and thus is difficult to control, but also because of its effect, which includes possible insanity leading to dangerous behavior. One of those concerned is high-school principal Dr.
Alfred Carroll, who doesn't like how it's affecting the student at his school. Meanwhile, Jack Perry and Mae Coleman are marijuana pushers who host marijuana parties on behalf of their boss. Mae prefers to push to adults, but Jack has no problem getting teenagers hooked.
Good kids and high-school sweethearts Bill Harper and Mary Lane have no idea of the nature of the parties in Mae's apartment, although some in their social circle, including Mary's brother Jimmy Lane, frequent those parties. A series of events leads Bill and Mary to Mae's apartment, which results in two tragic events, both the consequences marijuana use. The lives of those involved, both the guilty and the innocent, are forever altered because of the scourge called marijuana.
—Huggo.