There were plenty of drugs in my neighborhood after Korea in the 50s. Heroin, cheap alcohol and sleeping pills (reds) ...for some reason I'm still here. 😮
When talking with friends who were doing the same things as me back in the day we often wonder why we’re still kickin’ after the insane amount of drugs of all kinds we did in the late 60s and through the 80s. Every drug you can name, and lots of ‘em. Yet here we are.
"Educational" films like these were the highest form of hypocrisy and just plain exaggerated or false. Just decades earlier morphine and cannabis tinctures and other now-banned drugs were not only legal but sold in every pharmacy and corner grocery store in America and much of Europe. EVERYONE used these tinctures, and I mean EVERYONE.
The main reason it was banned if I’m not mistaken was initially to curb Chinese immigration, as many Chinese immigrants were large users of marijuana at the time.
@@matthewnikitas8905 It was opium with the Chinese immigrants, not marijuana (though they did use that too). The Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 came out of it.
What happened was recreational drugs were weaponized after WW2. There were precedents of course; the Chinese opium wars and the practice of delivering alcohol to Indian communities. The USA utilized this technique by vastly increasing opium production from Afganistan to flood Russian markets in the 2010s. The 50svis when the USA/West realized the same tactics could be used on us. Ever notice how the USA lost its productive edge over the last 20 years? Pay attention to no one working - electively pursuing van life or sitting around Starbucks all morning?
These old films were so poorly made with stilted “acting”, extremely slow pacing and horrible delayed dialogue.. they’re almost too bad to continue viewing. But every now and then we get a glimpse of the absurd attitudes towards substances.. like pot being extremely dangerous or heroin being something as common as smoking a cigarette. Lol.
When I watch these films it feels like I'm sitting in the school gym with all the other kids in the mid '70s watching these.
I miss the good old days when dope dealers wore suit and ties.
A drug movie with a side plot of becoming a pro boxer? Unique!
Never got free drugs till i was an adult.
There were plenty of drugs in my neighborhood after Korea in the 50s. Heroin, cheap alcohol and sleeping pills (reds) ...for some reason I'm still here. 😮
When talking with friends who were doing the same things as me back in the day we often wonder why we’re still kickin’ after the insane amount of drugs of all kinds we did in the late 60s and through the 80s. Every drug you can name, and lots of ‘em. Yet here we are.
Those were much purer in form than the garbage on the streets these days though @@flyingo
You better stay away from those marijuana cigarrettes!
We're not messing with no reefer addicts.
The mother looks more like a grandmother.
Never saw someone od and stay on their feet
Was this before "Reefer Madness"?
No, Reefer Madness is from the 30s.
"Educational" films like these were the highest form of hypocrisy and just plain exaggerated or false. Just decades earlier morphine and cannabis tinctures and other now-banned drugs were not only legal but sold in every pharmacy and corner grocery store in America and much of Europe.
EVERYONE used these tinctures, and I mean EVERYONE.
The main reason it was banned if I’m not mistaken was initially to curb Chinese immigration, as many Chinese immigrants were large users of marijuana at the time.
@@matthewnikitas8905 It was opium with the Chinese immigrants, not marijuana (though they did use that too). The Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 came out of it.
What happened was recreational drugs were weaponized after WW2.
There were precedents of course; the Chinese opium wars and the practice of delivering alcohol to Indian communities.
The USA utilized this technique by vastly increasing opium production from Afganistan to flood Russian markets in the 2010s.
The 50svis when the USA/West realized the same tactics could be used on us.
Ever notice how the USA lost its productive edge over the last 20 years? Pay attention to no one working - electively pursuing van life or sitting around Starbucks all morning?
Moose isn't the most trustworthy individual
My FRIEND LEROY Told me U GIVE AWAY SAMPLES Then You PULL IN THE FISH.😮
These old films were so poorly made with stilted “acting”, extremely slow pacing and horrible delayed dialogue.. they’re almost too bad to continue viewing. But every now and then we get a glimpse of the absurd attitudes towards substances.. like pot being extremely dangerous or heroin being something as common as smoking a cigarette. Lol.
How about the teenage worker ! And not drug addict! Enough!
Wrong movie