@@Reggie-The-Dog why isn't it cooky to compare Marijuana a plant to heroin a derivative of a poppy made by processing the plant through chemicals where the end result poisons and destroys the body to compare a destructive drug like heroin to Marijuana is ridiculous
Totally, as stupid as the stuff about marijuana was, the depiction of heroin addiction was surprisingly accurate. I’ve got a little over 9 months off heroin, it did nothing but ruin my life and yet just seeing the character shoot up in this still gave me cravings. Peace & love to anyone struggling with addiction, recovery is possible no matter how bad it gets.
Same. I knew it was familiar but the shot of the kid with "blood" running out his mouth brought it back. I laughed just as hard today if I'm being honest.
If you were stoned you would most certainly feel the broken glass, I accidentally burnt a small area of my lip on a hot pocket before when stoned and it hurts like a bitch.
So I’m like 10 minutes in and this is actually quite factual. Its far more important to understand the gravity of addiction, than the humor behind campy old films.
Well said. lumping in cannabis with the hard drugs and calling it a 'gateway' drug is innacurate tho. Although use should be restricted to minors. best to be emotionally developed prior to use. I know from experience.
@Nomen Clature Wow, pretty disrespectful little guy aren't ya? I started smoking pot in 1984. with the exception of 2 years active military duty, i have continued to smoke weed to the exclusion of harder drugs. i smoked crack once and was amazed. i smoked it again and it dawned on me that the first time is the only good time. never touched it again 24 years on now. now go make up some lies about how i'm smarter than all the heroine addicts you play with. ya douche
@Nomen Clature you’re one of the few though, I’ve met many many stoners who don’t go past weed and met a lot of users who say weed certainly wassnt the gateway. For me ecstasy was the gateway You just have to take his comment with a grain of salt bro
@Nomen Clature misread your first comment, thought you did H for 30 years, after that comment i know now you're just very ignorant on how drugs work and have a false perception on drug users as a whole. not gonna try to correct you because i can already tell your hard headed and dont see people who do drugs every now and then for fun as people. good day just gonna say, "gateway drug" doesnt mean the first drug you ever used but the drug you used in which opened your mind up to perceiving that hard drugs "arent all that bad". i was safe about my use and never got addicted because i actually educated myself. surprise someone who do drugs isnt retarded huh. comment on stuff when you dont have a blunted and ignorant Point of view about something, you'd think being an adult that you would know that by now
Prescribed for what! My family doctor never prescribed addictive drugs, even for severe pain control! And there were alternatives! Even today, I've heard of people prescribed Percocet and OxyContin for wrist pain when other non addictive alternatives are out there!
I like how my 90s dare program at school didn't even tell me this much. I know-it-all all an adult now, but this film explains addiction and the downfall of addiction VERY WELL. Down to explaining the psychological side of becoming better after he goes to "rehab". With little to no propaganda, which I really expected for this Era. It's information that holds extreme truth. With much research, and many testimonials. P.s. I smoked a blunt while I watched this.
@@chrisdavis8650 exactly. Then kids do Marijuana and really want try other stuff since they lied about that. And end up down and dark and destructive past.
@@pjm8433 same with cigarettes it's been torturing me for 5 months or so since i last smoked in late april and i gotta say we really got a get some more heavier regulations on the addictive sides of these cigarettes
For as goofy as a lot of this film is, the depiction and information the give and show of opiate addiction is shockingly accurate for a drug film from the 50s. And they even gave sweet Marty the chance to medically detox instead of going to jail, which is how it should be for addicts, without reason of course, if you keep offending the sympathy the courts show you dries up pretty fast.
America used to have a relatively humane approach to drug addiction which is why you did not have a problem. We only had a heroin issue when America forced us to make it illegal. It used to be given out for free to addicts by British doctors but religious Americans could not stand it. We went from a few thousand addicts (mostly ex soldiers and sailors) to 300,000 (mostly teenagers) in five years. It is a medical issue but if you treat it like a crime you will get a lot of criminals. A lot of older people are addicted to painkillers they don't go out robbing because they get given the drugs.
@@ericconnor8419 they didn't realize the number of addicts til Harrison act made it illegal then we just ignore the issue by end ww2 it couldn't be ignored when solders n sailors who served our country were dependent on opiods n heroin
Sad thing bout today is the treatment centers have cut there patients time to coming off opiod n especially methadone. People get out treatment look feel worse cause lack of treatment time n some places give same time to people bein treatment for cocaine . Lack time in treatment is one new problems
As a current Heroin user I cannot believe how accurate this is, albeit a few ridiculous absurdities for the most part quite accurate considering it's age I'm surprised.
Hope you are doing better. I went to an ibogaine clinic and it was the best money spent. Kicked it with minimal withdrawals and no cravings. Good luck when you are ready to quit. ❤
The social isolation, the fear of withdrawal, and the financial draining. Thank God I have a job that has always paid me wellC as well as my spouse- but i still cringe at the amount I've wasted on dope over the past 6 years.
I REMEMBER this film! They showed it to my 11th grade health class (1969). Whenever the "effects" of weed were portrayed, the whole class would giggle. The poor teacher hadn't the foggiest clue why! "I feel funny...FOOD! Give me FOOD! Take me to the 'Frito Bandito!' Take me to 'Chester the Cheetah!'"
@@hpswagcraft "Sheltered" times? Hee, hee, hee....those were the NINETEEN SIXTIES! :) During the breaks between class periods, the school hallways were like a bazaar in Medaeval Samarkand! You could get ANYTHING, except, maybe, dancing bears, or nubile slave-girls.
It's extremely wholesome that even back in the more "sheltered" times back then, all the students still knew that the marijuana section of this film was full of crap. Nice to know that even though times chance, the students remain the same throughout time lmao
They're completely inaccurate that was highway robbery back in those days in the 60s you could buy an ounce for $10 but I do like the heroin caps for a buck 50
Yes, it's dated and schlocky. But as a recovering long term opiate addict, there's very little there in that's untrue. It's a nightmare ultimately. I don't feel that weed is necessarily harmful, but it can be for teenagers whose central nervous systems are not fully formed. There should definitely be aftercare because there is always an underlying issue that is at the root of addiction, and that has to be addressed and treated, or the danger of relapse or adopting an equally dangerous different addiction is very possible. My heart goes out to anyone suffering from addiction. And, to those who love addicts and live with broken hearts.
I myself was one however in all my years never have used eye dropper make shift 💉 nor did I ever cut my mouth from broken glass of a soda bottle. Of course in these days we don't have glass bottles anymore
@@Beastgrows you beware them or ya club the kids for lunch $? I ask cuz the states are saturated with violence due to drug addiction as well as just violence for the sake of violence. But I won't get started on the main underlying issues here. I don't have enough thumbs to wittle away typing it up.
Look at how many of those rock and roll musicians that burned themselves out on drugs. Even in the earliest days of the genre, illicit drug use was taking victims. Johnny Cash came rather close to burning out. Elvis is another, though it was doctor prescribed. Now we have doctor prescribed cannabis and other "meds".
it just made everyone afraid and marginalized people even more, creating a worse of a problem on both sides, narcissists and dependents, neither Free enough to live deeply, hence easier to manipulate and control. Liberty matters.
I was a heroin addict for 10 years. Aged but it is accurate for the most part. I just wish we had videos like these in school other than D.A.R.E.... what a joke
Things haven’t changed much over the last century apparently.Looks like there was a pretty good understanding of drugs even all those years ago.Great film.
I started out totally poo pooing this “ old fashioned” film with apparent stereotypes etc… but came to appreciate its message that it’s the profiteering of drugs that law enforcement should target - individuals are to be helped back from the brink and, perhaps cautiously, welcomed back into the society they wish wish to be part of. It echoes the successful policies of countries that punish the sale of certain drugs rather than their use. Compared with the “war on drugs” of recent decades this video seemed sensible and empathetic… I so hope Marty’s story had a happy ending!,
Today it's the pharmaceutical companies that were the "pushers" but the sad part was that we all fell for it like sheep during the pandemic, and they are still trying to ply their trade with regular Flu shots, now that everyone is still paranoid!
It's not all bad. Weed is legal in my state now, and it's much stronger and less expensive than it was in the 1970's, and no worries about getting a ticket or going to jail. And not once, in the decades I've enjoyed weed, have I ever broken a bottle and shoved it into my mouth, then laughed maniacally. Gonna have to put that on my bucket list.
I never did the H but I had a pretty rough oxy habit for about 12 years, when it got difficult to stay on my feet I started doing crys to stay up and moving, the crys made me shaky so I started drinking to keep the shakes down, one thanksgiving I found myself hiding in a bathroom crushing pills on the toilet tank, that was my breaking point, the day I started getting clean. It's a daily battle but its worth it.
It may be 72 years old but this film is right on the money. And I would know. The stuff killed my brother and it was about two minutes away from killing me. I made it out, he didn't. The facts are the facts and they don't change, not since the very first person tried opium. As soon as they ran out they started something that is still happening today. It does not change. Not over 72 years, not over 7,200 years. But hey, I'm not berating anyone for finding this funny. I'm just saying that there are two sides of the story. Try the 1960s LSD scare films if you really want a laugh. They got most of it wrong. Chromosome damage? The one where the girl gets berated by a hot dog for wanting to eat it is a classic.
@MeTube I am glad that you are ok. And I am sorry to hear about your brother. I hope he can get it together some day. As far as that phone call, we got it in 2009 and by the time it came my brother had worn us out so badly over fifteen years or so that we had no tears left. I mean he REALLY wore us out. I hate to say it but we were more relieved than sad when we got the call, and I daresay that inside of us there was a small spark of gladness. Because he destroyed our family for fifteen whole years and only after he passed away could we start putting it back together again. To make things worse he was a diagnosed sociopath with borderline personality disorder, so he was a master manipulator and for the last five years of his life he master manipulated my whole family against me and they didn't believe me when I told them what he was doing. It was only after an episode at a carnival in front of the family did they start believing me. Now I wasn't there, so I dont know exactly what happened, but he was playing some carnival game and trying to win the really big stuffed animal for his kids and he spent like $150 trying. So he asked the guy to just give him the prize because he spent so much money and the guy wouldn't do it and something really, exceptionally bad happened. So bad that my family would not even describe it to me. After that they all saw that I was right the whole time, and they began to treat me like a human being again. But it was the worst five years of my life. Now as his mental illness progressed and his mental condition deteriorated I know he was self medicating rather than trying to get high. It started with alcohol, and for years it was crack, but when he died he had cocaine, heroin and meth in his system. Dying alone in a strange trailer park is fvcked up, I just hope he didn't suffer. I love my brother and he has to be in a better place because it couldn't be much worse. Hopefully he can find the peace that he couldn't find here in this life.. R.I.P. Robert Strichart, 1968-2009.
Honestly this film is pretty grounded compared to stuff like reefer madness, a lot of it is exaggerated, but 90% of what they are saying is true, just through a lens of a different culture
This film goes back 80 years ago , during the Korean War ! The opium problem goes back maybe , since thebeginning of time. The American Civil War brought a out the use of opium in the deritive of it cslled morphine. Big opium epidemic after the Civil War where a generation of vets became addicted to morphine !
@@diablo666541 The British took action that spread its use that far in China. China was a world power with many desirable trade goods, but wasn't interested in selling them for the things outsiders offered. So the British Empire heavily exported opium on the down-low during the 1800s in an attempt to weaken China and create a captive, eager market for something they had no trouble supplying.
Almost all people addicted to drugs are actually not doing it for the high it creates whether they even realize this or not they're actually doing it so that they don't feel anything like guilt fear and complete sadness from things in their Past... they are actually self-medicating
tru I have ptsd and takeing morphine made everything better for a start then it destroys your life even more. I'm on methadone now and that not much better am slowly coming of after 8 year addiction was on 140mg now I'm on 60mg and dropping 2mg aweek can't wait to be clean iv wasted alot of my life I'm 34 years old now it goes by so fast when your high
@@tomtroy3792 hopefully with time things get better try takeing high doses of vitamin c sounds stupid but it's made me feel way better. I got told about it by someone else on here that they did research and found vitamin c to help withdrawals. Iv been on methadone for about 5 years but 2 of them has been me dropping 1mg aweek. I turn 35 in a few days I don't wanna be like most ppl that stay on it all there life's. Why did it take 15 years to wean did you struggle with withdrawals and keep start and stoping? Or keep going back to it?
Yes this is one of those crappy old laughable films, but it's scary how accurate it is. I wish I had known and felt the truth conveyed in this movie before I embarked on my horrible dance with drugs. I was a nerd, someone who never did wrong, I've got a bachelor and a Masters degree. But drugs still took at least 8 years from me.
I'm 64 there was a time id a laughed at this..because many years I was an addict but now I'm clean 20 years I feel this film is to the point ... 🐂 s Eye..
"Criminal syndicates might give up if the penalties are stringent and there's more law enforcement etc etc etc..." ROFLMFAO How has that worked out, mr. Let's start the Drug War?? hahahahahaha
“So unpredictable is this habit that even some one who knows the dangers may not realize it u til they are addicted” I’m a chemist and can say I knew a lot of dangers before messing with harder drugs and he’s right the fog sets in and you don’t even realize what happening even tho I knew what would happen
🤔This tape is just a warm up of what's being viewed on TH-cam shorts about places like Kensington Street in Philadelphia. Hundreds of people in a bent over stuper high on drugs for hours. As an old guy that's seen it all I really think that the Philadelphia tapes tell it all about how bad hard drugs really destroy lives.
If they weren't stumbling around on Fentanyl it would be Night Train or Carlos Rossi. People have been wanting to get faded since the beginning of time..and unless something about human DNA fundamentally changes, some of them always will..
As someone who has been through many detoxes, I wish someone would have shown me as a child how bad that was, I was told in the 90s "Drugs are bad, don't do them" and that's pretty much that, or "One time and you are addicted" also bullshit, so when you finally try it and it turns out that's bullshit you then think well, they just lie. BUT nope it ruins your life, it's a life that's not really worth living, I'm 3 years away from that stuff now but still having side effects and sadly still the stigma.
Still prefer the ones made in the 80's where the kid smokes pot and deflates like a balloon until he's all flat on the couch, looking like Gumby! Hahaha
This guy talking about "drugs" is 100% correct, up until the part on "Mary Jane". Unless your "an addict" you will have many problems with all drugs. However, today in 2022~those who do smoke "Mary Jane" and are not "an addict" do so for medicinal or medical reasons. Many old and young pot smokers have no issues with it. At 63, here in Florida many many older people use THC/Delta 9 /CBD and edibles to help with chronic pain and PTS. It's recognized as a natural medicine. I'm not an addict, so it work for me.🤔
When he said those kids were buying drugs from criminals, I thought who's fault is that? I'm not for the legalization of drugs but my mind went there. Alcohol has caused just as much trouble as drugs and is just as if not dangerous.
According to the CDC, about 95,000 Americans die from alcohol-related causes each year. Deaths from marijuana-related causes? Zero. Not even one. But marijuana is listed as a Schedule 1 drug in America, along with heroin, LSD, ecstasy and peyote. Politicians who make those stupid laws are firmly in the pocket of Big Pharma, who absolutely don't want marijuana legalized.
That's why every drug should be legal and under strict monitoring from the government. We could have a good product for people who wants to use it (i mean legal or not people will always find a way to buy drugs). But i bet government makes a lot of cash not legalizing it, i mean they are all criminals
I feel like back in those days even addicts probably somewhat took care of their appearance. I mean, they would've still had the things you can't hide like bags under their eyes and gaunt faces, but they probably still combed their hair every morning and dressed decently. Back then even if someone had problems, they didn't want to be seen to have them and I feel like having to hide their problems from society probably made them worse. It's probably the main reason why domestic violence was so prevalent in those days.
@@LifeofBrad1 a lot of the things they dealt with we dealt with today but they couldn't talk about it. A lot of people were shamed out of society and ended up in an institution or dead.
As someone who did heroin for 9 years, a ton of this information is accurate despite the ridiculousness of the film.
But the Marijuana to heroin was a little cooky
@@rebelrat3594 absolutely. Lmao.
@@rebelrat3594 No, it's not. It happens all the time.
@@Reggie-The-Dog why isn't it cooky to compare Marijuana a plant to heroin a derivative of a poppy made by processing the plant through chemicals where the end result poisons and destroys the body to compare a destructive drug like heroin to Marijuana is ridiculous
Totally, as stupid as the stuff about marijuana was, the depiction of heroin addiction was surprisingly accurate. I’ve got a little over 9 months off heroin, it did nothing but ruin my life and yet just seeing the character shoot up in this still gave me cravings. Peace & love to anyone struggling with addiction, recovery is possible no matter how bad it gets.
8:00 Drinking the broken glass. Now I remember seeing this film in junior high school- yes, I'm that old.
This film about drug addict Marty was filmed in the midst of The Korean War! That's 71yrs. Ago!
I'm that old l saw this in high school
Same. I knew it was familiar but the shot of the kid with "blood" running out his mouth brought it back. I laughed just as hard today if I'm being honest.
If you were stoned you would most certainly feel the broken glass, I accidentally burnt a small area of my lip on a hot pocket before when stoned and it hurts like a bitch.
Watching this while smoking a blunt was the best decision of my night
Ha ha 😂
Lol i watched it as a facebook short lmao
😂😂😂❤❤❤
I love the pop bottle part. Every weed smoker goes through that one....
So I’m like 10 minutes in and this is actually quite factual. Its far more important to understand the gravity of addiction, than the humor behind campy old films.
Yup
Well said. lumping in cannabis with the hard drugs and calling it a 'gateway' drug is innacurate tho. Although use should be restricted to minors. best to be emotionally developed prior to use. I know from experience.
@Nomen Clature Wow, pretty disrespectful little guy aren't ya? I started smoking pot in 1984. with the exception of 2 years active military duty, i have continued to smoke weed to the exclusion of harder drugs. i smoked crack once and was amazed. i smoked it again and it dawned on me that the first time is the only good time. never touched it again 24 years on now. now go make up some lies about how i'm smarter than all the heroine addicts you play with. ya douche
@Nomen Clature you’re one of the few though, I’ve met many many stoners who don’t go past weed and met a lot of users who say weed certainly wassnt the gateway. For me ecstasy was the gateway
You just have to take his comment with a grain of salt bro
@Nomen Clature misread your first comment, thought you did H for 30 years, after that comment i know now you're just very ignorant on how drugs work and have a false perception on drug users as a whole. not gonna try to correct you because i can already tell your hard headed and dont see people who do drugs every now and then for fun as people. good day
just gonna say, "gateway drug" doesnt mean the first drug you ever used but the drug you used in which opened your mind up to perceiving that hard drugs "arent all that bad".
i was safe about my use and never got addicted because i actually educated myself. surprise someone who do drugs isnt retarded huh.
comment on stuff when you dont have a blunted and ignorant Point of view about something, you'd think being an adult that you would know that by now
From the looks of that reefer on the table, it's a wonder anybody got started.
seriously tho lmaoo
Two highly abused drugs that were never mentioned were barbiturates and amphetamines. Both of which were very widely prescribed in the 50s and 60s.
Widely prescribed now. Half the people I know are on prescribed amphetamine salts.
@@inkstain7193 True enough, Adderall ( amphetamine salt) is one of the most abused RX drugs in the U.S.
I know tons of people on ritalin, including young people.
@@alexroberts9349 if you are prescribed it and have adhd it isn’t abuse.
Prescribed for what! My family doctor never prescribed addictive drugs, even for severe pain control! And there were alternatives! Even today, I've heard of people prescribed Percocet and OxyContin for wrist pain when other non addictive alternatives are out there!
“Several weeks later after smoking reefers “ that shit got me 😂
they was literally sober eating glass
@@terryprofitt6902 right like wtf😭
Well it makes you stupid and could cause some seriously danger accidents like that
I've done several decades smoking refer, I never wanted to try the H. 😂
I always drove an automatic, but preferred the H, the 3 on the tree!
I like how my 90s dare program at school didn't even tell me this much. I know-it-all all an adult now, but this film explains addiction and the downfall of addiction VERY WELL. Down to explaining the psychological side of becoming better after he goes to "rehab". With little to no propaganda, which I really expected for this Era. It's information that holds extreme truth. With much research, and many testimonials.
P.s. I smoked a blunt while I watched this.
All the dare campaigns did , is " ooga drugs bad make you dead"
@@chrisdavis8650 exactly. Then kids do Marijuana and really want try other stuff since they lied about that. And end up down and dark and destructive past.
@@pjm8433 same with cigarettes it's been torturing me for 5 months or so since i last smoked in late april and i gotta say we really got a get some more heavier regulations on the addictive sides of these cigarettes
Buck action turned into a 10 and then a twenty to a Fenty til Moe money again
@@Alex-xe1tu BRUUUUH I JUST DIED 🤣🤣🤣
I love how it gets to weed and just gives zero information other than it’s a “depressant” different from heroin - sounds like a winner to me, chief
For as goofy as a lot of this film is, the depiction and information the give and show of opiate addiction is shockingly accurate for a drug film from the 50s. And they even gave sweet Marty the chance to medically detox instead of going to jail, which is how it should be for addicts, without reason of course, if you keep offending the sympathy the courts show you dries up pretty fast.
America used to have a relatively humane approach to drug addiction which is why you did not have a problem. We only had a heroin issue when America forced us to make it illegal. It used to be given out for free to addicts by British doctors but religious Americans could not stand it. We went from a few thousand addicts (mostly ex soldiers and sailors) to 300,000 (mostly teenagers) in five years. It is a medical issue but if you treat it like a crime you will get a lot of criminals. A lot of older people are addicted to painkillers they don't go out robbing because they get given the drugs.
@@ericconnor8419 they didn't realize the number of addicts til Harrison act made it illegal then we just ignore the issue by end ww2 it couldn't be ignored when solders n sailors who served our country were dependent on opiods n heroin
Sad thing bout today is the treatment centers have cut there patients time to coming off opiod n especially methadone. People get out treatment look feel worse cause lack of treatment time n some places give same time to people bein treatment for cocaine . Lack time in treatment is one new problems
@@ericconnor8419 Haha addicted to painkillers? Wow!
As a current Heroin user I cannot believe how accurate this is, albeit a few ridiculous absurdities for the most part quite accurate considering it's age I'm surprised.
You got that cigarette goin Tommy, haha, better go get some more, haha.
Hope you are doing better. I went to an ibogaine clinic and it was the best money spent. Kicked it with minimal withdrawals and no cravings. Good luck when you are ready to quit. ❤
Been off for 15. Hope things are going better
I can relate with almost all of the heroin talk. Not losing jobs, but the slow decline of everything
The social isolation, the fear of withdrawal, and the financial draining. Thank God I have a job that has always paid me wellC as well as my spouse- but i still cringe at the amount I've wasted on dope over the past 6 years.
I love how they put weed on the same level of cocaine and heroin
they still do it in my country...grass and h are the same ....they arent, obviously!!!! but the government thinks otherwise
OMG 🤯
Exactly..Weed is herb not drug.
There controlled substances
@@Christian88215 Grass
I REMEMBER this film! They showed it to my 11th grade health class (1969). Whenever the "effects" of weed were portrayed, the whole class would giggle. The poor teacher hadn't the foggiest clue why! "I feel funny...FOOD! Give me FOOD! Take me to the 'Frito Bandito!' Take me to 'Chester the Cheetah!'"
@@hpswagcraft "Sheltered" times? Hee, hee, hee....those were the NINETEEN SIXTIES! :) During the breaks between class periods, the school hallways were like a bazaar in Medaeval Samarkand! You could get ANYTHING, except, maybe, dancing bears, or nubile slave-girls.
It's extremely wholesome that even back in the more "sheltered" times back then, all the students still knew that the marijuana section of this film was full of crap. Nice to know that even though times chance, the students remain the same throughout time lmao
Smoking pot made me too paranoid to do heroin
lol..truth!
Made me puke. The stuff going around today? Just the smell of it.
100 percent
@@mikezylstra7514 lol or ur just living in an area with shitty weed, cause my bud smells great
It make me comfortable with the idea of smoking crack.
3 pre rolls for a buck? Man I sure miss the good ol’ days.
They're completely inaccurate that was highway robbery back in those days in the 60s you could buy an ounce for $10 but I do like the heroin caps for a buck 50
For 2% thc
Minimum wage was 10 cents. So you'd have to spend half ur pay on 3 refers
Yes, it's dated and schlocky. But as a recovering long term opiate addict, there's very little there in that's untrue. It's a nightmare ultimately. I don't feel that weed is necessarily harmful, but it can be for teenagers whose central nervous systems are not fully formed. There should definitely be aftercare because there is always an underlying issue that is at the root of addiction, and that has to be addressed and treated, or the danger of relapse or adopting an equally dangerous different addiction is very possible. My heart goes out to anyone suffering from addiction. And, to those who love addicts and live with broken hearts.
what do opiates feel like for you
Weed can be harmful too. Many people are extremely allergic to it.
If anything all opiates including heroin should be legalized, regulated and taxed.
This is very true!
I myself was one however in all my years never have used eye dropper make shift 💉 nor did I ever cut my mouth from broken glass of a soda bottle. Of course in these days we don't have glass bottles anymore
And here I thought I was the only one to break open pop bottles and swallow glass after smoking "reefers"! I'm so ashamed!
I've never ever heard of anything like this before.
I’m blind in one eye because I missed my mouth
100% True! I’ve dealt with a few addicts in my family, and it’s a nightmare for everyone.
How fukn sad that decades and decades later you believe this garbage. 95% of heroin users have absolutely no issue
I hate when I drink from broken glass after smoking the reefers. 🤣🤣🤣
I smoked the devils lettuce 1 time...
Now im retarded!
@@jamesbong4208 The left handed cigarettes as my grandma called them, lol.
Shit I puff that shitass soon as I wake up till I go to sleep from dusk till dawn
I been drinking out of broken bottles all my life
I hate 2cry over a broken heart when toten a Doobie.
Anybody else think these videos are great to watch while faded?
Totally
This video randomly popped up and i truly find it interesting
This is actually much more educational than I expected
Thank you Bayer Aspirin for the invention of Heroin
I just did two marijuana's and now
I'm so freaked out watching this.
I'm afraid I might end up being stoned to death.
Just stay calm and quell the munchies. You should survive
Bob Dylan can tell you that "everybody must get stoned."
Reefer madness!
@@CEOkiller 1951 was during the Korean Conflict !
I'm really high. I think I'm dead. Please help me. 🤠
Watching this while stoned, which I have to imagine is most of the people watching, is hilariously fun
Beware of addicts, lurking in the alleyways, waiting to club children in the head and steal their lunch money.
that was a violin
hahahaha
We do in England buddy !
@@Beastgrows you beware them or ya club the kids for lunch $? I ask cuz the states are saturated with violence due to drug addiction as well as just violence for the sake of violence. But I won't get started on the main underlying issues here. I don't have enough thumbs to wittle away typing it up.
@super duper ducky f@ckin beautiful!
This is actually pretty accurate for a 1950s American educational drug film.
swallowing broken glass after a couple hits of a joint? c'mon man. they were straight up lying about weed.
@@yungwaifu okay I wasn’t taking about that. I was actually talking more about heroin.
Yeah that was funny
..but most of it was pretty accurate.
@@kurkkamambusu4063 did you know that Italy was considered a "hot land"? I didn't. It's funny how anti-axis sentiment can bleed over into drug ed.
@@ghostwriter1415 what is a "hot land"?
Love how he jumps straight from a few joints to shooting up heroin
It's that damn confounded Rock and Roll music I tell ya!!! Marty was a good kid until he started listening to that stuff!!!
Look at how many of those rock and roll musicians that burned themselves out on drugs. Even in the earliest days of the genre, illicit drug use was taking victims. Johnny Cash came rather close to burning out. Elvis is another, though it was doctor prescribed. Now we have doctor prescribed cannabis and other "meds".
Marty found a new way to open pop bottles any drank glass and didn't even know it
this film is one of the best most realistic version ever seen, and its 2022 there needs to be more education about drugs at school
Guess all these fear films didn’t slow the spread of drug use.
It actually made them more curious!
Prohibition never works.
Nothing can stop the beast.
it just made everyone afraid and marginalized people even more, creating a worse of a problem on both sides, narcissists and dependents, neither Free enough to live deeply, hence easier to manipulate and control. Liberty matters.
When you're grandparents say "people were wiser in my day" show them this.
11 years an addict. Ladies and gentlemen, drugs are evil. Don't play with them.
U talking about bad drugs..
@@PrestigePranksterSuomi Some drugs serve a purpose, yes.
I sure wish I could've seen this back in junior high in the 90's. The one they showed to us was cheesy and made us want to try drugs even more.
I smoked with my history and science teacher, oddly enough I still do, lol.
Lol
Curiousity killed the cat.
Yes because if I would've known all this growing up I probably wouldn't of became a herion addict
Good solid advice. My parent's era. World's gone to hell since then.
I was a heroin addict for 10 years. Aged but it is accurate for the most part. I just wish we had videos like these in school other than D.A.R.E.... what a joke
Things haven’t changed much over the last century apparently.Looks like there was a pretty good understanding of drugs even all those years ago.Great film.
I live in gerogia. this state doesn't have any White teenagers. so yeah things changed.
70 years later and things are worse then ever
I started out totally poo pooing this “ old fashioned” film with apparent stereotypes etc… but came to appreciate its message that it’s the profiteering of drugs that law enforcement should target - individuals are to be helped back from the brink and, perhaps cautiously, welcomed back into the society they wish wish to be part of. It echoes the successful policies of countries that punish the sale of certain drugs rather than their use. Compared with the “war on drugs” of recent decades this video seemed sensible and empathetic… I so hope Marty’s story had a happy ending!,
Drug prohibition is unconstitutional according to the language in the repeal of alcohol prohibition.
Today it's the pharmaceutical companies that were the "pushers" but the sad part was that we all fell for it like sheep during the pandemic, and they are still trying to ply their trade with regular Flu shots, now that everyone is still paranoid!
The situation has just gotten worse in the last 70 years.
Yup, since the mid-to-late 1960s. 😒😒😒😒😒
It's not all bad. Weed is legal in my state now, and it's much stronger and less expensive than it was in the 1970's, and no worries about getting a ticket or going to jail. And not once, in the decades I've enjoyed weed, have I ever broken a bottle and shoved it into my mouth, then laughed maniacally. Gonna have to put that on my bucket list.
I love the paragraphs on da subject
I never did the H but I had a pretty rough oxy habit for about 12 years, when it got difficult to stay on my feet I started doing crys to stay up and moving, the crys made me shaky so I started drinking to keep the shakes down, one thanksgiving I found myself hiding in a bathroom crushing pills on the toilet tank, that was my breaking point, the day I started getting clean.
It's a daily battle but its worth it.
To those ridiculing this film, just write Kensington Philadelphia in the search field and "enjoy".
Zombieville.
This is great, A+. Love the compassion.
As a 10 yr strong cocaine addict, and currently fighting... is is quite legit.
It may be 72 years old but this film is right on the money. And I would know. The stuff killed my brother and it was about two minutes away from killing me. I made it out, he didn't. The facts are the facts and they don't change, not since the very first person tried opium. As soon as they ran out they started something that is still happening today. It does not change. Not over 72 years, not over 7,200 years. But hey, I'm not berating anyone for finding this funny. I'm just saying that there are two sides of the story. Try the 1960s LSD scare films if you really want a laugh. They got most of it wrong. Chromosome damage? The one where the girl gets berated by a hot dog for wanting to eat it is a classic.
Opium itself has alkaloids that protect the body from harm. Man ruined these plants and made them evil.
The shit about coke and heroin is 100% accurate even today. If they didn't include weed in the film, I think it actually would've held up fine.
@MeTube I am glad that you are ok. And I am sorry to hear about your brother. I hope he can get it together some day. As far as that phone call, we got it in 2009 and by the time it came my brother had worn us out so badly over fifteen years or so that we had no tears left. I mean he REALLY wore us out. I hate to say it but we were more relieved than sad when we got the call, and I daresay that inside of us there was a small spark of gladness. Because he destroyed our family for fifteen whole years and only after he passed away could we start putting it back together again. To make things worse he was a diagnosed sociopath with borderline personality disorder, so he was a master manipulator and for the last five years of his life he master manipulated my whole family against me and they didn't believe me when I told them what he was doing. It was only after an episode at a carnival in front of the family did they start believing me. Now I wasn't there, so I dont know exactly what happened, but he was playing some carnival game and trying to win the really big stuffed animal for his kids and he spent like $150 trying. So he asked the guy to just give him the prize because he spent so much money and the guy wouldn't do it and something really, exceptionally bad happened. So bad that my family would not even describe it to me. After that they all saw that I was right the whole time, and they began to treat me like a human being again. But it was the worst five years of my life. Now as his mental illness progressed and his mental condition deteriorated I know he was self medicating rather than trying to get high. It started with alcohol, and for years it was crack, but when he died he had cocaine, heroin and meth in his system. Dying alone in a strange trailer park is fvcked up, I just hope he didn't suffer. I love my brother and he has to be in a better place because it couldn't be much worse. Hopefully he can find the peace that he couldn't find here in this life.. R.I.P. Robert Strichart, 1968-2009.
Honestly this film is pretty grounded compared to stuff like reefer madness, a lot of it is exaggerated, but 90% of what they are saying is true, just through a lens of a different culture
This is real deal. Lived it.
This film goes back 80 years ago , during the Korean War !
The opium problem goes back maybe , since thebeginning of time.
The American Civil War brought a out the use of opium in the deritive of it cslled morphine. Big opium epidemic after the Civil War where a generation of vets became addicted to morphine !
Ah yes, the failed War for Confederate Independence.
@@samhouston1673 The War of Northern Aggression. If only the Rebs won....I wouldn't be spending my weekend doing my own damn yardwork!
The Chinese smoked opium during the days they immigrated here. Eventually they made opium dens
what's wrong with morphine? It takes away the pain and gives you a good nap.
@@diablo666541 The British took action that spread its use that far in China. China was a world power with many desirable trade goods, but wasn't interested in selling them for the things outsiders offered. So the British Empire heavily exported opium on the down-low during the 1800s in an attempt to weaken China and create a captive, eager market for something they had no trouble supplying.
Sure it's 1951 BUT It's just as true today, more than ever.
Almost all people addicted to drugs are actually not doing it for the high it creates whether they even realize this or not they're actually doing it so that they don't feel anything like guilt fear and complete sadness from things in their
Past... they are actually self-medicating
tru I have ptsd and takeing morphine made everything better for a start then it destroys your life even more. I'm on methadone now and that not much better am slowly coming of after 8 year addiction was on 140mg now I'm on 60mg and dropping 2mg aweek can't wait to be clean iv wasted alot of my life I'm 34 years old now it goes by so fast when your high
@@drgreenthumb2190 took me 15 years to wean off of 115 mg of methadone it's been 10 months now and I still don't feel normal I'm 63
Exactly.
Outstanding comment… you’ re right on the money 😮
@@tomtroy3792 hopefully with time things get better try takeing high doses of vitamin c sounds stupid but it's made me feel way better. I got told about it by someone else on here that they did research and found vitamin c to help withdrawals. Iv been on methadone for about 5 years but 2 of them has been me dropping 1mg aweek. I turn 35 in a few days I don't wanna be like most ppl that stay on it all there life's. Why did it take 15 years to wean did you struggle with withdrawals and keep start and stoping? Or keep going back to it?
Marty later went to Turkey and started his own poppy farm
He went to Laos and grew heroin for the CIA…
@@CEOkiller Mostly from Bus's "Golden Triangle".
@@CEOkiller Mostly fromBurma's "Golden Triangle"!
To start a poppy farm and then California was the only habitable place left in America so all the girls went there to start a mommy farm... 👶
@@3DLasers MOM an POP operation , huh .
I didn't know I was addicted to lorazapam until my doctor stopped it. Two weeks of a living hell dealing with withdrawal.
Well without any other information presented, that sounds like a case of dependence rather than addiction
Yes this is one of those crappy old laughable films, but it's scary how accurate it is. I wish I had known and felt the truth conveyed in this movie before I embarked on my horrible dance with drugs. I was a nerd, someone who never did wrong, I've got a bachelor and a Masters degree. But drugs still took at least 8 years from me.
The music at the beginning is what plays in my head when I'm running errands
12/17/2013 was my last injection, I know the withdrawal was brutal, I've never had the flu but if it's anything like that,hell no
This video helped me get my life back on track, thank you!
"C'mon Marty. Don't Bogart that joint."
I'm 64 there was a time id a laughed at this..because many years I was an addict but now I'm clean 20 years I feel this film is to the point ... 🐂 s Eye..
This film is like the clip in Apocalypse Now when the film crew yelled at the soldiers to; "Go by like you're fighting, like you're fighting!".
Periscope Films has saved my life with all their knowledge.
AND has taught me I've been wasting my time with bottle openers or screw off caps!
"Criminal syndicates might give up if the penalties are stringent and there's more law enforcement etc etc etc..." ROFLMFAO
How has that worked out, mr. Let's start the Drug War?? hahahahahaha
was really surprised the accuracy of this as well..
Forget the weed one, the rest of it is spot on
“So unpredictable is this habit that even some one who knows the dangers may not realize it u til they are addicted” I’m a chemist and can say I knew a lot of dangers before messing with harder drugs and he’s right the fog sets in and you don’t even realize what happening even tho I knew what would happen
🤔This tape is just a warm up of what's being viewed on TH-cam shorts about places like Kensington Street in Philadelphia. Hundreds of people in a bent over stuper high on drugs for hours. As an old guy that's seen it all I really think that the Philadelphia tapes tell it all about how bad hard drugs really destroy lives.
If they weren't stumbling around on Fentanyl it would be Night Train or Carlos Rossi. People have been wanting to get faded since the beginning of time..and unless something about human DNA fundamentally changes, some of them always will..
i went to kensington the other day it was so sad, everyone was notted out on heroin
Yes I live here in Philly and it's out of control zombie land
Fetinayll mixed with Tranquilizer
Why do they bend over like that?
I love how the had the heart on the left instead of how its always been in the current timeline..in the middle of the chest!
Marijuana definitely is a gateway drug
def not.
These are so good. Glad I’ve been sober for over 4 years now lol. Weird to see people from 70 years ago going through the same thing. Wow
The response time of that cop was world record 🤪
Very Truth and Accurate about people on Drugs.
I had no idea what dope sickness was until I experienced it.
I saw a pothead get violent once, he killed a family size bag of Doritos in about 12 seconds.
This is the mindset of law enforcement still
As someone who has been through many detoxes, I wish someone would have shown me as a child how bad that was, I was told in the 90s "Drugs are bad, don't do them" and that's pretty much that, or "One time and you are addicted" also bullshit, so when you finally try it and it turns out that's bullshit you then think well, they just lie. BUT nope it ruins your life, it's a life that's not really worth living, I'm 3 years away from that stuff now but still having side effects and sadly still the stigma.
I wish reefer was still this good.
Yeah. High CBD, low THC. Wouldn't have made you paranoid like today's stuff.
Still prefer the ones made in the 80's where the kid smokes pot and deflates like a balloon until he's all flat on the couch, looking like Gumby! Hahaha
One needs only look at how run down the states that have legalized marijuana to know how dangerous it is. Homelessness and crime have skyrocketed
Look at California
@@3DLasers I lived in Colorado and Alaska and those states have become overwhelmed. I live in AZ now and we're on our way. Oregon is a mess as well.
Lol cope harder
@@johnthomas1940 Do you like living in danger?
@@blakemcnamara9105 lmfao cope harder, legalizing weed doesn't mean increased crime you bimbo
This guy talking about "drugs" is 100% correct, up until the part on "Mary Jane". Unless your "an addict" you will have many problems with all drugs. However, today in 2022~those who do smoke "Mary Jane" and are not "an addict" do so for medicinal or medical reasons. Many old and young pot smokers have no issues with it. At 63, here in Florida many many older people use THC/Delta 9 /CBD and edibles to help with chronic pain and PTS. It's recognized as a natural medicine. I'm not an addict, so it work for me.🤔
It's actually very real and accurate.
I'm watching this while withdrawing from heroin. This film is actually quite accurate.
how are you doing rn?
Keep it up pal. It doesn't last forever.👍
Horrible Time to be hooked on drugs. No Detox’s except Lexington Ky. A lot of Korean Vets were sent there for addiction. Horrible
a well placed XD indeed
As a recovering addict, this is all true. The terminology and lingo may be outdated, but it’s all the same
Lol the acting in this film. Is beyond hilarious 😂
Who else here is high watching this? 😂
Yeah, I think I'll go shoplifting, so I better bring my _"drugs, needle & spoon"_ with me. LOL
I can’t believe the government still believes they can arrest there way out of this problem. Insanity
“We become like those we are around…”😢
Without this information I would have taken a different path in life
You would've done heroin?
Replace weed with the word alcohol and this film gets extremely accurate lol
When he said those kids were buying drugs from criminals, I thought who's fault is that? I'm not for the legalization of drugs but my mind went there. Alcohol has caused just as much trouble as drugs and is just as if not dangerous.
According to the CDC, about 95,000 Americans die from alcohol-related causes each year. Deaths from marijuana-related causes? Zero. Not even one. But marijuana is listed as a Schedule 1 drug in America, along with heroin, LSD, ecstasy and peyote. Politicians who make those stupid laws are firmly in the pocket of Big Pharma, who absolutely don't want marijuana legalized.
Alcohol is the most widely abused drug in the world, and one of the most dangerous!
@@luiscalcano4359 As the son of a violent and abusive alcoholic, I am very aware of that.
That's why every drug should be legal and under strict monitoring from the government.
We could have a good product for people who wants to use it (i mean legal or not people will always find a way to buy drugs).
But i bet government makes a lot of cash not legalizing it, i mean they are all criminals
@@nonGigiMONEY TALKS AND BULLSHIT WALKS , unfortunately @ the misery of people.
I would like to see the filming locations then and now.
1:08 I suddenly remembered the fake voiceover in Fear and Loathing, when they were watching this in a police convention.
Other than the glass bottle part, and some parts about weed, nothing about this is a scare film. It's entirely true.
Yeah carpet is nice in cold winters!!
He looks healthy , for an addict .
He's a actor
No toilet chemicals mixed in his drugs.
I feel like back in those days even addicts probably somewhat took care of their appearance. I mean, they would've still had the things you can't hide like bags under their eyes and gaunt faces, but they probably still combed their hair every morning and dressed decently. Back then even if someone had problems, they didn't want to be seen to have them and I feel like having to hide their problems from society probably made them worse. It's probably the main reason why domestic violence was so prevalent in those days.
@@LifeofBrad1 a lot of the things they dealt with we dealt with today but they couldn't talk about it. A lot of people were shamed out of society and ended up in an institution or dead.
@@RADIUMGLASS Yeah, that's very true. A lot of decent people probably ended up in mental hospitals simply because they were a bit different.