This well-meaning but truly awful drug tale was ahead of its time in warning the public on the dangers of smoking cannabis. Modern Emergency Room doctors have noted that some of their patients who come to them with psychotic or other mental conditions do, in fact, smoke dope.
The active ingredient in marijuana is a natural insecticide that the marijuana plant creates to defend itself from insect attack. Too bad people don't get the message and leave it alone.
If you poison your brain long enough, it won't work right. When the brain is poisoned, rather than expressing the problem as pain, it sometimes produces euphoria.
As for the film, people tend to imitate what they see. In that sense, showing scenes of attractive young people smoking dope was not helpful. Nor were the scenes of exaggerated effects produced by marijuana. It takes time for the deleterious effects of smoking dope to become evident.
The film itself was boring and like watching a filmed stage play with few reaction shots. At times it took on an almost clinical air, and it is too bad that moderns find it amusing.
Having met mentally ill people who freely admit that they fried their brains on drugs, I didn't find this film very funny.
The active ingredient in marijuana is a natural insecticide that the marijuana plant creates to defend itself from insect attack. Too bad people don't get the message and leave it alone.
If you poison your brain long enough, it won't work right. When the brain is poisoned, rather than expressing the problem as pain, it sometimes produces euphoria.
As for the film, people tend to imitate what they see. In that sense, showing scenes of attractive young people smoking dope was not helpful. Nor were the scenes of exaggerated effects produced by marijuana. It takes time for the deleterious effects of smoking dope to become evident.
The film itself was boring and like watching a filmed stage play with few reaction shots. At times it took on an almost clinical air, and it is too bad that moderns find it amusing.
Having met mentally ill people who freely admit that they fried their brains on drugs, I didn't find this film very funny.