Reefer Madness

Pros: Mike Nelson's commentary. Clever use of colorization.
Cons: an even bigger lie than "pot funds terrorists"

Blame it on the Pilgrims. The first European settlers to really establish themselves here in America were radical Puritans who had been kicked out of every other civilized country they'd tried and looked down their nose at everything that could even ...

Pros: You'll need a microscope to find them.
Cons: More than I can count.

This is my entry in Hugh U. Kidden's "That's the Strangest _ I Ever - write-off. Participants are expected to review one of the strangest, most bizarre uncouth product you can think of. Something that you'd never think of using. I chose the film "Reefe ...

Pros: Mae getting dressed?
Cons: disinformation, story, acting, casting, pacing

I was not expecting to learn anything about marihuana -- to use the spelling in the 1936 cautionary melodrama "Reefer Madness." The title is the emblem of panic-mongering. "Reefer Madness" has been called camp. It is certainly both absurd and deadly ...

Pros: very humorous for its use of hyperbole and inaccurate representation of the effects of marijuana use
Cons: Horrible transfer, both audio and video. No significant extras

This is a review of the DVD release of "Reefer Madness" produced by Madacy Entertainment. I feel the need to state this up front, since my feelings about the movie differ quite a bit from my feelings about the DVD, and I wish to discuss each...

Pros: One of the first laughably bad movies
Cons: Influenced U.S. drug policy for decades

Reefer Madness is one of the most famous bad movies of all time. It’s an ancient propaganda piece about the dangers of marijuana, "the new drug menace that is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers." An on-screen...

Pros: Just fun for those who have "been there"
Cons: Poor film quality, even on DVD

I loved this - what a crack up. I watched the movie because my husband remembered seeing it when anti-drug campaigns were going on at school. Basically, they are educating parents about the dangers of marijuana through a retelling of an event in...

Pros: camp value, laughs
Cons: quality of the film can be poor, must be in a goofy mood to watch this

We bought this on video for about $3 at Staples, of all places. What a riot! My husband, a child of the early '80s, attended a small, extremely liberal college in Western Massachusetts, and he said that they showed this film in an auditorium of a...

Pros: made me laugh
Cons: for the wrong reasons

This piece of film was a horrible representation of toking life in the 1930s. It was first released as anti-marijuana propaganda by the U.S. government in an effort to keep "innocents" away from the devil's harvest. Marijuana was directly...

Pros: funny, silly, good choice for a midnight movie!
Cons: VERY dated, slow at times, helped create the War on Drugs!

This amazing little film was at one time considered a serious expose of the "marijuana menace" of the 1930's and it's effects on the youth of America at that time.
Though considered a comedy today, "Reefer Madness" played...

Pros: Funny
Cons: Funny

I was lucky enough to view this movie about a month ago. I picked it up in the video store because I have had this kick lately on black and white filmed flicks. This movie has got to be the most hellarious piece of propaganda I have witnessed in a long...