Reefer madness

A new study shows that in states with legal medical marijuana, prescriptions for drugs to treat conditions that might also be treated with marijuana have fallen significantly. After just 17 states had passed legalization, Medicare was already saving $165 million per year. Nationwide legalization would save much more, not only for Medicare but for all healthcare plans. Let's hope we can finally stop wasting law enforcement resources chasing down and prosecuting people for a drug that is in…

Motion pictures were among the first aspects of popular culture to aggressively vilify marijuana, as illustrated by such cinema classics as Reefer Madness (1936) and Assassin of Youth (1937). Long on hysteria but short on facts, such films commonly showed marijuana use inevitably leading to murder, mayhem, excessive giggling and wild-eyed dancing. Reefer Madness Comics A decade later, comic books took a similar tact, typically portraying marijuana as a gateway to harder drugs

'Reefer Madness: 85th Anniversary' by Timothy Pittides. 20" x 30" 9 colour screen print, in a signed and numbered Regular edition of 85 for $65, and a signed and numbered Variant edition of 35 for $75. On sale Tuesday April 20 at 11am CT from Timothy's website. Regular Edition Variant Edition

Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em. While browsing through the Library of Congress film archives Keith Stroup, of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, stumbled across a forgotten church-financed exploitation film from the 1930’s called Reefer Madness. The ridiculous propaganda film had been developed as a cautionary tale about the perils of […]

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REEFER MADNESS (1936) [600 x 800] by Timothy Pittides

The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers. Open Culture, openculture.com

Originally produced as an exploitation film that drew on racial stereotypes, the ironic revival of Reefer Madness made it a cult classic for stoners.

Reefer Madness