[wastoute]

I have to say I was severely disappointed. The blurb for the news advertised they would have a “story about a new drug that was hurting children and they would inform us ‘all about it’”. Instead of surfing by I figured I just had to see just what this new drug was. Well, they didn’t tell us “all about it”, they didn’t hardly mention they name, what it does, how it is ingested or anything other than “lawmakers are on the job making it illegal.” Turing to the wife I said, “None of us have learned a damn thing since Harry Anslinger.” They are still trying to sell the same soap they were selling in “Reefer Madness”. Bizarre.

[a fool in paradise]

They are still trying to sell the same soap they were selling in “Reefer Madness”.

Reefer Madness was about selling movie tickets to an Adults Only movie in the age of the Hayes Code. Nothing else.

Other exploitation films at that same time had skinny dipping scenes and other naughty nudity amid the drugging and gun play.

Each city had its own local censorship board. Roadshow filmmakers had to appeal to the city to be able to show their wares. Sometimes they would even substitute alternate takes of scenes (more clothing) and even have to make substitutions on the fly if the vice squad dropped in on a screening. The hucksters would then have resort to a "square-up" reel when the heat left the premises.

They were carny folk.

[Salamander]

We actually sat through that movie in high school.

Between that and the 8mm car wreck carnage gore-fests they showed us in driver’s ed, it’s a miracle that I ever left the house.

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