" DRUG ADDICTION " CLASSIC 1951 DRUG USE SCARE FILM XD12644a

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This black & white educational film is about the perils of drugs. This is a 1951 film.
Opening credits but the title "DRUG ADDICTION" has been cut off (:07-:12). High schoolers walk towards and get into a car. The group gets some ice cream. A boy works his after school job, another youth steals an item and leaves. A black woman asks for change. A boy mugs a younger boy with a pipe and whacks him on the head. A boy sits strung out. Pills. A poppy seed plant diagram. From morphine comes heroin. Opiates are depressant drugs. A needle sticks drugs into a body, done animated. More drugs are needed as the body becomes more dependent. Marijuana plant. Cocaine comes from a plant as well. Cocaine is an irritant on the brain. Animation shows a confused, angry man on cocaine. Overdose on cocaine can lead to death (:13-3:49). Narcotics Bureau sign on a door. An addict is brought in to the police station. Slum area. An older man takes out a needle and some drugs. A man sells drugs to a rich boy. Drug dealer sells a teen some drugs. A boy shoplifts and runs down a street as a shop owner follows, he runs into a police officer and is caught. The police officer removes drug paraphernalia from the boy. His hand holds 6 pills (3:50-6:10). The boy is in court, its heroin. The judge asks to see the boys arms. The boy is a heroin addict. The boy, Marty, explains how he became an addict. A group of boys smoke marijuana and hang out. While on marijuana the boys smash glass soda bottles. One of the boys drinks it while it has broken glass in it and this sends him to the hospital. Another boy downs a broken soda. Marty cuts the inside of his mouth and laughs. Duke, the boy who got Marty addicted, introduces Marty to heroin. He hands him some heroin. The deadly white power. Heroin pills are sold to Marty (6:11-9:22). A drug dealer gets angry, he doesn't do his stuff. Marty does heroin in a needle now. He exits the men's room. Marty gets fired for stealing as his boss catches him stealing. Marty plays with a ball, he tries to talk to some girls who want nothing to do with him. Duke hangs out with Marty. The ball rolls into the gutter. Marty's mom does his bed, she knows something is wrong. Marty and his mom talk as Marty eats, Marty leaves (9:23-12:27). Marty is in pain, he needs the drugs as he's having withdrawals. The drug dealer gives Marty a deal and some heroin. The dealer wants Marty to sell. In a box of fresh fresh was a kilogram of heroin that was smuggled into this country. Two men smoke and mix the drug (12:28-15:16). The drug dealer cuts the drug, puts it in capsules. Marty hangs out and sells drugs to new people. Marty washes windows. Marty does petty shoplifting. Back in court, Marty's mom gives her thoughts on how Marty was a good boy before drugs, she pleads with the judge. Marty gets one year in jail but is offered a suspended sentence if he'll go to rehab. He agrees. Marty looks at his mom as he leaves for the hospital. Pamphlet on hospitals. Marty cuts crops with a machete (15:17-18:04). Marty plays checkers, baseball, sits and talks. Marty still finds himself shunned back home. He talks with Duke and won't do drugs anymore. Duke is still an addict. Police look at drugs. Criminal syndicate mix the drugs. The drug dealer makes his pills. Happy students leave school. Duke talks to a younger student and offers drugs. Duke grabs the boy by the jacket, the boy pushes off, runs to police, and points him out as a dealer. Happy students wave and walk off (18:05-21:06). End credits (21:07-21:14).
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[@UentilSecure]

As someone who did heroin for 9 years, a ton of this information is accurate despite the ridiculousness of the film.

[@rebelrat3594]

But the Marijuana to heroin was a little cooky

[@UentilSecure]

@@rebelrat3594 absolutely. Lmao.

[@Reggie-The-Dog]

@@rebelrat3594 No, it's not. It happens all the time.

[@rebelrat3594]

@@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

[@rogermcinerny2027]

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.

[@markhilston2119]

I love the pop bottle part. Every weed smoker goes through that one....

[@alexroberts9349]

Two highly abused drugs that were never mentioned were barbiturates and amphetamines. Both of which were very widely prescribed in the 50s and 60s.

[@inkstain7193]

Widely prescribed now. Half the people I know are on prescribed amphetamine salts.

[@alexroberts9349]

@@inkstain7193 True enough, Adderall ( amphetamine salt) is one of the most abused RX drugs in the U.S.

[@fernandomaron87]

I know tons of people on ritalin, including young people.

[@stephen5174]

@@alexroberts9349 if you are prescribed it and have adhd it isn’t abuse.

[@agems56]

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!

[@donnajocatlady3839]

I hate when I drink from broken glass after smoking the reefers. 🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesbong4208]

I smoked the devils lettuce 1 time... Now im retarded!

[@jimmartin7881]

@@jamesbong4208 The left handed cigarettes as my grandma called them, lol.

[@D-train69]

Shit I puff that shitass soon as I wake up till I go to sleep from dusk till dawn

[@urbanhesse6084]

I been drinking out of broken bottles all my life

[@luiscalcano4359]

I hate 2cry over a broken heart when toten a Doobie.

[@bushlovesska]

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.

[@scottcastellucci5186]

You got that cigarette goin Tommy, haha, better go get some more, haha.

[@teekolinski491]

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. ❤

[@kevinw8276]

Been off for 15. Hope things are going better

[@kdkatz-ef2us]

Smoking pot made me too paranoid to do heroin

[@SlapthePissouttayew]

lol..truth!

[@mikezylstra7514]

Made me puke. The stuff going around today? Just the smell of it.

[@mysterious144]

100 percent

[@whateverbro9955]

@@mikezylstra7514 lol or ur just living in an area with shitty weed, cause my bud smells great

[@bbb12124]

It make me comfortable with the idea of smoking crack.

[@Pootycat8359]

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!'"

[@Pootycat8359]

@@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.

[@hpswagcraft]

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

[@matthewmurray1857]

I love how they put weed on the same level of cocaine and heroin

[@Christian88215]

they still do it in my country...grass and h are the same ....they arent, obviously!!!! but the government thinks otherwise

[@daru6088]

OMG 🤯

[@code8217]

Exactly..Weed is herb not drug.

[@diablo666541]

There controlled substances

[@alessandroinglese4238]

@@Christian88215 Grass

[@YoMomma-td6iy]

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.

[@clc-gl4jn]

Just stay calm and quell the munchies. You should survive

[@luiscalcano4359]

Bob Dylan can tell you that "everybody must get stoned."

[@CEOkiller]

Reefer madness!

[@luiscalcano4359]

@@CEOkiller 1951 was during the Korean Conflict !

[@bartonknight2254]

I'm really high. I think I'm dead. Please help me. 🤠

[@comeoutofthedark8910]

And here I thought I was the only one to break open pop bottles and swallow glass after smoking "reefers"! I'm so ashamed!

[@janicebates1350]

I've never ever heard of anything like this before.

[@scottjackson2196]

I’m blind in one eye because I missed my mouth

[@CooperErickson]

I can relate with almost all of the heroin talk. Not losing jobs, but the slow decline of everything

[@teekolinski491]

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.

[@murderman992]

Anybody else think these videos are great to watch while faded?

[@svorttsirhc1814]

Totally

[@thy_apostle]

Watching this while stoned, which I have to imagine is most of the people watching, is hilariously fun

[@kristov29]

8:00 Drinking the broken glass. Now I remember seeing this film in junior high school- yes, I'm that old.

[@luiscalcano4359]

This film about drug addict Marty was filmed in the midst of The Korean War! That's 71yrs. Ago!

[@alanclontz1783]

I'm that old l saw this in high school

[@TooLameToDie]

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.

[@MrLunaMars]

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.

[@BigBBigTrees]

This is actually pretty accurate for a 1950s American educational drug film.

[@yungwaifu]

swallowing broken glass after a couple hits of a joint? c'mon man. they were straight up lying about weed.

[@BigBBigTrees]

@@yungwaifu okay I wasn’t taking about that. I was actually talking more about heroin.

[@kurkkamambusu4063]

Yeah that was funny ..but most of it was pretty accurate.

[@ghostwriter1415]

@@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.

[@kurkkamambusu4063]

@@ghostwriter1415 what is a "hot land"?

[@jrod6891]

Marty found a new way to open pop bottles any drank glass and didn't even know it

[@bryanl.morrison552]

11 years an addict. Ladies and gentlemen, drugs are evil. Don't play with them.

[@code8217]

U talking about bad drugs..

[@bryanl.morrison552]

@@code8217 Some drugs serve a purpose, yes.

[@mikecrawford5331]

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.

[@boycottjews]

I live in gerogia. this state doesn't have any White teenagers. so yeah things changed.

[@kateobrien1553]

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!,

[@huemann7637]

Drug prohibition is unconstitutional according to the language in the repeal of alcohol prohibition.

[@agems56]

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!

[@calbob750]

Guess all these fear films didn’t slow the spread of drug use.

[@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs]

It actually made them more curious!

[@huemann7637]

Prohibition never works.

[@JSacc]

Nothing can stop the beast.

[@jgannon1637]

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.

[@wizzlewazzle9202]

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

[@juancarlosb22]

As a 10 yr strong cocaine addict, and currently fighting... is is quite legit.

[@andyZ3500s]

The situation has just gotten worse in the last 70 years.

[@dariowiter3078]

Yup, since the mid-to-late 1960s. 😒😒😒😒😒

[@ClayLoomis1958]

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.

[@nikkic4661]

When you're grandparents say "people were wiser in my day" show them this.

[@rapturekevin]

I didn't know I was addicted to lorazapam until my doctor stopped it. Two weeks of a living hell dealing with withdrawal.

[@wanderingprophet3948]

Well without any other information presented, that sounds like a case of dependence rather than addiction

[@asuperstraightpureblood]

This is real deal. Lived it.

[@aft3r-lif382]

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

[@drgreenthumb2190]

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]

@@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

[@Joshua-gd8ub]

Exactly.

[@suzyrokits3993]

Outstanding comment… you’ re right on the money 😮

[@drgreenthumb2190]

@@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?

[@tylerzorn6152]

Sure it's 1951 BUT It's just as true today, more than ever.

[@Supervillainmc]

Horrible Time to be hooked on drugs. No Detox’s except Lexington Ky. A lot of Korean Vets were sent there for addiction. Horrible

[@dirrtbikekid7]

“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

[@JG-ij5hb]

Marijuana definitely is a gateway drug

[@code8217]

def not.

[@kingbenjamin22]

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

[@3DLasers]

Look at California

[@kingbenjamin22]

@@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.

[@johnthomas1940]

Lol cope harder

[@blakemcnamara9105]

@@johnthomas1940 Do you like living in danger?

[@johnthomas1940]

@@blakemcnamara9105 lmfao cope harder, legalizing weed doesn't mean increased crime you bimbo

[@andrewcross8244]

Marty later went to Turkey and started his own poppy farm

[@CEOkiller]

He went to Laos and grew heroin for the CIA…

[@johnceglick8714]

@@CEOkiller Mostly from Bus's "Golden Triangle".

[@johnceglick8714]

@@CEOkiller Mostly fromBurma's "Golden Triangle"!

[@3DLasers]

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... 👶

[@johnceglick8714]

@@3DLasers MOM an POP operation , huh .

[@slothmoths2372]

This is the mindset of law enforcement still

[@lazychemistry]

The response time of that cop was world record 🤪

[@d00der41]

Other than the glass bottle part, and some parts about weed, nothing about this is a scare film. It's entirely true.

[@jamesu9508]

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

[@KrisVesel]

"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

[@LeeB5]

“We become like those we are around…”😢

[@jackiec498]

It's actually very real and accurate.

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

Without this information I would have taken a different path in life

[@footingball5566]

You would've done heroin?

[@MrSlanderer]

1:08 I suddenly remembered the fake voiceover in Fear and Loathing, when they were watching this in a police convention.

[@gravendal6920]

"If he know the risk he would never have touched that marijuana cigarett" The number 1 gateway drug is alcohol. I don't know anyone who went from Weed to Heroin or Cocaine/meth. But alcohol to Cocaine/Amfetamin/Meth/Heroin i know plenty off.

[@kadecase7470]

God i heard bars are flooded with the hardcore stuff

[@chrisdavis8650]

Well anti marijuana campaigns are deeply, rooted in racism,were people would say black men would smoke weed and lose their minds and rape white women, even tho black women were raped by white men, and never went to jail.

[@mikeheaton8424]

He looks healthy , for an addict .

[@elfeo2534]

He's a actor

[@RADIUMGLASS]

No toilet chemicals mixed in his drugs.

[@LifeofBrad1]

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.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@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.

[@LifeofBrad1]

@@RADIUMGLASS Yeah, that's very true. A lot of decent people probably ended up in mental hospitals simply because they were a bit different.

[@bogbody9952]

Youth is a time for getting addicted to drugs

[@kenseymour5152]

I can’t believe the government still believes they can arrest there way out of this problem. Insanity

[@bey976]

Forget the weed one, the rest of it is spot on

[@lowcatalina6638]

This reminds me. I need to pay my dope tab

[@Creeker859]

100% truth. I’ve seen some sick things over drugs.

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

If the government made a drug use video today, it would be something like, "How to use fentanyl safely and enjoy it." BTW, check out the 1969 drug film A Day In The Death Of Donny B. Filmed in Harlem, NYC.

[@captainahab3355]

It doesn’t even get you high And it ruined the heroin market

[@Mr.paint123]

I just watch the movie that you suggested and it sucked 👎👎 ( it didn’t scare me or make me feel like I could relate )

[@NotaVampyre111]

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.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

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.

[@luiscalcano4359]

Alcohol is the most widely abused drug in the world, and one of the most dangerous!

[@NotaVampyre111]

@@luiscalcano4359 As the son of a violent and abusive alcoholic, I am very aware of that.

[@nonGigi]

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

[@johnceglick8714]

@@nonGigiMONEY TALKS AND BULLSHIT WALKS , unfortunately @ the misery of people.

[@tinhead9260]

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!

[@yugotime1598]

Sounds like Zap Brannigan from Futurama doing the narration.

[@jackuzi8252]

I think Zap's voice was modeled on this guy.

[@Secretsanta182]

It’s a Happy time full of Auto rides and double dates. Now it having your head stuck in a phone worrying what other people think of you while real friends around you fade into the back ground. Really feel for the kids of now days 😞 Social media is the real dangerous drug

[@christopher6223]

Yeah carpet is nice in cold winters!!

[@AshtonAU]

Despite the fact that it feels "goofy", it's actually pretty accurate, and certainly still gives me the same feeling as if I watch a modern doc about addiction. Pure sympathy for every addict out there (including myself), and that it's good to always remind oneself how bad it can be, even if right now it feels good. However much fun you have, you always pay double or triple in pain / pay back. At least from my experience

[@MrTheHillfolk]

I saw a pothead get violent once, he killed a family size bag of Doritos in about 12 seconds.

[@zaktripper4908]

Ignoring dosage makes ANY drug lethal.

[@pushing2throttles]

I guess that settles it then! The reefers is the gateway. This said it was so it must be true.

[@raysteigerwalt5272]

Lol

[@SimirJohnson]

Old propaganda films were my gateway. Greetings from rehab.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I'm in my early 40s and I say this is a good film.

[@leahcimnamttug7186]

How long did you smoke the marijuana? Oh 4 or 5 months. 4 or 5 decades more like.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Yup, 4 or 5 months on the reefer and "POOF", you're a heroin addict. All the people I see down at the marijuana dispensaries must be heroin addicts too. I, of course, am the one exception. Been smoking weed since the 1970's and still not addicted to heroin. I've got it on my "list of things to do" though.

[@leahcimnamttug7186]

@@ClayLoomis1958 I have not gone the heron way either, and 4 or 5 decades is a stretch. But 2.5 decades is almost correct, seeing that I’m 3/4 of the way thru my 4th decade of existence. But I’m going to strive for 5 and beyond😶‍🌫️🤤

[@diablo666541]

All the good old days of Beat It And scram and and make it snappy

[@sleepyjones9625]

All the heroin for only $7, what a time to be alive

[@whateverbro9955]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@akgstone]

1950 though.. so equivalent to over 100 today

[@hex3n]

Not much as changed, this video is spot on.

[@drengskap]

The true horror of drug addiction is vividly brought home by the hideousness of the lamp at 9:30 - anything that makes that lamp look good must be really bad for you.

[@sid2112]

It's the 50's the dope was s***ty anyway. Gimme that good Afghanistan black tar!

[@kblskables2877]

3:49 My favorite part when they tell you how bad pot is like the rest of the drugs on here.

[@JessicaRamosMaskiell]

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.🤔

[@Mr_Tecumseh]

71 years later and we are still dealing with this and how we deal with it the same exact way. Perhaps its time we try something new.

[@ristube3319]

5:39 Exactly how every drug arrest still goes today! Also how 1980’s drug ad showed “reality”

[@tompotter5981]

The good old days weren't always good.

[@tiggercampbell6198]

i loved the ending. about the soul .

[@newworldconcepts583]

I had to stop at the pop bottle breaking lol

[@shellwalsh3317]

"Youth...the time to do drugs & have sex in the backseat of a car".😂🤣..Marty's mother looks 65++y/o 🤪 & he looks at least 25-26. QUOTE: ""MAR-TEE ,MAR-TEE! " Well, Something's wrong & I'm taking you to Dr Bleeker, since you no longer go out with the fellows". ( What corn-pone 😂🤣 I just love all the old dope scare movies.. I remember a few from the 70's in elementary school.

[@johnceglick8714]

Very on the mark on heroin withdrawal . And , how this film days how there's an increase in drug usage ( heroin) back 1951, 71 yrs ago mid Korean War time!

[@3DLasers]

So you weren't drafted and took off with the crowd and never grew up to be a man huh ? 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnceglick8714]

@@3DLasers By time NAM got underway , Marty was probably in his early 30s, but that doesn't mean he didn't do smack back in the day.

[@jammininthepast]

Monty and Duke definitely had some chronic. I'm thinking they had access to a bottle opener.

[@lastotallyawesomebleach204]

Nobody ever swallowed broken glass and cut the inside of their mouths without knowing it from smoking reefers

[@paydendonaldson1340]

I think a lot of people forget that back than all the amphetamine and other type pills were prescribed, which means back than the FDA and the government said that’s ok we get money from that. It’s the same people who said smoking cigarettes is healthy and relaxing.

[@jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069]

One thing about the 1950's that's long gone out of today's world, is that element of care and concern for other people, where today it's typically apathy 'n indifference instead. Nobody today would ever make a film like this, about drug addiction. Nobody today cares a thing about drug addicts, other than say maybe a few doctors and an occasional social worker. Somebody today a drug addict? Laugh and forget them

[@JuanSchwartz]

3 "reefers” for a buck!?!? Inflation sucks.

[@onesgone397]

ya

[@sage4nowty129]

Surprisingly, for 1951, they included some black American actors in this film.

[@jamesr130]

My old boss often told me "Don't ever use cocaine, hardest drug I've ever had to get away from, damn I miss cocaine."

[@jamesstuart3346]

With the possible exception of the depiction of marijuana as a "gateway drug" the film is pretty much bang-on

[@patkearney9320]

The pharmacy in Dublin used to leave the heroin, morphine and class As in the police station this.was early 80s. Bottom line a crew pulled of an armed robbery for the class As at the station. Damn I thought it was a sharp job.

[@stonerman15]

It’s hilarious watching this in 2022.

[@Senicova]

Who else here is high watching this? 😂

[@keving2918]

That 70s show depiction of weed is funny as shit

[@coffeemixer4292]

This is really sad. Prayers for all the addicts fiending for drugs. May they find peace and sobriety.

[@ESPLTD322]

If you removed all the ridiculous marijuana parts out this, it would be mostly accurate information but I know plenty of people who only used marijuana and never did any other BS. Of course there are people who start with pot and move to real drugs, but that’s because of their destructive personality types, not marijuana itself.

[@sergiomartinjrguevara]

They should show this in all schools

[@y0uknowmysteez]

The acting in this is hilarious!!!

[@lechatleblanc]

its a tragedy that people think the old days were goofy just cuz people were happy ,jolly, well dressed, respectful, modest .....

[@jamiecurran3544]

Ah yeah drinking the old broken glass whilst high as a cloud, those where fun time's!😁🤣🤣✌

[@davidrivera8254]

AMAZING VIDEO CLASSIC VERY ACURATE IN FACTS I'M 43 BEEN SMOKING WEED SINCE 15 NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH OTHER DRUGS THANK GOD!!!! 4:20 FOR LIFE WHY LIE!!!!!!! STAY NATURAL MY FREINDS!!!✌️😁

[@scronx]

If only more people had heeded these films' message we'd be living in a vastly better world. Most people have no idea the damage drug abuse does to societies. Politicians don't talk about America's 50,000 annual fentanyl deaths except insofar as it's nonwhites dying. Most of the 20th century should never have happened.

[@gls3894]

Fairly accurate film

[@nuttysquirrel8816]

Is it just me, or does the narrator's voice sound like captain Zapp Brannigan from Futurama?

[@straytarnish9443]

You have to remember the back then drunk driving was standard operating procedure it wasn't even illegal it was just called the car accident it didn't matter if you were intoxicated that was that way clear up until not that long ago so what do you think kids who were living under the houses and rooms of parents who scolded them for not having their haircut right or listening to jungle music right before they run out and drive drunk obviously the kids wanted to have some sort of his intoxicant that wasn't alcohol and since people with money are more valuable than people without money they'll continue to expand the repeal of prohibition from only alcohol into Way Beyond marijuana

[@straytarnish9443]

And to this very day some people consider driving drunk a privilege especially if they get paid to do it because their employer feels it's the best way to humiliate people in AA trying to stay sober

[@saltybrackishfresh]

Smoking a J rn wishing I took this advice seriously in my youth😔

[@shable1436]

I need drugs to watch this

[@carljames4862]

LSD for some color enhancement

[@Morgoth_the_Tyrant]

Im on em watching this

[@ognjen8970]

The best thing is how police officer catches the thief in 05:40