“ H: THE STORY OF A TEEN AGE DRUG ADDICT ” 1951 ANTI DRUG ADDICTION EDUCATIONAL FILM XD96055

[@ClamBake7525]

When I watch these films it feels like I'm sitting in the school gym with all the other kids in the mid '70s watching these.

[@MoneySavingVideos]

I miss the good old days when dope dealers wore suit and ties.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Back in the day, drug users dressed nice.... What's happened to this World !!!

[@jasonwood6570]

That moose guy got me hooked also. He is always just leaving his stuff laying around

[@aarond23]

A drug movie with a side plot of becoming a pro boxer? Unique!

[@HardRockMaster7577]

A Cautionary Tale for all aspiring Boxers.

[@TwistedFister88]

Never got free drugs till i was an adult.

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

heroin posession became a felony in NY in about 1950

[@Ohdeedee]

The mother looks more like a grandmother.

[@JiveDadson]

Well, her teenage son _is_ thirty-something.

[@RocknRollHoochieKoo1962]

@@JiveDadson But she dressed like she was in the old age home. All those women did---our teachers made being 40 look scary. Really scary.

[@Lunatic1982]

Or dad in drag

[@cleokey]

There were plenty of drugs in my neighborhood after Korea in the 50s. Heroin, cheap alcohol and sleeping pills (reds) ...for some reason I'm still here. 😮

[@flyingo]

When talking with friends who were doing the same things as me back in the day we often wonder why we’re still kickin’ after the insane amount of drugs of all kinds we did in the late 60s and through the 80s. Every drug you can name, and lots of ‘em. Yet here we are.

[@Shade_Tree_Mechanic]

Those were much purer in​ form than the garbage on the streets these days though @@flyingo

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

Plus they were hep listening to that crazy jazz!

[@JiveDadson]

I wish you could hear my MST3K riffs. I'm breaking myself up.

[@demonsaint1296]

He should have asked mom out on the date.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Looks like, in his neighborhood, most mothers had their kids after age 40 !

[@silvereagle2061]

Was this before "Reefer Madness"?

[@alicewolfson4423]

No, Reefer Madness is from the 30s.

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

After!

[@bryanklein6428]

Never saw someone od and stay on their feet

[@HardRockMaster7577]

What is this strange NARCOTIC ? ? ? ? And what is this Strange Music they are listening to???? I think they are listening to Race records !!!! God help their Souls !!!

[@TeslaTales59]

You better stay away from those marijuana cigarrettes!

[@alangray9117]

We're not messing with no reefer addicts.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

This is the "Leave It To Beaver" episode we never got to see.

[@Bigwhoopiedingdong]

Why are we such nerds now with our ugly cars and wearing suits once a year. Old people are probably clowning us as soon as we walk away

[@manhoot]

Moose isn't the most trustworthy individual

[@CaptainJ73]

I bet they had really good heroin back then

[@louisemayrand1549]

Mom? Looks more like his grandma

[@normanbrown9225]

My FRIEND LEROY Told me U GIVE AWAY SAMPLES Then You PULL IN THE FISH.😮

[@deniscoursen5022]

Just say YO

[@Sajuuk]

"Educational" films like these were the highest form of hypocrisy and just plain exaggerated or false. Just decades earlier morphine and cannabis tinctures and other now-banned drugs were not only legal but sold in every pharmacy and corner grocery store in America and much of Europe. EVERYONE used these tinctures, and I mean EVERYONE.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

The main reason it was banned if I’m not mistaken was initially to curb Chinese immigration, as many Chinese immigrants were large users of marijuana at the time.

[@bchooper5603]

@@matthewnikitas8905 It was opium with the Chinese immigrants, not marijuana (though they did use that too). The Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 came out of it.

[@larkangel6593]

What happened was recreational drugs were weaponized after WW2. There were precedents of course; the Chinese opium wars and the practice of delivering alcohol to Indian communities. The USA utilized this technique by vastly increasing opium production from Afganistan to flood Russian markets in the 2010s. The 50svis when the USA/West realized the same tactics could be used on us. Ever notice how the USA lost its productive edge over the last 20 years? Pay attention to no one working - electively pursuing van life or sitting around Starbucks all morning?

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Big Pharma knows best for what ails you.

[@gordy4924]

Idk I'm a recovering addiction and this was pretty realistic imo

[@flyingo]

These old films were so poorly made with stilted “acting”, extremely slow pacing and horrible delayed dialogue.. they’re almost too bad to continue viewing. But every now and then we get a glimpse of the absurd attitudes towards substances.. like pot being extremely dangerous or heroin being something as common as smoking a cigarette. Lol.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

This Propaganda was brought to you by the Alcohol & Tobacco Consortium.

[@RaymondMunster]

Funded by the United Nations 🇺🇳. Great marketing scheme

[@michaellachapell3455]

Refers, hahaha ! Hipster !

[@skylaneav8r902]

Dopers…..SMH😕

[@shaman6682]

How about the teenage worker ! And not drug addict! Enough!

[@richardbuchanan7237]

Wrong movie