pot will kill you

[@Reathety]

The pot head was so high he predicted the future.

[@TheFlamingPike]

Underrated comment.

[@BassPlayer9000]

It is an honor to be the 69th like of your comment sir

[@TheFlamingPike]

@@BassPlayer9000 Hell yeah he had 2 thumbs up when I commented.

[@glbwoodsbum2567]

Statistically the other guy was right as well. Look how many people are using marijuana now, especially at a young age, and look how many people are overdosing on hard narcotics.

[@briankeenan4901]

Damn!!! I LOVE THIS COMMENT!!! LOL LOL

[@deandeck]

Forget the pot. The real stunner here is that back then at 23 years old you could have a wife, kids, house, car, career.

[@RA10H56]

You are not kidding, when my parents were in their 20s in the late 60s they had 4 kids, with 6 more coming. A house, 2 cars and all on the modest income of a mild mannered marine turned insurance salesman. Mom never had to work

[@DickDebonaire]

@@RA10H56 agreed. My parents waited till their early thirties to start a family back in the mid fifties. They were able to buy a brand new 3 bedroom brick ranch, have a very nice cabin custom built for the weekends and put quite a bit into their savings all on one income. Dad was able to run a large department in a mortgage company, not with a fancy degree but with smarts and an amazing work ethic. Of course mom stayed home, raised the kids and kept the house beautiful. Even then priorities were important, Dad was happy to drive to Dodges and Fords when he could have been driving Cadillacs and Corvettes

[@SillyGoose2024]

​@@RA10H56u must be irish

[@Newrayjay]

Gate way drug😢 lol

[@Reathety]

That's why they had fewer pot heads and drug addicts... Almost like making them illegal did nothing but fill the prisons.

[@Mitchd03]

i love that the reason pot will kill you is because of a different drug

[@roylcraft]

They never gave such a dire speech for driving drunk at happy hour did they?

[@PIPEHEAD]

All the junkies I ever knew were just boozers in reality.

[@drrockkso8882]

Every drug addict I've ever met started with alcohol. Some of them never even smoked weed before trying hard drugs.

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

Friday's point, delivered extremely badly, was that it in the 70s it was still just as illegal as heroin and required you to interact with the same level of criminal to acquire it. He wasn't wrong. For a long, long time most of the weed available in the US was horrible Mexican brick that was indeed grown, transported and sold by the cartels. Grow the shit in your backyard or basement. Ban police searches for bullshit reasons. Give money to neither the government nor the gangsters. Problem effing solved forever.

[@artemiseritu]

your dealer might want to keep you as a customer... so he puts crack in your weed.

[@juggalojack13]

"I'm not gonna lecture you," [lectures him]

[@MistressMary...22-u9j]

not a lecture he was just laying it out striaght

[@hippiedaze1970]

​@@MistressMary...22-u9jHe's smug ASF. Thank goodness people no longer think like him.

[@MistressMary...22-u9j]

@@hippiedaze1970 better thinking than what we have now with bozos who cant even tell the difference between men and women..

[@hippiedaze1970]

@@MistressMary...22-u9j You're a real idiot. A real dummy. You must be a conservative Republican talking like that.

[@Edoshmek]

@@MistressMary...22-u9j found the filthy terf

[@kochiyama]

Fun fact: Harry Morgan, who played Officer Bill "I doubt it" Gannon (0:14) died at the age of 93 in Los Angeles in 2011, meaning that he did indeed live to see pot legally sold in stores.

[@VinceGoodrum]

Fun fact...he's acting in a police drama

[@SillyGoose2024]

@@VinceGoodrum haha

[@TheMpo1986]

I'm gonna call my blunts "Harry Morgan's" .

[@shaunsteele6926]

he already looked 90 in the 60s

[@TheMpo1986]

@@shaunsteele6926 he looked like that in the 70s and 80s too.

[@yorinks]

"No, I'm not going to give you a lecture...Now, you listen to me!"

[@mxbishop]

I was just a little tyke when these episodes first aired. They made an impression. I was straight as an arrow because I never wanted to end up in a police station, having Sgt. Joe Friday say, "Now you listen to me!" The image of that happening was scarier than any other possibility. Looking back, I think Jack Webb was some kind of surrogate father figure. And in the 1960s, a lot of kids were scared of their fathers, and what they might do - if you got out of line.

[@boataxe4605]

@@mxbishopHe was also a raging alcoholic.

[@Actaeon2nd]

@@mxbishop My old man had a quick temper and a sadistic streak. He enjoyed bullying me and my twin, that's for sure.

[@user-mz1kt6iz4e]

There you go.@@boataxe4605

[@user-mz1kt6iz4e]

I used to see this show, too, but it didn't have that effect on me. I thought it was supposed to be a parody of some kind, & it made me laugh. But, yeah well, that's surely what I always wanted - to have my kid growing up "scared of" me & what I "might do". I was born & a child during those years, as well, & I'll just say 2 things right now : Fuck any parent who wanted to bully & terrify their children into compliance; they lacked the intelligence or the love to teach rather than enforce. And, if you found Joe Friday/Jack Webb "scary" then you must have feared too many things & I don't know what anybody could ever do for you; he was as full of shit then as he would be now ( ..a clenched haircut over a skint-back forehead & a constantly dull, disgusted expression don't add up to anything like what he must have thought they did. ) @@mxbishop

[@anthonykennedy5324]

The kid's speech was well-written. Couldn't have expressed it better.

[@texaswunderkind]

He took those cops to school so hard their parents probably wondered if they had detention.

[@peanut422hb]

Script came right from the UN, the same 💩👜 's that pedal climate crisis and gay love. Hollyweird is just a propaganda tool.

[@fluxy-b]

I wish I could argue a case that well high on weed. 😂

[@microdesigns2000]

Well-written by a bunch of total leftist hippies calling themselves "writers".

[@bobfish3176]

Surprisingly so

[@NateWalker-v6l]

The supposed antagonist of this scene was the calm rational adult in the room

[@maximuffin6395]

"Weed's not gonna kill you, as a matter of fact, it could be legal in the future" "NOW YOU LISTEN HERE JUNKIE"

[@Dannymart_88445]

You mean ignorant and dumb?

[@stevekru6518]

The condescending adult was far from rational spewing propaganda laden tripe

[@superstrangevideo]

@@stevekru6518 Haa the fact that you are on here debating a fictional TV character tells me everything I need to know ace! Light up another one Einstein!

[@superstrangevideo]

Haa the fact that you are on here debating a fictional TV character tells me everything I need to know ace! Light up another one Einstein!

[@unenombre5840]

It's hilarious how much sense this kid is making, and how right he was. Yet he was trying to be portrayed as the idiot here.

[@jamesreynolds5776]

Remember in the 1960s censors were a a LOT stricter and held a lot more power than they do now.. basically the writers supported pot so they used this as a workaround..

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@jamesreynolds5776 lmao i love it

[@krischurch3763]

​@@jamesreynolds5776that's what I'm seeing. That kid is making too much sense to be a 1960's bad guy

[@lobisomemfacanha4817]

The kid is still in the wrong though. Cop that explained the dangers of Marijuana and drug addiction in general (and why legalizing drugs is always a bad idea) was on point. Potheads are so obsessed with weed that they can't even see it corrupting their own morality and worldview. Would that 23 year old man really want to create a world where his daughter was 4x more likely to end up a drug addict that her previous generation? The writers of this show clearly understand the retarded progressive mindest about drug liberation years and years before it was this politically relevant, and in a few years (I hope) some of you will understand how drug addiction degrade society and abstain from this "new morality" progressives are so obsessed about and keep awaiting it. But this new morality will never arrive, and what will arrive is a horrible, degraded, ugly society where 30 year olds act like children while chemically dependent to alcohol, pot, adderalls, anti depressives all at once as they somehow thinking that modernity is a good thing. If you think the legalization of drugs is a good thing, take a stroll through the non priviledged areas in San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago and many other states that decided to be flexible on drug legality.

[@childofthe60s100]

BUT - the cops were right too ---- look at the streets of Philly!!!

[@Snatchystashy]

All I've ever learned is marijuana is a gateway to the refrigerator.😂😂😂

[@InspectahReese]

“Food is a gateway to obesity, we should ban food”

[@sethbieber5127]

Ice cream is a helluva drug 😂

[@Kelly-mi1yz]

Lol

[@lil.kaiakreations]

Bwaahahahaahaha

[@Nicky_Savage]

Munchies right?😂

[@davidc6032]

Tip of the cap to the writers for actually getting the kid's perspective pretty much dialed, especially for 50+ years ago. So dialed it was an instant bug in the ass for Sgt. Joe Friday which triggered his famous "machine gun" lecture.

[@PM-xu2nq]

Yeah this is actually very good debate dialogue. Not good as in realistic - people don’t typically speak this articulately and extensively off the cuff, especially in arguments - but good as in an examination of the issue, which feels fairly authentic. The writers actually showed both sides of the debate pretty well, even if they did have to shoehorn in that fire and brimstone finish.

[@ericbutler739]

Hollywood creates the narratives. They are the Department of Propaganda. This is predictive programming. The government started experimenting with weed and other drugs for mind control and other reasons. It also had to be illegal so they had something to charge non violent people who smoked weed with and keep those prisons full. It remains illegal at the federal level.

[@DudeEggs]

​@@PM-xu2nqthey did then, watch old debates. The later generations were taught that their emotions are more important than being logical or reasonable. People really did talk and behave in this manner.

[@Notlilithsbitch]

@@DudeEggsthis was the same era that grew up with lead paint and otherwise perfectly reasonable individuals calling seatbelts a communist subversion…. More aware doesn’t equate to being more emotional

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

POT WILL NOT KILL YOU

[@auntoneyofuntease6704]

I've never experimented with hard drugs while stoned. But a few times when I was drunk I did. Alcohol is the real gateway drug. Just glad I don't have that addictive personality.

[@Puss1man]

"Trust me bro I can quit anyday"@markasread4349

[@jesterman1302]

I don't think it's a secret that alcohol is a direct gateway to cocaine

[@mkultra2456]

@@jesterman1302 I'll drink to that! 🍻🍻🍻

[@nelsonnelson999]

alcohol is absolutely the "gateway drug" thanks for saying that...also ..anything can be bad or good depending on how its used...

[@charliec.3518]

fr all my friends started taking pills and H because it mixed well with cigarettes and booze, that’s the only reason, not fucking weed, in fact they stopped doing that because of weed

[@marinz4life]

Damn this dude was 100% on point.

[@thomasrussell4674]

I love the way he's somehow meant to be the voice of evil in this scene

[@Actaeon2nd]

That writer was a genius and foretold the future. Was he Jules Verne re-incarnated?

[@jtrueman]

@@thomasrussell4674Still sounds like the voice of evil.

[@nw42]

@@thomasrussell4674My guess is that the writers were totally cool with marijuana (surprise surprise!) but there’s no way a pro-drug message would make it past the censors. So they have a “villain” give an extremely calm, thoughtful critique of society, and all the “good guys” can respond with is “Uhhhh… you’re wrong!”

[@thomasrussell4674]

@@nw42 yeah that's absolutely believable

[@37Dionysos]

"Why don't you go after the big bad guys, like politicians and police who run the drug rackets?" "We're not allowed to do that, fella."

[@proudbirther1998]

You nailed it! Add to that the CIA

[@jimbosc]

Because they pay our salary buster - so let me give my BS speech anyway.

[@proudbirther1998]

@@jimbosc Yep and you nailed it too.

[@calonarang7378]

It's called a "Consistency of Evidence" you can't just bust down the door guns blazing!

[@shaunsteele6926]

sadly it would be another 30-40 years before people started catching on to the fact that their elected representatives are criminals

[@ibraimcarrillo6945]

“ Laws are going to change to keep up with today’s morality.” That quote hits.

[@shellshock10]

Makes you wonder if we humans are fit to create laws

[@victortesla4198]

@@shellshock10 Well we abolished slavery....

[@froggin-zp4nr]

​@@shellshock10 then that begs the question are we fit to NOT have them?

[@TooDarnEasy]

yes we are@@shellshock10

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

@@victortesla4198you won’t be surprised, but many of those “moralizers” aren’t too happy about that either

[@sp33kz]

"I'm not gonna lecture you, I don;t have time. Anyway, here's my lecture"

[@101Volts]

It wasn't even 1 minute long, he probably meant something a lot longer.

[@Unknown-eo2nf]

You must not have a dad lol

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

The point is pot won't kill you

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

Pot won't kill you

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

Pot won't kill you

[@sarahgeloneck9739]

“Marijuana will be packaged and taxed and sold right off the shelf.” THEY NAILED IT! I’m going to get some weed in a package off a shelf today!

[@markwayne7954]

I saw ending and baby drowns in tub.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

It only took em 50 years!

[@Jiltedin2007]

Yeah, like 50 years later Marijuana was legalized in The State of California.

[@trishahouston3656]

But, here's the thing. Marijuana is LEGAL state by state. It will always be illegal on the federal level

[@-Ricky_Spanish-]

@@trishahouston3656 Nah, that will change too, but it will take an embarrassingly long time. In fact, I think it will only change once it becomes normal around the rest of the first world and America finds itself embarrassingly behind the times, as they often do.

[@wellesradio]

The way that guy’s speech was written and the way the actor delivered it, I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers enjoyed the herb themselves. It was a well-reasoned and ultimately accurate argument.

[@krischurch3763]

I was trying to figure out if I was wording myself correctly, because this is exactly what I thought upon hearing this just now, for the first time.

[@shawnndixon5254]

This idea is hillarious just a bunch of long haired Hollywood yuppies siting in an office writing a script that will clown Nixon and Regan for fighting an unadulterated plant.

[@richsackett3423]

@@shawnndixon5254 You don’t know how time works or what a yuppie is apparently.

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

​@@richsackett3423Yuppie is the correct word: it means the young urban middle class. And I believe this was during Nixon's time, but obviously not Reagan's. I would imagine so as Nixon was the first president to really come down hard on pot. "Cannabis was officially outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA)." This also leads me to believe this film was probably produced in the early 70s.

[@richsackett3423]

@@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99 Shit dude google ffs. That isn't what it means. Yuppies didn't write comedy, they were upwardly-mobile Republicans driving new BMWs during the Reagan administration. You are talking out of your ass.

[@McCrapweasel]

He's 23 and has a family, a house, a car, a good education, and a career. And it's all thanks to Yes I Cannabis.

[@Whoareyoucalling]

That was the era of every employer gave experience to build upon. Today it’s literally the opposite. Very few employers offer experience for high paying jobs.

[@McCrapweasel]

@known3617 They don't offer experience, and they don't value experience. They hire young, stupid and cheap.

[@SevenSixTwo2012]

That's because this was at a time before the U.S. economy got decimated by regressive marxist politicos.

[@Some1inFNQ]

no, it was thanks to this being written in a time before right wing Reganomics sent everyone's jobs to China because outsourcing jobs to countrys with slave labour saves the corporations so much money.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

The thing I love about Dragnet (this show) is the introductions. One episode goes something like "The year is 1960.. While an average house costs 5 thousand dollars, up in the Hollywood Hills. Movie Stars spend up to one hundred thousand dollars on mansions". Jeez!

[@HibHab69]

"I'm not gonna lecture you." (immediately lectures him)

[@TheNeonRabbit]

I'm 61 years old. I s'pose I'll probably become a Heroin addict any minute now

[@jayhershey7525]

You and I both, only I am 76. Any minute now, I'll go looking for a pusher!

[@ianmackenzie6245]

Im 65 any minute it could happen

[@ksrmk]

Go ahead and laugh, Mister. Any day now...

[@bobknull7502]

They made Heroin 20 times more addictive, changed the name to Oxicontin and mainstreamed it.

[@Sherwoody]

I started off with iced tea, and then it got to a point where I needed my Folgers every morning. Now I’ve gone straight to cappuccinos and lattes and recently began experimenting with espresso. So don’t let anyone tell you that iced tea isn’t a gateway caffeine source.

[@MarkDunn]

01:27 "I'm not gonna give you a lecture, I don't have the time". Gives lecture.

[@johnwilliits7627]

In this episode, the pot smoking young couple, (husband giving the sensible arguments in this scene), end up drowning their toddler daughter in the tub while they are stoned on the sofa. So despite the well written dialogue, the conclusion employs the same scare tactics as Reefer Madness did over three decades prior.

[@jamesryder8305]

So this show is from the 60's, or 70's?

[@johnwilliits7627]

@@jamesryder8305 Dragnet began on radio in the 40s. Then TV in the 50s and again in the late 60s. The episode in question is from 1967. The show would have been revived again in 1980 but Jack Webb died.

[@nofortunatesonII]

@@jamesryder8305 Dragnet was an American television series starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. It ran for four seasons. The timeframe was from January 12, 1967, to April 16, 1970.

[@blackzero786]

Funny how Heroin was the worst they had to worry about, now we have Fentanyl which is 50 times stronger and killed George Floyd which caused the largest damages in American History.

[@Centrist01]

@@nofortunatesonII There was also the television show from 2003-2004.

[@jussimattsen4583]

Alcohol is a bigger gateway drug than pot.

[@d1ssolv3r]

Yup alcohol was the one that made me want to try more, it wasn't enough and always makes you sick. I'll stick to my pot or sobriety now

[@d1ssolv3r]

@@Concordfan443 the dab pens are the worst IMO. 24/7 ease of access. I had to get off that first, I switched to just regular flower. After I was on regular flower I slowly tapered down and using edibles instead to break the smoking/vaping urge but still get the high so I'd avoid withdrawals and sleep issues. Then I quit those, and haven't really looked back. Magnesium and L-Theanine, tea and lot of water will help tremendously for the withdrawal and sleep issues. Good luck to you - you can do it

[@briancrawford8751]

Wouldn't it make more sense for tobacco to be the gateway to marijuana? You have to learn to smoke first.

[@bitchesihate]

@@Concordfan443going sober is a good idea for you but for anyone else reading I recommend to not do carts or dabs because it wreaks havoc on your hippocampus and takes like 6 month full to return to a normal state and it’s not even worth it cus you’ll just build up your tolerance faster causing you to perceive yourself being less high than just using bud

[@AngelRivera-de1lq]

​@@briancrawford8751 I smoked weed be4 cigarettes or vaping. Thankfully. My friends can't put that ish down for the life of them.

[@pro272727]

"I'm not gonna give you a lecture" gives him a lecture.

[@ibnkhaldoun4319]

i like how pot leads to heroin but somehow alcohol doesn't.

[@m.h.4144]

Most drugs I only first took because I was to drunk and my inhibition was gone and I started to love them. Weed only made me more interested in Psychedelics which aren’t to bad either the main problem with weed was starting to hang around criminals and addicts (because it is illegal)

[@prezidenttrump5171]

LMFAO. You're a criminal too if you're smoking it and it's illegal where you are dummy.@@m.h.4144

[@williambrandondavis6897]

Cigarettes and alcohol where my gateway to pot in 1989.

[@matholomewbrooksopoulos7085]

Something I heard some guest on NPR say 20ish years ago: "*sigh* Look, EVERYBODY knows that marijuana is a gateway drug. Young people start with alcohol, then they go and try pot, and then..." I can't believe the host didn't stop the guest right there. Absolutely fucking ridiculous.

[@prezidenttrump5171]

It's actually not ridiculous. @@matholomewbrooksopoulos7085

[@deanevangelista6359]

Rest in peace, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. Happy birthday, Willie Nelson!

[@meatsackproductions4533]

To be fair, Harry Morgan lived to 96.

[@MarvelousLXVII]

Hahahahaha!

[@timruth8767]

@@meatsackproductions4533 YES>>>BUT DID HE EVER DO IT ON POT????

[@cris79667]

@@timruth8767 >>>

[@cowanthegreat8966]

Willie has given up cannabis as has Snoop Dog. Sad.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

i live the state-taxed, licensed cannabis life that this kid dreamed about

[@RogerPeet]

Pot will not kill you, but while high, I almost died, trying to take my pants off, over my head.

[@collinw1353]

That one has me laughing out loud. Nice one pot head, or should I call you pants head?

[@gibsonraymonda]

Knew a guy back in the 00s who tried Afghani White Widow, freaked out over his heartrate, called an ambulance, and wound up looking like an idiot.

[@damnright4]

made me LOL

[@jimicarroll5551]

(Yeah!) I tried to take my pants (👖!) off w/ my suspenders on and you can't do that just on hi Stoned on morta!)

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

POT IS SAFER THAN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

[@Zeppo_X]

I love this clip. Funny how he makes Gannon and Friday look like a couple of schmucks by using logic while they use fear and threats. Friday says, time you grow up but what he really means is time you conform or I’ll throw you in jail.

[@mc_kublai]

​@rockymountainadventuresmin8159L

[@fulloffools6942]

@rockymountainadventuresmin8159 In that case, we should get rid of the booze too. That seemed to work so well in the 1920s/30s. There's a difference between substances like alcohol and weed, vs. hard stuff like meth and heroin. Some people have addictive tendencies and can't stop at one or two drinks (or joints or whatever). Some people can be responsible adults and indulge in their vices without harming themselves or those around them. Maybe we should just let people be the adults they are, and help the problematic ones with their substance abuse rather than treating them like dirty criminals.

[@ThirdDimensionalBeing]

​@rockymountainadventuresmin8159 Lol, pot has been with humanity for thousands of years. You are obviously just drinking that D.A.R.E. Kool Aid. Its only illegal because it was hurting certain industries, they had to come up with INSANE lies, and now it carries a stigma that people like you fall for. My mother smoked all her life, had kids, Catholic school, started a business, all on pot. Yup. Im a proud pot smoker and always will be. It never stopped be, it never led me down the wrong path. YOU put yourself down the wrong path, not the drug.

[@jabroniii3547]

@rockymountainadventuresmin8159some stoner girl hurt you huh

[@AllenSmithe]

​@rockymountainadventuresmin8159right, everything was going great then BAM! Marijuana ruined everything....

[@Temulon]

The message would be more effective if it were delivered truthfully. I've been smoking pot for over a decade and I've never said to myself "This isn't giving me enough bang for the buck anymore, It's no longer exciting, I'll try heroin, fentanyl and meth now". Pot has never caused me to become addicted, lose a job, wreck a relationship or end up in jail. Give people facts and let them make an informed decision about drug use. To be honest, I'd rather deal with a stoner over a drunk any day. They're nicer people.

[@piperbaier337]

Amen, dude

[@metaldog4642]

For sure. Stoners are pretty chill. Boozers can be out of control assholes. (I’m a boozer, but chill. 😂)

[@equine2020]

But sadly tbere are exceptions. Perhaps you're just lucky. Or not as emotionally weak as many others. It's been proven many hard cord addits started with Marijuana, & progressed to the stronger stuff. For medical reasons it is good. Not entertainment. It's sad people can't have fun without altering their statecif mine. Like getting drunk. Many people enjoy life just being themselves. No clutches to change personality.

[@taylorneal5825]

Same here, but there are plenty of people who do. That's not the fault of weed though. Most people are introduced to drug culture with weed first.

[@metaldog4642]

@@taylorneal5825 Yeah, there’s not too many people who decide to snort some coke before they’ve tried weed. I’ve never known any. They might exist though 😂

[@GodOfVictory501]

The actor playing the pothead, Tim Donnelly, was actually 23 years old when this scene was shot. The longest running role in his TV career began 5 years later in 1972 as fireman Chet Kelly in the series 'Emergency!'. The producer of 'Emergency!' was none other than Jack Webb, who plays Joe Friday in this scene.

[@pkmcburroughs]

Thanks! I KNEW I'd seen that face before.

[@breadandbutter726]

The guy with whiter hair is colonel Potter from Mash in the later seasons.

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

Great Info Thanks

[@allcapsROB]

What was this? A PSA or an actual movie/show?

[@brianburris5943]

Thanks! I was sure I knew him from somewhere

[@DavidLS1]

And just fifty years later, the guys prediction came true.

[@CFAPA]

More like 30 yrs , California legalized in the 90s..

[@stevenmurray7014]

It did.

[@MyTwoCents2]

He predicted fenty

[@DavidLS1]

@@MyTwoCents2 He predicted Rihanna's makeup line?

[@Bdub1952]

Cracks me up that all the while they were demonizing pot, they were pushing the most addictive drug at the time - nicotine.

[@aluisious]

Is nicotine more addictive than alcohol? I smoked socially with coworkers a few times, couldn't give half a shit about it. But god damn do I love me a beer, or wine, or whiskey...

[@josephmayfield945]

yes @@aluisious

[@sbswtnchoice]

Is it nicotine or the pyrazines in cigarettes that are addictive? Supposedly in the 80's they started adding all kinds of different chemicals into cigarettes that made them more addictive.

[@RagtimeAnnie]

and behind the scenes, they were pushing ...Television. Mass propaganda indoctrination and mind control.

[@macdeus2601]

@@sbswtnchoice No, the nicotine is very addictive by itself. Additive-free cigarettes are not any less addictive. There are some additives used by some companies that make your lungs transfer the nicotine to your blood faster, which will feel like you're getting a stronger kick while you're smoking, but this doesn't really have any effect on long-term addiction potential.

[@TX_b]

The only thing pot kills is my anxiety and PTSD

[@smokeymcbongwater]

Too relatable 😂

[@raisnaix]

preach.

[@brosonly3389]

and your brain cells

[@TX_b]

@@brosonly3389 says the guy who likes his own comments

[@jimkeskey]

And your ability to reason and your desire to work and be productive.

[@frederickhaaken456]

Love how he lectures him with a voice forged in Winston's and Johnny Walker. Talking health.

[@RealMACGamer]

I love how this dude is straight up confident of what he is saying, almost as if they knew the future! How time reveals!

[@basedostrich]

That's just how everyone talked back then, and people didn't interrupt as much either

[@donavonmacallister3101]

They make the future happen

[@Zidbits]

Everyone always looks back at history with rose-tinted glasses. To be fair to the anti-MJ people, the pro-MJ people have been saying "pot will be legal within the next 10 years" for 70+ years now. I remember saying it in the 80s, then came the 90s and it was still illegal. It's the like fusion power trope "Fusion is always 30 years away". They were wrong about the hippies growing up and putting on ties, and going to the voting booths -- those are the boomers you zoomers rally so hard against. It turns out that age & wisdom (aka life experience) changes how you see the world. You become less naive, more realistic, more pragmatic.

[@libbysbooksandmusiclibby9339]

He was off by 30 or 40 years, but you'd have thought it was right around the corner when he said it

[@matthewharrington9723]

​@@basedostrich 😂😂😂 It's a scripted TV show. The dialog is almost as realistic as the idea that pot will make you forget your baby in the bathtub.

[@RHTeebs]

This episode turned me off of marijuana... That was, until my doctor prescribed it to treat my PTSD.

[@rogercain5622]

That is absolutely hilarious.

[@your_royal_highness]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@aluisious]

The funny thing is the guys saying MARIJUANA WILL KILL YOU are far more likely to have PTSD and be beating their wives and kids.

[@overkillblackjack2910]

Instead of weed, try EMDR therapy for PTSD. In my view, weed just covers up the PTSD without treating it.

[@butsukete1806]

The hospital gave my a load of morphine, but when I got out I switched to marijuana. How's that for a gateway drug?

[@CFAPA]

Marijuana saved my life. I did two years in Iraq during operation Iraqi freedom and half the guys i served with have committed suicide, coincidentally they're the ones who didn't smoke weed, me and everybody else that smokes weed are just fine and our PTSD is in check. And I own a four-bedroom house and three cars and I smoke "pot" .

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

Thank you and all your crew for your service boss

[@Devoted_Catholic777]

Bs. Men have fought wars for all of history and never killed themselves this is a modern problem you don’t need drugs you need balls

[@bsanders1]

Thank you, and keep it real. - A fellow pothead

[@Gulag00]

Why do you need 3 cars

[@damadfisherman]

Thank you for your service!

[@Bamruff62]

The "pothead " called it. Thing is I believe Jack Webb was a smoker. He did cigarette ads. He died of a heart attack at age of 62. Too bad he was unaware that nicotine in cigarettes is one of the most addictive drugs there is.

[@KDoyle4]

I love Dragnet, but I've been smoking now marijuana for 51 years, and I'm fine.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

The problem isn't when _one person_ smokes marijuana... but when an entire society enables drug use, by lenient policies -- look at the streets of ANY BLUE CITY... you'll find thousands of homeless DRUG ADDICTS living in $#!&-stained tents, clogging up the sidewalks, and being a general menace to society. You've missed the big picture. Drugs RUINED a great country.

[@alexm2833]

id like to see what you define as fine.

[@KDoyle4]

@@alexm2833 I'm 66, still go to work every day, have a nice IRA, have a loving companion of 31 years, and I'm both happy and content. How's your life going?

[@alexm2833]

​@@KDoyle4 The world has been my oyster and still is, i did more, seen more, at the age of 30 than most people in a life time, at 50 i'm running out of ideas but have an incredible wife and children more money than know what do do with. I cant say as much about some of my marijuana loving friends and family members. I hated how pot made me feel but they loved it , they settled for mediocrity, i used their predicament to propel me forward. Everyone has their own path but its been my observation that pot makes you dull and acts as an anchor in life.

[@FrancisFoley]

Smoked for 50 years myself. Retired chemistry teacher, graduated cum laude from a competitive university, own a hobby farm, and know that it’s I’d not id. Don’t be a hater.

[@danielabbey7726]

This certainly aged well...

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I mean, it's almost like they predicted the streets being full of homeless drug addicts, living in tents... being careful where you walk, to avoid $hit and needles. And it's almost like the hippies did grow up, and implement their dumb ideas, in EVERY BLUE CITY.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I suspect it will when it’s realized that heavy pot use increases the risk of schizophrenia.

[@bwm_72]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 Oooooo!! Whoa, HEAVY man!

[@TokenTombstone]

Just FYI sugar increases the risk of being fat....such is life. @@TheNightWatcher1385

[@joehuffman7410]

​@@TheNightWatcher1385well I smoke light Pot so it won't be an issue. Its very similar to heavy pot, just lighter.

[@quarterburnt]

“No im not going to give you a lecture…” Immediately gives eye rolling, pearl clutching lecture.

[@TheGforce013]

Tobacco is the gateway drug.

[@dustin2250]

💯 damn skippy! 👍 Cigarettes and then booze.

[@MrPAULONEAL]

There's no such thing as a gateway drug.

[@copperwires9663]

@@MrPAULONEAL for some people i would agree but many with addictive personalities who get addicted to substances in general rather than one substance i would definitely say that's not the case, basically gateway drugs do exist to those with substance abuse disorders.

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

No alcohol is

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

No beer is another fact alcohol consumption causes more deaths than smoking cigarettes ever could in fact beer and or hard liquor should be treated in exactly the same way as cigarettes are

[@kc4cvh]

And after his speech, Joe steps outside and lights up a nice, safe Winston. In another episode, he shoots a man while on a late night quest for cigarettes.

[@timmyp34]

It tasted good like a cigarette should

[@buddyleewoods2327]

And dies at a all to young of age from emphysema .

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

Cigarettes are safer than alcohol and pot should be legalized, anti smoking advocates are communists

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

Pot and cigarettes are safer than alcohol consumption

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

@@buddyleewoods2327 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION CAUSES MORE DEATHS THAN SMOKING CIGARETTES AND SMOKING POT,BOTH CIGARETTE SMOKING AS WELL AS POT SMOKING ARE BOTH SAFER THAN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, ALCOHOL IS THE REAL GATEWAY DRUG

[@AmatMiguel]

1:27 "No, I'm not going to give you a lecture" Proceeds to lecture him for the rest of the clip

[@nigelhughes7317]

Marijuana leading to harder drugs? Lest we forget...booze is the gateway drug that most start with.

[@donaldfeger91]

No I believe cigarettes!

[@carlgustav945]

Marijuana is not a getaway drug to heavier drugs, peer pressure from friends to participate is.

[@kevinb3812]

As a drug & alcohol counselor, it's usually booze that leads to bad decisions and first attempts at new drugs.

[@czikkanhardt4750]

Why always straight to the strawman? "Yeah, you're right: Marijuana will lead to worse things, but, uh... alcohol will do it first! So, there!" That's no defense for marijuana. Seriously, was it a pothead who first came up with that "argument"?

[@GeneralSamov]

​@@czikkanhardt4750 It points out the hypocrisy of that argument and the pretend concern for people's health. Besides, pot wasn't made illegal over health concerns or how it supposedly leads to heavier drugs in the first place.

[@managedmisdirection]

You'll move from marijuana to to Doritos. You'll see. You'll see.

[@JohnShinn1960]

I did. I did.

[@byronbuck1762]

Even nacho cheese !

[@OneRedKansan55]

lmao

[@elliot1405]

It’s crazy how their main point for why you shouldn’t do it was “because you’ll end up in jail”. If that’s the main negative consequence, then wouldn’t that make it painfully obvious that it shouldn’t be illegal anymore?

[@littlemoth4956]

“We made marijuana illegal so you won’t do it anymore” “Why don’t you want me to do it” “Because it’s illegal”

[@LeviDavi-qh1mb]

​@@littlemoth4956🤪🤪

[@flrpitflrp1965]

It’s nice to know this kid gets his life together and becomes part of California Fire and Rescue Squad 51😂

[@Daniel-sh3os]

I thought I recognized the voice. I would have never recognized his face without your comment. Amazing what a mustache and long hair can do. Maybe, Clark Kent should of wore a mustache.

[@BruceMusto]

Thought I recognized him. Good catch.

[@ernestcashion4462]

LOL yeah he won't become a mainliner . Love these old drug propaganda things.

[@butters395]

chet !..... from emergency....minus the mustache

[@dunweyweydum]

Good catch tho always suspected Chet was a partner 😅

[@iamIncrediblehulk]

The cop sounds like he probably died from legal cigarettes 🚬 😂😂

[@mrsp0re]

Can confirm, tried pot and I died.

[@naveyarg9771]

I also tried the Pot , and i can confirm it killed me as well. Real NASTY STUFF!

[@PIPEHEAD]

There's more to life than being alive !"£%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"! !

[@OneRedKansan55]

lol

[@OneRedKansan55]

lmao

[@MsDudette21]

Tell Casper I said hi.

[@jeremyellismusic]

Keep in mind that this character was written to sound this intelligent. The actors and crew likely had empathy for this viewpoint.

[@santiagogiuntoli6726]

Most definitely. Heard the script has him later as the killer of his own child for being so stoned.. pft haha Seems this was the real idea tho

[@saturnlight939]

@@santiagogiuntoli6726probly had to keep it in for funding but someone def was smoking

[@luxbledstone]

Well Harry Morgan did I don't know about webb Morgan worth largely Pro cannabis

[@mohawk4759]

@RaniaIsAwesomeWhat are you even talking about??

[@yovtobe]

​@@saturnlight939 I think the point was to show that a drug can seem reasonable and still be super dangerous. It's attacking the middle class kids who thought the propaganda against pot was ridiculous - basically saying these know it all young people would suffer for their unwillingness to acknowledge risks. A pretty unfair take

[@BruceMusto]

Oh how I love it when Hollywood lectures us about morality.

[@stevemurrell6167]

Did you not notice? There were two narratives happening here. You seem to have only heard the one that fits with your narrative. It's a recurring theme in todays society.

[@Binknew]

🔥

[@Cookie-Dough-Dynamo]

Hey Steve, who got the last word? Looks like Friday. Who is the star of the show? Who was the target audience? How did this episode end again??? Oh yeah! The parents were smoking weed and because of that, their child died. There are always two narratives when Hollywood lectures us, but one is given a louder voice. You seem to have been triggered by someone criticizing Hollywood. It's a recurring theme in today's society.

[@pbg9208]

Orange monkey

[@stevemurrell6167]

@@Cookie-Dough-Dynamo Wow, real intelligent.

[@jkarnes45]

Speaking as someone who almost died from alcoholism twice and could never drink normally, pot has been a lifesaver for me (once I started drinking I literally couldn't stop) and it gives me just the right amount of relaxation but doesn't cause the obsessive, addictive usage for me as alcohol and other drugs do. Pot has been the only mind-altering substance that I've used for 10 years and I really believe it hasn't harmed me a bit. Unlike alcohol, I don't have to keep using more and more for the same effect. I limit my usage to night time when I'm safe at home and everything's done and it's a great way for me to unwind without harming myself. And I've never craved marijuana like I did alcohol.

[@wolfypilot]

Can confirm. Pot helped me get off alcohol, narcotics, and hard psychedelics for good

[@BikingVikingHH]

You don’t believe pot is harming you because you don’t know what life is like sober. Pot doesn’t enhance anything except your own ability to be comfortable with mediocrity.

[@creepycooter8370]

Enjoy the lack of braincells doubled down from both the alc and the pot

[@un1qu3n4m3]

@@BikingVikingHHyap yap yap. Take a hit and chill tf out

[@ericfuller6326]

@@BikingVikingHHno ones bussiness what another man puts in his body

[@ShawnKavanagh]

"Pot is evil" Also: "Now, let me pour you a drink"

[@IguanaIWanna]

Also too dont forget, “Have a smoke, you’re 12 years old, Jimmy, it’s about time you puff a cig!”

[@danjjjatest]

There nothing wrong with alcohol in moderation. Weed makes you act up after 1 puff.

[@daveapplemotors]

B.S.@@danjjjatest

[@paineoftheworld]

​@@danjjjatest, I think the young hep cats would call you Square.

[@averageenjoyer1690]

@@danjjjatestMaybe if you have an undiagnosed mental illness. I’ve been high several times and drunk many times and weed definitely makes me feel more docile compared to alcohol.

[@ZekeBrewer]

“They end up dead or wishing they were” spoken like a true person that hasn’t hit the Zaza.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Oh, Sergent Friday you were sooooooo right! I used to be just like that guy, clean cut youngster, church every Sunday. Hell, my hair was even shorter than this fellows! Slicked back with brill cream. This it started, got mixed up in the wrong crowd after my first Three Dog Night concert, started blowing grass to fit in, then reds, uppers, downers, and finally mainlining smack! Now I'm running around town (often not wearing a tie), growing out my sideburns, sporting leisure suits, looking for key parties, seeing X-rated movies. I even voted for Mondale!

[@sonoftheson1977]

Then you grew up.

[@johnd7435]

3 Dog Night broke up due to drug and sex addickshuns

[@troubledsole9104]

Sgt Friday could have used a toke.

[@chestersleezer8821]

Voted for Mondale well there is your problem.

[@mrmoralman1]

SLICKBACK?! This is PUSHBACK

[@3dartxsi]

Has s house, a car, kids, wears a suit, is well spoken, and makes reasonable arguments. "Time to grow up."

[@tonyhurd5697]

That was a big catchphrase back in the 60’s N 70’s . Everyone that smoked Mary Jane always said : “ One day we will be buying packs of joints in the store “ and look at it now . ✌️N❤️2ALL

[@johnd7435]

In the stores? --Not nearly as good as the heirloom varieties. I've become such a snob.

[@shaunsteele6926]

thankfully I grew up in the 80s when Nancy Reagan told us that drugs were bad and we'd all die if we used them

[@aliceborealis]

Just Say No!@@shaunsteele6926

[@MarvelousLXVII]

I wish we could in Tennessee lol!

[@johnd7435]

Also, we said that legalization would destroy the black market-- and it did.

[@derrickw5204]

RIP Tim Donnelly , he was best known as firefighter Chet Kelly on " Emergency! "

[@steveb9151]

Good call! I didn't recognize him at first.

[@terryjwood]

I wonder if he smoked maryjane on Engine 51?

[@steveb9151]

@@terryjwood "Engine 51...grass fire in progress!"

[@briane173]

Friday _told_ him he'd wind up dead. Did he listen? Naaahhhh....

[@troubledsole9104]

I thought he looked familiar.

[@masterroasti5588]

I love it. That generations stance on grass was hilarious. “Pot will ruin your life” says the same guy that that had a bottle of rye in his desk at work. It’s completely fine to black out and hit your wife because the pot roast wasn’t cooked right but you take a puff of that reefer to relax your muscles after a days labor and you’ll end up on heroin for sure. I guess the saddest part really is how no one has their own opinions, they just let the propaganda guide their world views.

[@shawnndixon5254]

Exactly. They demonize the reefer adicts then drive home 8 whiskeys deep, finish their second pack of smokes for the day, and hit their wife for making dry potroast.

[@bsanders1]

Religion went to bed with government to incarcerate those evil minorities and hippies for smoking grass. So f*ck up.

[@hosiequad]

I too can make anything evil by going into the past and associating it loosley with whatever I want. Clearly everyone with rye in their desk beat their wives and so how dare wifebeaters lecture pot smokers, who I might add never beat their wives. It goes without saying to exclude black people. They scare me, so I pretend they would not have wifebeaters in their mix if it wasn't for those damn wifebeaters who are white and have rye in their desks. I guess what I'm saying someone is going to have to pay for what was done to me. This isn't rocket surgery; weed keeps me calm. Weed keeps me calm. Weed keeps me calm. Weed keeps me calm.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

So you want to smell like @$$ for the rest of your life?

[@yevgeniyban765]

Don't mess up the pot roast

[@Santaaintgottime]

20 years and still waiting for the hard stuff to take over....

[@JohnShinn1960]

Since 1977 here.

[@10MM-MAGAMAN-420]

I did the hard stuff and right back to weed. Don't even drink no more

[@dr.mark.b.hubble]

The writers did a great job of showing both sides of the debate, even 60 years ago.

[@hunterashwill-ng4ew]

Except the fact that weed doesn’t give you a kick, and even though you can build a tolerance you never don’t get high, that’s way different

[@GPGOLDENTEE]

If by "both sides of the argument" you mean one stoner that's 100% correct vs 2 caricatures of all the lies & trash science behind the war on drugs then I agree completely.

[@dr.mark.b.hubble]

@@GPGOLDENTEE Haha, yeah. Wasn’t saying they made great points, just that it wasn’t heavily biased one way, as shows of those times usually were.

[@The_Ballo]

Yes, reality and fantasy

[@nappyk96]

​@@dr.mark.b.hubbleI'm more surprised they didn't make the stoner a walking stereotype for a weed smoker (unkempt unemployed lazy hippy burnout) and instead made him a put together relatively intelligent family man that just simply enjoys some wacky tabacky sometimes.

[@stevmts905]

After decades of trying to overcome ADD with therapists and pills, the only - ONLY - thing that has provided relief is pot. Particular strains of the plant quiet the distractions and allow me to really focus. and get things done. The pills were shit, the pot was relief.

[@aluisious]

I'm curious, focus on what? How does ADD interfere with your life?

[@magusyilie]

I have issues with focus also, what strains worked for you?

[@Actaeon2nd]

I've grown mine own since that became legal but I have to ask, how do you deal with the munchies? Is your weight an issue?

[@magusyilie]

@@Actaeon2nd I've never used any before. It is still illegal where I live.

[@TheMisterGuy]

@@aluisious "I'm curious, focus on what? How does ADD interfere with your life?" Focus on anything! ADD makes it impossible to pay attention even when you actively try to. It interferes with school and work, or just getting mundane tasks finished. You can even fall asleep when you're not actively engaged, like in a business meeting where the things being discussed don't affect you.

[@garyowen9044]

Jack Webb was a jazz aficionado, and owned one of the most complete collections of life jazz recordings in the USA. He rubbed elbows with all the great jazz musicians of that era. Jack Webb blew weed daddy-o.

[@Ergo8152]

Might have blew weed however had no prob turn in friends 4 being so called commies. Check out Dalton Trumbo

[@johnkrieger185]

I doubt it.

[@CFAPA]

​@@johnkrieger185Hollywood was all smoking weed back in the day

[@mezmerizer0266]

I bet Webb was donked out on some high grade cheeba in this scene right here.

[@garyowen9044]

@@mezmerizer0266 they all smoked weed, and swapped wives back then.

[@kurtisp6901]

On Dragnet, anything drug related is an instant classic.

[@johannesbrahms9528]

I love how he makes a point, the kid refutes it, then he makes the same point again.

[@bobo0202]

The young guy was way ahead of his time and he was right

[@tadonplane8265]

I loved Dragnet when I was a kid, my dad and I watched it together in the 50s when I was really little. This particular scene was from the remake, “Dragnet 67” (or so) which I watched as a teenager. I’m now listening to a podcast of the original Dragnet radio program. It was a sensation in its day, there was nothing else like it. When Jack Webb passed away the LAPD gave him a full formal officer’s burial and retired his Sargent 714 badge. Dragnet supported the LAPD and the LAPD supported Dragnet. One must always take that with a grain of salt when listening or watching.

[@comradeweedity1648]

Dragnet was legitimate copaganda. Complete nonsense show.

[@bryanreeme8584]

I hated that show as a little kid & it just got more annoying & patronizing the more I saw it.. Makes a youngster not like or trust the coppers!

[@blossom1643]

That’s so cool !! Corny as it was it Was Class. Unlike the world we live in today. 😢✌️

[@chrismckell5353]

@@comradeweedity1648 This is the first time I have seen this term.

[@kurtmena8732]

I was a kid when the rerun ran on Nick at Nite! I thought it was the sh!t!!! And I was little lol like 5, and 6 years old little! Sadly I went the other way of the law, but I don’t care what negative comments ppl are leaving on this thread. I MYSELF LOVED IT!!!

[@usarmyveteran177]

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic is alcohol, morphine or idealism." ~Jung

[@hokeywolf3416]

Kills your ambition. It creates opportunities for the sober.

[@MikeGoesBadaBoom]

It does kill ambition if you smoke all the time. I smoked every day during the pandemic when I used to just get lit on the weekend. It numbs you out if you do too much

[@revolvermaster4939]

That’s true, I quit in 1980, now that I just retired I have no need for ambition, guess what I’m gona do?

[@hokeywolf3416]

@@revolvermaster4939 -same here.

[@Von45Rose]

good show. Unfortunate rhetoric. Only took 50yrs longer than predicated 😂😂😂

[@shaystern2453]

the whole show was biased AS

[@aluisious]

It's still not federally legal.

[@runswithfish3830]

A friend of mine and I used to smoke and then watch Dragnet together over the phone on Nick at Nite. We would crack up laughing at Blue Boy and reenact the scenes during the commercials. Good times. 😜

[@peelypeelmeister6432]

So cool. My ex gf and I used to watch Nick at night stoned as f. Flash Gordon was hilarious.

[@Driven2Beers]

The 3 pack a day smoker lectures him on pot. 🤔

[@byronbuck1762]

And that nicotine delivery device killed him

[@wndowpayne]

Been puffing since 84...zero debt and plans to retire soon. Don't drink or do any other drugs...sorry Jack...no van by the river for me.✌✌👍

[@patrickcoughlin-qj9uk]

I started smoking early 1980 era . ADD meds made me sick Took a electronics class in highschool . Worked at a electronics repair station For 15 years commission $ 900 month . Then the market Changed made in the USA was dead on electronics. Then came made in China junk Cheep tv sets , audio gear . Ect ect . Throw away electronics . I worked for zenith in my hometown while still in school 1977 era . It has been a strange trip .

[@krischurch3763]

​@@patrickcoughlin-qj9ukawesome

[@boataxe4605]

And the illegality of pot is what connected pot users to the black market dealers who were also selling the hard stuff. Also, the lies that were being told about pot were true about hard drugs,but since the government lied about pot people assumed that they were lying about the hard stuff. It was a case of the little boy who cried wolf,the little boy being the government.

[@Namedonelettere]

The same government that deemed that oral heroin was non addictive when prescribed by your doctor as Oxycotin

[@infinitejest441]

Government is the big, bad wolf.

[@matthewdiehl1647]

This

[@boataxe4605]

I wonder where the other two replies are?

[@billyd7628]

shadow banned people i think@@boataxe4605

[@clifford7594]

Used to love toking up and watching Dragnet back in the day.

[@glenn6583]

It’s been killing me for about 30 yrs now!

[@roccidisopa661]

“…..You think you’re pretty high & far out don’t ya? Well let me tell you something! For every person I’ve seen smoking weed or getting high on reefer, I’ve seen another one face down in the gutter, with a dirty needle in his arm!” So funny…Awesome!

[@patrickcoughlin-qj9uk]

Marry Jane leads you to other drugs , hell it lead me to the fridge .

[@aluisious]

Milk isn't a drug@@patrickcoughlin-qj9uk

[@TheMpo1986]

So a portion of those people were not face down in a gutter with a needle in their arm? They were just smoking pot? Is he saying two separate groups of people are doing 2 separate substances or that everyone is smoking pot and a portion of that crowd has also put and needle in his or her arm and subsequently ended up face down in the gutter? It's important to be specific.

[@roccidisopa661]

No, that’s just a Joe Friday quote from another episode! It’s hilarious..

[@TheMpo1986]

@IDontBuyIt50 not a sitcom. Was a popular show. Lots of people watched it otherwise it wouldn't be a show.

[@billp3337]

There's an episode were Gannon dips his finger into a powder puts it to his tongue and declares it to be LSD. I bet that was an interesting ride back to the station. 🤣

[@justinallen2408]

LSD isn’t a powder it’s a liquid and if you were to go into a room where it was being manufactured without proper ppe you’d get more than just a interesting ride you could potentially lose your mind.

[@domcrotty5784]

Interesting rest of the day and next day if it was Owsley or Orange Sunshine acid.

[@enlightenedone7141]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MrPAULONEAL]

Good thing it wasn't fentanyl...

[@domcrotty5784]

@@MrPAULONEAL Roight...fentanyl didn't exsist then.

[@GreenDistantStar]

And Jack said all this, went to the bar with his pals, where they toasted themselves for the great work they were doing dealing with drugs...

[@pearlmcvicar]

Willie Nelson , you are always on my mind

[@galararticuno9419]

This show is too much. That opening soundbyte is priceless "HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING MARIJUANA"

[@shaunsteele6926]

that was every cop in America until the 90s

[@smokeymcbongwater]

For the time the show was in i am surprised they didn't call it dope 😂

[@peddler38501]

"Well, you oughta give it a try fella, it might keep you out of jail." Holy shit, this is the origin of Detective Bookman on Seinfeld.

[@garyowen9044]

Actor Tim Donnelly’s character accurately predicted the future.

[@garyowen9044]

Aww I just looked up Tim Donnelly - he died just two years ago at age 77. Jack Webb was a mentor to him.

[@Gumshrud1]

this is really something. Time is on our side.

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

POT IS NOT A GATEWAY DRUG ALSO POT DOESN'T KILL, BEER IS A GATEWAY DRUG, BAER ALSO KILLS,HARD LIQUOR IS A GATEWAY DRUG AND LIQUOR KILLS,

[@nickebeling7972]

Two years ago, I had a terrible drinking problem and I was very unhealthy. I quit cold turkey but smoked pot to help with the transition. Ive lost 70lbs since I quit and i feel the best I've ever felt. I dont mean this next statement as hyperbole but pure fact: alcohol is poison.

[@Skorpa-c5o]

Same here, grew a plant for fun and now i have more weed than i've ever smoked. Once the bong got hit the bottle got dropped. Also noticed it really helps with nicotine withdrawls so currently using it to drop cigarettes too. I wish i was the kinda person who found beastly energy in the high, but im not, so my workouts have gone to hell. But id rather have my wind back then keep working out as a smoker

[@prezidenttrump5171]

Blah blah blah, another dumb pot smoker named Nick.

[@SeanAiona-jx4dj]

Yeah it's just poison. And very toxic to success of any kind.

[@prezidenttrump5171]

You're still a smoker and harming your lungs with the bong you dummy 11 year old kid.@@Skorpa-c5o

[@andrewcharles459]

Delicious, delicious poison....

[@Mraquanetchris]

Just as the edible is kicking in...

[@zw246]

Anybody else watching this stoned?

[@Ben-ed4wx]

Forget about the cannabis debate, im just enjoying the way the dialogue was written and the way the actors spoke, dressed, and acted in the 60s. So much more intelligently than modern television.

[@obeseperson]

They spoke in a cool way but they acted and dressed horribly, much better nowadays. I mean come on nobody actually wanted to dress like that back then, it was just what you did.

[@vinnie9458]

​@@obesepersonI mean people today are wearing pj's it's like we just don't care anymore

[@skekze]

pot was my gateway drug to cigarettes. Since I couldn't get weed, I got a real addiction.

[@MrEminem]

Sounds like nicotine was your gateway drug to nicotine?

[@postpwnmalone]

Homie hit em with the best line possible "Sir, marijuana is illegal"

[@brimac58]

Me and Jack used to get stoned together in the 70’s

[@johnclark7633]

Watching this as I’m blazing one

[@glennwilson6507]

My experience in the military, the heads kept to themselves and did not bother anybody.

[@choderson1]

Meanwhile, Jack Webb had to shoot all his scenes before noon because he was dead drunk after lunch. #truestory

[@GetMeThere1]

Drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney, and dead of a heart attack at 62.

[@halfbacklead]

This was so prescient!

[@michaelthespikel5685]

How long you been blowing pot boy?

[@______808________]

That is always how it is, and they honestly can't see the irony. Here in Pennsylvania you can get a medical marijuana card but have to surrender all firearms if approved. Can't even own a hunting rifle if you smoke weed, but meanwhile my P.O.S. alcoholic cousin who has multiple domestic violence convictions LEGALLY owns a full automatic MAC 10 with a suppressor ( has a tax stamp and gun was made pre 1986 ) and an assortment of small arms. I am a veteran diagnosed with PTSD and I buy my herb black market not only because it's half the price the state charges after taxing it to death but because the dragnet mentality in this clip is alive and well. Some of my most painfully regrettable and embarrassing moments in my life happened when I drank too much. Worst thing I have ever done after smoking weed was crap my pants after eating a cereal box worth of crunch n munch.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@______808________ The gun grabbers embedded in our beaurocracies use any excuse they can any time they can to defeat our 2nd amendment rights

[@mrtrek64]

I'm actually waking up at 5:00 AM to catch these episodes on ME-TV. I just love Joe Friday...Man is gangsta.

[@colleen4ever]

I DVR them myself. Can;'t wake up that early.

[@jamesstewart8377]

My twin. I do the same thing I love Dragnet and Highway Patrol. Adam 19 is great too

[@mrtrek64]

I'm totally addicted to Adam-12. My wife laughs at me but I really don't care. Series like these will NEVER be done again.@@jamesstewart8377

[@MonstaMack555]

@@jamesstewart8377 I do the same as well. Love these older shows on ME. Used to watch Columbo on Sunday nights, but I can catch that on Tubi now.

[@mem1701movies]

@@jamesstewart8377I HATE those shows! But I did love EMERGENCY!

[@deanhun352]

Pot as the ole gateway drug. Been hearing that for years. Except now it's legal, and after all these years I still haven't moved onto hard narcotics. So much for that tired argument.

[@RamenJourney]

Genius way to spread an opinion while not attacking the story or characters the show is about. Almost like reverse teaching. The "criminal" is dropping knowledge our lead characters just arent ready for yet