“ REEFER MADNESS “ CLASSIC 1936 ANTI-MARIJUANA DRUG ADDICTION SCARE FILM (Part 1) XD47664

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Part 2: Directed by Louis J. Gasnier, produced by George Hirliman, and featuring a screenplay by Arthur Hoerl, the melodramatic film “Reefer Madness“ was initially released in 1936. It was supposedly shot in three weeks. The film was inspired by an actual case, in which a psychopath named Victor Licata killed his entire family while allegedly under the influence of pot (later he was determined to be schizophrenic). Here, the plot centers around a group of drug dealers who entrap innocent teenagers and lead them down the fatal path of addiction, with hot jazz parties as the bait and “reefer“ cigarettes used as the gateway drug. Financed by a church group, the movie (originally titled “Tell Your Children“) was of course planned as a morality tale and, essentially, as a scare film that would educate naive parents about the dangers of canna