David Nezelek
Cibbuano
TyronneVintage Anti-Drug Propaganda
February 12th 2009 22:06
The Birth of an Addictive War Zone
Doesn't everyone need a little lust?
Ever since prohibition failed and those in charge had to find something else to qualify keeping their jobs the war on drugs has waged. In the pre prohibition era drug use had never been seriously legislated or monitored.
Back in the depression days and earlier Marijuana was just another weed that grew on the side of highways all over America. (Some called it Hobo-wine) Sigmund Freud and Coca Cola prescribed cocaine as “cures what ails you” magic elixirs.
Pharmaceutical companies had not yet gained a stranglehold on the health system and passive smoking had not even been acknowledged.
Then came the J Edgar Hoover years and a vigilant and aggressive battle was waged that continues to fail to this day. Some of the early recreational drug use propaganda that surfaced around this era and later is amusingly misinformed.
Films like Reefer Madness prescribed that to take a toot of pot you would become a homicidal psychopath. Aside from the obvious aversion to serial killing the movie also implies that a life of crime is inevitable.
Reefer Madness Trailer
This 1960’s LSD video also uses fear tactics to achieve its message. Coming in the wake of the LSD therapy craze of the 1950’s that saw big name stars like Cary Grant and Esther Williams work through childhood traumas aided by the chemical substance. It was a time of the Grateful Dead’s ‘Acid Test’ and Timothy Leary approaching messiah status for his development and cultural encouragement of the trippy mind bender.
LSD – Not For You Propaganda Film
No doubt that all these hallucinogens and stimulants are damaging to the body, but like most things it is the synthetic man made compounds that do the most irreparable harm. The ones they sell over the counter in mass quantities.
1950’s Pot as a gateway drug film
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