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‘Devil’s Harvest’, movie 1942 ‘A Vicious Racket With It’s sic Arms Around Your Children! A fifth column sowing destruction in the youth of America. The truth about MARIJUANA the smoke of Hell!’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEKIL4TOvA
Jordan Bates (actor Kevin Coughlin) smokes a waterpipe in the 1968 movie ‘Maryjane’
‘Lost in a Harem’ starring Abbott and Costello, 1944
Paul Newman and Geraldine Page smoking hashish in ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ 1962 “This is pretty high-class pot. Where’d you get it? You beautiful, stupid young man. That is not pot. It’s hashish. Moroccan, and the finest. Read More …
A truck parked outside a movie theater advertising the movie premier of ‘Assassin of Youth’, Omaha, Nebraska November 1938
Alla Nazimova in the silent movie “Madame Peacock”, 1920
The Plaza in Vancouver doubling down on the propaganda films showing both ‘Marihuana’ and ‘Assassin of Youth’. Signs on theater read ‘Marijuana (Weed with Roots in Hell)’, ‘Reefer’, ‘Assassin of Youth’. Vancouver, Canada July 22, 1938
‘The Devil’s Weed’ movie poster. The movie originally titled ‘Wild Weed’ was made to capitalize on Lila Leeds 1948 marijuana arrest with Robert Mitchum and was released with many names including ‘She Shoulda Said No!‘. 1949
Kralingen Pop Festival in Rotterdam, Holland 1970 Crowd smokes cannabis at the Kralingen Pop Festival, Rotterdam, Holland 1970 Stamping Ground – Kralingen Pop festival 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiIEWtZzhY&t=333s
Film depicting the downfall of a high school reefer smoker shown during a anti-drug crusade screening. 1951