Grass the history of cannabis / marijuana Director: Ron Mann Writer: Solomon Vesta Narrator: Woody Harrelson This film explores the history of the American government’s official policy on marijuana in the 20th century. Rising with nativist xenophobia with Mexican immigration and their taste for smoking marijuana, we see the establishment of a wrong headed federal drug policy as a crime issue as oppposed to a public health approach. Fuelled by prejudice, hysterical propaganda and political opportunism undeterred by voices of reason on the subject, we follow the story of a costly and futile crusade against a substance with questionable ill effects that has damaged basic civil liberites. The film places much of the blame for marijuana criminalization on Harry Anslinger (the first American drug czar) who promoted false information about marijuana to the American public as a means towards abolition. The film follows the history of federal policies and social attitudes towards marijuana, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. The history presented is broken up into parts, approximately the length of a decade. Each decade is introduced by paraphrasing the official attitude towards marijuana at the time (eg “Marijuana will make you insane” or “Marijuana will make you addicted to heroin”), and closed by providing a figure for the amount of money spent during that period on the “war on marijuana.” The film is completely composed of archival footage, much of which is from …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
this shows how when the corprate run news spread fear which cause the people to sell their freedom.
texas made possesion of marijuana a felony to deport foreign immigrants.because if convicted of a felony that constitutes automatic deportation for an immigrant.and it’s a misconception of the ignorant red necks that made the law that all mexicans smoke marijuana,just because it grows there naturally and they used it to legally import to the americans. marijuana was smoked, and was therefore more socially acceptable than alcohol.but it was bringing in hispanics so the rednecks flipped &banned it
the guy at the very beginning looks like a muppet lmao im so stoned
Damn they were using the “carve out the book” stash trick that long ago? D:
Less than ONE OUNCE & he got 50YEARS???? Damn!
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so Hearst and Anslinger helped create this social and governmental campaign against Marijuana purely to remove Hemp as a competitor to wood fiber paper. greed and monopolization is why Marijuana, a fantastic plant of the Earth, is still illegal and there is a lingering negative stigma attached to it. just another example of how our society crumbles when government gets in bed with business
good documentary. i wish they would have stressed a little more is WHY Anslinger went after marijuana so intently. for those of you who don’t know, Anslinger was in with Dupont chemicals who had specifically produced materials in order to mass produce paper. William Randolph Hearst enters into this as well as he owned large timber fields to help produce the paper. Hemp was a superior fiber for making paper and if introduced into the market, would have significantly hurt their interests.
is the silent film at the start real?
anyone who wants to end the drug war and make marijuana legal then support ron paul for president! the only hope i have left for america is for ron paul to become president 2012.
The guy getting out of the car @ the 36 min. mark is the best!
woo hoo 9999th view
Wonder what happened to the guy that got 50 years…
pot bad go insain LOL WUT A FAT LOUD OF SHIT
I tell people all the time, it’s not pot that injures people. It’s the stupid people that injure themselves and the finger is pointed at the pot.
yeah im not talking about that, but good point.
1:10 Apparently, weed makes you really kick ass at playing piano!
Prohibitionist = a tyrannical control freak who seeks to control the lives and the free will of others even if it means hurting and murdering innocent people to achieve their goal of power and control.
me too man haha
we are brothers by cannabis! haha xD
some idiots are so ignorant that even god himself couln’t explain that weed is not dangerous….-.-” i know a lot of them!
The only people who support the continued prohibition on marijuana are either ignorant of the facts or earn their income from its suppression.
I’m stoned as fuck due to Cannabis and I love it.
lol Dragnet Logic: alcohol has an observable level of harm, which means pot is unacceptable because it might be half as bad…WOW
i nearly fell out of my chair with frustrated laughter when he said that…
thats a bit young really….but yes ganj is basically harmless and its only a matter of time until it is made legal
40:25 Love that album.