“I was pretty jacked up on marijuana, so I decided to try it.
With the drug revolution of the ’60s came the anti-drug movement of the ’60s. A slew of unintentionally funny films made by folks who probably never took any of the drugs they were agains were made for the youth of the nation. Sadly, many of these films were still being used when I was in elementary school in the late ’70s/early ’80s. I remember one in particular featuring a chick tripping on acid who was in a kitchen at a house with the gas stop stove turned on. Well, she hallucinated that the natural gas flame emanating from the stove top was a pretty blue flower and put her hand in it. Whoops! I’m not one to advocate drug usage, but I cannot deny that pretty much every “educational” film or video made about the dangers of drugs is usually 99.9% propaganda. But then again, I was featured in one of my middle school yearbooks in a photo holding up a “Just Say NO” t-shirt with two other kids. The look on our faces is priceless. We couldn’t have cared less about drugs, because we didn’t use them, and we sure as hell didn’t want to be in the photo (our names were drawn randomly from a hat we were told…suuuuuuure). Anyway, here’s some more Friday fun for you as we look back at a classic ’60s anti-drug flick.
