Keep Off The Grass: Anti-Marijuana Propaganda Film (1969)

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The legality of cannabis has been the subject of debate and controversy for decades. Cannabis is illegal to consume, use, possess, cultivate, transfer or trade in most countries. Since the beginning of widespread cannabis prohibition around the turn of the 20th century, most countries have not re-legalized it for personal use, although more than 10 countries tolerate (or have decriminalized) its use and/or its cultivation in limited quantities. Medicinal use of cannabis is also legal in a number of countries, including Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel and 14 states of the United States.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, most countries have enacted laws affecting the legality of cannabis regarding the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis for recreational use. A few jurisdictions have lessened the penalties for possession of small quantities of cannabis, so that it is punished by confiscation and a fine, rather than imprisonment. Punishment focuses more on those who traffic and sell the drug on the black market. Some jurisdictions/drug courts use mandatory treatment programs for young or frequent users, with freedom from "narcotic" drugs as the goal. A few jurisdictions permit cannabis use for medicinal purposes. There are also changes in a more restrictive direction as in Canada or the United Kingdom. Drug tests to detect cannabis are increasingly common in many countries, and have resulted in jail sentences and people being fired from their jobs. However, simple possession can carry long jail sentences in some countries, particularly in East Asia, where the sale of cannabis may lead to a sentence of life in prison or even execution.

Under the name cannabis, 19th century medical practitioners sold the drug (usually as a tincture), popularizing the word amongst English-speakers. It was rumored that Queen Victoria's menstrual pains were treated with cannabis; her personal physician, Sir John Russell Reynolds, wrote an article in the first edition of the medical journal The Lancet about the benefits of cannabis. In 1894, the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission commissioned by the UK Secretary of State and the government of India, was instrumental in the decision not to criminalize the drug in those countries. From 1906 different states in the United States started to implement regulations for sales of Cannabis Sativa. In 1925 a change of the International Opium Convention banned exportation of Indian hemp to countries that have prohibited its use. Importing countries were required to issue certificates approving the importation and stating that the shipment was to be used "exclusively for medical or scientific purposes".

In 1937 the F.D. Roosevelt administration crafted the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the first US national law making cannabis possession illegal via an unpayable tax on the drug.

The name marijuana (Mexican Spanish marihuana, mariguana) is associated almost exclusively with the plant's psychoactive use. The term is now well known in English largely due to the efforts of American drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 1930s. The prohibitionists deliberately used a Mexican name for cannabis in order to turn the US populace against the idea that it should be legal by playing to negative attitudes towards that nationality. (See 1937 Marihuana Tax Act). Those who demonized the drug by calling it marihuana omitted the fact that the "deadly marihuana" was identical to Cannabis sativa, which had at the time a reputation for pharmaceutical safety. However, due to variations in the potency of the preparations, Cannabis indica in the 1930s had lost most of its former popularity as a medical drug.

Some advocate legalization of cannabis, believing that it will reduce illegal trade & associated crime and yield a valuable tax-source. Cannabis is now available as a palliative agent, in Canada, with a medical prescription. In 1969, only 16% percent of voters in the USA supported legalization, according to a poll by Gallup. According to the same source, that number had risen to 36% by 2005. More recent polling indicates that the number has risen even further since the financial crisis of 2007-2009: in 2009, between 46% and 56% of US voters would support legalization.

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[synysterg]

Thumbs up if you saw this high on pot, like i did....of course

[SimplyBam]

this actually isn't that biased. I was expecting much worse. The only thing that i thought a tad ridiculous was the car speeding through the intersection. That's the opposite of what a stoned person would actually do. haha

[Shopsmart2]

Yeah you tell him Sean William Scott! I can barely achieve the speed limit, let alone run a stop sign.

[Weetjegeweten]

THE DEVIL brought us

Uncontrollable hilarity without reason!

They had it right in the 14th century: Laughter is work of the devil.

[Weetjegeweten]

All my friends smoke pot, they're not criminals!

'thats because they haven't got caught yet.'

That about sums it up :D

Criminalise thinking for yourself, and everyone who thinks for him/herself is a criminal. If tyhey're not, thats because they havent gotten caught yet!

[MrRedties92]

Tom's initial statement in the "father/son confrontation" was just flawless logic! "Mom smokes like a chimney, and you drink everyday with a cigarette in the other hand! How is that any different?"

[fuckkye]

crazzzy mutha fuckkkkkkkkinggggg propaganda

[tombt7]

Tom looks to old to be still at home.



[CCSofChocolatesvill]

I made 3 BIG cones using a good couple of grams, whilst skinning up and smoking to this, I suppose this is like getiing drunk whilst watching a video driving in your car on the dangers of drink driving!

[1Erik85]

I love how the father lectures his son about pot being habit forming and then lights a cigarette, which is one of the most addictive things known to man.

[ClarelakaKurt]

at 14:30 the cop is really saying "yo man, weed is the best shit ever, and here's where you can get some" and the map appears

[ABC132Acd]

"uncontrollable feeling of hilarity quite without reason? " I can't fathom why anyone would want to feel such a thing. Full disclosure: I am a robot.