I think the film you're talking about in 1937's "Reefer Madness " . I watched part of it, it was an over the top propaganda thing, considered campy and fun in the early 1970's when it was shown in Colleges and so on to packed crowds of stoners who prolly didn't understand nor remember a bit of what they saw .

At that time I had friends who had cancer and got the U.S. govt. packaged joints so they could eat and another friend who had degenerative arthritis at age 30 and so grew his own in the back yard of his house in Gardena, Ca., he'd paint 3" balls red and hang them all over the towering M.J. plants and claimed the cops in helicopters would think he was growing cherry tomatoes ~ I grew cherry tomatoes in the 1960's and they never reached 12' tall.....

He didn't get busted so maybe he was right .

Most of the replies here clearly show who are vipers and who are not .

I personally know of far too many who died because they were stoned, it makes you careless and unable to react to dangerous situations so IMO if you want to get stoned, just like alcohol, DON'T DRIVE, operate machinery and so on . (chain saws are a *****)

Yes, there are outliers who can function well when high or drunk but very few .

So far in Los Angeles it hasn't reduced the crime involved, in fact it spiked armed robberies as dispensaries rapidly became prime targets because the Feds won't allow them to bank the profits .

Pop up dispensaries also come and go faster than they can be closed down, they make *so* much cash money (! no taxes !) they can afford to do this (ste up then abandon ship) and landlords are able to claim 'hey, I had no idea' and skate as well .

It's a mixed bag to be sure .

I don't want folks to go to jail for having a joint like they did in the 1960's, that was and is wrong .

Be responsible and no one will care, be like the average drunk who wrecks a car once a year and occasionally kills someone and expect to have Mothers Against Dope pretty damn quick, it'll be your own damn fault, no one Else's .

(? spell check says 'else's' is spelled with a capital E ?) .

The ball is now in the stoner's court, let's hope they don't screw it up .

I think it's good to have this discussion .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

BTW : all the 'Up In Smoke' movies were reasonably funny, I watched every one when new and a few years ago they came by on cable and I sat and watched them again, the first remains the best to me, the others were awfully silly but that's the idea, isn't it ? .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Never really got the weed thing, it just makes me dopey.

Now alcohol, its great!

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The weed impacts different people in different ways I believe. Or at least a certain percentage of them. I have heard people say it did nothing for me as an example.

Barry if you are one of the "investing" types read up on Canopy Growth. CEO just did interview with Cramer yesterday that you can find via a quick search. I've got an investment fund that I "play" around with and it's value has increased equal to a years salary so far this year. Got stock in Aurora Cannabis, Canopy Growth and Alphria. I missed on TLRY when it was $35/share. Oh well.

Next big move is going to be when Prez T changes up cannabis laws on US in about a month. I'll be moving some of the profits from the Canadian Companies in the US companies around that time.

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