The plot is basically that a bunch of people get high and experience effects that are nothing like pot and actually range from caffeine to cocaine and meth. There are three kids, Mary Lane and her brother Jimmy and Ralph, and they get involved in the reefer through Jack, a drug dealer who seems specifically interested in targeting kids. Jimmy takes what he thinks is a regular cigarette and it causes him to drive like a maniac and nearly kill an old man crossing the street. Curiously, none of the kids seem to realize they aren't smoking cigarettes in spite of the obvious difference in smell. During an altercation at Jack's pot den, Mary Lane gets shot and Ralph is framed. The actual murderer was Bill, a guy who just seems to live in Jack's house and it's not long before Bill also kills Jack. Blanche, Jack's girlfriend, is overcome with guilt and jumps out a window. Ralph is set free, and we are again warned about the dangers of the wacky tobaccy.
Overall, it was about as enjoyable as most propaganda films that we have watched. It was really lacking a voice-over, but it did have a fear-mongering school principal who can break the fourth wall.
Spoon Rating: 5
After the film we had a brief musical interlude of the theme song of "Reefer Madness: The Musical" and then we watched a video on Occult Demon Cassette called "A Witch's Spiritual Hoedown." Unfortunately, the title was misleading and it wasn't about witches, or even hoedowns, at all. It was a video of a church service that lasted 22 minutes but had only three never-ending songs. There were a lot of mullets and a variety of white-worship dancing. We all got varying degrees of amusement from it, but agreed to never watch it again.
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