Once You "Weed" out the "Dopey" Lines, the Movie Isn't As Good As I Recall
Sigh! This movie isn't as good (and by "good," I mean bad) as I recall from watching it years ago (in the early 1980s), hence my mediocre rating--it just wasn't as funny as I recall. My recollection was that it was a lot more "campy" than it really was, a lot more over the top. Sure, it is propaganda and hyperbolic (especially at the end, when the one "addict" has evidently gone permanently insane). But there is more than a kernel of truth to much of the propaganda in this film--it is not all bogus.
And, NO, when I watched this movie years ago, my laughs were NOT enhanced by any mind-altering drugs, OK???
Maybe I've just gotten old or my sense of humor has changed, but this time what I tended to notice more were things like fashions (hats, skirts, etc.), the spelling of mariHuana, how teenagers looked a lot older then (or the actors were actually not teens!), the quaint notion that the FEDERAL government has NO jurisdiction over goods that are not involved in interstate trade, etc. (I support the STATES prohibiting the sale, purchase, etc., of marijuana, but not the FEDERAL government).
So, it's still worth watching as a "period piece"--to get a picture of the establishment view in the 30's, etc.--but it's just not that funny after all.