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.

.. They must have been quite the murderious group of Thugs. These individuals in their rebelious actions! Throwing Tea in the Atlantic in Boston. Marching through frozen field's half clad in Clothing in the middle of winter. Each having an effect like a bull who saw Red. As when they saw red, they actually killed some people wearing red. Their leader the most trecherious of them all. I'll just leave it at his first Name. A blood thristy, cut throat named George. As this is story of how this group of thugs got their start. Ole George, did not even have respect for his parents. As he chopped down his Daddy's cherry tree. As they were, as most all of them, pot farmers. This Reffer Madness must have taken hold of all of them. As they hatched a crazy plan to take over the country. A sure sign that Reffer Madness had set in, and taken control of them.... So are you still wondering who this notorious gang was? These who were inset of the Reffer Madness? They called themselves the First Contential Congress! And their leader, they called him "The President" eventually. One other in this pack of hell raisers. Was little Benny Franklin, who repeatedly came up with these crazy notions. Can you imagine, a US Mail System, a public Library System, or such a crazy notion as the Farmer's Almanac. He even though he could catch electricity from the sky with a Kite? Can you imagine such craziness? Little Benny was indeed a poster child for Reffer Madness. At least he was honest, when once he adressed the nobility of France, he was indeed quoted as telling them he was a savage. Oh, for shame Little Benny.... Please, above all, always remember, "Puff, Puff, Pass"! LoL!!!!!!