Weed

Numerous references to marijuana throughout the film, including slang terms for the drug, images of plants, signs, packages, use, destruction and dealing.

Official Testimony: “Such laws contribute to the spread of addiction to hard narcotics by confusing the medical issue in the public mind, and such laws damage national mental health by causing paranoia, i.e. fear of police entrapment and prosecution.” (0:02)

Narrator: “Those red flowers, by the way, are opium poppies... The jungle, he hopes, will hide the opium.” (0:15)

Narrator: “In every Mexican border town there are men known as mules...” (0:16)

Agent: “We do have heroin, cocaine, some hashish, and dangerous drugs.” (0:19)

Man and woman share a joint. (0:35)

Two men and a woman share joints. (0:38)

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam talk about skag. (0:44)

“Park Lane” marijuana cigarettes in Vietnam. (0:48)

“We were laying in an opium den the other night...” (0:53)

Agent: “... and we make them a candidate for some rehabilitation facility.” (1:03)

Narrator, asks dealer, “What’s a lid worth these days?”
Dealer Dave: “Opium’s extremely hard to get, but hashish, and of course mescaline and acid...”
Narrator: “You deal any smack now Dave?”
Water pipe. (1:09)

Roger, referring to ganja: “Well, there’re some people who don’t like to smoke because it produces a state of dissociation...”
Chillum hash pipes. (1:17)

Narrator: “If somebody hands you one, you gonna have a little hit, are you?” (1:20)

Law professor John Kaplan: “It was felt that the drug caused crime and insanity.”
”They investigated its pharmacology...”
”He tells the students about the dangers of LSD, amphetamines, heroin...”
”... we’re gonna repeal marijuana prohibition just the way we repealed alcohol prohibition.” (1:30)