It?s just an old propaganda film from 1930's America. Yes they got it wrong, and maybe it?s funny to watch when you?re having a smoke of the green stuff but at the end of the day its actually quite dull to watch with only very fleeting moments of unintentional humour! Students wi...( read more)
David O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig
Cautionary tale features a fictionalized and highly exaggerated take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild p...( read more
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Flixster Reviews (677)
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September 30, 2009
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January 7, 2009
One of the most ABYSMAL PIECES OF DOG SHIT ever put on screen. FUCK this movie's asshooooooolio!
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July 7, 2008
Not particularly good--just a piece of poorly executed propaganda that came out coincidentally around the same time that marijuana was made illegal. It's more funny than anything and this movie will probably make you want to make you smoke pot more than scare you from doing it. A...( read more)
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June 5, 2007
This was meant as a serious warning to America - but bad science and a hysterical attitude makes this a laugh-out-loud funny film 70 years later.
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July 9, 2009
Painfully awful movie to watch. Though, the reefer induced frenzies are indeed, comical. They're also so very wrong. Maybe if it was meth madness instead.
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June 10, 2009
Ridiculously stupid. I can't believe that anyone would ever take this junk seriously. It blows my mind.
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January 4, 2007I've already posted this in Reefer Madness (1936) but here it is again:
Good news! Reefer Madness is Public Domain, meaning it can be freely downloaded, copied & distributed. Get it from Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/reefer_madness1938
For some reason, Flixster is separating the org from the details by putting an empty space between the slash '/' and 'd'
You'll have to deal with that to get to the movie.
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