1970's educational movies

Johnny Yen posted today about educational movies from the 1970's. The one he mentions I am not familiar with, as he saw it in shop class, which I never took in high school. The movie that I remember was played in health class, and in detention at the high school I attended, and was a very interesting choice of movies. To this day I am not sure if the administrators chose the movie for the educational aspect or the comedy.

This particular movie was a favorite of almost all the cliques. How could it not be, it was after all the mid 70's. A decade of "F" it all, new math, getting in touch with one's self, wife swapping, and casual sex. It was a time of polyester, lounge lizards, wide lapels, and Disco. It was a time when suburbanites dappled in drugs, and doctors prescribed magic pills for bored housewives.

This particular movie was from the 1930's (?) and was suppose to deter the youth of that day from the evils of pot, marijuana, wacky tabaccy, reefer, smoke, Panama Red, bud, doobies, roach, I know I am forgetting some of the names. But I think you get the idea.

Reefer Madness! As a deterrent it was a failure, as an encouragement the movie succeeded. The kids would get stoned before class and enjoy the movie only in a way that a few hits from a roll of gold could. Not that I ever did that, and I most certainly did not inhale!