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See it on 16mm Presents ~ Reefer Madness & Marihuana (1936) DBL FTR ~ 7:00PM

  • Balboa Theater 3630 Balboa St. San Francisco United States (map)

See it on 16mm Presents ~ Reefer Madness + Marihuana DBL FTR on 16mm!

Reefer Madness, 1938 Directed by Louis J. Gasnier

PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1. WOMEN CRY FOR IT… MEN WILL DIE FOR IT!

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary’s boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Marihuana, 1936 Directed by Dwain Esper

WEED WITH ROOTS IN HELL!

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.