Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1951
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Encyclopædia Britannica Films
Drug Addiction (1951)
Audience Score
20 minJan 1st, 1951
Marty a good boy experiments with marijuana and experiences profound mental and emotional disturbances As in all antidrug films of this vintage marijuana leads straight to H and Martys decline continues until he is busted rehabbed and reformed Drug Addictions stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today It belongs to that littleknown second wave of antidrug films the postwar scare stories about middleclass kids overcome by junkiedom What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties and that the official response to the threat expressed a general not specifically targeted paranoia
