REEFER MADNESS

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] it must be stopped you and all the school parent groups about the country and you must stand united on this and stamp out this frightful assassin of our youth you can do it by bringing about compulsory education on the subject of narcotics in general the great marijuana in particular that is the purpose of this meeting ladies and gentlemen to lay the foundation for a nationwide campaign by you to demand by law such compulsory education because it is only through enlightenment that this scourge can be wiped out out of the traffic in these drugs a lawlessness that we can scarcely estimate has grown and is now flourishing it exists in almost every city in the country it might be important for you to know some of the methods used in bringing these drugs into the country and the work of the forces of law and order which are daily combating the traffic always at the risk of life by their agents this ceaseless fight against the drug traffic is directed by the department of narcotics washington [Applause] i've received a letter of vital importance from a member of the narcotics bureau i'm going to read this letter to you my dear doctor carol the suppression of the use of marijuana and of the forces lurking behind it are the most important jobs this department is now engaged in at the outset of this letter there is one vital fact i would like to submit there is a powerful agency i speak of the school parent associations of this country which can be invaluable in stamping out this scourge their help their eternal vigilance could be the deciding factor in our fight against it the weed marijuana is grown in every state in the union recently in the city of brooklyn new york a field of marijuana was found behind a tenerman the weed was here being cultivated regularly stripped and dried and sold in schools and at government army posts in and around new york the dried leaves and berries are ground up and made into cigarettes by a simple hand machine the deadly narcotic is thus quickly and easily prepared for its market the sale of marijuana is even more difficult to detect and halt than the traffic in drugs such as opium morphine and heroin they are hidden in fake jewelry cases in the heels of shoes women's shoes especially because the drugs can be secreted in false heels hollowed shaving brushes are another medium books with false centers are often used watch cases are convenient hiding places the value of drugs thus seized is enormous recently a huge supply of heroin was taken it was concealed in an apparently harmless shipment of 35 barrels of olive oil the deadly drug was burned in the incinerator of the bureau of engraving and printing and more vicious more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs is the menace of marijuana no doubt many of you do not believe that these things do happen but they cannot happen to you you may also believe that the facts have been exaggerated let me tell you of something that happened right here in our own city you probably read about it in the papers however i'll give you the real facts behind the case there was an apartment near one of our high schools it was run by a woman known as may [Applause] coleman hey come on mate get up what time is it time to get up and give this place a going over looks like the marines had landed all that bunch last night was high enough to take over the marines and the navy you better get on the job some of the kids may be up this afternoon oh yes we can get along without dragging those young kids up here oh why don't you button up your lip you're always squawking about something you get more static than radio [Applause] and make yourself comfortable hey what kind of a joint is this eddie oh it's all right gwen see they probably had a party last night oh a couple of your customers may yeah they're old enough to know what they're doing not like those young kids you bring up here all right all right listen i'm gonna blow where are you going i gotta make some deliveries and i'll probably drop by joe's place and bring back a couple of the kids oh i wish you'd lay off those kids oh why don't you get over that mother complex again [Applause] oh by the way ralph i'm sort of getting a little party saturday afternoon over at my grandmother's you know the place of the swimming pool like to come thanks daddy maybe i will i sure like to have you okay i'll probably drop over so long ralph see you later hey ralph hi here fine jack and you oh great for your head oh hey how do you like that that's the one i was telling you about very nice i don't know why you want to make such a crust over that ralph wally oh he's a swell swimmer he made the freshman team next year he went to college and that lets him out my dad knows his family none of them were any good father mother just got a divorce from paris yeah you know ralph runs around pretty much on his own he's been in a couple of jams well i only kind of say hello to him i don't go around with him well you better not he's a little too old for especially my dad hello mary how are you bill how are you al oh hello ralph you know my brother jimmy don't you how are you well i'd like you to meet a friend of mine jack perry mary bill how do you do glad to know you we're going over to joe's playing along we have a date to play a set of doubles oh you can play anytime come on we'll have some laughs oh we can today ralph you're sure hey i'll see you there sis don't be lazy [Applause] [Music] good [Music] so mae's expecting us at the apartment a little later any new prospects maybe [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so oh jimmy you're wonderful you're just finding out why can't we go now oh good hey kids we're having a little party up my girlfriend's apartment wouldn't you like to come oh i'd love to you want to come don't you dare oh sure any place with you well come on we can all go in my car [Applause] see you later it's sweet of you to help me bill well i'll try anything except domestic science why bill don't you want to learn something about running your own home the answer is no you know after that session we had yesterday i went home and told mother that the trouble with her pot roast gravy was she hadn't added three heaping teaspoonfuls of olive oil what did she say she didn't say anything she just threw me out of the kitchen well i don't wonder hello children hello hello mrs lane that was sweet of you mother gosh hot chocolate thanks mrs lane i know you can't study on empty stomachs now then enjoy yourself he will she will too mrs lane may i oh thank you kind sir you're so very very kind mary before we do that math how about reading some of this it's swell romeo and juliet don't you like it uh-huh you know when i study this i kind of think of you it i just sort of feel as though you're there beside me well listen it is my soul that calls upon thy name silver sweet sound lovers tongues by night like softest music to attending years romeo my dear what o'clock tomorrow shall i send to thee by the hour of nine i will not fail just 20 years till then well uh i'll see you tonight mary the virus is like goodbye strong gotcha oh [Applause] oh all get them all right well bye bye hey oh dude hey hey dad you got anything for me don't bother your father every night uh have you there you are what made you so late bill i was getting worried well i had to study law he was not i saw not walking with this girl bill's got a girl got a girl mom make him cut it out junior well belle has got a girl quiet and put that candy away till after dinner henry you shouldn't have given it to him well he has got a girlfriend and her name is mary i'll shut you up bill junior put that carrying on here oh well what i burned up about is it just didn't say bill had a swell girl gee it must be love she'd have to be swell for you to like her uh-huh sounds like you want something come on what is it well it's my model airplane it will work guys still you could fix it you can fix anything okay i'll fix it [Applause] mary told me to wait and tell her she had to go home her mother wanted her to go to the dressmaker with her oh thanks jimmy must be getting grown up i see mary let you have the car yeah i think the only place well i wasn't going anyplace in particular well then how about driving over to the show's place with me i'll buy you soda i never drink this stuff oh gee i'll buy you something else okay you're on the hook for one root beer [Applause] well hi bill hi jimmy hello hi dad hey jimmy hello jimmy hello bill come on fight in hello blanche hello ralph how are you ranch have you been wrapping up two servers no i mean one thought in one root beer how's me oh she's fine we're going up two apartments later couldn't bell come along well come on along bill you'll get a kick out of it thank you oh come on bill mary will be jealous well sure all the kids will be there it's gene well i don't know i really shouldn't have well okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello jack what do you say [Music] don't stand there [Music] he's [Music] there's a new one in the bay yeah bill hawker he's all right mike has got herself about a year for him not bad i didn't think she had that much taste she knows what she's doing she's got ralph nuts about her and now she's got her hooks up for this new kid okay we have many more smoke you better run over and get some why couldn't you find that out when i was here this morning i've got my car in the job well one of us that kid out there jimmy he's got a car he'll take him come on get going [Music] hey jimmy yeah i've gotta run over to cedar avenue for a minute you've got a car haven't you well yeah my sister mind giving me a lift why sure come on okay no thank you [Music] well here we are all day oh man don't forget i never forget you oh here if you want a good smoke try one of these i thought you were scared of course if you're afraid [Applause] that's bitter that's more like it i know you like that really well just take a puss of it [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] oh just for a minute kid hey jack give me a cigarette before you go will you hello jack hi boss how's business getting better every day those kids sure go for it so had to run over a couple more cartoons ran short today all right danny got 10 growth jack perry who pete daly all right send him in all right here we are i want to talk to you all right go ahead jack's okay what's the beast listen you never heard no beef when i had to sell that rotten gin right to the dog yeah but i don't need dough that bad taking two-bit pieces from kids there are millions of two-bit pieces just begging to be taken don't be a dope i'm just dope enough to draw the lines selling off your kids all right pete you know what my policy has always been the boys are not satisfied i'm always glad to have them retire retire permanently hold on i only wish you had a couple of kids so i could yeah all right jack pick up your stuff from down here i'll be ready by now okay well let's go jack i'm red hot better be careful how you drive the first thing you know you'll be ice cold take it easy kid [Applause] hold on you'll kill somebody [Applause] mary are not eating your breakfast again bill harper hasn't been around lately anything wrong between you two why should there be anything wrong it shouldn't be i'm sure and whatever it is isn't serious i know i'm sorry mother for snapping at you like that don't worry about it dear why don't you speak frankly to bill he'll be honest whatever the trouble is i'm sure bill harper never lied about anything yes that's right bill's mother says he never lies there you see you think it'd be all right if if i speak to him about it why of course oh jimmy sit down dog and i'll have your breakfast for you in a moment jimmy there's something wrong what have i got to worry about why don't you tell me well for pete's sake don't start to cross-examine william i'm all right jimmy don't let mother see you right there there is no doubt that there is an organized gang distributing the narcotic to students not only in my school but all over the city you government men have got to find some way to put an end to it of course i agree with you dr carroll but do you realize that marijuana is not like other forms of dope you see it grows wild in almost every state in the union therefore there is practically no interstate commerce in the drug as a result the government's hands are tied and frankly the only sure cure is a widespread campaign in education oh it's all right to talk about education mr wyatt but we educators can't do anything until the public is sufficiently aroused let me show you something in 1930 the records on marijuana in the washington office of the narcotics division scarcely filled a small folder like this today they fill cabinets all these devoted to marijuana records here is an example a 16 year old lad apprehended in the act of staging a hold up 16 years old and a marijuana addict here is the most tragic case yes i remember just a young boy under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe then there is the most vicious type of case here in michigan a young girl 17 years old a reaper smoker taken in a raid in the company with five young men here is a particularly flagrant case yes i remember the newspapers made quite a play of it in west virginia wasn't it yes and there are hundreds of them coming up new ones every day i like to take these records if i may i feel they would be of invaluable assistance to me in combating the evil in my school you're very welcome dr carol thank you sit down bill there seems to be something wrong what is it if you were always a fine student you always had excellent grades well i guess the work is getting a little harder dr carol no no it isn't that bill i'd like to help you but of course i can't unless you left me you're undermining your health well there's nothing dr carroll really there isn't i'll study harder honestly honest if you were being honest with me and honest with yourself i'm afraid you tell me an entirely different story dearline i'm going to ask you a straightforward question and i'd like to have a straightforward answer yes isn't it true that you have perhaps unwillingly acquired a certain harmful habit through association with certain undesirable people well no sir i haven't dr carol well that is you you see i'm i'm worried about something at home all right my boy we'll just have to let it go with that but remember if you ever want to confide in me no one will ever be the wise thank you dr carol hello mary you want to play thanks teddy but i'm waiting for someone well if you're waiting for bill he hasn't been here for a week [Laughter] [Music] okay [Music] so doesn't take that new kid long to catch on don't take any of them [Music] hey don't you ever get sad you're feeding me can't you see [Music] give me that report get it yourself [Music] [Laughter] [Music] ah [Music] come on [Music] [Applause] good morning miss we're from the police department good morning we're tracing a hit-and-run driver someone caught the license number the place of the accident but didn't get it quite right so we're checking all numbers like it and yours is one of them well i'll try to help you you remember what you did on the 29th of last month oh that was the day before mother's birthday oh yes i remember that because i left school and went directly to the dressmakers with mother i was there all afternoon did you happen to loan your car to a couple of men no no i had to call all afternoon myself well thanks miss sorry to have troubled you tell me uh did they was the person killed unfortunately he wasn't but that's still no excuse for hit and run driving has jimmy lane's been here today he was in he went over to mae's place you know what that is well uh he was gonna wait for me here so he didn't give me may's address are you sure jimmy didn't leave any message for me mary no he didn't but i guess you're okay i'll write it down for you [Applause] [Music] i think he went out to take agnes home but he'll be right back come here to sit down mary and let me take your quote who's the new kid just came in oh it's that gal that ralph's gone overboard for funny we've never been able to get her up here before [Applause] hey hey scrambling smoke mary thanks are you sure jimmy will be back soon sure any minute um hmm [Laughter] say what's the matter martin where do you put us you got a hollow leg [Music] oh [Music] go away [Music] [Applause] everything so look jack is she alright she's dead hey get me some water now listen you two want to get out of here get out of here and forget you're ever in here today i'll handle this now get going give it to me here harry mary mary what happened you killed her after i scream you call the cops and this is your story remember it these two kids came up here for a couple of beers you're up in the kitchen you heard the shop when you got in here that's what you found just stick to that story mary mary speak to me [Music] oh [Music] sergeant on the homicide squad the guy you did that day died died you i mean you didn't no i didn't crack i'm not going to nobody don't ever know you were driving that car but thanks check just as long as you keep your mouth shut that you're ever up in may's apartment am i sure jack sure [Music] okay your honor i'd like to recall of dr alfred carroll for the sand called dr alfred carroll to the same dr carol as principal of the lakeside high school did you during the last three months notice any changes in the demeanor and attitude of your student william hopper yes in a number of things for example at times disassociation of ideas in uh another instance i happen to attend the recent interscholastic tennis matches and while bill harper had been considered an exceedingly good player i saw him miss the ball by as much as three or four feet this i understand could be attributed to the use of marijuana it causes errors in time and space objection here on earth the witness doesn't qualify to express opinions upon the effect of narcotics sustained dr carroll has been called merely as a character witness well then although you didn't know to your own knowledge that the defendant was using marijuana did you notice any changes that would lead you to believe as an educator that he was under some severe mental strain which might possibly have been induced by some drug yes i recall distinctly a few weeks ago it was during a class of english literature there was a serious discussion of shakespeare's romeo and juliet when he suddenly burst into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical life oh by the way dr carol six months ago what would have been your opinion regarding the character of my client he was a fine upstanding american boy a good scholar a good athlete and representative of the caliber of young men we are proud to graduate from our school oh snap out of her will you it's not our fault why did i ever bring him up there anyway he's just a kid i can't hang him shut up shut up why don't you let yourself go talk go off your nut and have me that way too with his own thought wasn't it ah they've got it now have a mate the cops can't find us jack jack i want to get out of this place you're gonna stay here as long as we have to keep those two out there undercover until the trial's over the boss gets a better idea but they're getting on my nerves it can't last much longer not worried about her we got to keep him gagged oh he's about ready to crack all he gotta do is keep him from having too many reefers any day now that punk will get hot he'll probably spill until all he knows if he gets a chance i don't think he'll get it i'll see you later where are you going i'm gonna see the boss hello jack hello boss what are we going to do about that wiley guy don't generally huh i don't know what the punk's going to do keep feeding those hot sticks that's what may's been doing that's no good i got a hunch that he's due to crack when that hyper verdict comes in he's on the tee he's likely to take a powder on us and blow his topper to the d.a you mean you think uh we'd all be better off if he never uh heard the verdict well what are you waiting for you ladies and gentlemen of the jury have a duty to perform a duty to yourselves and to our community mary lane is dead the evidence you've heard of this trial could not have failed to convince you of the guilt of the defendant by his own admission he pressed the trigger of the weapon that sent lovely and innocent mary lane to a tragic and untimely death we are not so much concerned about the motives behind the deed as to the deed itself while the defendant has told you that he saw someone attacking mary lane and that his mind went blank from that moment on the defense has been unable to produce one witness to substantiate that statement ladies and gentlemen the jury you heard able men testify at this trial men who have tried to bring out the fact that the defendant might have become momentarily insane when he fired the shot that killed mary lane but the defense has been unable to prove that he was insane william harper was sane when he visited the apartment where the tragedy occurred he was in the habit of visiting the place he was saying when he went into a bedroom with another young woman you've all heard what went out of that room you heard it from the defendant's own lips involved as he was in a tawdry love affair mary lane was in the way she had found him out in a moment of anger he deliberately and willfully killed her if such deeds are permitted to go unpunished this community would cease to be a decent and safe place for us or our children to live i do not believe i have to plead or even demand that you bring in a verdict to punish the defendant for the crime that he has committed against society you are upright citizens that is why you were chosen to judge another and as honest upright citizens there is only one verdict which you can find and that is a verdict of guilty and this court will be adjourned until the jury's verdict is reached i suppose you all feel the same about this case but he might have been insane when he did it no he wasn't he knew what he was doing but supposing he was insane you can never make me believe it or anybody else we'll uh take a first vote [Applause] eleven for conviction one for acquittal but there's a reasonable doubt about the boy's sanity we can't no doubt about the fact that he murdered her he admitted it himself that wasn't the first time he was there we got to make an example before boys like that contaminate all of our children we can't of every murderer hiding behind the gag that is insane sure they see red before they kill somebody but whose fault is this so have you reached a birdie we have the defendant will rise what is your verdict we find the defendant guilty is charged oh [Applause] so [Music] stop it what's the matter with you give me the creep nice nice what do you want bring me some reapers [Music] they're going to hate you [Music] [Music] where's jack i want to get out of here they'll pick you up and hang you if you don't pipe down i want to feed jack jack i want to see jack jack you better quiet him i can't do anything with i've him to see jack what can't let that kid hang he'll be here don't worry he'll be here in a little while i've got to see him you've got to see him come on darling everything will be over soon you want me to play something for you yeah yeah that's it play something come on honey give me smoke [Music] so [Music] way faster playing last time [Music] [Applause] you