The Pill Poppers

A young director tells the story of 3 teenagers caught up in popping pills. Without preaching or hard sell the case histories unfold revealing the true dangers of amphetamines and barbiturates.

Traces the use of MARIJUANA throughout the world from 3000 B.C. to the present, and compares past attitudes toward MARIJUANA toward MARIJUANA with informed opinion today. Presents established facts about the physiological and psychological effects of MARIJUANA use. Outlines plans for future laboratory research into the many unanswered questions about MARIJUANA. Emphasizes the social and legal implications of conviction on charges of MARIJUANA possession. Amphetamines, barbiturates.

MS Charles 17 year old high school senior with higher than average IQ gets placed into prison. Charles calling from prison pay phone
MS Charles walking down hall to prison warden
MS warden walks Charles to cell
CS warden unlocks cell
MS Charles walks into cell
MS Charles looking out of prison cell
CDS MARIJUANA sprouting from ground
CS time lapse of MARIJUANA growing out of ground
MS Drug specialist lawyer Bernard ElSeego (sp) talking to someone about the legal implications of MARIJUANA
MS policeman identifying a joint as MARIJUANA
MS criminals being brought into custody - hands placed against wall
CS hands being cuffed
MS police putting felons into red police truck
MS Drug specialist lawyer Bernard ElSeego (sp) talking to Mrs. Johnson (Charles mom) about Charles and MARIJUANA
MS B and W: prison guard checking in person - their physical features
MS dirty feet and legs of prisoner while mug shot and documentation is taken
CS marihuana leaf used to make rope (history)
MS painting of Chinese use of MARIJUANA
MS painting of Indians smoking MARIJUANA
MS painting of Europeans using MARIJUANA
CS jar of powdered Indian Cannabis for percolation
CS bottle of Swan’s Cannabis compound - A nerve tonic
MDS still Mexican wearing sombrero, sitting
MS still Mexican men with large packs
MS still Mississippi steamboat carrying MARIJUANA
MS still dirt road
MS still two men looking at MARIJUANA plant
MS still three men in MARIJUANA fields
MS still article: MARIJUANA the assassin of youth
MS newspaper headlines of MARIJUANA opinions not based entirely on fact but opinion
MS female smoking MARIJUANA with male: Hollywood's effort to fight the war on drugs
MS male starts to act hyper and clinches fists
MS female plays the piano with weird trance behavior
MS male sitting in chair smiles incessantly and takes another smoke
MS male throws down MARIJUANA leaf
MS another man walks into room and “high” male beats him down
MS woman reacts as frightened
MS at judges chamber, men present case of the negative effects of MARIJUANA use
MS judge grants requests
MS still posters of anti - MARIJUANA propaganda
CS still pamphlets and other documents on MARIJUANA
MS male sitting at a park
CS buttons on the back of male’s shirt that express pro - legalization sentiment
MS feet of man lying on ground with DOG
MS man lying on the ground stoned
MS male sitting on a sleeping bag
CS poster “let the sun shine in”
MS two males sitting behind a fence
MS back of male with tattered clothes
MS woman videotaping people walking by
MDS 4 females standing in a circle - three barefoot
MS looking up at sky rises in a city
MS man in suit smoking on the street
MS man looks at friend as they smoke and relax on the street
MS man and friend relax on a bench
MS naked baby on mother’s shoulder
MS children playing with mother knitting
MS mother feeding a baby with a bottle
MS man watching a stroller
CS man’s feet
MS man reading a book (over his shoulder POV)
MS pan from bottom to top of woman’s legs
MS hands of an older male
MS female’s hands knitting
MS woman smoking and smiling (Hollywood depiction)
MS man reacting in a crazy manner
MS man and women kiss
MS man and women bouncing on a piano, kiss
MS police cars leaving the station
MS investigators looking through a building
MS old police motorcycle rides through street
MS hands being hand cuffed
MS police truck driving down street with siren
MS man handcuffed sitting with shirt off
CS hands unlock the back door of the police truck
MS inside police station - surveillance camera on drug users
MS police frisk two men inside police office (men have not shirts on)
MS man talks about kids an the consequences of using MARIJUANA
MS smoke rising up
CS MARIJUANA plant
MS diagram of male and female parts of MARIJUANA
MS diagram of chemical structures of MARIJUANA
CS books on study of MARIJUANA
CS pages of books on study of MARIJUANA
MS stick figure of cartoon character smoking MARIJUANA
and the different effects of it
MS diagram of brain and eye and the effects of MARIJUANA on the sensory abilities of the body
MS montage of flashback type effects on the brain
CS terminal box switch that flashes an “x”
MS hands operating a laboratory research device
MS man participating in test at a desk
MS man observing a patient taking a test through a video monitor. Button switchboard in the background
CS dials and numbers flashing on board
CS man (face) driving a car simulator
MS man driving a car simulator
MS man turning wheel of driving simulator
MS projector of driving simulator
CS hand steering a wheel and speedometer of car
MS man driving the simulator
MS out of focus lights at night
MS rabbit taken out of cage in a lab
MS rabbit injected with THC
MS boiling flask in a laboratory attached to a larger machine and lowered into another liquid
MS liquid pouring from one container into another
MS Glass pipes on machine moving up and down
MS male sitting in prison cell with toilet in the background
MS drug specialist lawyer ElSeego (sp) explaining things to Mrs. Johnson (Charles’ mother)
CS Mrs. Johnson rolling piece of paper through hands
MS taking apart drug paraphernalia
MS man’s arms being checked for drugs
CS cuts and scars on the arms of a drug user
MS pan from left to right of MARIJUANA in bags and boxes
MIN multi miniature shots of body parts, in connection with using hard drugs.
CU of man talking about children and adults justifying using MARIJUANA.
Cartoon graph of human character growing up with all the problems that lead young people to using stimulants.
FG audience listening to judge, leading to crime.
CU Man speaking re MARIJUANA again re getting jobs.
Taking finger prints.
CU newspaper cutting of photographer job advert circled.
LS of college students looking at books
CU of books
Narrative re criminal record problems getting into college and travel and getting documents
CU Shows passport, maps, various documents
CU man talking re life problems of MARIJUANA
LS of customs detector machine
LS people outside
CU of paintings of faces
“We don’t know how the drug effects us”
CU rabbit injected
Long term effects of drug CU to MS of test tubes
MS Test tubes and apparatus, diagram of eye, connection with long term illnesses
CU of handcuffed man
CU panning upwards, legalization of MARIJUANA
CU of weed sprouting and growing birds eye view
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