Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

As a documentary, this film is invaluable. It has footage pertaining to marijuana use from 1920's onward. Government-sponsored radio and television ads, footage of medical testing of THC on humans, interviews with scientists, doctors, legislators, senators, lobbyists, and political activists. For the value of the footage alone, I'd rate this as one of the best documentaries on Marijuana -- of course, that's not to say that what you would learn here you couldn't find in the average introduction to any thick Marijuana book. That's just to say that Marijuana documentaries these days are quite limited, mostly due to institutional censorship and an international legal ban on experimentation with Cannabis. At moments, the video sequences of this movie are a bit hokey and overplayed. For a few seconds, there's goofy cartoons as a "hit-meter" counts up the amount of money the government has wasted on the war-on-drugs. They do this every fifteen minutes of the documentary, too. It's the only part of the film I would've left out. As a baseline statistic, it's too insignificant. The amount of suffering caused by America's War on Marijuana is more than just calculable in lost tax dollars. There are patients who have suffered from disease for years, waiting for a medicinal form of THC. There are those rotting in the prisons, our sons and daughters. To keep seeing this statistic of national debt is boring. And regardless -- no respectable documentary should be reduced to using dancing bunny rabbits as its statistics are being generated.Overall, I'd say 8 out of 10 stars.

One of the better documentaries I have seen in recent times. Well researched and with many entertaining and enlightening clips of films, press conferences, et al.Although there is an apparent bias, the film actually doesn't form an argument, per se. The film is really nothing more than a documented history of government sponsored propaganda.The drawback of such an approach, however, is that one is limited to using facts which are inherently non-controversial. This provides us with an intriguing look into the war on drugs, but not necessarily an all inclusive one.

Documents, and mocks, anti-marijuana propaganda in America throughout this century. The most interesting thing to notice is how little resemblence the propaganda claims bore to reality, how inconsistent they were over time, and how they tried to associate marijuana to whatever the evil of the day was (communism, heroin).Watch this and then wonder why you believe what you believe.

I find reviews interesting in that they tell us what the "reviewer" got out of the movie. I will try to give a true review, and I believe a true "review" tells what point the movie was making. Of course this would be what I got out of the movie, so is it a true review. Maybe the only way for a person to really know what a movie is about is to watch it and not worry about what someone else thought of it. I think this movie was written as a "documentary" and it documents the propaganda about drug from the beginning of the century. It attempts to show those of us who have seen the current propaganda our how it has been presented over the generations. I saw the point as being how serious the subject is taken now, and how we are told that the current law is based on the facts, when their facts came from a propaganda campaign. And if you look deep enough you will see that that propaganda campaign was perpetrated for the interest of Big Business. The purpose of the "war against marijuana" is not to eliminate the use. It is to prevent the growth of hemp which competes with the cotton industry, petroleum industry, paper industry, etc. It is also interesting that we continue to let the propaganda confuse the marijuana plant with the hemp plant.