I, you, and millions of other poor souls had to put up with that bullshit. I don't know your age, but when I was in junior high we had to watch movies that were narrated by Sonny Bono. It was like two or three years after Sonny and Cher had quit making hits, but before they had their stupid TV show. I guess ol' Sonny needed the cash and the US Propaganda Agency (USPA) needed a stooge who they thought was a role model for the kids (a dude who had his last big hit when the kids watching the films were in third or fourth grade - ancient history for them). I think it was just before Nixon announced the War on Drugs!
The teacher in charge of the propaganda class was a female coach and a 'health' teacher (like yours). She didn't have a clue what she was doing, while 1/4 of my class had already turned by then and knew it all was government propaganda designed to convince us that if we wanted some way to relieve the strain of raging hormones and teenage angst, the 'safe' way was to do what mama and papa did: get blitzed on fermented juice produced by mega corporations! Stay away from the stuff that needed little processing besides water, sunshine, maybe a little fertilizer, and could be grown by practically anyone. To protect your health and the profits of the big pharmaceutical and liquor companies, the government had no choice but to lock you away for years. Good ol' Uncle Sam (or any other government that is a signatory of the U.N.) at work for the benefit of everyone. It was blatant propaganda about drugs and the disaster of the Vietnam War that made be realize at a very early age: don't trust the government.
What a damaging disaster this prohibition has been to millions. Now with the opioid epidemic rampant in many countries largely due to the pharmaceutical monsters, more people have realized that Class One drugs like cannabis may have positive benefits after all.
There was an old Blue Cheer song that had a line: "oh pleasant hope, when we gonna get our dope." That was written in 1970(?). What is this: 48 years later? At least, 8 or 9 states have finally legalized it. 48 years later. Fuck.
Thank you for the reply. That was a little before my time but I remember the same type of thing from the late 80's and beyond. I recall being forced to watch a feature length PSA called Cartoon Allstars to the Rescue when I was in elementry school where a bunch of popular cartoon characters show up to stop a kid from doing drugs (I'm pretty sure its on YouTube still and its pretty funny to watch as an adult). I can't say if it is any better for the kids now but I doubt it.
You are right. This has nothing to do with health and everything to do with protecting the legal drug dealers in society. I know how freely they give (or used to give) out pain killers. I one woke up on a saturday morning with an infected wisdom tooth. The dentist was closed until monday so I went to a walk-in clinic to get some antibiotics. I told them I was in a lot of pain (which I was) and needed something to get me through the weekend until I could go have my tooth taken care of and I was given more pain killers than I got after my knee surgery (I think it turned out to be a 90 day supply). That's the real drug problem in this country.
Thanks for reading.
Probably the Sonny Boner films are on YouTube as well. I'll check in a couple of days and let you know.
Thanks. That stuff is always fun to watch. Haha Beavis and Butthead used to call him Sunny Boner too.
That's because that was common in the early 70s. They used it on that animation probably do to the writers having to sit through those same films when they were in junior high.
That's history, eh?
Truth. Mike Judge was just about the right age for that too.
I hate to bother you, but I'd appreciate it if you'd check out the book I'm uploading to Steemit. It's called, Wackos to Obliterate. Book Two has a subplot that ties in with your focus on cannabis awareness.
I'll take a look. I went to your page and I checked out the first chapter of book one but it might take me a little time to get through the whole thing.