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This is marijuana, official name Cannabis Sativa.

Its mind expanding power has been known for two thousand years.

The secret of its sexual power has only been whispered about, until now.

This is a cocktail party.

A great American tradition.

Here friends can get together in a relaxed social atmosphere and have fun.

New relationships can be made much more easily

than on a street corner or in an office.

He has me all around the house.

Great, have a good time.

Alcohol is the great relaxer that loosens the

inhibitions most people have about meeting strangers.

So it would seem that alcohol for centuries has served man well.

As an intoxicant and as a means to dull the attacks of

conscience that can psychologically cripple most of us.

This is a marijuana party.

It is fast becoming a new American tradition.

The reasons for having the party are the same.

Friends getting together to have fun.

New relationships are made here as well.

Oh, it feels so wonderful.

Probably more easily, since there is a feeling

of openness and sharing between the smokers.

Euphoria seems to be everywhere.

And all the senses seem to be heightened.

Oh, this food is really fantastic.

Food, smells, touch, music all contribute to the enjoyment of the evening.

The intoxication they feel from the marijuana is an

entirely different kind of high than one gets with alcohol.

But obviously alcohol and now marijuana have been used by

millions of people as a loosening device to help their sex lives.

Are you kidding? He couldn't get it up.

He was so bombed by the time I left my husband,

he couldn't have made it with Raquel Welch.

See, I was feeling pretty good at this party.

This guy was coming on pretty strong.

I don't usually fool around on Charlie, but he's pretty good to me, you know.

But this Joe, he was a good looking stud.

I let him kiss me and feel around a little, and

he got to me, so I said I'd meet him in his car.

Joe? Joe? Joe? Joe? Joe, I've been looking all over for you.

Joe? Come on in, baby. I've been waiting for you. Come on.

Hey, I'm glad you could make it, baby. Come on, let's do it.

Well, boy, was he polluted. I mean, he was all over me like a wet sponge, you know.

I'd gone that far, and naturally I wanted to go all the way.

What's the matter, honey?

Oh, tomorrow will maybe be better, huh? I should do some more work.

It'll be all right.

Hard, but I was pretty loaded myself.

You know, I could have done better alone. Nothing.

Come on.

That son of a bitch just had too much booze.

It was the most beautiful sex I've ever had. I'm a fiction

writer for a woman's magazine, and I'd never tried pot.

When this couple I know invited me to a party

and said we'd be turning on, I figured, why not?

I would live in your love as the seagrasses live in the sea.

Robert and I hit it off right away. He was an actor and shared my love for poetry.

I would empty my soul of the dreams that have gathered in me.

I would beat with your heart as it beats.

By the time we finished our second stick, I felt as if I was floating in air.

When his lips touched me, I felt a sudden burning sensation in my vagina.

It was as though I'd been transformed into a huge cut.

I wanted to suck him in me and keep him inside me forever.

It was fantastic. As soon as he was in me, I began to cum.

It took me 20 or 30 minutes to reach a climax,

which wasn't often because the men couldn't wait.

But the marijuana worked directly on my clitoris.

I must have cummed six times in the space of an hour.

I'm sold. Marijuana is the greatest sexual

stimulant since they invented the 12-inch penis.

And a hell of a lot easier to find.

This motion picture is a factual documentary dramatization based

on the testimony of thousands of people all over the United States

in all walks of life and in age levels from 18 to 50.

In order to protect identities, names and circumstances have been altered.

It is reliably estimated that over 200 million people

throughout the world are at present using marijuana.

United Nations report. The year was 1951.

Sir, do you see this bag? Do you have any idea what's in there?

I would guess that those are marijuana cigarettes.

Do you want to reach in and take one out, sir?

First time I've had that privilege, thank you so much.

Am I permitted to smoke this on Hollywood Boulevard?

Do you drink liquor?

Now and then, socially only.

What does it do for you, sir?

I'll quote a medical authority of whom I'm very fond, who says,

Alcohol is to middle age what milk is to childhood.

What kind of an effect would you say a person who smokes marijuana gets?

I would say, from those that I've... After all, I live in Hollywood.

I run into these people. I have neighbors who...

...somewhat similar to the pills.

The so-called... The highs and the lows?

The highs, chiefly.

Would you say it's a high or a low? The high.

Would you say that marijuana is an aphrodisiac?

No, not in the physical sense.

Only in the sense that it might cause a relaxation of the inhibitions of the booze.

Marijuana comes from the flowering tops and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.

It has been known to man for almost five thousand years.

The origin of its use as an intoxicant can be traced back to China,

where it was used to relieve pain during surgery.

It was grown for centuries in the United

States as a source of rope and cloth fibers,

bird seeds, certain essential oils and medicinal products.

It was a cash crop for many farmers, including, it

is said, George Washington at his Mount Vernon farm.

From its origin in China, where it was called the delight giver,

the fast-growing weed crept into India, where the culture of hemp became a science.

A sticky resin forms on the top leaves before the plant is fully grown.

In order to collect this precious substance without destroying the rest of the plant,

completely naked men were driven with whips, pell-mell through the rows of plants.

Whatever resin stuck to their sweaty bodies was scraped off and turned into hashish,

a more powerful version of marijuana itself.

In our country, the popular discovery of marijuana as

a safe euphoric began among the poor minority groups.

During prohibition, when liquor was not easily available,

many people discovered it was cheaper and less

harmful to smoke the dried leaves of the hemp plant.

It was stimulating and relaxing, completely non-toxic

and non-addictive as opposed to alcohol or heroin.

Medical uses of marijuana in America date back to 1840.

Until it was declared illegal in 1937, the drug had

been used successfully by generations of doctors

for relief of cough, rheumatism, asthma, migraine,

chronic alcoholism, mental depression, epileptic fits,

itching of eczema, menstrual discomfort, and as an aphrodisiac.

I don't see how any girl can have a normal sex life the way parents scare their kids.

Jill was a virgin when I married her and nothing I could do

would get her to go to bed with me before our wedding day.

That first night was hell.

It sure was.

When David got into bed, I thought I would die.

I couldn't bear to let him see my body in the light.

Our honeymoon was a nightmare.

Took me until six o'clock in the morning before she let me put it in.

When I finally did and succeeded in breaking her cherry, she fainted from the shock.

Always in the dark. I mean, always in the dark. Only the one position of me on top.

And God help, I wasn't able to come and finish in five minutes.

Excuse me, I'd like to hear more about your patient with the drugs.

I had a sudden inspiration and decided to try something.

For our second wedding anniversary, David thought

it would be romantic if we had a second honeymoon.

So he got us the same hotel room we had the first

night and ordered a scrumptious dinner with champagne.

Happy anniversary.

Since Jill didn't smoke at all, I had a friend

make up some cookies loaded with marijuana.

Champagne's great.

Normally you feel the effect of smoking pot immediately.

But when it's baked, it can be two hours before the full high hits.

In fact, everything's great, you know that?

Yes, isn't it?

I feel really great.

By the time we finished the champagne, she was flying.

Suddenly, I felt such love for David, it seemed

to burst out of every opening in my body.

I wanted him to see it, so I took off all my clothes.

It was as though I turned into a bird, soaring.

Oh, don't.

It was miraculous.

All the things she froze up from before, she encouraged and enjoyed.

She went down on me.

She couldn't even look at my pretty floor.

Now we were giving each other head like normal, uninhibited lovers.

Every position, and she loved it, couldn't seem to get enough.

It was spectacular, like Vesuvius erupting.

The greatest thing is, we don't even need marijuana anymore.

Once she relaxed and forgot all that crap her

mother fed her for years, we got a great sex life.

Not everyone agrees on the value of marijuana.

The Treasury Department intends to pursue a relentless warfare against the

despicable, dope-peddling vulture who preys on the weakness of his fellow man.

Strangely enough, nobody in the United States government made

a big fuss over the lowly hemp plant until the early 1930s.

By that time, prohibition was repealed and alcohol was flowing freely again.

Only, the people who began to use grass with liquor whiskers

realized it was cheaper, quicker, and had no bad hangover effects.

So they stayed with weed and began to tell their friends.

In 1930, the government established the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

Why it was done at this particular time is a mystery.

Harry J. Anslinger was appointed its chief.

For the next seven years, Mr. Anslinger warned against the killer drug.

And I say marijuana is a killer drug!

Every newspaper, popular magazine, and radio station

throughout the country carried the scare campaign.

Meanwhile, sales of liquor boomed.

In 1937, under public pressure generated by bureau propaganda,

Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, making possession a crime.

And the spectacle was on.

Thousands of underprivileged people were thrown into jail during carefully staged.

Masses of marijuana were seized and publicly burned for

the cameras of newspapers and newsreels all over the world.

There remained one man, however, who was not convinced by the hysteria.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mayor of the great city of New York.

LaGuardia remembered a report from the Army Board of Inquiry saying they

had found the drug relatively harmless among soldiers in the canal zone.

In 1938, the mayor consulted the distinguished New York Academy of Medicine.

He asked them to make a thorough study of marijuana use

in New York City and to report their findings to him.

A committee of 28 dedicated scientists began a series of very comprehensive

laboratory tests on every aspect of the drug, including its effect on the user.

Published in 1944, the 212-page report remains to this day as the

only controlled, carefully documented study of marijuana in the field.

Its conclusions are very interesting.

Marijuana is not directly responsible for any criminal or sexual misbehavior.

Using marijuana will not itself cause physical or mental degeneracy.

Habitual smokers will not overuse the drug because

they know too large a dose can act as a depressant.

Marijuana is not medically addicting, nor does it

cause physical withdrawal problems like opiates do.

So-called juvenile disease does not stem from the use of marijuana.

No one has ever died from just smoking marijuana.

This report has been suppressed to the point

where copies are practically unobtainable.

You know what this is?

Yeah, that's an American flag.

It is, huh? Wrapped up.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, that's a... Holy God, that's a marijuana.

Right.

Wrapped up an American flag.

Right.

Yeah.

If you ever smoke one, you don't have to be afraid of it.

Three orders of French fried potatoes, three hunks of

apple pie, three cups of coffee, and three orders of toast.

That was what brought me, and I said, no,

not for me, because I didn't want to get fat.

All right, how about liquor?

Do you drink liquor?

Once in a while.

Do you think it's an... No.

Do you think it's a depressant?

It's a depressant.

Do you think it would enhance or depress your sexual... It would depress the sexual.

And when you're out like this, there you go, and you load it.

As a result of the 1937 Tax Act and the 1956 Narcotic Control Act,

it has become impossible for doctors to prescribe the

beneficial uses of the drug as they did for centuries.

Nor can research scientists investigate the proven therapeutic

application that could help mankind conquer disease.

Hi.

What's your name? Leslie.

Hi.

I'm Beth.

Would you please...

Hello.

Hi.

How are you? Good.

How are you?

What's your name?

This is a sensitivity group.

An offshoot of group therapy, it has proven very effective

in confronting the individual with the problems of his peers.

As our first thing, would you all this roll? Oh, my God.

Yes.

Just take your clothes off.

We'll get into the exercises at once.

Please just roll.

That's fine.

The object is to achieve insight into one's own problems

by discussing them freely in a meaningful group encounter.

Here we are.

Put their arms out and down.

Now, shake them.

Come on.

Shake them.

Shake them hard.

Keep the arms straight.

Shake your hands.

Now.

Jump up and down.

Come on.

Jump up and down.

Come on.

Come on.

Don't forget to breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe hard.

Jump.

Okay.

Stop.

Drop the hands.

Now.

Now.

Yvonne.

Yes.

Make a sound like you're just having a climax.

Worth feeling.

That's better.

Pat, you do the same thing.

Make a sound like you're having a climax.

Come on.

Don't think.

Do it.

Come on.

Oh, come on.

Oh, okay.

With feeling.

Oh, feeling.

Don't think.

Oh, my God.

Just do it.

No, no, no.

That's not it.

Just do it.

Is that it?

I only can come once.

Under the watchful eye of the leader,

locked up together for days until a breakthrough

is achieved and true motivation revealed.

Now, Rebecca, stand here.

Right here.

Now, everybody move in and put their hands on Rebecca.

Come on.

Put your hands... Put your hands on her.

Pat.

Now, just the fingertips.

Just the fingertips now.

I get the best part.

Slowly revolve and move the fingertips.

Groove her skin with your fingertips.

This should awaken your sense of touch.

Now, don't forget to breathe again.

Breathe deep.

Breathe deep.

Okay.

Now, just press in against her.

Get as much of your body as close to Rebecca as you can.

Come on, press in.

Press in against her.

Press.

Press.

And the other people.

That's all right.

Just press.

Get as close as you can.

Now, now.

Revolve in place.

Touch as much of your bodies to Rebecca and each other as you can.

Just start to revolve in place.

And Rebecca, you revolve in the middle.

Revolve in place.

Now, drop the hands or whatever you want so you become a cylinder or revolve.

Come on now.

Continue to revolve.

Come on.

Breathe.

Feel your bodies.

Feel them.

Breathe.

Feel each other.

Don't allow me in the group.

Breathe.

Revolve.

Revolve.

Revolve in place.

Keep going.

Come on.

Keep going.

Stay in a circle.

Come on now.

Press in.

Stay in a circle.

Revolve.

Feel each other.

Okay? Okay? Stop.

Patty?

Yeah?

Go over there and get on your hands and knees.

On my hands and knees?

Yes.

Now, crawl towards Pat and stare at his penis.

These people, man.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

This is gross.

Okay.

Relax.

Terry.

Come here.

Cindy.

Take off your glasses.

No, no.

I need them.

I know.

Take them off.

Yeah, man.

We're going to make some clown out of you now.

He's got eyes.

Good boy.

Yeah, he does have eyes.

Cindy.

Cindy.

Kiss the most important part of Terry's body.

Terry.

Kiss the most important part of Cindy's body.

Come on, Terry.

Change of minds.

Fair play.

Turn around.

All right.

Turn around.

Sorry, you coward.

Okay.

Cindy.

Face forward.

Now, relax.

Pull back.

Backward.

Now, here.

Take these and arouse her senses.

Tickle her penis.

I think she likes that.

Who knew?

Perhaps, if marijuana were legally available for research,

its mind-expanding qualities would foster better rapport between the individuals,

leading to easier encounter therapy.

Man's search for an aphrodisiac that really works goes back thousands of years.

Actually, when man started out, there was no need for a sexual stimulant.

Courtships were very simple.

If a man wanted a sex partner, he reached out and took her,

fornicating openly and in front of everyone

else who happened to be in the neighborhood.

He had no hang-ups.

As civilization progressed, man became more inhibited.

What he once did openly, now went on only behind closed doors.

His mind became closed as well.

Social and interpersonal pressures caused many

men to become impotent, unable to have sex.

Other animals did not have sex at naturally, any time and any place.

So, man looked for an aphrodisiac that would mean

instant, perfect sex with any partner he chose.

Some men believe foods rich in vitamin E will increase virility

and allow them to sustain an erection longer.

Others hold that certain liquors such as Absinthe,

Mescal, or Damiana are true aphrodisiacs.

There is no scientific proof of this.

The most famous aphrodisiac is the notorious Spanish Fly.

This is a powder made from dried blister beetles.

It is also called Cantherides.

What it does, aside from raising blisters, is act as an irritant,

which no amount of rubbing or penis stimulation will satisfy.

A frustrating situation.

The ancient Chinese used red pepper for this,

or another devilish device containing sulfur, which drove women crazy

and left them physically unsatisfied no matter how many times they climaxed.

What is the difference between making love stoned and not stoned?

Everything is heightened, it seems better, you know.

How do you feel sexually when you drink liquor? Usually sick.

Today, sex is no longer a forbidden subject.

Men and women both want to enjoy the widest range of sexual pleasure that is available,

as is their right.

Is it any wonder they search for an aphrodisiac

which will stimulate the desire for sex in the most beautiful way possible?

Aphrodisiac, a substance contributing to a sensuous

state of euphoria which excites sexual desire.

It is claimed the chief effect of marijuana is to cause the user to feel euphoric.

And something else.

I can screw much longer on grass.

This was a big surprise to me.

I never understood why my relationship with girls never lasted very long.

Apparently I was a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am kind of lover.

My own secretary turned me on to the joys of being able to bawl for an hour or more.

I had an early morning meeting and asked the girl to work late.

She had been with me about two months.

I hadn't found time to take her out, but I did find some good vibes going with her.

When I dried up, she offered me some grass.

Said it would help me think.

It was great shit.

Four hits and I was up.

In fact, I felt so good, so fast, I said to hell with work.

Time seemed to expand for us.

This was something I'd heard about but had never experienced.

The distortion of minutes.

We spent a long, long time just finding out about each other's bodies.

Every piece of skin became an extension of our minds.

Every nook and cranny.

Every bend and swell.

Filled all of our senses with a sexual excitement.

If it wasn't for the marijuana, I would have been at the fucking stage already.

But this was a spiritual experience for the both of us.

I was happy just kissing and feeling.

The pot worked down from my head and made my nerve endings move up closer to my skin.

It was making the anticipation of the act almost as exciting as the act itself.

Quite a feeling for a guy who specialized in a three minute jump.

When we finally got to putting it in, the whole thing seemed to move in slow motion.

I was always very proud of the size of my organ.

It used to blow girls' minds when I rolled it out of my pants.

But now, floating as I was on the super grass we'd had,

it suddenly hit me like a flash of light that I had always

used my penis as a club to beat women into submission.

This is why I would jump them and pump them and jam

them as fast as I could before having a climax myself.

It occurred to me that I was punishing women by using my cock as a weapon.

When I realized all of this, I almost cried.

The marijuana brought me to a moment of truth with myself.

And in the best possible circumstances.

Here, with this girl, I was going to make up for all the

wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am beatings I had jumped on women

since I lost my chariot at the age of eleven.

I began to really concentrate on the girl, and in her ultimate pleasure,

all thoughts of my own satisfaction were pushed from my mind.

Focusing my tingling senses on her love

center, I used the head of my penis as a probe,

trying to find every sensitive area in her vagina, and caress it.

We actually made love for an hour and a half. It was fantastic.

Positions I would never suggest to any girl before

seemed very natural and exciting to both of us.

I felt like a superman.

There was such a blending between us, we flashed

immediately on what the other was feeling.

The girl was going crazy.

I don't think she had ever been made love to for as long a period of time.

Or with such fulfillment as I was giving her.

She looked at me as though I were a god. What a marvelous feeling.

I glowed with a sexual pride I had never felt before.

And it was all because the pot had given me a moment of truth.

Finally, I couldn't hold back anymore.

This had been the most exciting, most turned-on sex I had ever had.

I gathered the girl up in my arms and stood in the

center of the room like an ancient statue of love.

The rising passions in her body held us in a grip

of sexual frenzy that made us seem ten feet tall.

When we finally came, it was the longest orgasm I had ever experienced.

Not only the longest, it was the most intense searing spasm

that seemed to roll on and on like waves at the beach.

The girl had tears in her eyes, and I had a roaring in

my ears like the applause of a hundred thousand people.

Pot really opened my head about sex.

I'm a much better lover now, more adventurous, you know?

And it stays with me even when I'm straight, not on grass.

In my opinion, anyone who has a sexual hang-up should at least try marijuana.

Not everyone agrees.

Pot can be dangerous if you're with the wrong people.

Like, if you agree to go to a guy's pad and

get it on, that's as good as staying your ball.

So, better be careful who you smoke with.

A researcher studying marijuana reactions in adults under a research grant says,

Our studies have shown that most people over 30 who were raised with strong

negative warnings about dope have an almost psychotic reaction when they try it.

After all, if you've heard Pot turns you into a junkie all

your life, you can't expect to dig it the first time out.

A psychiatrist says,

Your own mental state has a lot to do with your reaction to pot.

If you think it will make you very nervous and

tense, then that's exactly what will happen to you.

I know one man who thought he would die if he used grass, and

the first time he tried it, he actually got physically sick.

Pot can have other effects.

The property of time expansion can hamper driving judgment.

This is bad.

Already, half of the 53,000 traffic deaths each year occur

in accidents in which people have been drinking alcohol.

Of course, another 20,000 people die every year

from diseases due to excessive use of alcohol.

And another 5 million people are true medical problems

of varying degrees because of their alcoholism.

However, let's stick to the bad effects of marijuana.

The worst effect grass can have is to put you in

jail for from 2 to 40 years just for carrying it.

It is an illegal drug.

Another claim often made by the anti-pot community is that

continued use can only lead to the hard drugs, opium, heroin, LSD.

The former head of the federal government's drug abuse program reports

only 1% of the habitual daily users of marijuana goes on to other drugs.

As for physical harm, this authority states, it's pretty obvious with the

large number of users that there is not much acute damage being caused.

Much is made of the psychological dependence

an habitual user can develop for marijuana.

What is not known is how unfavorably this compares with other habituating habits

formed by products widely advertised and condoned by the federal government.

And marijuana contains no evidence of

carcinogens which is suspected of causing cancer.

Do you feel it's an aphrodisiac?

It depends on the mood you're in. It's not always an aphrodisiac.

Sometimes you just fall asleep.

We can only assume the secret of marijuana's sexual power

was passed from campus to campus starting in the early 60s.

Before then, alcohol was the tool used to relax the inhibitions

of college girls away from the watchful eyes of their parents.

Let's see what has happened since then.

Of course I've had sexual intercourse on con.

This is the age of freedom for the individual.

We want to do away with all the old hang-ups we've inherited

from our parents. Pollution, war, prejudice, virginity.

First time I turned on was with Alex.

We were protesting together in front of the

school and couldn't help noticing each other.

We were for different causes, but we were drawn together by the complete

lack of interest shown by the students for meaningful confrontations.

When Alex asked me if I would like to share a drink with him, I jumped at the chance.

I just hoped my lack of experience wouldn't be obvious.

Deep in the bushes behind the buildings, we shared like a spiritual moment.

The dope filled my head with all kinds of goodies.

I watched him very closely to make sure I was doing it right.

By the time I had the hang of it, I felt like

a cherry floating in a marshmallow sundae.

When Alex kissed me, I got all tingly, starting with my toes.

By the time the tingle got to my thing, I knew

what was going to happen, and I was so happy.

Lucky, lucky, I kept saying to myself.

My first pot, my first sex, and my first black.

When I saw his yummy brown body, all I could think of

was the little chocolate babies we used to eat as kids.

His skin tasted sweet as sugar.

My head was swimming with sexy calories.

And the things it was doing to my body, I couldn't stop thinking about it.

His body was unreal.

I wanted to eat his whole body, especially what was between his legs.

And he obviously liked what he tasted of me.

It was like grooving on chocolate candy and angel food cake all at the same time.

We were making a feast on each other's organs.

When he jammed his lollipop between my lower lips, I sucked him hungrily.

The whole thing was like a massive dessert trip for me.

The pot made me remember my childhood when my

parents wouldn't let me eat candy because of my acne.

Now they weren't around to stop me.

Alex filled my whole body with yumminess.

Ice cream and cake and good and plenties and jujubes

and you knows and baby roofs and butterfingers.

It was a very heavy, meaningful experience.

Nobody knows for sure how many people smoke marijuana.

According to one estimate, between 8 and 20 million Americans have tried it.

A recent Life magazine article guessed between 7% and

85% of the soldiers in Vietnam turn on when not on duty.

It remained for Playboy magazine to do a definitive

poll and set the record straight, at least in colleges.

In 1970, Playboy conducted one of the largest student opinion polls ever taken.

A survey of nearly 200 campuses across the country, 7,300 students interviewed.

Here's what they found.

47%, nearly half, of those interviewed said they had used marijuana.

Here's another bombshell.

Kinsey reported 49.4% of the males and 73% of the females in his

college samples had not had premarital intercourse by age 21.

Playboy found the number of virgins had

dropped to 18% for males and 49% for females.

And few of their respondents had even reached their 21st birthday.

What kind of an effect do you get when you smoke?

Much better than liquor.

Much better than liquor? Well, tell me exactly how you feel.

You don't feel sloppy. Your mind is just blurred.

Well, I feel like I can think more clearly.

Say that again, please.

I feel that I can think more clearly when I

smoke this than I can when I'm drinking liquor.

Does it make you feel sexy?

It just makes everything at a higher peak.

Can you tell me any experience that you've had with liquor section? Can't do it.

It just kills everything.

Confirming the use of marijuana as a sexual stimulant are these figures.

62% of the girls who have never used pot have never had intercourse.

While only 14% of the girls who use pot frequently remain virgins.

Only 20% of the men who never use pot say they have intercourse frequently.

While more than twice as many, 43% of male

marijuana users said they frequently have sex.

Is it any wonder grass slipped off the campuses and into the homes

of many professional people who were tuned in to the youth scene?

So you can recognize which of your friends is a head, here's a cook's tour of pot.

This is a kilo of dried leaves, stems, and seeds.

This uncleaned key will just about fill the box when it's unwrapped.

A kilo is 2.2 pounds or 35.2 ounces.

It sells in New York for between $175 and

$250 and in Los Angeles between $90 and $140.

The closer to Mexico the cheaper.

This is a lid, an ounce of uncleaned grass.

It sells for between $10 and $20 depending on where and the current market.

If you buy a kilo for $100 and sell 35 lids for $10 each,

that's a profit of $250 and a stiff jail sentence if you're caught.

The majority of imported grass comes into this country from Mexico.

It is smuggled across the border in a variety of ingenious ways.

Dubbed up mufflers, stuffed in gas tanks,

hidden in cars, baby diapers, pumpkins, toys,

shot across the border by arrows, boats, airplanes, someone even tried a submarine.

Pot can also be homegrown.

Trouble is it takes four months and is the devil to hide.

Plants can grow 20 feet high, easy to spot from the air.

Rolling cigarettes by hand is a tricky business.

You don't want it too thin or it will burn too fast.

And not too fat or you'll waste more grass than you need to get high.

Of course you first clean the marijuana with a strainer.

Cigarette paper is sold everywhere and comes in all flavors.

Imagine strawberry pot.

Is this familiar to you?

Yes.

What is it?

I think it's the American flag.

The age of automation has come forth with an inexpensive machine for

cluxes who can't mimic Randolph Scott or Joel McCray enrolling their own.

It turns out a very satisfactory joint but it's not as much fun.

Of course if you are really lazy you can empty a filter

cigarette down to about a quarter inch of tobacco.

This is to eliminate having to throw away a good roach and fill it with grass.

To save the roach or last quarter inch of pot there are various tools.

Clips, holders, tweezers, hairpins and even a paper match.

There are pros and cons on the use of pipes.

Some say they burn too fast and smell if they're not cleaned often.

They do cool the smoke.

The hookah or water pipe is the ultimate in cooling pot smoke for utmost enjoyment.

A few enterprising souls make their own coolers.

Experts say that eating cooked grass is absolutely the best way to use it.

Don't eat it without cooking it or you'll get sick.

Everything's just great.

Eating cooked grass is the easiest way of getting stoned and it

keeps you more stoned longer than smoking or any other method.

You usually don't feel the effects after eating it for a good hour.

This is the easiest method of eating pot.

Fry over a low to medium fire for about five minutes stirring to avoid burning.

It is done when it begins to turn brown and wisps of smoke appear.

Let it cool a few minutes then grind into a powder.

Now you can do anything you want with it.

Put it in ice cream, butter, milkshakes,

jello, anything which doesn't require cooking.

Put it in honey and freeze it into squares for later.

And she just says it's like a little bit of a high.

It makes her feel relaxed and she's also a writer and

she feels like it loosens up her creativity a little bit.

It makes you more relaxed.

If you're uptight about sex it's going to make you more relaxed about it.

Alright, anything like drugs or anything that

releases any of your own inhibitions is going to,

and including sex, is going to maybe be called an aphrodisiac.

The traditional method of cooking is to make cookies or brownies.

Just remember one thing.

When cooking you must use a large amount of marijuana

since the heat seems to dissipate the effect.

Don't worry about putting in too much.

According to a recent experiment, the amount needed to kill a

mouse is 40,000 times the amount it takes to get a man high.

So a lethal dose for a man might be a hundred pounds of grass eaten all at once.

Well, so much for the usage.

Now let's find out about the future of marijuana.

It is obvious that the practice of smoking marijuana

will continue no matter what laws are passed against it.

The drug is too inexpensive, too easily available,

and too effective as a euphoria and de-inhibitor.

As for the popular belief that marijuana is a sexual stimulant or aphrodisiac,

the drug does influence sexual response by releasing restraints

and thus permitting greater freedom of participation by the user.

Also, by disorienting time and space, the drug makes the

experience of orgasm seem more prolonged and more intense,

and the desire for sex and stimulation to the

act, however, must originate with the individual.

Marijuana is no cure-all for impotence, but it

is an effective releaser of normal inhibitions.

There's a danger of pot being legalized.

If it were brought under government control like the

tobacco industry and a uniformly mild type sold in stores,

the underworld would be forced to push the harder stuff.

That would be far worse.

We had a sample of this in 1969 when Operation

Intercept went into effect at the Mexican border.

With no marijuana coming in, the pushers did a big business in hash and heroin.

These are the true killer drugs.

Must guard against this happening again.

What is needed is more research into the effects of marijuana.

If this drug is really an aphrodisiac or has aphrodisiacal properties,

it could be of tremendous benefit to science

and mankind in bettering human relations.

Perhaps something could be done to help the estimated

50 percent of women who have trouble reaching a climax,

or the large percentage of men who suffer from premature

ejaculation, or even the homosexuality of a lesbian.

If enough upper and middle class adults

became pot users, who knows what would happen.

You permit automobiles on the road which poison the air,

liquor to be available that attacks the human body,

and firearms sold to anyone who has the money.

Isn't it possible we may relent enough to allow an

adult to legally smoke marijuana in his own home?