This week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be learned from the propaganda-parody musical - Reefer Madness!

"Viewed through eyes blurred by no substance stronger than cough syrup, the film is still mildly diverting, with its censorious, bespectacled narrator and its scenes showing wholesome high-school students transformed into monsters by a single puff. It even has a weird, sort of Expressionist power in its mad, jerky party scenes. But its humor, especially for head-movie fans, has always been in its somber, tabloid-style hyperbole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Murphy_(screenwriter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(2005_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_tale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_J._Gasnier

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