AWESOME!

Where'd you get the Hunter photo?

I don't recall how I stumbled upon it, likely via a google images search. I tried to find it again via google images again to give you a link, but with no luck. To tell you the truth, I wish I knew what the original source of publication was.

(1959) BBC - Showtime - Marx Brothers' Marijuana Grouch Bag

In a 1959 interview on BBC TV's Showtime, Chico Marx was asked how his brother Groucho got his name. Referring to the times when marijuana was legal and the Marx Brothers were a Vaudeville act (around 1920), he replied, "We used to wear a little bag around our neck, called a Grouch bag. In this bag we would keep our pennies, some marbles, a couple of pieces of candy, a little marijuana, whatever we could get...(laughter from the audience)... because, you know, we were studying to be musicians (big smile to the crowd). So that's where Groucho got his name." The clip, from the 1993 documentary The Unknown Marx Brothers from Winstar Home Video

High Society - The CIA on LSD [1of5]
High Society - The CIA on LSD [2of5]
High Society - The CIA on LSD [3of5]
High Society - The CIA on LSD [4of5]
High Society - The CIA on LSD [5of5]


Due to the glut of on-line resources on the subject, DML creates a timeline of the CIA's attempts at creating the perfect mind-control drug. Starring Aldous Huxley, Albert Hoffman, Allen Dulles, Gordon Wasson, Anthony Burgess Tim Leary, Ken Kesey, the Unibomber and Jim Jones! Also included: a 1997 CBC documentary "Bad Trip" about Steve Smith and his experience with coercive brainwashing and forced drugging in Oak Ridge Hospital in Ontario. WARNING - not to be watched on anything over 200 micrograms.

http://pot.tv/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2259.html

This great LSD timeline spans many decades, I felt the fifties was a good place to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcUto0xje0&feature=related

Marijuana, The Devil's Flower by Mr Sunshine

A campy cautionary tune from Linden, New Jersey's Regal Records' short-lived subsid R.F.D. by Mr. Sunshine. It's "Marijuana, The Devil's Flower"! R.F.D. started in 1951 and then shut down the same year to allow Regal to concentrate on their R&B roster that included Savannah Churchill, Paul Gayten and Larry Darnell.

(1954) Young Sinners (originally titled "Reefer Girl"). - MANNING, Jane (pseud. Ruth Manoff).

NY: Venus Books, 1954. Digest size. Good cover art by Rudolph Belarski depicting two blondes and their boyfriends smoking dope. "Girls of the Slums in a Mad Search for Teen-Age Thrills" (front cover blurb). Lower corner loss to wrappers, with associated wear to first and last four leaves, o/w Good. Source

(1952) Big Jim McClain

Big Jim McLain is a 1952 political thriller film starring John Wayne and James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the post-war Hawaii organized labor scene. Edward Ludwig directed.

The film has developed something of a cult following due to a perceivedly now-campy red scare theme. In some European markets the film was retitled as Marijuana and dispensed with the communist angle, making the villains drug dealers instead. This was achieved entirely through script changes and dubbing.

Its publicity slogan was: "He's A Go-Get'Em Guy for the U.S.A. on a Treason Trail That Leads Half-a-World Away!" source

(1958) Stakeout on Dope Street

Three teenagers find a briefcase with a beat-up old can in it. They throw away the can and pawn the suitcase. When they read in the papers that the can was full of uncut heroin and belonged to a drug dealer who killed two narcotics agents in a shootout, they go back to look for the can, find it, and decide to go into the heroin selling business. However, the drug dealer's gang also wants the heroin, finds out the boys have it, and sets out to hunt them down and get back their dope.Source

(1959) The Gene Krupa Story

Drummer Gene Krupa, one of the jazz greats of the 50's, is portrayed by Sal Mineo ("Rebel Without A Cause"), one of the teen acting greats of the 50's. The film combines them into a classic depiction of a young jazz drummer obsessed with following his muse and proving himself to the world. Although entirely factual, marihuana is given the role of antagonist when Krupa begins his slide down the dark side of the abyss when offered the demon weed. Not tempted enough to try it, he is later slipped a reefer by a singer when he asks for a cigarette. Discovering after one puff that it is the deadly weed, he takes another puff, and thus begins his troubles.

After a concert he is accosted by detectives in his dressing room, who have found some marihuana cigarettes (37!) in his dressing room. They arrest him, which causes him to be blackballed from the jazz world. The film's soundtrack features some excellent pieces recorded by Krupa himself. The film also breathed new life into Krupa's career, and soon he career is reborn. According to Krupa, a friend wanted to give Krupa a gift, and gave him some marihuana. The police were tipped off and began searching the theater where Gene's band was playing. Krupa said; "I suddenly remembered the stuff's at the hotel where they're going next. So I call up my new valet and say, 'Send my laundry out. In one of my coats you'll find some cigarettes. Throw them down the toilet.' But the kid puts them in his pocket and the police nail him on the way out, so I get arrested. The ridiculous thing was that I was such a boozer I never thought about grass. I'd take grass, and it would put me to sleep. I was an out-and-out lush. Oh, sure, I was mad. But how long can you stay mad? So long you break out in rashes? Besides, the shock of the whole thing probably helped me. I might have gone to much worse things. It brought me back to religion." Source