Reefer Madness isn’t the only drug-hysteria film out there, you know. One year later, there was Assassin of Youth, another misguided anti-“marihuana” lecture disguised as entertainment that today, because of its misinformation and over-the-top histrionics, is entertainment.
As an opening newspaper headline screams, “AGED WOMAN KILLED,” leaving young, virginal, good girl Joan (Luana Walters, The Corpse Vanishes) in line to inherit her grandmother’s fortune. But what happens when she gets mixed up with the wrong crowd?
A reporter working undercover as a soda jerk is about to find out along with her. After the kids enjoy their malted milks, you see, they go out for a smokefest, which causes them to tell bad jokes, do swami dances and attack each other with butcher knives (whereas, in reality, pot simply causes people to eat snack foods, smell like damp basements and be under the severe delusion that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a good movie). —Rod Lott
I will defend Rocky Horror Picture Show to the death sir…now where’s my raw potato?