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Buy This Item Grass by Homevision  Available from Amazon  $24.99  on 11-17-2008     <i>Grass</i>, narrated by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, takes a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America's most deeply rooted cultural myths: the evils of "pot", "cannabis", "weed", "dubich", "doobie", "shrub", or whatever man. From the story of America's first drug czar, to the absurd scare tactics behind propaganda films like Reefer Madness, and Marijuana: Threat or Menace, director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist) poignantly and humorously exposes the social, political and economic facts behind this enduring weed, and the extent to which it has profoundly shaped our culture. Reader Reviews I've always wondered about the historical reasons for pot's highly illegal status even while I am accutely aware of the failed ability of the Drug War to address America's interaction with drugs. This film does best in the pre-1980's historical context. The film has incredible historical footage and regardless of your political persuasion, is worth checking out. However, what was amazing to me, revealed in the film, and which I continue to confirm in my own research, was that any time the Federal Government actually used science to research pot, it found the legal penalties to be much to harsh and that pot's affect on health and society isn't the boogeyman made to be by our enforcement brances of government. My conclusion, and maybe yours too, would be that continuing the marijuanna farce degrades the Federal Government's credibility and only lends support to the fact the US Gov't bases drug policy on fear, racism, and hysteria.

Grass Available from Amazon Price: $24.99 Updated on 11-17-2008.

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