Drug Propaganda Thursday

Radley Balko | February 8, 2007

An obviously stoned Sonny Bono warns of the dangers of marijuana.

Comments

|2.8.07 @ 6:05PM|#

I get you blunted offa funny homegrown
Cuz when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny Bono

|2.8.07 @ 6:10PM|#

People w/ mustaches are not to be trusted...in particular the ones slurring their speech with Orange shiny leisure suits. Something about his eyes though screams "Trust me," almost paternal in nature.

|2.8.07 @ 6:11PM|#

He didn't say not to smoke pot, he just warned of becoming a pot head. That said, I wish he would have OD'd on smack or something before he ever went to Washington DC.

Warren|2.8.07 @ 6:16PM|#

WOW
It's hard to believe that this is the guy who would one day become such a threat to big HFCS that they had to kill him (and make it look like an accident) before he could tell what he knew.

|2.8.07 @ 6:16PM|#

Pfffft. I would not consider becoming part of the criminal class known a congress as "making something meaningful of your life."
I was so articulate..............
for a stoned white guy.

|2.8.07 @ 6:17PM|#

I = He. Oooop snarky comment blown

Dave W.|2.8.07 @ 6:23PM|#

The stuff will make ya paranoid I have heard.

|2.8.07 @ 6:29PM|#

They showed the entire film to us when I was in high school (ca. 1970). We all thought he was pretty obviously stoned, too.

Terry Michael|2.8.07 @ 6:46PM|#

I think he was using the legal psychoactive, good old-fashioned alcohol. LOL

|2.8.07 @ 9:41PM|#

That said, I wish he would have OD'd on smack or something before he ever went to Washington DC.

Yup. All I can think about after seeing that is the utterly reprehensible copyright extension law that bears his name.

brian423 (not Brian24)|2.8.07 @ 11:01PM|#

Here's the whole film.

Inversatile|2.8.07 @ 11:06PM|#

If you watch it stoned, does he appear un-stoned?

brian423 (not Brian24)|2.8.07 @ 11:16PM|#

No. Take my word for it.

dhex|2.8.07 @ 11:18PM|#

http://www.archive.org/details/keep_off_the_grass

keep off the grass (where some frames from this were taken) is one of hte few anti-drug movies worth watching from start to stop, in that it doesn't stop being hilarious.

and scary. great sampling opportunities:

"oh pop...establishment propaganda?"

dhex|2.9.07 @ 12:23AM|#

also, a question for the old timers: did people really use the phrase "blowing pot" ?

|2.9.07 @ 4:11AM|#

I love how beneath the slate of his name, they add the word "entertainer." Just in case anybody wasn't sure...

Andrew Ian Dodge|2.9.07 @ 6:29AM|#

God that is funny...man does he looked stoned off his gord. The guy getting out of the car and leaving it is damn funny.

|2.9.07 @ 9:45AM|#

Ghost ride the whip!

|2.9.07 @ 10:48AM|#

The stuff will make ya paranoid I have heard.

Maybe, but if you smoke it, they really are out to get you.

|2.9.07 @ 11:04AM|#

Its not the stuff making me paranoid its other people delight in taking away my freedom that makes me paranoid. The pot itself is nice and relaxing in a don't wake up hung over with puke on my shoes like JD kind of way.

I think the Admin needs to put more money into these successful ad campaigns. Oh wait, nevermind.

Larry A|2.9.07 @ 12:47PM|#

What I really love is the whole "Your teen years are the time you grow up and learn to be an adult so the government is going to treat you like a child by making all your decisions" irony.

|2.9.07 @ 12:54PM|#

This thing is in the public domain. No wonder he wanted to extend copyright!

|2.9.07 @ 1:04PM|#

Another fine work from Sid Davis. Too bad he never made any Global Warming or sSecond Hand Smoke films, but thank God we have Al Gore to do fill Sid's shoes now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Davis

|2.10.07 @ 12:31PM|#

The world as it really is is a place where that dude gets elected to Congress.

I'm going to go smoke a bowl.