Marijuana (1968 film): Difference between revisions

””’Marijuana””’ is a 34-minute 1968 anti-drug documentary film by [[Max Miller (director)|Max Miller]] and distributed by Avanti Films.{{citation|title=Society and the Environment: Contemporary Readings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G77ZAAAAMAAJ|author=Cecil E. Johnson |author2=Malcolm M. MacDonald |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold Company|year=1971|pages=118, 131}} It is narrated by [[Sonny Bono]]. It was described as “the first major film effort to center upon the use and possible risks of marijuana”,{{citation|title=99 [plus] Films on Drugs|publisher=Educational Film Library Association|year=1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pB4XAQAAMAAJ}} in which “arguments for and against its use are presented and the accumulation of arguments against is allowed to speak for itself”.{{citation|title=Kaapse Bibliotekaris|volume=16|publisher=Cape (of Good Hope, S.A.) Provincial Library Service|year=1972|page=lxv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnPoAAAAMAAJ}} Music for the documentary was composed by The Byrds’ [[Gene Clark]], a “bizarre” choice in his musical career, resulting in “meandering blues and pseudo-[[Psychedelic music|psychedelic]] instrumental jams”.{{citation|page=128|title=Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds’ Gene Clark|first=John |last=Einarson|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2005|oclc=57434178|isbn=978-0-87930-793-6}}