Documentary on the dangers of smoking marijuana with a strung out looking Sonny Bono narrating it has about the opposite effect on those watching. With a spaced out looking Sonny, dressed up to look like the Dalai Lama, telling us how dangerous it is it makes one wonder if he's following his own advice about the danger of pot or marijuana smoking! Since looking like he's high on pot himself! And looks as if its effects haven't yet worn off him where he can look and speak like a normal person! Sonny to his credit does makes a number of important points in just how much more dangerous to one's health tobacco and alcohol as well as prescribed or over the counter drugs are to pot smoking but then, probably under the urging of those sponsoring the film, drops the matter all together! And then concentrates solely on the dangers of marijuana for the remainder of the documentary.
This in fact seems to destroy Sonny's argument about the dangers of marijuana since his explaining just how dangerous the other substances, that unlike pot are in fact legal, are when in comparison to marijuana it makes pot almost, in seeing how strung out and happy he is, desirable. Watching the documentary you almost get the feeling that it's cryptically endorsing pot instead of condemning it! The very fact that it uses Sonny Bono, a member of the tune in turn on drop out generation of the late 1960's, as it's spokesman makes you suspicious about what it's really telling us.
You see right at the start of the documentary how a bunch of teen and collage age man & women, or better yet boys & girls, are run in by the police after they were busted at a pot party claiming that what their doing, smoking pot, is their legal right protected by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. There's no argument about what their saying and it even seems to be endorsed by the documentary. It's after that early sequence that the film makes a hard right turn with a drugged out looking Sonny Bono at the wheel turning the people being busted for the use of marijuana into common criminals instead of civil and human rights activists!
This in fact seems to destroy Sonny's argument about the dangers of marijuana since his explaining just how dangerous the other substances, that unlike pot are in fact legal, are when in comparison to marijuana it makes pot almost, in seeing how strung out and happy he is, desirable. Watching the documentary you almost get the feeling that it's cryptically endorsing pot instead of condemning it! The very fact that it uses Sonny Bono, a member of the tune in turn on drop out generation of the late 1960's, as it's spokesman makes you suspicious about what it's really telling us.
You see right at the start of the documentary how a bunch of teen and collage age man & women, or better yet boys & girls, are run in by the police after they were busted at a pot party claiming that what their doing, smoking pot, is their legal right protected by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. There's no argument about what their saying and it even seems to be endorsed by the documentary. It's after that early sequence that the film makes a hard right turn with a drugged out looking Sonny Bono at the wheel turning the people being busted for the use of marijuana into common criminals instead of civil and human rights activists!