About Reefer Madness (Tell your Children)

Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy.

Movie Details

Language: English

Year of production: 1936

Length: 01:07'

Country: United States


  • Directors:
    Louis J. Gasnier
  • Producers:
    Samuel Diege
    George A. Hirliman
    Dwain Esper
  • Actors:
    Dorothy Short
    Kenneth Craig
    Lillian Miles
    Dave O'Brien
    Thelma White
    Carleton Young
    Warren McCollum

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