- Mr. Wayne - Federal Bureau Investigator: Here is an example: A 16 year old lad apprehended in the act of staging a holdup - 16 years old and a marijuana addict. Here is a most tragic case.
- Dr. Carroll: Yes. I remember. Just a young boy... under the influence of the drug... he killed his entire family with an axe.
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- Dr. Carroll: We must work untiringly so that our children are obliged to learn the truth. Because, it is only through knowledge that we can safely protect them. Failing this, the next tragedy may be that of your daughter - or your son - or yours - or yours...
- [points to camera]
- Dr. Carroll: or yours!
- Dr. Carroll: I'm going to ask you a straightforward question: isn't it true that you have, perhaps unwillingly, acquired a certain habit through association with certain undesirable people?
- Opening Scroll: FOREWORD: The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly-increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug - a violent narcotic - an unspeakable scourge - The Real Public Enemy Number One! Its first effect is sudden violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations - space expands - time slows down, almost stands still... .fixed ideas come next, conjuring up monstrous extravagances - followed by emotional disturbances, the total inability to direct thoughts, the loss of all power to resist physical emotions... leading finally to acts of shocking violence... ending often in incurable insanity. In picturing its soul-destroying effects no attempt was made to equivocate. The scenes and incidents, while fictionized for the purposes of this story, are based upon actual research into the results of Marihuana addiction. If their stark reality will make you think, will make you aware that something must be done to wipe out this ghastly menace, then the picture will not have failed in its purpose... . Because the dread Marihuana may be reaching forth next for your son or daughter... .or yours... .or YOURS!
- Mr. Wayne - Federal Bureau Investigator: Then there is the most vicious type of case. Here. In Michigan. A young girl, 17 years old, a reefer smoker. Taken in a raid in the company of five young men. Here is a particularly flagrant case.
- Jack: Oh, why don't you button up your lip? You're always squawkin' about something. You've got more static than a radio.
- Bill: Ya know after that session we had yesterday, I went home and told mother that the trouble with her pot roast gravy was that she hadn't added three heaping teaspoonfuls of olive oil.
- [Laughs]
- Mary: What did she say?
- Bill: She didn't say anything; she just threw me out of the kitchen.
- Mary: Why, no wonder.
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- Dr. Carroll: It must be stopped! You and other parent groups around the country. And you must stand united on this and stamp out this frightful assassin of our youth.
- Dr. Carroll: It is only through enlightenment that this scourge can be wiped out. Out of the trafficking of these drugs, a lawlessness that we can scarcely estimate has grown and is now flourishing. It exist in almost every city and hamlet in the country.
- Bill's Lawyer: Did you, during the last three months, notice any changes in the demeanor and attitude of your student, William Harper?
- Dr. Carroll: Yes, in a number of things. For example, at times a disassociation of ideas. In another instance, I happened to attend the recent interscholastic tennis matches. And while Bill Harper had been considered an exceedingly good player, I saw him miss the ball by as much as three or four feet. This, I understand, could be contributed to the use of marijuana. It causes errors in time and space.
- The Boss: What's the beef?
- Pete Daley - Dope Pusher: Listen, you never heard no beef when I had to sell that rotten gin.
- The Boss: You're strapped for dough, aren't you?
- Pete Daley - Dope Pusher: Ya, but, I don't need dough that bad. Taking two-bit pieces from kids.
- The Boss: There are millions of two-bit pieces just begging to be taken. Don't be a dope.
- Pete Daley - Dope Pusher: I'm just dope enough to draw the line. Selling hop to kids.
- The Boss: All right, Pete. You know what my policy's always been. If you boys are not satisfied, I'm always glad to have them retire. Retire - permanently.
- Blanche: That's better! That's more like it. I know you'll like it. Really, you will. Just take a puff of that.
- Prosecuting Attorney: Did you notice any changes that would lead you to believe, as an educator, that he was under some severe mental strain, which might possibly have been induced by some drug?
- Dr. Carroll: Yes. I recall distinctly a few weeks ago. It was during a class of English literature. There was a serious discussion of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" when he suddenly burst into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical laughter.
- Prosecuting Attorney: Your Honor, in this case the State waves the trial of the defendant, Ralph Wiley. It is convinced that he is hopelessly and incurably insane - a condition caused by the drug marijuana, to which he was addicted. It is recommended, your Honor, that the defendant be placed in an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life.
- Prosecuting Attorney: You've all heard what went on in that room. You heard it from the defendant's own lips. Involved as he was in a torrid love affair.
- Judge: We cannot condone your acts. And we can express only the hope that your experiences may not alone keep you but thousands others from the vicious pitfalls of *marijuana*.
- Jack: What are we gonna do about that Wiley guy?
- Bill's Lawyer: Still jittery, huh?
- Jack: I don't know what the punk's gonna do.
- Bill's Lawyer: Keep feeding him with hot sticks.
- Jack: That's what Mae's been doing. That's no good. I got a hunch that he's due to crack when the Harper verdict comes in. He's down the tea, he's about to take a powder on us, and blow his topper to the D.A.