When detectives appear at your door in the morning, it is normal to be dressed in a fine outfit and heels. Even in the middle of the Depression.
I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

smoking weed makes everyone a piano player!
"Are you just finding that out?"

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True! In the early eighties most heroin was mixed with quinine(an EXTREMELY acidic substance)which increased the rush, tragically it destroyed veins and caused absesis if a vein was "missed". Eventually there were no more places on the body to "hit" except, well I'll spare you the details. There were thousands of people in Detroit area alone that were like the walking dead, open sores that became infected would literally begin to rot the skin and muscle, and with very little circulation left to reach the extremities, they frequently needed amputations. I knew one wonderful woman who went for "wound care" every week (this was eight years after she quit IV drugs), this consisted of having the dead skin on her legs SCRAPED OFF! But she did not want to lose her legs without a fight!
She had to wear special leg fittings to cover the wounds, can't remember the name anyway they caused the odor to build up, and was told that people may notice. Once she sat right next to me in group therapy and it smelled like death. She was very self-concious and asked if I noticed the odor to which I of course denied. I saw her a few years later and she was hanging tough,
but was experiencing other health issues related to her past IV use. Cardiac problems, often an infection called endocarditis which destroys the heart valves.
I lost a dear friend to endocarditis.
That gives you an idea of where they were going with the arm amputation in the film. In reality it would probably been a leg. Apples and Oranges.
Now, as far as Mrs Goldfard's amphetamine psychosis.
Hope I wasn't too graphic, I actually toned down the facts to keep from making you queezy. I'll stop here, never got into the real point I wanted to make. The movie was just showing time speeding up, sometimes literally, trying to show from the perspective of the user. One thing they did get totally wrong was the pupils dilating when they shot dope. It's totally the opposite! Opiates cause the pupils to pinpoint (stimulants to dilate) and withdraw causes extreme dilation.
Still a cool effect though!
-PEACE

Requiem for a Dream= 21st centurys answer to Reefer Madness. Because everyone uses electroshock therapy on 70 year old ladies today, and people lose arms from heroin all the time. Give me a break, if you want to portray the dangers of heroin, stick to overdose you morons. That said, I still respect Hubert Selby very much, and I understand that at the time the book was written (the 1970s), things like that may well have been happening. But today, Im afraid the book is totally irrelevant as a drug use reference.
OH! OH! OH! LICK MY LEG! I'M ON FIIRE!

Yes, I remember those days when kids actually played outside, the day seemed to last forever. On weekends my parents would take us to the bowling alley, those pin ball machines were great, I could make a quarter last a long time. Instead of video games we played board games or cards.

well i think we cant compare this movie with nowadays. i mean they have a different set of culture and society. what would you do for entertainment in the 30s?? they dont have internet they dont have tv they dont have porn. take all that into consideration. i think this movie still make sense during its time. imagine youre stoned alone in your room. nothing to mellow you down (no internet no PC). i would go crazy too if you ask me.
LOL, no offense but you must be a teenager. I am only 25, born in 1982, and growing up we didn't have the internet or porn (and had never heard of either), but we never just stayed in our rooms doing nothing. Back in the 1980's, kids actually went outside and played so we didn't watch much t.v. at all (Saturday morning cartoons before ballet was about it). We didn't have any of the "entertainment" that kids have now and we had less violence, less obesity, and much more respectful kids then we have now.
I'm sorry that kids today think that you need t.v., dvds, video games and useless web sites about celebrities to have fun. We had hopscotch, four square, slides, jungle gyms and our imaginations and we had a blast. When I was a kid in the summer I would go outside and we would play from like 9:00 a.m. until the streetlights came on and it was time for dinner. It was so much fun. People had Nintendo after a few years but I honestly don't ever remember going to anyone's house to play video games.
I feel bad for kids and teens nowadays- they're the ones who are missing out on their childhoods by turning into faux mini-adults by the age of 10.
Kids were probably happier in the 1930's with their simple toys and strict parents than kids are today with their Prada purses and "best friend" moms. JMO.
"Imagine the appeals and dissents if lawyers had written the Ten Commandments"

maybe just thinkin about stuff
or theres always masturbation

well i think we cant compare this movie with nowadays. i mean they have a different set of culture and society. what would you do for entertainment in the 30s?? they dont have internet they dont have tv they dont have porn. take all that into consideration. i think this movie still make sense during its time. imagine youre stoned alone in your room. nothing to mellow you down (no internet no PC). i would go crazy too if you ask me.

Very funny stuff! I enjoyed reading those lessons everyone got.
I like place movies in history so I can imagine what the actors and directors where thinking about at that time. This came out 1936. Here it was pre-WW II. Germany was creating a war machine to systematically wipe out the jews and conquer all of Europe. Japan was drawing up plans to invade China to rape and pillage. With all those dangers lurking they make a movie that says reefer is public enemy #1! Amazingly naive!

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I learned that when the topic of Marahuana, The
real
Public Enemy! is discussed among PTA groups, said groups will constantly bob their heads up and down maniacally through the entire scene.
'We're not in Medford now. We're in a hurry.'

What i have learned? that all my life i've appearantly been smoking the wrong crap.

What I've learned:
That the dreaded marihuana may be reaching out to your son or your daughteror yoursor yoursor YOURS!
TELL YOUR CHILDREN!

from the Forward to: Reefer Madness 1936
Its first effect is sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then comes 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 violenceending often in incurable insanity.
I think they got it all right, minus the violence. I'm still inccurably insane >:). What scares me the most is having "ideas" OMG I'M THINKING HEEEEEEELP!.

What I've learned from this movie:
I've learned that people are very stupid. They should seriously show this on a big screen TV in every major US city. I'm convinced that if everyone in the country watched this, it would be proof enough that the government had to lie left and right to make pot illegal. It's hard to believe people actually watched - and believed - movies like this back then. It's even harder to believe they still make baseless, terror-based claims in anti-drug propaganda today and people STILL believe it. People are easily ****ing led.

congratulations. you have figured out why people find reefer madness funny.

mothers against drunk drivers(madd) is using this same premise in there new marijuana commercials(canadian)Talking masks?bullcrap
as the plot outline states " Cautionary tale features a fictionalized and highly exaggerated take on the use of marijuana"