Marihuana/Narcotic

Includes: Marihuana (1936)Did you know that the use of marihuana is steadily increasing among the youth of the country? Watch what happens as a teenage “pot party” leads to crime, pregnancy, insanity, and even murder in B-film auteur Dwain Esper’s shocking expos. Harley Wood, Pat Carlyle star. 73 min. BW/Rtg: NR Narcotic (1933)From low-budget filmmaking team Dwain and Hildegarde Esper (“Maniac”) comes a creaky and freaky look at the dangers of drug addiction. Follow a clean-living medical student on a downward spiral of vice-filled “light-up” parties, opium dens, bordellos, carnival sideshows and, ultimately, death. Harry Cording, Joan Dix, Patricia Farley star. 57 min. BW/Rtg: NR Standard; Soundtrack: English.