Review – Marihuana

This one’s even worse than the better-known Reefer Madness. Actually in a way it’s better, because the portrayal of pot-heads is a bit more realistic in this one. It’s still wildly inaccurate, but at least this time around a single puff of the “devil’s weed” isn’t quite enough to turn a person into a rampaging lunatic. Instead, pot is cast as a gateway drug. On the other hand, the production values are so terrible that just watching this movie is a bit like being high. Many of the edits make no sense, and the plot follows little if any particular path. The random structure is so disjointed that it’s like trying to watch a movie after you’ve taken something (a few hits, perhaps) that have slowed your thought processes down to the point that you’re having trouble following what’s going on. Still, the most laughable part of the movie is the “heroine.” Burma (when she’s high does she go by Myanmar?) is transformed from a typical middle-class good girl with a mild case of teen angst into a dope-shooting crime queen who ends up kidnapping her own illegitimate daughter. Mildly amusing