Grass
by Ron Mann
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Actor: Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Woody HarrelsonDirector: Ron Mann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Homevision
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Movie Review: excellent documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Grass is just about the best documentary out there about America's long and pointless war on Marijuana. Entertaining and extremely informative, Grass uses old stock footage and interviews along with clips from movies and TV commercials and programs to document, decade by decade, president by president, the methods used by the US to fight Marijuana, and the monetary cost of this fight. Although there is a bit of left-leaning in its politics, Grass remains a superbly made documentary which every American should watch, especially those interested in Marijuana culture and US history.
Summary of Grass
Consider this a documentary for those who inhaled. Ron Mann's playful portrait of marijuana in America is less a social history than an examination of the government's systematic seven-decade campaign to demonize the devil's weed: the conspiracy against cannabis! Through government documents, period newsreels, and clips from hysterical educational scare films and campy overheated features (like High on the Range and the cult classic Reefer Madness), Mann reveals a systematic policy of misinformation to (he argues) justify the billions spent on the losing war on drugs. Well researched if one-sided and occasionally questionable in its own assertions (aren't there any side effects to this wonder weed?), this witty history lesson is charged with raucous energy and a satirical slant. Mann and his easygoing narrator Woody Harrelson may be preaching to the converted, but it's a hilarious sermon. Pass the munchies! --Sean AxmakerGrass, narrated by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, takes a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America's most deeply rooted cultural myths: the evils of "pot", "cannabis", "weed", "dubich", "doobie", "shrub", or whatever man. From the story of America's first drug czar, to the absurd scare tactics behind propaganda films like Reefer Madness, and Marijuana: Threat or Menace, director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist) poignantly and humorously exposes the social, political and economic facts behind this enduring weed, and the extent to which it has profoundly shaped our culture.
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