Video of the Day | Sublime-Smoke Two Joints

Sharkey here: I once again am highjacking the Video of the Day! I have chosen one of my favorite songs right now. Enjoy Sublime's cover of Smoke Two Joints :)

Reefer Madness: Great Propaganda or Greatest Propaganda?

I finally sat down and watched one of the most famous propaganda movies of all time - Reefer Madness. Shortest review ever - great! Reefer Madness  is a hilarious romp through the paranoid and uneducated minds of 1930's America. If you have ever picked up a joint or hit a bowl, chances are you have at least heard, if not seen, this now cult classic.

Made in 1936 as an anti-marijuana propaganda film, Reefer Madness portrays marijuana users as sex crazed and violent drug fiends, on par with the likes of heroin and other hard drug users. The story tells a tale of seedy drug pushers in business suits hunting high school children to get hooked. They bring these kids to Mae's apartment, one of the pushers though she prefers to sell to adults.

This marijuana den is a non-stop party for young and old alike. This good Christian film takes a turn for the decidedly dark when one of the pushers - and marijuana addict - attempts to rape one of the high school girls. This attempted rape causes a chain reaction of events, including a murder, that ends with one man's permanent insanity.

These marijuana smokers also commit hit and runs and have sex like it's the 1970's. To add to the truth of this film, the filmmakers (I use that term loosely) add in accounts of marijuana users ax murdering their families and having group sex. These filmmakers were a church group that made this film to educate parents on the dangers of marijuana use.

To be completely honest, as extreme as these claims are, they are not much more out there than some recent claims.

We all know that marijuana kills brain cells, right? And that was found to be completely true:

Of course, if you don't care about your brain, you have to care about your country...

Both of these claims are untrue, of course. Video one explains itself and any search on marijuana production shows that it is such a widely grown crop domestically that importing would just be too expensive to supply the entire country.

Another great similarity to today's War on Drugs is the importance of protecting the kids. The original title of the film was Tell Your Children and geared at parents. A big chunk of arguments by today's anti marijuana voices want to keep it illegal to protect the children, which is a flimsy argument as well. But I digress...

I definitely suggest watching Reefer Madness  and maybe even picking up a copy cheap somewhere to show around. It is a great film for a night of tokin' and munchin'.

Go Sharkey: Weed Vision

Sharkey here! I have watched Super Troopers numerous times even before I became a stoner. It’s a pretty funny movie sober but its hilarious high! There are things you just can appreciate as much about the movie sober! I guess its one of those things like when you buy a red car then you realize how many other red cars there are around you, or how you never noticed exactly how many slug bugs there are on the road until you get hit for them? Well I realized some things I never noticed about weed until I became a smoker! So I sat down and watched Super Troopers with the bf and noticed in the opening scene that there are 3 different bags of weed used for the opening scene! I am posting the 3 different pictures from the opening scenes below.

In the first picture is where they are being pulled over and they are trying to get rid of the weed so he is handing it back to the kid in the backseat, in this picture the weed looks to be about a quarter and it looks ground up

Here in the second scene is when the cop is at the window showing them the bag they threw out the window, first off the bag is thinner looking (the other looks like a regular ziploc bag) plus they are buds; they aren't ground up.

The third picture is when Mac is speeding by so they zoom out the camera angle and you can see the cop still holding the bag of weed and it is once again in a ziploc looking baggie; however, it is a lot less than the first scene, the last scene looks more like an eighth.

I have NEVER noticed this the 10 times I watched the movie before I started smoking weed. Now it seems like anything weed related jumps at me. Stay tuned more Go Sharkey posts to come.

Review: Zombies Anonymous

So Netflix told me I should watch the movie ZA: Zombies Anonymous and I agreed. So here I am, watching a movie that takes place in a world where the mortally challenged and the living coexist. These zombies can walk, talk, think, and act just like the living - so check any sense of reality at the door.

The story follows Angela, a woman who is murdered by her boyfriend and becomes a zombie. She is then sucked into a battle between a group of living militants and a group of undead extremists. Her boyfriend joins the battle against the undead and tons of bloodshed ensues.

First thing I want to note is that ZA: Zombie Anonymous is not a comedy, at least not intentionally. It is cheesy with some bad acting, which is to be expected at this level, and that does make it seem more comical at times. The story is a civil rights drama at its core. Angela ends up losing her job since many places will not employ zombies. The living are zombie bashing like it's a sport, and no zombie is safe. This causes a zombie calling herself Mother Solstice to start a group of the undead to fight against the humans.

The movie is not a bad concept, as a whole, and I think given a budget and a re-write, there is a great concept in there. What this movie does do is make you think, if even a little. What if Z Day comes and the dead are not the mindless, corpses we have all envisioned and trained for? Your mom comes back from the dead and is completely normal (minus the breathing thing), could you shoot her?

When I first started watching this movie, I was not expecting what I got. That was due in part to Netflix not knowing what a comedy is, but also partly that it got me into it, plain and simple. I know this sounds bad, but low budget, cheesy horror is usually a real struggle for me to get into. ZA: Zombies Anonymous started out that way, but after a little bit, I saw myself pausing to use the bathroom instead of just letting it play. That's gotta say something, right?

I would recommend this movie for most zombie fans. It has some (cheesy) gore, but it is a little different than the norm. I am a sucker for civil rights dramas in bizarre settings (White Man's Burden ), and this has its decent moments where you really root for Angela and feel for the undead. Check this movie out on a rental and enjoy and hour and a half of cheesy zombie drama.

Notable Scene: The Commandant takes a new recruit turned zombie out to kill him. The scene sucks you in as the new zombie begs for his life and just the chance to say good bye to his mom. Real heart shines through here.

You can find ZA: Zombies Anonymous at many online outlets, including here at Amazon.

ZA: Zombies Anonymous Cast

Gina Ramsden - Angela

Joshua Nelson - Josh

Written and Directed by Marc Fratto

Video of the Day | Super Troopers Opening

Sharkey here! So today I am picking the video of the day! This is a tease for my next post coming this week. For the 420 fans can you spot the error in the opening scene here of Super Troopers? I will give you a few days to try to find it! Enjoy a clip from one of my favorite movies and check back in for my Super Troopers post in a few days!

Video of the Day x2 | Original Nightmare on Elm Street

If hearing that creepy, little song got you a little excited (not like that, sicko), then you are my kind of Pop 420 fan. Hands down the greatest horror series of all time, Nightmare on Elm Street went from indie cult favorite to pop culture phenomenon. Even wit the release of at least one crappy ass sequel and a terrible (so I hear as I refuse to watch it) remake, this series still stands at the top of the horror franchise mountain.

Video of the Day | Tangled Ever After: The Rings

So for today's Video of the day, I bring you a clip Disney just released. This clip is a trailer for the new Tangled animated short that will be attached to Beauty and the Beast 3D when it is released on January 13 (Yup, Friday the 13th). I have never seen Tangled, though I do like Zachary Levi (Go Chuck!!) and will probably check it out now. Why the fudge did I pick this for the video of the day? Because I totally want to see Beauty and the Beast 3D but figured everybody and their pets have seen that trailer by now. So enjoy Tangled Ever After: The Rings...

Video of the Day | Cannibal the Musical - Hang the Bastard

It is no secret to anybody that knows me that I am a ginormous Trey Parker fan. Not only the brilliant South Park franchise, but his films, shorts, and tv shows as well. Many people still don't know all of the Trey Parker material that is out there (Surprising, I know!!).

One of my favorite movies of his is Cannibal! The Musical. This is a musical based on an old legend about an expedition that ended in the survivors eating each other - but funny like! For any of you that enjoy South Park, I highly recommend this movie.

'Hang the Bastard' from Cannibal! The Musical: