A reefer is a marijuana cigarette, in case you didn’t know.
I always thought it just meant weed, not a joint.
This was because friends and I once saw the movie, “Reefer Madness,” a 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film that appeared the year before federal lawmakers criminalized pot.
“Isn’t it true that you have, perhaps unwillingly, acquired a certain harmful habit through association with certain undesirable people,” said the principal of a fictional high school to a student. The movie is a dystopian tale of innocent teens lured by drug dealers into addiction. It labels marijuana as a violent narcotic, an unspeakable scourge and the real public enemy number one. Most of the main characters are dead by the end of the film.
Watching this while stoned felt defiant.
“This, I understand, could be attributed to the use of marijuana. It causes errors in time and space,” said the high school principal.
Desirable to Arizona voters nearly a century later, adults and medical patients are now buying marijuana from state-licensed stores.
There’s so much pot that some might say we have Reefer Growing Madness .
So KJZZ’s Hear Arizona podcast unit decided to track the four-month life cycle of marijuana plants grown legally in metro Phoenix, from clone to smoke.Alien Labs gave KJZZ exclusive access to their indoor facility as they grew a new strain . Brand founder Ted Lidie bred the strain named Zpectrum.Lidie is from a Northern California town with the closest freeway access in an area famous for cultivating potent marijuana long before legalization, the Emerald Triangle. Alien Labs founder Ted Lidie speaks at an event at Walter Studios in downtown Phoenix on Oct. 29, 2024. “So the growers from there would come and sit in hotels with their harvest for the year. And they would sell it to all the people that would come from LA and Sacramento and New York,” he said.Lidie’s guest for the talk is the CEO of sister brand, Connected Cannabis, who gave Lidie a way to bring his own pot to a new legal market in California — and eventually here.Lidie describes himself as a nerd welcomed by other […]
Reefer Growing Madness podcast tracks marijuana plants from clone to smoke
