1970s film about how drug use is changing the society. (research, mood altering, research)
A group of small children rocking back & forth, hyperactive. Kids playing w/ toys. Kids on the playground.
Pills coming down a shoot. Pile of capsules. People walking down the street. CU of a boy's face. A glass vial in a laboratory. Focus changes & you can see a scientist performing chemical test, beakers, test tubes, etc. Machines producing pills. Pills coming off a line. Pile of pills.
CU of hands (African-American) rolling a marijuana cigarette (pot, grass, joint). MS of African American man smoking a joint. Scientific test on the brains of men after they have smoked grass.
Animal Testing - A monkey showing aggression. They give it some drug & it calms down. Cat & a mouse are put in a cage together. The cat chases the mouse, until cat is given LSD. Then it is afraid of the mouse. Group of mice are give amphetamine (speed). Eventually they kill each other.
Drug specialist Dr. Donald Luria sits in front of a blackboard & talks to camera about an increase in crime due to drug use.
DO NOT USE Pan across a drawing.
Man talks about the Soviet government using drugs to shut up any political dissidents. Crowds on the street. Motorcycle cop.
Swirling kaleidoscope of colors. CU of young man talking about drug use. Kids think grass should be legal. Adults interviewed think it should be illegal.
DO NOT USE Anti-drug campaign slogans over a psychedelic background. Anti-drug TV commercial.
A cooking dish filled w/ a mixture of various drugs. Hands reach in & take a some. CU of teens at a party swallowing the pills & drinking beer.
MS of Dr. Angus MacDonald in a library, talking about teenage drug use.
Body being put on the back of an ambulance. Presumably a heroin overdose. People in a suburban neighborhood crowd around to get a look.
DO NOT USE Photo of a high school boy.
Teenagers hitchhiking. They stand at the side of the road w/ their thumbs out. Teens walking around a campus. Police.
DO NOT USE Clip from Easy Rider.
CU of red clogs (shoes) walking down the street. Young people handing out flyers. Police. CU of hands exchanging drugs for money (drug deal). Man smoking a joint. Inside a disco, dancing & strobe lights.
CU of a plant. MS of Dr. Angus MacDonald in a library. Still shots of psychedelic drawings.
Stained glass window in a church. Pull back to view entire church. Crowds of people in a religious service. Kids outside playing. Good 1970s fashions.