Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

SnoopyStyle Woody Harrelson narrates this documentary of American official opposition to marijuana. It looks at the start of marijuana imported by Mexican laborers during the beginning of the 20th century. With xenophobia and temperance, governments over the years battle marijuana as part of a federal drug policy led by crusader Harry J. Anslinger.What this documentary does well is that it lays out the history of the drug fight through the use of old footage and anti-marijuana propaganda. I find the first half fascinating probably because I don't know much of the early history. The last half is rather boring as it goes over things that are mostly well known to a modern audience. The attempted humor is not the best and gets repetitive. Nevertheless, the movie gets its point across and that's the main objective.

Claudia King (agentclaudia) I watched this right after completing a research paper on marijuana policy, and it was certainly a nice break after working entirely out of dry text. Much easier on the eyes than hundreds of pages of tiny type.There certainly is a lot of stuff this movie left out, including some of the funnier things (such as the marijuana murder trials of 1938, or the 120-second Congressional hearings for the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act), but it definitely gets the point across in a colorful, often rather silly way complete with movie clips, weird songs, goofy video-game graphics, old-ranting-politician footage, and some of the more ludicrous public service announcements. The cultural bent makes it much less dry than most of the strictly historical, legal and political reading I've done, which is saying a bit as the legal history is pretty entertaining.Just in case you somehow miss the point (or forget about it while watching Cab Calloway tap-dance), Grass makes a heavy point of repeatedly pointing out the escalating amounts of money spent on this unobtrusive little weed, and highlights the blatant lies the public has been subjected to over the past century by reiterating "The Truth" for every decade or so.The only real downside to the movie is that it skipped over the disclaimer that every marijuana decriminalization piece really needs to have in it somewhere: There is no such thing as an entirely safe drug.In conclusion, I would recommend this movie quite highly if you're looking to be introduced to the subject in a tolerably entertaining fashion, or if you're sick of reading and want something a little more audially/visually stimulating. For real information on the drug, however, I'd recommend reading "Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding" instead.

EdYerkeRobins This is a great documentary, which pieces together old government propaganda videos against marijuana, along with footage of scientific documentation and/or public view to the contrary. While clips from propaganda films ranging over 70 years, including the "classic" Reefer Madness, are funny because the modern audience knows how wrong they are, it's also troubling when the film presents the increased anti-marijuana budgets and bills passed, showing that the leadership of the past really didn't know anything about the drug and believed the government's films and "scientific evidence" (e.g. marijuana causes insanity, marijuana is a stepping stone for heroin) as fact. Featuring almost no commentary, the film comes off as a pro-marijuana documentary only because it shows how uninformed and gullible the government has been, and though it's mostly all official government statistics and films, it's still informing and entertaining, the latter unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.

Hotoil I found this to be a lousy documentary. That despite the fact that I like Woody Harrelson and have been fascinated by our backwards-ass drug laws for a long time now.I do not smoke pot. Sure, I have (who hasn't?), but I did not enjoy it and prefer to be "in control".Still, the criminalization of marijuana makes me want fill my backyard with the damn plant in protest of such corrupt and unfounded domestic policy.Of course, we know why marijuana is illegal - partly because some folks like to regulate morality (the same ones pushing sodomy laws); but mostly because it benefits the powers that be. Such a large scale "war on drugs" stirs up the economy, politicians make money on kickbacks & organized crime has a field day! Meanwhile the drugs get more dangerous, the streets get more dangerous, and the Government gets richer while gradually breaking down our rights.That said, "Grass" doesn't paint the picture well. It relies too much on eye candy and distracting comic relief while it meanders around the juicy stuff - the criminalization of marijuana! I don't know why the filmmakers thought they needed to spice things up with cartoons, and an endless stream of old anti-drug reels (at first they are amusing but after a while it's just repetitive and detracts from the flow of things); the story itself is very intriguing & could have carried more screen time. Not only that, but some of the more interesting, deeper motives of the drug war are not explored whatsoever. It's a very superficial look at the drug war; only slightly informative and entertaining at times, but hardly what it could be. Perhaps your meant to watch it high, because clean & sober I found it boring and unfocused...