marijuana propaganda

The Purple Brain: America's New Reefer Madness

The feds' new sequel to Reefer Madness
By Marsha Rosenbaum and Paul Armentano
AlterNet

June 23, 2007

More than 70 years in the making, the long-awaited sequel to the notorious 1936 film, has arrived. It's called The Purple Brain, and just like its unintentionally campy predecessor, its purpose is to frighten Americans about marijuana.

The particular target audience for the Feds' new production is the millions of parents who may have, without incident, experimented with marijuana in the 1970s, when they were about the same age as their children are today.