4/20 Dank Double Bill: Marihuana: Assassin of Youth (shown with Up In Smoke)
April 20, 2023
Grand Illusion CinemaSeattle, WA
Part of the Grand Illusion Cinema’s year-long 16mm Centennial celebration
We presented the second half of this stoned double feature, commemorating the 10th anniversary of legal recreational marijuana in Washington state. A rare uncensored print of the infamous scare film Marihuana: Assassin of Youth (1937) was shown with suitably mezzy cartoons and shorts from the same period.
All attendeed got a real nickel bag: a baggie containing a five-cent coin and a package of vintage 1970s rolling papers.
Check it out you stoners, heads, and vipers! Celebrate the 10th anniversary of legalized recreational weed in Washington state with a dank double bong hit of skunky cinema! No need to bogart, man — get both nugs for one low price!
First, mellow out with a lid of Acapulco comedy gold: Cheech and Chong’s UP IN SMOKE (1978), the first all-out stoner comedy. Burned out buddies Pedro and Man smuggle a van made entirely of marijuana from Mexico to LA, with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach) on their trail. Features the hit song “Earache My Eye”! 45th anniversary!
Then enjoy a stick of mighty mezz: a rare 16mm print of MARIHUANA: ASSASSIN OF YOUTH (1937), the infamous scare film inspired by the “gore files” of racist anti-pot narc, Harry J. Anslinger. An innocent high school girl gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, where smoking tea leads to wild all-night parties, skinny dipping, crime…and sex!! Plus stoned shorts and cartoons, also on 16mm film!