The Big Seventeen
Anybody else see this episode? Kinda freaked me out, as I guess was its purpose to try and scare the then teenaged crowd away from drugs.
shareI've been loading the classic radio series on my Ipod for a while now and got interested in seeing the show. The Big 17 was darker than I expected.
shareWebb did several episodes about Pot and the dangers of it making you crazy. He also made sure he talked about pot as a drug that leads to stronger drugs. Both of which were the standard mantra to scare kids in the 50's and 60's. I remember an episode of Dragnet 1967 where the babysitter used pot and let the baby drown in the bath tub because she had freaked out on pot. It is quite funny for being very outdated. The Big Seventeen at least talks about Heroin. The saddest part of it all, is that Webb always overreacted to pot and yet his show was spnsored by Chesterfield cigerettes that killed millions more than pot ever did. And of course cigerettes fianlly killed Webb too. I am not pro pot, but I do know it is not as bad as Webb always made it sound.
shareWell you're clearly speaking as someone who never knew anybody who with that stuff, ruined their lives. I however do know somebody who used that stuff and ruined his life because of it, my cousin, marijuana and nothing else, and he's been arrested, lost most of his rights and is in and out of hospitals now because of it. I never saw cigarettes do that to a person over the course of a few months or couple years, granted they may be more dangerous, but nobody's pulled them off the market yet so what does that tell you?
shareIt tells me that as long as the government is taking in millions of dollars on cigarette taxes, tobacco is A-O.K. by them! Don't kid yourself; if they made the same amount on taxing pot, there would be billboards pushing it.
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