The Narcotic Story

★★★★★ · What a great film! · Bolexman · 2010-09-09

I thought I would share this film with you, This is a great film if you enjoy drug scare propaganda films.

★★★★★ · Truth that will set you free! · rlneva1941 · 2011-11-06

Listed as a propaganda flick it sufficed in it's day and that is the education I got when I was a kid. To mark pot in the same league as heroin is the kicker for being laughed at today. Now for the real truth in this story. These drugs are illegal for one reason and the only reason today and that is the money involved. In fact there is so much money that the war in Afghanistan where most of the raw opium comes from has been the mainstay for the entire world! Now for the shocker! Our troops guard the natives harvest of opium popies from which heroin is distilled because the banking cartels in…

★★★★ · Don't Join This "Tea Party"! · KAJ1959 · 2010-11-03

A good documentary, made with good intentions, but like some 60's Dragnet TV episodes, seems a bit camp and over-the-top to the 2010 worldview. Suburban drug abuse shocked many in the 50's - it's almost the norm today. The Narcotics Story gains its props from the shock value it elicits, even though it was intended as a police training film to be shown to a limited audience. Priceless is the scene where the well-dressed hophead, driving a bat-winged Plymouth, pulls up to a suburban drug house replete with darkened window shades and a speakeasy-style narcotics entrepreneur ready to sell his…

★ · This is idiotic · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-11-23

Perhaps the initial intention was OK, but it dropped to a much more evil intent to jail people on a wholesale level, but one of the first things mentioned here is there is some secret recruitment plot to suck all youth into being "hop heads". It ignores completely that many people use and become addicted to narcotics merely because they cannot get legitimate medical care and no pain relief and are forced to turn to street drugs which is a complete failure of our system hell bent on punishment for any reason. SHOCK! POT has the same effect as alcohol! BUZZZ! WRONG! In the heroin part they tell…