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Eric Stromquist's avatar

If these marihuana parties involve 40-year-old women taking a nude swim, where might I find one?

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Derek Smith's avatar

Anslinger motivation was also partially (if not wholly) racist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger#Contemporary_racial_prejudice

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Martha's avatar

How strange & interesting!

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E.R. Flynn's avatar

Seems like this movie treads a lot of the same nude swimming waters as the more exceptional "Reefer Madness." It's interesting to look back at what weirdo propaganda evolved from the temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If there's one consistent thing about the US it's that we've always had of bible thumping, racist pearl-clutchers trying to tell others how to live.

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Peter Pappas's avatar

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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Stephen Rutledge's avatar

Have you been reading my diaries?

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Peter Pappas's avatar

Why yes, they were recently leaked on the dark web.

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Craig Plank's avatar

Great stuff, Peter. Thanks for sharing! Love the acting... ;- )

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Peter Pappas's avatar

“Acting” You’re so generous

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