MARIJUANA, DRIVING, AND YOU

Year Published: 1980s

Description:

This anti-drug educational film titled “Marijuana, Driving, and You” from 1985 portrays footage and animations displaying the dangers of driving when under the influence of marijuana and/or alcohol. It explains the physical effects of being high, and how those effects can impair vision, reaction time, and emergency responses, etc. The film is a Portafilms production written by Bill Murray, directed and photographed by John King, with animations by Maria Timmerman.

Marijuana (00:11). “Marijuana, Driving, and You” title banner (00:13). Informational text overlay (00:17). Marijuana behind bars (00:27). Young people walking (00:35). Young people gathered in a crowd (00:49). Marijuana behind bars (00:55). Cars driving (01:09). A police officer has pulled over a car (01:25). An animation of a road covered in crosses (01:31). “50,000 deaths each year” text overlay (01:33). An animation explains marijuana’s primary psychoactive drug, THC (01:41). A police officer performs a breath alcohol test on a young man (02:22). A scale with a bag of marijuana (02:49). A bag of marijuana is handed from one hand to another (03:06). A group of people smoking joints and talking to each other (03:08). The effects of smoking marijuana is explained alongside a stopwatch, to illustrate the time period it takes for THC to be absorbed into the bloodstream and its effects on the central nervous system (03:27). Brownie baked with marijuana is cut and eaten (03:46). The checking of a pulse rate is displayed (04:00). Blood pressure is measured (04:04). Bloodshot eyes (04:07). A mouth (04:11). A group of people smoking joints and talking to each other (04:16). One guy is falling asleep in a chair (04:33). He lies sleeping on grass (04:43). Flowers (04:46). Clocks (04:50). A woman walks through a forest (04:56). People walking in the street (05:06). One woman stops because she feels uncomfortable in the crowded street due to smoking marijuana (05:13). Cars driving (05:25). A woman is driving (05:32). An animation of the many uncertainties to be aware of when driving (05:41). A traffic light (06:28). A red ball (06:33). The sun setting (06:35). A child picks up the red ball (06:44). A red railway signal (06:45). A moving train (06:54). A car crossing train tracks as the train approaches (06:56). A man driving (07:02). Views of his foot on the speeder (07:21). Two women are driving, and they stop too far from the stoplight (07:27). Cars driving on a highway and one car drives slowly in the middle lane (07:35). A man driving (07:46). An animation explains the processing of information and reacting time when driving (07:53). A car drives and the sight range narrows if the driver is high (08:46). A crash (08:58). A woman driving (09:02). Graphics explain tests made on eye-movements on subjects who were high (09:15). A driver responds wrongly to an emergency situation and an accident happens (09:34). An animation of a smoking joint (09:40). A car damaged in a car crash (09:46) and the driver lying unconsciously in his seat (09:54). Broken glass (09:57). The driver’s face (10:00). Dr. Alan Donelson is interviewed about marijauna’s ability to reduce concentration and marijuana related accidents (10:02). Animations explain a study revealing that half of marijuana users combined its use with alcohol, and what the effects and risks of that are (11:29). A car is driving dangerously due to the driver being under the influence of marijuana and alcohol (12:24). Credits (12:44).