Documentary – 1970: The Year That Changed Cannabis in America Forever

“Everyone knows hippies are high and smoke marijuana…. But you don’t need beads and long hair to turn on!”

Enjoy these and other nuggets of wisdom in this excerpt from a cannabis documentary by the filmmaker David Hoffman.

Aired on PBS in 1970, in its time, the piece was considered radical. And, in fairness, if you watch with any kind of sensitivity, Hoffman’s sensible opinions on the law and the plant come through loud and clear.

For all the popular and media focus on the Sixties as the great age of ‘pot’, the explosive moment in the history of American cannabis culture arrived around when 1969 became 1970. Over the coming decade, ‘marijuana’ would rocket in popularity across the USA. Hoffman’s footage captures the instant when the nation had just hit lift off.

But there’s a lot more to the record-breaking boom in consumption of pot between 1969 and 1979 than grasped by received wisdom. Some of the more mysterious goings-on can be found here at The Real Seed Company in Colombian Gold & The Mothership Loophole….