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 cannabis documentary by the filmmaker David Hoffman.

In fact, if you watch with any kind of sensitivity, Hoffman’s sensible opinions on the law and the plant come through loud and clear. This is a great short film and for good reason, in its time, was considered radical.

Airing on PBS in 1970, a pivotal year in the evolution of American cannabis culture, Hoffman’s work captures the moment when the nation had just hit ‘lift off’. Over the coming decade in the USA, ‘marijuana’ rocketed in popularity.

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 less well-known sides of the story can be found here at The Real Seed Company in Colombian Gold & The Mothership Loophole.