Cannabis has always had it tough in Hollywood. Even today at least one major studio has a policy against producing films with significant drug content.
But perhaps some readers remember the 1980s. When pot showed up in a major theatrical release during the Just Say No era, there was a better than average chance that the toker in question would be in some way punished for indulging.
Then came the nineties. They didn’t make the eighties look like the sixties as a self-deprecating Dennis Hopper character predicted in a 1990 flick but they turned the cinematic tide.
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- Dazed and Confused baptized the decade with bud that was most likely from Mexico and Half-Baked helped close out the nineties with some New York -ish. (Probably from here! ) Curtis Hansen’s remarkable The Wonder Boys is among the titles missing from this list.
