Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

soulexpress For the first 10 minutes of this film about the "dangers" of pot- smoking, we see a group of fun-loving white kids in a tavern, getting drunk. There we meet our central character, Burma (or is it Myanmar now?), a beautiful teen-aged blonde. After she and her boyfriend Dick get good and smashed, they go out parking, at which point he literally tries to rape her. A justifiably angry Burma storms out of the car and starts to walk home, but soon gets back in and snuggles up to her smug, entitled, pussy-grabber of a Dick.The next night, Burma and company discover "giggle weed," the smoking of which causes them to make out with strange men at a party, then strip naked and go swimming in the ocean, laughing uproariously the whole time. Problem is, one of the girls doesn't come back until her drowned corpse washes up on the beach. Next thing you know, Dick's dick has gotten Burma knocked up. Desperate for a job to support his soon-to-be family, Dick goes to work for the local crime boss as a marihuana dealer and is shot to death on his first run. After that, things pretty much go to hell for Burma.Made the same year as the much better-known REEFER MADNESS, but without half its camp value, MARIHUANA takes a darker turn in which smoking a joint or two leads to sexual promiscuity, alcoholism, heroin addiction, unwanted pregnancy, and ultimately a gun battle with the cops. And all because Burma was jealous that her family's attention went to her big sister Eileen. I half-expected Burma to shout, "I accuse my parents!"

Rainey Dawn Do you really think that they needed a bunch of anti-drug movies in the 1930s? All of the films are for adults only - I think it gave the adults something to watch and maybe even get curious enough to try, and I'm sure the kids saw this advertised somewhere and became more curious about the drugs - especially since the films were adult only (talk about peeking teen interest!).I just watched Reefer Madness (1936) and The Pace That Kills (1935) earlier -- the last thing I wanted to watch or see was this movie... but hey it came in the same Mill Creek 50-pack, Midnight Movie Madness.I am NOT interested in these types of films... I just skim through them quickly.1/10

Michael_Elliott Marihuana (1936) BOMB (out of 4) Silly exploitation film in the same boat as Reefer Madness. A sweet little girl turns evil after smoking a joint. If you've seen any of these early exploitation flicks then you certainly know what to expect. Director Esper is the same man who previously brought up Maniac and he would go on to do Sex Madness so he was an expert at this type of film but this movie is pretty much awful from start to finish and sadly it doesn't deliver too many laughs. Just about every film in this genre is downright horrid and that's the case here but most of them manage to be good for laughs but this film here doesn't have too many. The highlight would be the skinny dipping scene, which has plenty of nudity, which certainly wasn't the norm back in the day. Everything from the performances to the production are bad but the film is so slow moving that it's hard to get involved in it. This genre has delivered many cult classics but this one here isn't nearly as good as most.

sol **SPOILERS** One of the many exploitation movies made in the 1930's about weed pot or marijuana the film "Marihuana" is mostly about a sibling rivalry between two young sisters Berma and Eline who come from one of the towns most upright and blue blood families. Eline is engaged and to be married to local rich well connected and also blue blood Morgan Stuart while Berma is in love with a local boy who's both poor and out of work Dick Collier. With Eline being her moms favorite Berma rebells by partying and going out with the wild crowd who drink and do pot and have naked sex parties at night. One Saturday evening after having a wienie roast on the beach the roast turns deadly when one of the girls Joann, Berma's best friend, who was drunk and butt naked runs into the ocean and drowns. Meanwhile back at the beach house the rest of the girls at the party undress and run naked out on the beach skinny dipping into the cold waters with their boyfriends, fully dressed, chasing them. Alone and by themselves both Dick and Berma has a sexual tryst which later results in Berma getting pregnant.With the news of Joann's tragic death the local pot dealer Tony Sentello tells the young people at the party, who looked like they were in their early twenties at the least, to keep their mouths shut if they don't want to be taken away from their parents and put into a local orphanage. Dick wanting to get married to Berma and give their expecting child a proper name as well as a family gets a job working for Tony as a drug runner. On Dick's first day on the job he's shot and killed by the police as he picked up some pot from Tony's sidekick Nickie Romero, who's a dead ringer for actor Andy Garcia,on the waterfront. The very day that Dick was shot and killed Eline and Morgan were happily married at the town church.Giving her baby up for adoption Berma went to work with Tony and Nickie in their pot selling racket and later even went into selling the hard stuff, heroin, which she herself soon got addicted to. Leaving an apartment house after selling some heroin to a desperate woman, who gave up her engagement ring for the dope, Berma sees her Sister Elaine with her husband Morgan and their little girl Gloria. Berma gets this idea to kidnap Gloria and hold her for a ransom of $50,000.00 from her rich parents knowing that both Eline and Morgan wouldn't want this to become public with the person responsible for the kidnapping being a close family member. Going to get in touch with Morgan to get the ransom money Berma get the startling news from her brother-in-law that Gloria is not his and Eline's real child but she was adopted from an underground baby selling mill and she's really Berma's child that she gave up for adoption some three years ago.In a state of shock and emotionally destroyed Berma realizes that the one thing that she had over her hated sister Eline, a child of her own, she unwittingly gave away to her.Going back to the apartment hideout where her partners in crime, Tony & Nickie, were holding her daughter Gloria hostage Berma gives herself a "hot Load" injection in her leg. As she enters the apartment Berma finds that the police raided it, and arrested both Tony and Nikie, and rescued Gloria. With the drugs taking affect Brma slowly goes into shock and collapses and overdoses from "the hit" that she just gave herself.