âThe kids at school with no backbone smoked marijuana.â Such is the ridiculous rhetoric in this absurd vintage drug abuse film: The Terrible Truth. This color 1950âs movie dramatically dissects drug addiction in the most dated, ignorant ways imaginable. Utilizing scare tactics, creepy music, and sinister looking actors, the film insists that marijuana âaddictionâ will lead to heroin addiction. The Terrible Truth is the perfect example of 1950âs drug resistance and paranoia, while at the same time revealing the inaccuracies that were pedaled by the government at the time.
