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In 1971, a frustrated 54-year-old writer named Beatrice Sparks spoke directly to teens by masquerading as one of them. Her disguise came in the form of a book, Go Ask Alice, which was marketed as the “real diary” of a 15-year-old drug user. Alice is as hardcore as any book carrying the “young adult” label ever has been, and its contents were almost entirely invented by Sparks. As such, it is rife with misrepresentations of drug effects that could reasonably be described as disinformation. To have read Go Ask Alice is to be duped. Now, more than 50 years after its release, nearly 6 million copies of the pulp classic have been sold—that’s a lot of fooled kids.
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There was a TV movie made of
There was a TV movie made of the book in the early 70s that was pretty bad, despite having talent like William Shatner, Andy Griffith, Robert Carradine, and Mackenzie Phillips on board.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068644/
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I read it.
I read it.
It made me believe shooting speed wouldn't be too cool, but didn't dissuade me from doing a lot of other shit...
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Sweet. I'll probably get
Sweet. I'll probably get super high later today and watch it. Thanks for the heads up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxT53r2AlU
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My parents made me watch the
My parents made me watch the movie, got me interested in getting high.
Also was made to watch another "anti" drug movie around the same time:
Joe is a 1970 drama film written by Norman Wexler and directed by John G. Avildsen. It stars Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut.
Advertising executive Bill Compton, his wife Joan, and daughter Melissa are a wealthy family living in New York's Upper East Side. Melissa has been living with her drug-dealing boyfriend. After Melissa overdoses and is sent to a hospital, Compton goes to her boyfriend's apartment to get her clothes. He confronts and kills the boyfriend in a fit of rage. At a nearby bar he hears factory worker Joe Curran ranting about how he hates hippies, and Compton blurts out that he just killed one. Joe reacts favorably, but Compton says it was a joke.A few days later, Joe sees a news report about a drug dealer found slain a few blocks from the bar. He calls Compton and meets him. At first Compton is wary that Joe may be attempting blackmail, but Joe assures him that he admires Compton for killing the drug dealer. Melissa escapes from the hospital and returns to the family apartment, where she overhears her father discussing the murder. She storms out of the apartment house, saying to Compton, "What are you gonna do, kill me too?" Compton tries to restrain her, but she breaks away. Joe and Compton search for her, and meet a group of hippies at a bar in downtown Manhattan. They join the hippies at an apartment. They abscond with drugs brought by Compton, which he had taken from the drug dealer, as well as Joe's and Compton's wallets. Joe beats one of the girls until she tells him that their boyfriends often spend time in an upstate commune. Joe and Compton drive to that commune, with Joe bringing rifles. In a confrontation at the commune, Joe and Compton kill all the hippies there, and Compton unwittingly kills his own daughter.
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Ha! That almost sounds better
Ha! That almost sounds better than the fear-flick we were shown in middle school/early high school which featured Marsha Brady (Maureen McCormick) as a wayward teen whom got involved with drugs, sleeping around, and showed her life unraveling from it all. I think it ended with her friend jumping off a building or highway overpass, claiming the ability to fly in "a rage of LSD". Intriguing indeed.
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Okay I can get off topic but
Okay I can get off topic but I love grace slick