Bong films are no more attractive to my age group than any other age group since Cheech and Chong. Harold and Kumar could be argued to be my generation's Cheech and Chong. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, is a sequel to the original, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and there are rumors of a third film.
However, bong films are more prevalent due to the increase in tolerance for films to depict cannabis smoking. Since the 1970s cannabis use has been decriminalized in eleven states, and now in California there are attempts to legalize it not only for medical use but recreational use as well.
America is beginning to fallow in Amsterdam’s footsteps, when the Dutch government began decriminalizing cannabis in the late 1970s, (America actually began decriminalizing much earlier, as California decriminalized the “wacky tobaccy” in 1973). It seems as though this “modern” prohibition is coming to a close. And young people want to be a part of that. A soon as “weed” is decriminalized the drug subculture of “stoners” will vanish.
Unlike the prohibition of alcohol, the prohibition of “reefer” has sparked its own subculture, that has now reached mainstream. Stoner music, songs about pot or reference pot, (e.g. Cypress Hill), stoner films, such as the Harold and Kumar series, Pineapple Express, etc., and now even stoner television shows, like HBO’s Weeds, seem to be everywhere.
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, although contains a political message and an interpretation as such is supported, it is above all a stoner film appealing to a culture that seemed to start in the seventies with Cheech and Chong, and has grown now out of it’s prohibition.
However, bong films are more prevalent due to the increase in tolerance for films to depict cannabis smoking. Since the 1970s cannabis use has been decriminalized in eleven states, and now in California there are attempts to legalize it not only for medical use but recreational use as well.
America is beginning to fallow in Amsterdam’s footsteps, when the Dutch government began decriminalizing cannabis in the late 1970s, (America actually began decriminalizing much earlier, as California decriminalized the “wacky tobaccy” in 1973). It seems as though this “modern” prohibition is coming to a close. And young people want to be a part of that. A soon as “weed” is decriminalized the drug subculture of “stoners” will vanish.
Unlike the prohibition of alcohol, the prohibition of “reefer” has sparked its own subculture, that has now reached mainstream. Stoner music, songs about pot or reference pot, (e.g. Cypress Hill), stoner films, such as the Harold and Kumar series, Pineapple Express, etc., and now even stoner television shows, like HBO’s Weeds, seem to be everywhere.
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, although contains a political message and an interpretation as such is supported, it is above all a stoner film appealing to a culture that seemed to start in the seventies with Cheech and Chong, and has grown now out of it’s prohibition.
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