Grass: History of Marijuana is a 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann, premiered in Toronto Film Festival, about the history of the United States government's war on marijuana in the 20th century. The film was narrated by actor Woody Harrelson. The film follows the history of US federal policies and social attitudes towards marijuana, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. The history presented is broken up into parts, approximately the length of a decade. Each decade is introduced by paraphrasing the official attitude towards marijuana at the time , and closed by... providing a figure for the amount of money spent during that period on the "war on marijuana." The film places much of the blame for marijuana criminalization on Harry Anslinger who promoted false information about marijuana to the American public as a means towards abolition. It later shows how the federal approach to criminalization started to became entrenched after Richard Nixon declared War on Drugs and created the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1973.
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| Release date: | 1999 |
| Directed by: | Ron Mann |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 80 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ron Mann |