- Narrator: Mac takes Tom to a psychedelic shop, a head shop. The place is something else. Out of sight. A pot smoker's supermarket. A psychedelicatessen.
- Narrator: Smoking marijuana to blow your mind is like throwing sand in a delicate machine and hoping nothing goes wrong.
- Narrator: Mac thinks Tom's project is real square. But, he agrees to get him all the dope - no pun intended. He knows just where to start Tom's education - at a garden pot party held by one of Mac's friends.
- Bunny: Waco! Waco! Come quick!
- Narrator: Bunny is Waco's wife. There's trouble. Big trouble! The Man is busting her younger brother.
- Robber: You look like you've got bread, man. Give!
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- Narrator: Tom has decided what he'll do. It would be stupid to take a chance. After all, he's no psychological cripple, unable to cope. Who needs a grass crutch? Much better to: Keep Off The Grass.
- Tom's dad: Tom, these are yours?
- Tom: Yeah, they're mine.
- Louise, Tom's mom: Oh, Tom, how could you?
- Tom: Mother! It's only grass. I'm not a dope fiend.
- Tom: Mom smokes like a chimney. And you have a drink everyday and smoke too.
- Tom's dad: It's not the same.
- Tom: Why not? It's easy for you to stand there with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in another and tell us not to blow pot.
- Tom: There's not a shred of evidence that marijuana's any worse than nicotine or alcohol. You can get cancer! Your liver can rot away.
- Tom's dad: Well, let's say you're right. You'd rather look down on my generation for getting hung up on smoking and drinking, knowing it's bad for us. You think we're stupid! Maybe you're right. But, does that make you're generation so all fired smart for getting all hung up on grass? You can be harmed by that too! Or, do you have double standards when it comes to our smoking and drinking and you're blowing pot?
- Narrator: The marijuana user generally experiences an uncontrollable feeling of hilarity, quite without reason. He exhibits a marked carelessness. His senses and time perception are distorted. He becomes confused and he displays irresponsibility and poor judgment. And, prolonged use, may result in a loss of ambition and self respect, because of the induced "couldn't care less" attitude.
- Tom's dad: It may not be physically addictive, but, it is habituating. You can come to depend upon it psychologically. And that might be even worst! There's no cold turkey for that.
- Tom: What it really does is expand you're mind! It makes you see things more clearly. Makes you more creative! Really, it does. All the painters and writers, they all say so.
- Narrator: The relationship between Tom and his father is basically a good one. Tom's father believes in his son and he challenges him. Find out the actual facts about smoking grass. The pros and cons. Fair and square. Don't hear only what you want to hear. And then if Tom is still honestly convinced there's no harm in doing it, nothing further will be said. Tom agrees. He's only smoked pot occasionally, for a few weeks. He's really new to the scene.
- Narrator: Smoking grass is a private affair. It doesn't harm anybody, he's told. It's a groovy way of relaxing. Opening your senses. Tom is most interested in what he sees. These people, most of them college students, are bright and well adjusted, very sure of themselves and their ability to handle anything. Obviously, they are all able to blow pot occasionally without ill effect. Well, almost all of them.
- Narrator: Harry's a real veteran of the grass scene and he gives Tom the word. He's very persuasive. Everyone, but everyone's on grass. All the big ones, of course. The best writers. the best musicians. the best artists. It's definitely the scene.
- Narrator: Waco insists grass is the greatest. That's where real expansion of your mind and talents can be found. Turn on! Tune out of the rat race and its square problems. And tune in on real self knowledge and creative power.
- Narrator: Marijuana. Cannabis... or Indian hemp. Weed. Grass. Pot. It can become a stimulant or a depressive or a hallucinatory agent which affects the central nervous system and reacts differently and unpredictably on each individual user, occasionally with disastrous results.
- Narrator: Kids who get high don't want to come down. There's a wholesome abandonment of goals and ambitions. They found a world where they seemingly have no problems. That's the cruelest hoax of all.
- Narrator: Maybe there is a similarity between the social drinker and the pot smoker. Yet, it's not quite the same. The daily drinker may not be the best thing in the world, but a man who takes a drink after his day is done, has worked! He has achieved! He has coped! And he wants to relax. Not so, the teenage user. He deliberately seeks to tune out, cop out. He uses his grass as a mental crutch. Because, he fears to stand on his own. He may never learn to cope with the inevitable everyday problems of living. He may well become one the left behind generation.
- Narrator: Legalizing the use of marijuana is not the answer!
- Narrator: Mac has had enough of the gloomy scene. He's itching to split. It's getting late. Tom's still got to see where it's at.
- Narrator: He's looked at both the pros and cons of blowing pot. He's not convinced that grass is all that harmful. But, there is room for a lot of doubt. Why don't we wait and see. There's a lot of testing to be done before we'll know all the facts. We've already got our hang ups with smoking and drinking. We know the consequences we face doing it. Why add another hang up by blowing pot?