When LSD Was Legal: SKIDOO with Jackie Gleason, Groucho & Carol Channing!
Watch the movie that promoted LSD to an entire nation- before it was made illegal!
Before filming started on SKIDOO! Director Otto Preminger encouraged every star in the cast to try LSD, which was still legal during filming.
This is not shocking by itself, until you see the list of actor’s names in the cast! See the film here:
Skidoo: Hollywood's pro LSD movie
During the making of Otto Preminger's SKIDOO Groucho Marx, Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith and Jackie Gleason (!) all took LSD (which was still legal while the film was being made) to get into their roles.
Once the drug was made illegal the studio pulled support for the film and it vanished for years. Probably a good thing. Since the film was pro- LSD it could have ruined the hippies if their parents asked as a result of seeing the movie, "Can you get mom and me some LSD?", LOL.
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Once LSD was made illegal the government promoted the ideas that years later it would cause massive “flashbacks” - full blown LSD trips from out of the blue and also massive birth defects. Which you can see here:
Paul McCartney who admitted to taking LSD and his kids. Many hippies thought they were getting 2 for 1 LSD trips because the government said they would have flashbacks. Should they sue? LOL!
Now that LSD is being used to treat everything from depression to alcoholism, oddly all those scare stories have vanished. Was the government lying?
For the movie SKIDOO! Groucho Marx took LSD with future Chicago 7 defendant Paul Krassner.
In 1973 Jonathan Rosenbaum said he valued the film as an "endlessly fascinating aberration... [it] enlists a legion of Fifties TV corpses into an amalgamation of every conceivable Hollywood genre."
Groucho Marx smokes pot on camera in SKIDOO
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