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I love Tree Hugger. I adore her, from her messy rasta mane to her screechy neighing singing, and I wish I could draw her more frequently. I can easily understand why someone would be annoyed by her antics, and the whole hippie look is something I know quite a lot don’t really enjoy, but I very much adore her character. I’ve been wanting to draw her in a Movie Slate update for the longest, and I think this one fits her rather well. Plus it gave me the chance to exercise my stoner talk writing muscles, which is something I never thought I had. Also, drawing Movie Slate with a gas mask and a rather stern look was quite fun. She doesn’t judge, she just doesn’t want to partake in Tree Hugger’s vices.“Reefer Madness” might be one of the very first examples of film used for the purpose of propaganda. Propaganda by its nature is all about making the other side of the argument look unreasonable, weak, and evil, but once put in perspective with a bit of information one discovers how one-sided these type of movies are. Reefer Madness, not only is no exception, but it’s also the funniest, most unintentionally hilarious movie about the dangers of marijuana ever put together. It’s loosely based on a real murder case where a kid killed his entire family with an axe, allegedly under the effects of the weed. Later on it was discovered he suffered from schizophrenia and that the drug had little to nothing to do with it, but the damage was already done, and so this movie came to be as a way to warn parents about how marijuana can turn their children into psychopaths. It became a cult classic comedy among college campuses, and even to this day nobody knows who the rights of the movie belong to, or who were the ones behind it. That’s why it’s perfectly fine for you to play it anywhere and everywhere you want. Thank you, public domain.I based this drawing in a version of Reefer Madness that was colorized, where the smoke that the characters puff out was bright and colorful, almost neon. You can even watch this version of the movie on YouTube. I wanted to give Tree Hugger’s half really strong, powerful, blazed colors, like she’s floating in the middle of a rainbow mist, all while keeping Movie Slate in the austere black and white tone of someone who doesn’t want to inhale the smokes of oregano. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun using so mane different palettes, and quite the challenge as well. Blending them took a while, but I think the end result is quite alright.
Now, of course, anyone with a few courses in biological psychology and chemistry will tell you that there are still a few things that need to be studied about marijuana, specifically the illegal kind you get off the street. Not hemp, a primitive cloth and a pretty good insulator for homes. However, as with anything that is released into the bloodstream and delivered throughout the body, getting it out is more difficult than one might think, and synapses in the brain shut down if exposed to too much stimuli over a short time. It’s why drug-induced depression is a thing. It’s also why alcohol doesn’t induce depression via chemicals, because it doesn’t force the synapses to work overtime. It has it’s own list of long-term effects.
But, as stated above, marijuana has an extremely low chance of inducing psychopathic behavior (not that it can’t be used by the mentally ill. It doesn’t stop their behavior, but more or less distracts them). Reefer Madness was baseless propaganda and has become a staple of culture, if in a odd way. It’s like a meme you don’t really want to talk about because it’s so utterly stupid, but when you do it’s plainly clear why you’re laughing at it and with friends.