Reefer Madness Chapter Summary

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Reefer Madness starts off as a PSA, of an authority figure at a high school which is telling them how this new drug marijuana is sweeping the nation and how to stay away from it. He then tells the young teens a story about how terrible and bad the “menace marihuana” is, and that it is a growing epidemic in the young community. It explains that marijuana is a “violent narcotic – an unspeakable scourge”. The story starts at the house of Mae and Jack. Jack walks in and tells Mae that the “marines” just arrived and that the house should start making their merchandise. A lot of people come to the house and start investing in the idea of the drug house that Jack is offering. Jack goes out and tries to recruit young people right outside the schools, …show more content…

Bill comes out to see Mary about to be raped and he starts to fight him. The start throwing punches and then Jack buts in the fight with a gun to try to apprehend Ralph but then the gun was fired. Mary is shot and killed by accident by Ralph but then since Bill was knocked out by Ralph, Jack made him believe that he had shot Mary, his …show more content…

Bill goes to trial for the death of Mary and they sentence him guilty. Mary’s mom cried after the verdict was announced. Ralph hears the news about Bill and he begins to break down and feels guilty, he keeps saying that he needs to see Jack. Ralph finally sees Jack and beats him up, which finally escalates till Mae to call the police. The drug raid was busted and all the people involved in the operation were arrested. Blanche tells the police what really happened, that Bill was framed by Ralph and it was all their faults. Bill got off of trail because there was new evidence that corroborated his innocence. Blanche then jumps out of the window right before she was going to either be prosecuted for accessory to murder or going to be used as a suspect against Ralph. Before she actually jumped she reminisced about how she affected and basically ruined Bill’s life since he cheated on her then got his girlfriend killed. Then Ralph is put through a mental institution because they believed he had to be crazy to act the way he did. Then the original guy at the beginning says his last few words about how marijuana could take over anyone’s

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