Jack Webb directing himself is dangerous for the watcher -perhaps special lenses should be worn to watch the result.
In this case we have a half-hour tract, which frequently halts for Webb to recite an idiotic, overwritten monologue on the dangers of drugs, in this case amphetamines, barbiturates and marijuana. In one case, a bearded intellectual has to listen to his drivel and the script doesn't let him have a comeback. Jack is God-like in his knowledge and prescriptions for solving society's ills, when not haranguing the viewer like a Spiro Agnew combating "pseudo-intellectuals". Watching this tripe in 2023, a fascist name of DeSantis came to mind.
I suppose one expects more from this descendant of one of the original police procedurals but "Dragnet 1970" (filed as "Dragnet 1967 Season 4" in ever-pedantic IMDb land) episode is just a shaggy-dog story -my least favorite form of drama (or is it comedy? -only Joel & Ethan know for sure). They're hunting for a missing Johnny Aldrich, budding drug addict, and he never shows up. I know, because I tried to hunt for the episode using the character name for my search, but no actual actor was hired to show up in the role. Perhaps a harbinger of the AI future, as I had just watched a newscast on today's SAG-AFTRA strike, and prexy Fran Drescher opined on how background players are being subjected by money-grubbing producers to AI and only need be hired once (then endlessly reused without even a trip to Zuck's metaverse) -ouch!
Webb intoned pompously on "how do you want to be remembered?". His legacy includes idiotic trash like this, and as far as marijuana is concerned, even if I am skeptical about the current rush to legalization being a good idea, let's face it, Jack's legacy is simply -he was wrong. We may laugh at his right-wing propaganda, but 53 years later jerks resembling him are ready to turn the clock back not to 1970 but to 1951 or 1949 (tv versus radio) with their buddy Clarence Thomas leading the charge.