Unlike the exploitation flicks of the Thirties and Forties, "Keep Off The Grass" actually attempts to rationally portray a father's advice to his son about smoking marijuana. Dad encourages son Tom to research his facts independently after Tom had already owned up to owning the joints that his mother found while cleaning up his room. In so doing, the film's approach sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. One of the more outlandish situations occurs when Tom is accosted by a trio of street thugs looking to rob him, either of his money or his pot, I wasn't quite sure.
Another reviewer for the picture on this board who had first hand knowledge of the production offers a good read on the background for the film. Some forty years plus now after the fact, it's more than clear that the liberal culture is turning marijuana mainstream with a variety of tactics including legalization in California and Colorado as I write this. So all of Tom's observations - irresponsibility and poor judgment, loss of self respect, abandonment of goals and ambition, and yes, uncontrolled feelings of hilarity, are now given a veneer of acceptance by a society that doesn't feel compelled to protect it's youngest citizens from this gateway drug. The slippery slope seems to be getting steeper.
Another reviewer for the picture on this board who had first hand knowledge of the production offers a good read on the background for the film. Some forty years plus now after the fact, it's more than clear that the liberal culture is turning marijuana mainstream with a variety of tactics including legalization in California and Colorado as I write this. So all of Tom's observations - irresponsibility and poor judgment, loss of self respect, abandonment of goals and ambition, and yes, uncontrolled feelings of hilarity, are now given a veneer of acceptance by a society that doesn't feel compelled to protect it's youngest citizens from this gateway drug. The slippery slope seems to be getting steeper.