In 1971, the National Institute of Mental Health released a short film that was intended to dissuade kids from trying drugs. But if there was ever an anti-drug movie that made kids want to try drugs, this is it.
Titled "Curious Alice," the film was a take-off on the Lewis Carroll stories of Alice in Wonderland and the 1951 Disney film, of course. Viewers follow a young girl who starts tripping balls and proclaims, "It's weird! Everything's different! Even me!" punctuated with plenty of exclamations like "wow!"
Curious Alice talks to all kinds of woodland creatures and plants, few of which acknowledge her existence, causing her to have an existential crisis about whether she's "really here." She's super duper high and isn't quite sure who she is. Her trip starts to really turn dark, but there doesn't appear to be anything really threatening Curious Alice because she continues to remind herself that nothing she's experiencing is real.
So, yeah, overall Curious Alice sounds like she's had a pretty good time. Aside from that part where she maybe possibly got addicted to heroin and walked into a room full of junkies (which, mind you, are still depicted as imaginary characters). So don't do drugs kids. Or else you'll wind up like Curious Alice and have lots of fun and meet all kinds of cool characters and feel really good.
[YouTube via U.S. National Archives]
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