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somebody bet on de bay.

- Do you have anything you'd

like to add? - Yes I do.

We have with us this

evening Miss Ellen Lubar.

She is seated

right over there.

Now Miss Lubar has been away

from home for six months.

She may have seen your child

or children as the case may be,

and she will be very happy to

answer your questions if you will...

form a line and show

her pictures of your child.

You might be one

of the lucky ones.

and you might be able to

locate your child through her.

Yes, let us give her a

good round of appause!

- I think I know her.

- This is my son.

Honey, somebody's waving at us.

Hey Ben, I want you to

meet a friend of mine.

She's coming over.

You know, you remember that man

I told you I met. Excuse me please.

Hello, how are you?

Momma?

Momma?

Is anybody home?

Friends...

- Ladies and gentlemen...

- Annie come one, were starting.

- See you later.

- Nice seeing you.

Friends, as you know,

the purpose and the aim of our 'Society

for the Parents of Fugitive Children' is

not only to try to find those children,

but to try and understand them.

How many times have

we found our children,

only to lose them again?

And perhaps the most

difficult problem we now face

lies in the fields of understanding

the urges and pressures...

that lead our children

into the taking of drugs.

And with us... please!

Please ladies and gentlemen.

With us tonight we have the

eminant American psychologist

Dr Besh, Dr. Bob Besh,

whose book you probably know.

Doctor Besh?

Friends, everything I emphasised

at dinner is all true...

but really useless.

For you to understand your youngster

and what he's going through...

you really have to have

a similar experience.

Friends, I propose that we conduct

an experiment here this evening.

As you know, or many

of you I think know,

i'm a lawyer and what i'm

doing here now is illegal.

However there are considerations that

transcend the legalities of the situation,

and that is the

consideration of our children,

about whom we're

all deeply concerned.

And that is why this marijuana, which

I am told is particulary pure in form,

and therefore perhaps particulary

effective as to reaction.

Is what I propose you

indulge with here... with me.

This is my first... indulgence.

And perhaps this will aid us

to understand hopefully,

what it is that our children are

involved in and perhaps why.

To help with our

experiment tonight...

we're all fortunate to have one of

my patients, Vincent Scarelli. Vince?

Alright.

This is a joint.

The joint has two ends.

It has one end which is rolled shut

and another end which is open.

Take the joint with the

open end facing you

firmly between between your

thumb and index fingers, like this.

You know what i'm saying?

Then you take it and

put it in your mouth,

like this.

Then you take out a

match, you light it...

you put it to the end and

you inhale very deeply like...

Like that.

And as you inhale, curl up

the edges of your mouth

so that you let in alot of

oxygen along with the smoke.

It is very important to get a

mixture of grass and oxygen.

After you inhale do

not exhale immediately,

but inhale very far into your back

and hold it in with your

diaphragm for a count of ten.

Potom And then exhale,

preferably through your nose.

You got that?

Now the other thing you must

remember is that after you inhale

you take the joint and pass it to

the person sitting next to you.

Do not, repeat, do

not hold onto the joint.

This is called bogarting the

joint and it is very rude.

So you take it and you pass it

to the person sitting next to you

until the joint gets passed

around and it's very very small.

That is called a roach.

- The remnant is a roach?

- Yes. - Roach.

And I will collect those.

Now, are there any other

questions before we light up?

Yes, you said we should count to

ten, how fast should we count?

Just fast enough so

that you don't pass out.

How many years in

prison does this represent?

A man in Michigan was sentenced to

For a person whose quit

smoking... is it dangerous?

Marijuana contains no nicotine.

Any other questions?

Yes.

I think we all had

drinks with dinner.

The dope and the alcohol, mix?

Oh they'll mix.

Thank you.

Alright everybody, now we're going

to light up. Get your matches ready.

Strike the match...

We're waiting for you.

Very good. Light the joint.

Inhale.

Pass the joint.

- 8, 9...

- Think of bogarting hands.

Don't forget to curl your lips.

Hey lady, don't cheat!

- Who me?

- Yeah you.

- I have trouble with my windpipe.

- Well just pass it along.

- Do you feel anything?

- No.

It smells like stinkweed.

Do you feel anything?

And now, feel anything now?

Nothing!

Just relax everybody.

Relax and just fly.

Feel like a big bird.

Breathing,

all creatures are,

brighter than that brightest

star, you are, by far.

You got inside of me,

close as you can be.

You kiss my blood,

and the blood kills me.

Relax, just breathe. That's

all you have to do, just breathe.

Let the rhythm take you and go

with the music. Just fly away.

Float, just float all the way up.

Just feel your whole... dig your

whole body just floating away.

Gentlemen...

- I think i'm beginning to

feel something. - Well go on!

Vibrations.

It's like a strange fuzzy.

See, isn't it beautiful? Beautiful

Just do whatever you like,

whatever you feel like doing.

Whatever comes into your mind.

And go with it, go with it

all the way. Don't hold on.

Relax and let it happen!

Don't sit on it, just...

Let it fly!

What is it? Here it is!

Don't think about it,

just move with the moment.

Take the impulse

and move with it!

You kiss my blood,

and the blood kiss me.

I don't feel anything.

Oh what a beautiful house.

Hey Ben, come here, look!

No, that one over there.

- Look at it here. - Yeah,

looks very nice. - Look look!

- Now look at it here. - Hey, that's

the damnedest thing i've ever seen!

Ain't that something?

That's remarkable.

That's what I mean

by a work of art.

Oh, they got a

bottle collection!

Cards, are we

really gonna play?

We are gonna play a hand

of the duchess' fanny.

But I don't know

how to play that.

It's very simple. We're not gonna

play that, we're gonna play...

- I don't know how to play anything. - You

mean you don't know how to play poker?

I never heard of anybody who didn't

know how to play poker before.

I don't wanna lose. I don't care

what happens, if I don't lose it's ok.

No, if I lose I quit.

Well that's silly. I don't think

this woman's got no backbone.

I know but we're

having her operated on.

I wish I said that!

We are gonna play...

I wish you had to!

We are gonna play,

Texas one card showdown.

- I never heard of it. - Everone takes

one card and the low man is the loser.

- Wait. - What?

- I'm not ready.

Ok, you ready now?

- Are you ready?

- I'm ready.

- Oh she's ready ok.

- You cut the cards Larry.

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