7. Rally Against Reefer Madness! Dana Franzen Offset, 1985 New York, New York 705 Reefer Madness (1938) was originally produced as an anti-marijuana propaganda film that claimed the drug made people go insane. Since then it has become a cult classic. This poster appropriates the title of the movie but redirects the accusation of “madness” to legal prohibitions against marijuana. One of the demands, “Stop the Witch Hunt” shows First Lady Nancy Reagan riding on a pig, dressed in her signature “Reagan Red” high couture, and zapping an array of counter culture characters including Groucho Marx, writer Tom Wolf, and stoner-comic “Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” Phineas, Fat Freddie, and Frank. The Smoke-In that the poster announces took place in 1985 during Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs” and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. The sign-off “YiPPiE” stands for the Youth International Party founded by Jerry Rubin, Abby Hoffman, and others.
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