American soldiers in Vietnam find a unique way to smoke marijuana. Though soldiers laughed at the novel method of getting blown away, when parents and congressmen saw this film on TV news in November 1970, they not amused. Under pressure, the US military initiated a major marijuana suppression, but only succeeded in driving ever-more soldiers to smoking heroine, which was odorless and easier to conceal. A tobacco cigarette would be rolled between finger and thumb to loosen the tobacco, and the cigarette would be partially emptied. A five-dollar plastic vial containing 250 milligrams of 95-percent-pure heroin then would be poured into the cigarette and then smoked. Thousands of soldiers were now returning home addicted to heroine. Uncounted among those wounded-in-action, they were in just as much pain.




