{"id":3064,"date":"2020-12-22T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:43:40","slug":"543-reefer-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/543-reefer-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"543 &#8211; Reefer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;... and so shall ye reap!&quot; in Shock SuspenStories #10, June 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-1.png 766w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-1-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from &#8220;&#8230; and so shall ye reap!&#8221; in Shock SuspenStories #10, June 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/516-when-did-you-learn-to-hate\/\">socially relevant, moral-driven Shock SuspenStory<\/a>!  &#8220;&#8230; and so shall ye reap!&#8221; appears in Shock SuspenStories #10 (June 1953) and tells the tale of a young man on death row who ruminates on his life choices at the same time that his parents do.  The parents&#8217; reflect in a positive way on how they raised their son, while in parallel panels, the son&#8217;s reflects ironically on the negative aspects of those same choices.  His association with a rough gang leads to him trying &#8220;reefer&#8221; which leads to &#8220;stronger stuff&#8221;, presumably heroin, and him becoming a desperate addict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from &quot;... and so shall ye reap!&quot; in Shock SuspenStories #10, June 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-2.png 770w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-2-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/reefer-addict-2-768x706.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from &#8220;&#8230; and so shall ye reap!&#8221; in Shock SuspenStories #10, June 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug use is pretty rare in comic books.  Apart from fanciful positive depictions (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/105-hourman-the-drug-addict\/\">Hourman<\/a>) I know of only a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/31-dope-fiend\/\">couple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/41-the-blood-of-the-lotus\/\">stories<\/a> that depict it in any realistic way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, another socially relevant, moral-driven Shock SuspenStory! &#8220;&#8230; and so shall ye reap!&#8221; appears in Shock SuspenStories #10 (June 1953) and tells the tale of a young man on death row who ruminates on his life choices at the same time that his parents do. The parents&#8217; reflect in a positive way on how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,532,350,501],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-drug-use","tag-ec","tag-socially-relevant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}