10 Disney Movies With Completely F*cked Up Morals

1. Alice In Wonderland - Basically, Take All The Drugs

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Walt Disney Pictures

Reading more like a day in the life of Hunter S. Thompson than a kid appropriate film, Alice in Wonderland is about as trippy as it gets and crammed with more drug references than a medical dictionary.

The Lewis Carroll book on which the film is based has long been associated with drug use, written in Victorian Britain when opium dens and swigging laudanum were all the rage, and Disney didn’t exactly shy away from the whole narcotic side of Alice featuring substance abuse including but by no means limited to liquid hallucinogens, magic mushrooms, cannabis cookies and a hookah smoking caterpillar. Is it just flavoured tobacco in that pipe or something a little more intoxicating?

On the face of it an innocent cartoon about an imaginative girl’s daydream, Alice in Wonderland is basically a pro-drug propaganda fest and Disney, like a slightly more respectable version of a playground drug dealer, is telling young impressionable minds that it’s perfectly fine to get whacked off your pickle on illegal, mind-altering substances and trip your day away.

Which other f*cked up Disney morals belong on this list? Share your own below in the comments thread.

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