10 Stephen King Fan Theories That Make Appalling Sense
2. The Mist Is A Warning Against Marijuana Legalisation
The terrifying tentacled monsters of
The Mist are explained in both Stephen King’s not-so-short short story and
Frank Darabont’s movie adaptation as the result of the Arrowhead Project, a
government experiment at a nearby military base designed to look into other
dimensions that unwittingly released a barrage of demonic beasts into America.
But a certain theory has a better idea as to where all that mist came from. The day the mist descends over Bridgton, Maine trapping David Drayton, his young son and a motley crew of townsfolk in a supermarket is a premonition of the day that pot is legalised in America with the mist itself representing intoxicating clouds of marijuana smoked by hippies and other such morally lax types.
The marijuana mist sweeps across the land turning normally upstanding American citizens into cannabis-addled maniacs hallucinating monsters left, right and centre and causing them to gruesomely off each other in a fit of reefer madness.
In King’s novella, David escapes the supermarket with his son and a ragtag group of fellow survivors where they find the cannabis cloud of doom has spread across America. Their fate is left ambiguous, but in Darabont’s movie David and Co escape but he winds up shooting and killing them all to save them from the ‘monsters’.
The message is clear: smoking the devil’s lettuce makes you kill people and the legalisation of pot will be the downfall of America.