Showtime has made a colorful, high-energy diversion from legit tuner "Reefer Madness," which in turn was based on the 1936 camp-classic film a million college kids lit up to in the '60s and '70s.

A six-foot hookah sits in the middle of the room, a remnant of an orgy a few days before. Behind a curtain in the execution chamber, FDR, a gangster’s bloodied moll and a chorus of dancing inmates ...