The History of Drug Use in USA...

[Grat3fulh3ad]

Excellent doccumentary series on the History channel tonight...
Hooked: Illegal drugs in America and how they got that way...
I recomend it... Set the Tivo, it's starting soon...

 

[Bigmone357]

Will do

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

Cocaine at 7:00 CST and Marijuana at 8:00 CST

 

[Nikijad4210]

Nice, I'll catch the repeats later tonight

 

[Nikijad4210]

Caught the last 30 minutes of that, my mom was laughing her ass off over the propaganda crapola

 

[Bigmone357]

I watched the whole 2 hours That was a good watch h3ad thanx bro :wink:.

 

[Guest]

i saw something like that and they said how bennies or speed was over the counter well more pure than now Red Bull Ahem and the like but good stuff info on all drugs maybe the same show. There is some on pot tv for sure from the history channel

 

[kokua]

its on right now if you can catch it...

 

[minds_I]

Seen it-good show

 

[HotCha]

anyone catch the series of drug docs that have been running on vh1?

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

yeah VH1's the drug years is a pretty good doc...

 

[Fire On High]

Wish I could watch it. I hardly watch any TV and I dont have more than twenty channels so its difficult for me to see anything on VH1 or the history channel. I guess I'll have to search for it on youtube or something. I saw GRASS recently and I thought that was an excellent documentary, even though it might be a bit boring for someone that doesnt have as much of an interest in the fine green that we enjoy.

...FOH

 

[Closet Funk]

I watched the "Drug Years" on VH1 and they were pretty interesting. I liked the one about the guys smuggling colombian bud into the states. Then coke came and shut that shit down. It went from the hippie LSD days to the most recent epidemic, methamphetamine. Although they should of showed more on the most recent epidemic.

60's:
LSD
Marijuana
Heroin
Meth
Pills

70's:
Marijuana
LSD
Cocaine
Heroin

80's:
Cocaine
Crack
Heroin
Marijuana

90's:
MDMA (Ex)
Cocaine
Crack
Marijuana

2000's:
Meth
Cocaine
Pills
Marijuana

 

[robobond]

I love how no matter what decade marijuana never seems to go out.

 

[Closet Funk]

I love how no matter what decade marijuana never seems to go out.

I know. They will never stop people from smoking and growing. It's always going to be around and there is nothing they can do about it. So fucking legalize this shit already.

 

[mushupork5]

good program but lacked a little bit. cannabis culture has a really good 3 part series on mary jane and music and the 1st part is about the early days of mj.

basically, the great jazz musicians of n'orleans (louis armstrong, and co) smoked before and during shows in order to get relaxed while playing. they didn't like booze because it slowed them down. weed pepped them up and helped them to create those fantastic notes that you should listen to if you never have. and then the gov't got concerned. the addictive properties and gateway drug excuses had yet to be fabricated. harry anslinger was a fan of classically played music, that which was composed and played the same everywhere. he did not like the improv factor of jazz (jass back in those days) music. he didn't like the idea that lousi armstrong could fit two notes on his cornet in the same amount of time that everyone else fit one. these abilities were unhuman and were the cause of marihuana. so what did anslinger do? started the fight against weed.

thats about all i can remember right off the top of my head right now, but i suggest you check out the article and listen to jazz and blues music (well lots of other genres as well, but those two started (almost) everything we hear over the radio).

 

[robobond]

I still think the best documentary on mj was Grass. If you haven't seen it I *highly* recomend it.

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

yeah, I agree that it might have lacked a bit, but being a documentary produced by a mainstream organisation like the history channel, it will reach a different audience that the documentarys made by potheads for potheads. And made good points about the racism behind prohibition, and the purposeful campaign of Mis-information by the government. Important points for those outside of the counterculture, who have only ever been exposed to the mis-information.

 

[kokua]

its on right now...you can catch it if you look now!

 

[Guest]