Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way

[Highwayman]

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way

Marijuana

Marijuana; synthetic amphetamines.


Channel: History Channel

Airing Time: Tue 3/20, Check your local time (60 minutes)

Categories: General, Educational, Series, General/Documentary/Bio, Educational/Documentary, Series/Other

TV Rating: TV-PG



Recommened viewing/recording.




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[Minnow]

I posted about this awhile back and glad to see it will be on again, because I missed a big chunk of the end, and it was a very good documentary chronicling the politics (and racism!) involved in those early days of recreational drug awareness.

Lots of parallels with the recent push on gambling prohibition as well.

[Highwayman]

Documentary was excellent.

Example...one of the more intelligent comments:


Robert Dupont: Policy advisor to President Nixon.

“Marijuana is a hybrid having features like LSD, it also doesn’t produce physical dependency and it doesn’t produce overdose death. And the fact that it doesn’t do these two things makes it seem like it’s not an ‘addictive-drug.’

It has an appeal to people who are smart and who are interested in going beyond the conventional boundaries of their behavior.”




Harry J. Anslinger was the man behind outlawing the weed Marijuana …he was a snoop (investigator for the Pennsylvania Railroad) who save his company 50-dimes from a fraudulent accident claim which promoted him to police captain of the railroad.

An instant dick, Harry worked for various military and police organizations taking him through Germany, Venezuela and Japan with a focus on stopping international narco-trafficking trade and is accredited for American and International drug policies.

He became an assistant Commissioner in the US Bureau of Prohibition at a time when corruption and scandal gripped Prohibition and Narcotics agencies. Anslinger’s reputation was known as an honest and incorruptible figure and was appointed in 1930 to the newly-created FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics) as its first commissioner.

In order to preserve the newly found Bureau thus, himself, Harry began a propagandist campaign against Marijuana to build a public perception for support based on deception and lies absent of evidence.




Very interesting, think I'll watch it again...


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[drunkguy]

is this a regular series?


looked for this one, found one on cocaine instead, airing next week

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by drunkguy

is this a regular series?


looked for this one, found one on cocaine instead, airing next week

The History Channel runs a 'history series' on the following narcotics:

• Opium, Heroin
• LSD, Ecstasy
• Marijuana
• Cocaine

All recommended viewings for the curious.


You'll want to record them ALL.



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[The Major]

Nice try slipping pot in the narcotic list. Pot is as much a narcotic as santa is a frog

[Highwayman]

I remember back when ‘mules’ were mules

Man, 82, gets 10 years for trying to smuggle 170 pounds of cocaine into U.S.

TUCSON, Ariz. - An 82-year-old man who was caught trying to smuggle 170 pounds of cocaine into the country from Mexico has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, the U.S. attorney's office announced Tuesday.
Oseas Mendoza-Cecena of Nogales pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute cocaine in January.

He was caught trying to drive his car through the Nogales border crossing in August. Customs inspectors found 79 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the car, and Mendoza-Cecena admitted to agents that he was being paid to deliver the drugs.



Elderly drug smuggler gets 10 years - Criminal Peculiarity - MSNBC.com





FWIW: The Marijuana doc briefly mentions Amphetamines, which physicians claim can literally blow one’s heart apart. Amphetamines were cited as being the most pushed drug in American history…pushed by doctors/manufacturers of course.




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[Minnow]

I actually found it on youtube and started watching the part I had missed before I was interrupted. Couldn't find it again later. The heroin/opiate one and the cocaine/ecstacy are still available there.

I just googled and found it via Torrent, so I guess I'll try dl'ing it.

(History Channel) - Hooked - Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way - Marihuana | Bitenova

[drunkguy]

thanks for the torrent minnow

[drunkguy]

tune into the history channel for a double-shot of cocaine programming


1 hour about columbian drug cartels

then at 1 AM we got an hour of the "hooked" series on coke too



bump a few lines and chill out in front of the tube tonight

[Highwayman]

The History Channel is my favorite, particularly the Modern Marvels episodes…which I regularly record and archive.

They ran a couple episodes today on the KKK, which I’ve recorded, but have yet to review.

They also have a series called “Breaking Vegas” which is a must view for gamblers...loved the one where a retired NJ jeweler mass produced casino tokens which were within 2% of authentic metal alloy...and the Nevada gaming computer software employee who rigged slot-machine prom-chip codes, there is nothing "random" about slot-machine payoffs...then there was the MIT BJ team.


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[Uncle B]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

The History Channel is my favorite, particularly the Modern Marvels episodes…which I regularly record and archive.

They ran a couple episodes today on the KKK, which I’ve recorded, but have yet to review.

They also have a series called “Breaking Vegas” which is a must view for gamblers...loved the one where a retired NJ jeweler mass produced casino tokens which were within 2% of authentic metal alloy...and the Nevada gaming computer software employee who rigged slot-machine prom-chip codes, there is nothing "random" about slot-machine payoffs...then there was the MIT BJ team.




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the KKK episodes were pretty good actually, i was surprised.

amazing, how outright stupid most of the people are, that they choose to speak for them...

hearing some of the dumbass hillbilly slang is worth watching the whole program...


Modern Marvels is a fantastic series..I think Digging for the Truth is good too, but, one of my recent favs, is the "cities of the underground" series...some fascinating shit, imo.

[Uncle B]

They're showing a pretty interesting special on Harry Houdini right now, on History Channel, for anyone bored..

saw most of it a few months back, lots of crazy shit i hadn't seen or hear before, and i'd read a few books on the dude, back when i was a kid.

[Highwayman]

The following recommended viewing/recording will be aired on the History Channel on TUESDAY MAY 22 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm and AGAIN WEDNESDAY MAY 23 12:00 am - 3:00 am(check your local times).



Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way

Episode: "Cocaine" 60 mins
Episode: "Marijuana" 60 mins
Episode: "Opium, Morphine and Heroin" 60 mins



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[drunkguy]

thanks for the heads-up


only saw the coke one, definitely looking forward to the other two

[homedog]

Hot Air » Blog Archive » “Cheese” heroin killing kids in Dallas

What piece of shit individual dresses up a drug so that it is appealing to kids? Totally amazing to me.

The US govt could make good use of taxpayer's money by hunting down these fuckers and killing them. I guess they would rather hunt down people trying to place bets on sporting events from their home computer.

Makes sense to me

[Uncle B]

Originally Posted by homedog

Hot Air » Blog Archive » “Cheese” heroin killing kids in Dallas

What piece of shit individual dresses up a drug so that it is appealing to kids? Totally amazing to me.

The US govt could make good use of taxpayer's money by hunting down these fuckers and killing them. I guess they would rather hunt down people trying to place bets on sporting events from their home computer.

Makes sense to me

As many as 17 Dallas County teenagers have died since 2005 from overdoses of the popular new form of heroin known as “cheese” – the most visible sign yet that more youths are caught in the grip of a growing crisis.

The Dallas Morning News worked with the Dallas County medical examiner’s office to examine toxicology results from hundreds of autopsies and found more than four times as many cheese heroin deaths as previously reported.
Cheese first appeared nearly two years ago, though it went unnoticed by law enforcement and public health officials for quite a while.

It’s a mix of illegal heroin and legal OTC drugs. Hispanics are disproportianate users, and therefore make up most of the dead.

Keep that in mind, as it figures in how the drug is distributed:

“It definitely surprises me,” said Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, who serves on a regional cheese task force made up of more than a dozen health, government, school and police agencies.

“We’ve had this drug in the community for some time and didn’t recognize it,” Mr. Thompson said. “It flew under the radar of all of us. The cheese heroin has been the most instantly addictive and deadliest drug … that we have seen since the crack cocaine epidemic.”

Its rise, addictiveness and deadliness mirrors a similar outbreak of “black tar heroin” use in the Dallas suburb of Plano, ten years ago.

All of this is fascinating, disturbing and maddening. I’m not big on the “war on drugs,” preferring to save declarations of war when we’re actually in real wars, but I’m also not a libertarian on the issue.

The fact is, drugs and the gangs, networks and culture that thrive around their manufacture and distribution are a cancer on society. The whole system is set up to prey on kids and enslave or kill them without pity while criminals get rich or get killed trying to get rich.

This particular epidemic has its roots across the southern border. Many of our drug problems do. Notice how the Dallas Morning News chooses to report the facts:

Speculation abounds about why northwest Dallas is where cheese seems to have started and taken the greatest toll. Some say that it’s because the heroin traffickers are mostly Mexican, who are supplying the young Hispanics who crush the nighttime cold tablets, mix them with the black-tar heroin and then peddle it at their own schools.

Perpetuating the spread of the drug, some believe, is a fear among most illegal immigrants of speaking out to authorities for fear of deportation. Language barriers stymie the free flow of information between parents and their teachers.

The traffickers are merely “Mexican,” while the potential informants are “illegal immigrants,” and the latter is set up as just itching to help out if only they could rest assured that their status wouldn’t get them deported. If it occurred to the DMN reporter that the traffickers could also be “illegal immigrants,” and that they might have familial or other connections to the would-be informants, it’s not evident in the way the story is constructed.

The story also doesn’t make the obvious connection: The smugglers appear to be using their cultural connections to develop the “cheese” market and keep it going. Hispanic students make up half the dead so far; Hispanics do not make up half of the total population in the Dallas area.

All around, it’s an awful story. Drug cartels will always stay a step or two ahead of law enforcement. Legalization really won’t work. Unless we find a way to license every weed patch, meth lab, crack house and “cheese” shop in every country in the hemisphere and enforce the relevant regulations, the drug networks will always find a way to operate outside the law.

Legalize one drug, they’ll just invent another one or mix a couple of current ones for a whole new buzz, and then they’ll sell it to kids no matter what age restrictions we try to slap on. They’re criminals, and that’s just what criminals do. Our lax border laws aid and abet these criminals in preying on yet another generation, and the media and political elites just paper over the inconvenient particulars. It’s a shame and a disgrace.

They will crack down on it once it hits the white suburbs....

[drunkguy]

Originally Posted by Uncle B

They will crack down on it once it hits the white suburbs....

from Bill Maher's show:


In conclusion, I wish I had more time to go into the fact that the drug war has always been about keeping black men from voting by finding out what they're addicted to and making it illegal. It's a miracle our government hasn't outlawed fat, white women.

[homedog]

Originally Posted by drunkguy

from Bill Maher's show:


In conclusion, I wish I had more time to go into the fact that the drug war has always been about keeping black men from voting by finding out what they're addicted to and making it illegal. It's a miracle our government hasn't outlawed fat, white women.

That's a hilarious quote dg, but tailoring drugs to the young is horrendous.

Whoever wants to be the next president should run on the platform of destroying the drug dealers. And really mean it this time.