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 prajnaparamita
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Registered: 07/22/06
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 The History Channel
#6388547 - 12/19/06 10:29 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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OK, so, I watched this History Channel program on YouTube a few weeks ago about LSD that had a really progressive attitude towards the whole thing.
Right now I'm watching this program called Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (I guess it's a series) on TV, it's about ecstasy and LSD, and the tone is pretty blatantly pro-research and very skeptical about the circumstances of illegalization.
If you happen to get The History Channel and catch one of these programs, I recommend it, it's a breath of fresh air in a media polluted by the state's propaganda, myths, and superstitions.
Kudos to the people at The History Channel for actually examining the role of psychoactives in human society rather than just buying into our modern myopic cultural viewpoint of things. I mean, this is Grade A make-no-apologies bullshit deconstruction. Wonderful.
I mean, damn, it's so nice to know there are some mainstream people out there capable of thinking for themselves.
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lysergicide
Registered: 12/16/05
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I love that series. Each time it's on, I watch it. It offers to educate and inform about the history of each substance, rather then bashing it and discriminating.
It's been around for awhile, and I hope they don't stop playing them, otherwise I'll have to buy it on DVD.
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Drewwyann
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Registered: 10/30/06
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thats good to hear. finally something propaganda free. 
*breaths in some fresh air*
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You think of me odd, for the strange things I do,
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 elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 2,065
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I have seen that a while ago. They were running a marathon of shows covering all the big drugs but I only dedicated my time to the psychedelics episode. It was definitely pretty good but I do remember mumbling nonsense at the tv after hearing some overlooked common misconceptions and ill-founded generalizations. Can't remember what, since it was what seems like about 6 months ago.
Gotta start somewhere though.
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superstition
1: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary
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