Did you ever catch the William Shatner Series
"Tekwar"? It was excellent!
Tek
is a drug of the near future made of electronic
components interface with the pleasure centers
of the human brain, rendering some people Tekheads
and useless most other things.
Jake
Cardigan is a cop who was once a Tekhead, then
rehabilitated and fights the Tek Lords to prevent
the drug from spreading through society.
The
censors were asleep while Bea and Rock sang this
ode to recreational drugs - from the 70s play
"I Love My Wife"
Peter
Jennings Reporting: Ecstasy Rising takes
viewers through the seminal events in this story
and introduces all the major players -- from Alexander
Shulgin, the famous chemist who was the first
person to report the effects of Ecstasy, to Michael
Clegg, the Dallas drug dealer who gave Ecstasy
its name and turned it into a recreational drug,
to the drug enforcement officer who led the fight
to make Ecstasy illegal, to the DJ who spread
Ecstasy and Rave across America.
This
special tells the definitive story of how an obscure
compound, discovered in 1912 and all but forgotten
for over 60 years, became the drug of choice for
a generation.
Waiting
to Inhale examines the heated debate
over marijuana and its use as medicine in the
United States. Twelve states have passed legislation
to protect patients who use medical marijuana.
Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just
a smokescreen for a different agenda-- to legalize
marijuana for recreation and profit. What claims
are being made, and what are the stakes?
Waiting
to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patients
who have been forever changed by illness—and
parents who lost their children to addiction.
Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence
is there to support the claim that marijuana can
alleviate some of the devastating symptoms of
AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis? Waiting to
Inhale sheds new light on this controversy and
presents shocking new evidence that marijuana
could hold a big stake in the future of medicine.
