Waiting To Inhale: The Health Benefits of Medical Marijuana

Waiting to Inhale is a documentary that 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. [...]

Taboo: Mind-Altering Drugs

National Geographic’s Taboo: Drugs explores drug cultures around the world where people use drugs to enter an “altered state” – sometimes with dangerous consequences. We visit a village in Venezuela where shamans use drugs to contact the spirit world, a festival in Nepal where hashish is temporarily legalized and a club scene in Amsterdam where [...]

Illegal Drugs: How They Got That Way

Crack, Cocaine, Opium, Marijuana, Heroine, etc. – Illegal Drugs have an enormous impact on society. They make addictive, shorten our live-expectancy and change the way we interact with other people.
Drugs are therefore not only a risk for ourselves but also for others. But many drugs have not always been illegal, but were a medication against [...]

Cocaine Cowboys

Cocaine Cowboys is a critically acclaimed 2006 documentary film directed by Billy Corben. The documentary explores the rise of cocaine and the resulting crime epidemic that swept Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers and gang members to provide a [...]

Making A Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of [...]

The History of Coffee

This documentary is a fascinating look at the amazing history of Coffee. It follows the history of coffee from its discovering in Ethiopia, its use in the ancient world to the essential role it plays today in keeping the workers of the industrialized world alert.
It is full of interesting facts:

Of a $2 cup of coffee [...]

American Drug War: The Last White Hope

The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from “legal drugs” Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. [...]

The 20 Most Dangerous Drugs

A team of leading scientists have spent two years analysing the effects of 20 of Britain’s most widely used drugs, and have devised a scientifically rigorous – and controversial – new ranking for them.
The BBC’s Horizon programme has followed their research and looks at the science behind the headlines. How do the brain and body [...]

Afghanistan: Drugs, Guns and Money

Narrated by Colin Friels and produced by Chris Hilton, Afghanistan: Drugs, Guns and Money asks these difficult questions by following the journey of this years opium crops, tracing the drug trafficking routes heading north from Afghanistan through the nations of the Old Silk Road on its way to Europe. The film examines who are the [...]

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

Ever wonder what British Columbia’s most profitable industries are? Logging? Fishing? Tourism? Ever think to include marijuana? If you haven’t, think again. No longer a hobby for the stereotypical hippie culture of the ’60s, BC’s illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a seemingly unstoppable business giant, dubbed by those involved as ‘The Union’.
Commanding upwards [...]