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thestudent14 said:
I just watched that dateline one on the hive, and hear I thought I'd seen all the best MDMA ones.

It broke my heart to hear that "strike" ended up being sentenced at the end. I dunno if any of you guys used to talk to him through the hive, but if anyone did send him my best wish's.
Does anyone know how long his sentence was? If he is out yet? Brilliant mind like his doesn't deserve to be locked up.
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Hobart Huson or strike as he's better known was released 19th June 2009
 
Not exactly drugs related, but definitely related to the "war on drugs".

If anyone has been concerned about "Trap Wire"surveillance operation, this was a long, long way before that became a reality. I would suggest that these are somehow able to share data, obviously i have no proof of that. One extremely interesting fact that I gleaned from this short interview, was the fact that under secret interpretation of a law, U.S. agencies are not "spying on citizens" while they record each and every piece of communication which all citizens in the country perform (sound like the new Australian laws yet), they're only "intercepting" them when they do a query on the data they already have stored.

This is definitely something that Australia would want to have too, in fact they are already trying to make it mandatory for all communication companies to store our data, ALL OF US, without warrant for 2 years. Anyway, I found it interesting, it's only 8:27 long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html
 
opi8 said:
Not exactly drugs related, but definitely related to the "war on drugs".

If anyone has been concerned about "Trap Wire"surveillance operation, this was a long, long way before that became a reality. I would suggest that these are somehow able to share data, obviously i have no proof of that. One extremely interesting fact that I gleaned from this short interview, was the fact that under secret interpretation of a law, U.S. agencies are not "spying on citizens" while they record each and every piece of communication which all citizens in the country perform (sound like the new Australian laws yet), they're only "intercepting" them when they do a query on the data they already have stored.

This is definitely something that Australia would want to have too, in fact they are already trying to make it mandatory for all communication companies to store our data, ALL OF US, without warrant for 2 years. Anyway, I found it interesting, it's only 8:27 long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html
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Theres already a thread about Trapwire if your interested.......

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/637468-Paranoid-yet-you-will-be-after-reading-this
 
I'm not sure if this has been posted on here yet, I saw the link for the torrents in a different thread can't remember which one though.

It's one of the best drug war documentaries I've ever seen. It follows a British dude who used to be for prohabition but has changed his mind
The first episode is based in England, whilst the second follows the life and death of a drug dealer in America who has set things he must follow or he will be sent back to Prison for upto 9 years. And the third episode was shot all in Afghanistan and shows how the opiate trade is fueling both sides of the afghan war Between the government and the Taliban.

I knew they still had alot of work to be done in Afghanistan, but I found the third installment of this documentary very heavy.

Our Drugs War: Episode 1 - Everyone's at It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6HPB4JGW0A

Our Drugs War: Episode 2 - The Life and Death of a Dealer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttA5kC8qCI

Our Drugs War: Episode 3 - Birth of a Narco-State http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_wG4YKmCBE

Enjoy documentary lovers. I'm looking at you Sustanon
 
Yeah they've been posted ages ago by drug_mentor I think it was, I did a search last week on this thread, after I watched them and was also going to add them.

It's a great series, it can't hurt to re add it to the front, hopefully more people will watch it.
 
thestudent14 said:
I'm not sure if this has been posted on here yet, I saw the link for the torrents in a different thread can't remember which one though.

It's one of the best drug war documentaries I've ever seen. It follows a British dude who used to be for prohabition but has changed his mind
The first episode is based in England, whilst the second follows the life and death of a drug dealer in America who has set things he must follow or he will be sent back to Prison for upto 9 years. And the third episode was shot all in Afghanistan and shows how the opiate trade is fueling both sides of the afghan war Between the government and the Taliban.

I knew they still had alot of work to be done in Afghanistan, but I found the third installment of this documentary very heavy.

Our Drugs War: Episode 1 - Everyone's at It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6HPB4JGW0A

Our Drugs War: Episode 2 - The Life and Death of a Dealer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttA5kC8qCI

Our Drugs War: Episode 3 - Birth of a Narco-State http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_wG4YKmCBE

Enjoy documentary lovers. I'm looking at you Sustanon
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Thanks a bunch dude:) Although it was just posted very recently few pages back. Keep them coming though, ill hunt around for some too, I love watching anything to do with drugs:)
 
Sustanon said:
Thanks a bunch dude:) Although it was just posted very recently few pages back. Keep them coming though, ill hunt around for some too, I love watching anything to do with drugs:)
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It was? My search only came up with it nearly a year ago on page 8 (22-10-2011 18:08) and a week prior to that by d_m -

Crankinit -
Drug_Mentor recommended a great 3 part series called Our Drugs War last week, it follows a journalist who investigates the war on drugs and why he changed his mind and now opposes prohibition. Part 1 is filmed in the UK and investigates the research chemical scene and the ability for the market to adapt and constantly outpace law enforcement efforts, as well as addiction to hard drugs, the connection to poverty and the overall ineffectiveness of punitive measures against drug use. Part 2 goes to New York and investigates the relationship between drug laws, the criminal justice system, race/poverty/addiction and the ways in which our current system fails addicts and doesn't provide opportunity for reform. Part 3 is set in Afghanistan and explores the political and agricultural side of the drug war, the effect it has on third world nations and the manner in which it encourages and funds corruption and violence.

http://thepiratebay.org/search/Our Drugs War/0/99/0

I didn't expect much from it since I figured I was already a convert, but even for those who realize what a failure drug prohibition is, it was still an informative and enjoyable watch.
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I just skipped through the last few pages here and didn't notice it either? Maybe I missed it tho on my browse and search.

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I just searched for this and didn't find anything, I just saw it, it was very interesting I thought...

Expendable

The Political Sacrifice Of Schapelle Corby

http://youtu.be/-StnQvFAXtM

How a government wilfully withheld vital primary evidence from a court of law, deceived its own public, orchestrated an unprecedented campaign of media hostility, and ruthlessly deployed its organs of state against one of its own citizens.

This is a frightening but entirely true narrative; a grotesque political horror story which is still unfolding today. It exposes what happens when an individual's human rights conflict with strategic political need. It reveals the ruthless use of a government's organs of state, and a regime of unprecedented opinion management, against a single working class woman and her desperate family.

It presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts which a western government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless citizen, in pursuit of political expediency.
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I always thought she was guilty I must say, after watching that I'm more on the side she is probably innocent now... It puts a bad light on the AFP, ABC, John Howard, Alexander Downer and others too.
 
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Did a quick search, this didn't come up -

Pablo Escobar: The Cocaine Assassin

http://www.smh.com.au/tv/crime/show...blo-escobar-the-cocaine-assassin-1779022.html

About this episode -

Pablo Escobar was the world's most famous drug dealer and the inspiration for Scarface.

Flamboyant and dangerous, he ordered the assassination of more than 3,000 rivals, police, judges and others on his way to the top.

Along the way, he became the world's first criminal billionaire and remains infamous for turning the world to cocaine with his Medellín cartel controlling 80 of the world's supply.

He owned luxury homes, cars and planes and even entered politics before being cut down in a hail of bullets. This is his story.
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Altho there was one mentioned a while back about 'the killing of pablo escobar' i'm not sure if this is anything like that, i haven't watched this one yet.
 
That expendable sounds interesting. I don't remember seeing a Shapelle Corby doco. I'm definitely interested to watch this, not sure if I'll get a chance tonight though. Thanks Poledriver.
 
poledriver said:
Expendable

The Political Sacrifice Of Schapelle Corby

http://youtu.be/-StnQvFAXtM



I always thought she was guilty I must say, after watching that I'm more on the side she is probably innocent now... It puts a bad light on the AFP, ABC, John Howard, Alexander Downer and others too.
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hmm i just watched this.
very interesting stuff - but very strangely put together. is it just me, or could they easily have made that into a concise half hour or 40 min doco, rather than over an hour and forty minutes? too much repetition and corny *shock horror* music. and what's with the stiff american presenters (?)

i gotta say that i think a few of their allegations are absurd - such as the singling out of the ABC.
yes, janet albrechtson was one of many obviously political appointees to the ABC board - the howard government did a lot of that - but are they seriously suggesting she had that much power that it was possible to compromise the integrity and impartiality of media watch of all things?

media watch is about as far from the sterile spin of government as any program on australian tv. they put the boot into the howard government many many times, and the media coverage that reported on that government. they make it sound like some state-owned media bulletin straight out of beijing or something.

they seemed to gloss over the blatant agendas and bias of the corporate media and try to target the ABC. they show a 'clarification' on lateline, followed by a soundbyte presumably from talkback radio, saying the ABC issued a clarification on a story at 4 in the morning. very odd - just one of the strange choices of supporting evidence.

and they made a big point of saying that schapelle corby became a deliberate source of 'entertainment' (as a propaganda tool) - and follow this with guys from 'the chaser', as well as paul mcdermott, mikey robbins and judith lucy taking the piss out of her.
well...yeah - that's what those comedians (all very sardonic aussie comedy folk) do best! especially on the programs that they were on which were essentially news-based comedy tv shows.
corby was big news - and tasteless as it may have been, fair game for comedians' cheap jokes.

the suggestion of a conspiracy there is pretty laughable. which is a shame, because it seems like they may have had some really interesting points involving the AFP, DFAT and the australian government - but it's hard to take seriously when a lot of their sources seem to be talkback radio, a current affair and weird convoluted conspiracy stuff.

i think there probably was political interference, and i feel sorry for schapelle corby and what she's been through - and howard and his cronies were a bunch of deceptive self-serving crooks - but the whole thing sounded like it was written by a school kid...and edited by someone blind drunk. interesting nonetheless! thanks poledriver.
 
Albert Hofmann's Potion - LSD documentary

http://youtu.be/SaqJX-aP0Jc

In 2002 Concepta Film finished a film called "Hofmann's Potion: The Early Years of LSD". Written and directed by Connie

Littlefield and Produced by Kent Martin for the National Film Board of Canada. The documentary delves into the little known

early history of the world's most notorious psychedelic.

Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "turn on, tune in and drop out," lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was being

used by researchers trying to understand the human mind. This documentary is a fascinating look at the story of "acid" before it

hit the streets. Featuring interviews with many LSD pioneers, Hofmann's Potion is much more than a simple chronicle of the drug's early days.

With thoughtful interviews, beautiful music and stunning cinematography, it is an invitation to look at LSD, and our world, with

a more open, compassionate mind.
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LIVE TV Drug (MDMA) Trial

I know this is a UK thing and I thought about posting it in the doco's thread, so move it if need be.

I found this interesting.

http://www.factmag.com/2012/09/19/k...ma-in-live-televised-drug-trial-on-channel-4/

Channel 4 are to host the UK’s first ever live televised drug trial.

As The Guardian report, 26 volunteers have been recruited for the show. The subjects were either given MDMA or a placebo; after an hour, readings were taken with an fMRI machine. Subjects also had their brain activity tracked when asked to recall happy or upsetting memories. Among the subjects are former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, We Need To Talk About Kevin author Lional Shriver and goon-of-all-trades Keith Allen.

Study leader Professor David Nutt claimed that Channel 4′s intervention has provided funds and resources which have been impossible to source from more official channels: “We have failed to get money for research from conventional sources, which is why the Channel 4 intervention is fantastic. Nearly half a million people are believed to take ecstasy or MDMA every year in the UK, but there has been very little research into what it does in the brain. These experiments will give us a much clearer picture of the fundamental effects of MDMA on the resting brain than anyone has been able to get before.”

Concerns have, understandably, been raised about the possibility of the show glamorising or trivialising use of the drug. Rebutting the claims on BBC Radio 4′s The Life Scientific, Nutt has stressed that the study will be a “serious documentary on the science of MDMA’”. MDMA has been touted by some as having possible applications as a psychotherapeutic tool, particularly in relation to PTSD – claims the documentary hopes to put to the test.
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