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Small Town Ecstasy (Ecstasy Documentary)

I just watched this a few nights ago. I've been downloading rave related movies that i found on a list online somewhere. This documentary is about 2 hours long and some crazy stuff happens to the dad and his kids. I definitely recommend watching the entire thing!
 
badass doc. I used to live in oroville ca, right near chico, ca. Didnt know the scene was that big but i was into it back then. Wish i would of hit up some of those raves nowadays hahahah:p
 
how is that a good documentary, that guy is a complete asshole if you watch all of them, he lets his very young kid do x because he wants to seem cool and hasn't grown up
 
I'm actually really unhappy with this documentary, the opening statement is quite negative- and they focus on a very negative story of MDMA with a rather, well, trashy family. The "holes in the brain" BS is in there as well, Ecstasy Rising with Peter Jennings is a much more unbiased look at MDMA, and focusses on many stories- not just a broken families.
 
it was a "mehhh" documentary in my book. Ecstasy Rising with Peter Jennings is my fav, you could tell the people against mdma were the ones that never tried it in their life and the ones for mdma had this smirk on their face about how great of a drug it is
 
Am I the only one who didn't like this documentary? It's filled with horrible misinformation. They mention depression and memory loss like it's straight fact for example. They don't talk about abuse vs. responsible use. Very typical bad reporting. Showing an extreme story of a dad giving their 13 year old ecstasy is obviously made to make it look like a terrible drug that rips families apart.
 
Its a good story about a BROKEN FAMILY.

Not a good story about ecstasy. The whole story is very damaging to MDMA's reputation. Not to mention that kooky brain doctor spitting out his bullshit so he can sell his trash New york times best seller book.

I love the part when he is rolling balls with his 15yr old son and is talking about how much better the "white marshmelllos" were when they took them at "mystery machine"

Then his daughter is pulling out the bristles with a toothbrush while her eyes are full moon pupilated

rofl...
 
I think it's really awful to give someone that young a hard drug like ecstasy, but when I watched this I felt so sad for the dad's situation.

I sometimes wish I could share ecstasy with my parents, and if I ever could I know it would be one of the most meaningful experiences I could share with them and would probably completely change my relationship with them. But my parents would never be open to it.

I know it seems really bad, letting his teenage kids take ecstasy. But was the outcome really that bad? You could tell they're a really loving family, and later in the documentary his own kids are telling him he shouldn't keep ecstasy on him after he was arrested, and the kids seem really concerned about their dad. You can tell the two younger kids aren't going to do anything stupid like start abusing ecstasy frequently.

Look at the daughter's boyfriend, he was snorting crushed pills at the party, and the younger son already smoked weed and got drunk. Maybe the dad knew it was bound to happen and just wanted to be present when it did.

I abused mdma a lot when I was a teenager and my parents would have been dead against it if they found out. Even though my parents HATE drugs I still would have done it anyways. His kids already seemed to be into the rave/drug culture just by the friends they had so they probably would have done it anyways. People really shouldn't judge them and call them thrashy because they seem like a really loving family. Maybe deep down inside the dad knew they already wanted to do it so telling them not to wouldn't have prevented it (they would just do it behind his back which would probably be more dangerous).

Did the dad try to force the kids to take ecstasy when they didn't want to, or did he just let it happen because he knew it was bound to happen sooner or later?
 
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I liked this documentary. Not a good documentary about drugs really, but it's interesting. Would the kids have tried ecstasy anyway? Probable. But not at such young ages. The dad should have kept it between him and his oldest son, imo.
 
I dunno, but something about a 40 year old rolling with his kids, and introducing his 15 year olds to ecstasy isnt right. Kinda fucked up actually. Its fun to see many rolling people at raves though, thats always fun.
 
I haven't really seen it just some clips and heard about it. From what I hear It sounds very horrible and stupid. Ecstasy Rising on the other hand is an amazing documentary.
 
Bsiren said:
Ecstasy Rising with Peter Jennings is a much more unbiased look at MDMA, and focusses on many stories- not just a broken families.
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SO true! i watched this a few times n only unbiased doc i seen bout the drug, i've saved the link and am gunna watch this, but it seems as if its bad doc on the look of mud ?
 
I didn't like this documentary. It was entertaining, but it was also embarassing to watch the old man trying to be cool, "What's up dog?" How could a father act this way? Just a bunch of fake chemical love. I feel bad for his children.
 
Epically entertaining. Pretty good documentary about how SOME people go off the fucking rails with drugs. They just leave out the SOME part. From a human interest perspective, 10/10
 
I don't know...this documentary didn't capture my attention tonight. Maybe I just don't feel like watching a show for an hour and a half. Anyhow...

I have a small list of documentaries and films I've collected relating to MDMA. My favorite one was Peter Jennings' 'Ecstasy Rising', and another more recent one was BBC's Horizon "Is Alcohol worse than Ecstasy?" (2008) is my number two, cause it also has some scientific background rather than just a camera running around filming late old raves and ravers.

The BBC one tries to use a bit of science to try and measure out relative harm of popular drugs, and ranks them from 20 to 1, 20 being the least relatively harmful to 1 being most.
 
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