UK - Legally High, Channel 4, review

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By Sarah Rainey
11:05PM BST 08 Aug 2013

With reader comments

Things got intense in Legally High (Channel 4), a haunting documentary about Britain’s growing market in legal drugs – and the users who are hooked on them. It was a chilling insight into hemp shops, underground dealers and exporters who deliver “drugs to your door”.

The tragic star was Baxter, a 21-year-old from North Yorkshire, who buys research chemicals online and sells them to his friends. “I love life,” he groaned, hallucinating on a grotty sofa, “I feel wicked.” He read out a list of 62 drugs he’d tried (“that I can remember”), and we watched him cutting lines of powder on a DVD case amid beer cans and crumpled McDonald’s wrappers. It wasn’t a pretty sight.

Dr Zee, a mysterious Israeli-born mathematician, was the villain – the man behind mephedrone (“miaow miaow”) and 50 other legal highs. Bizarrely, he allowed Reed to film his top-secret drug storage facility, and even sampled one of his new creations on camera. His explanation of how easy it is to get around the Misuse of Drugs Act – a new chemical bond here, a different element there – was shocking.
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I don't see an enormous distinction between going to the pub and drinking and taking the odd bit of etizolam ordered from somewhere online tbh
As always, it's possible to portray only one side
 
As usual, some reporter has used a 'hot topic' to make a cheap documentary which not only exploits those who participate but also affects those who may benefit from 'therapeutic' use of certain RC's... Sensationalist garbage...We need to hear from people who truly appreciate the positive aspect of these chemicals, if there are any, other than
myself.???
 
Did anyone else on BL get a PM about this programme a while back saying, "To reassure you straight away - this is not a trashy, hysterical, Brass Eye style anti-drugs frightfest"?
 
Uk shaken up by TV programme

Uk been rudely shaken up by the existence and airing of this TV programme last week......Wait for the panic and backlash and the politicians involvement. Could get very interesting. So yes I am with you! If you are able to stream this maybe from Youtube? (not checked if it's there yet)..Well worth a watch wherever in this world you may behttp://http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/legally-high-channel-4.
 
When you posted this, you added it to a description of the forum Drugs In The Media instead of to the forum itself. I'm going to go ahead and move it over there for you.

I'll title it for now, but if you would like the title changed to something else, just post here, and one of the mods there, or myself can change it for you.
 
bronson said:
When you posted this, you added it to a description of the forum Drugs In The Media instead of to the forum itself. I'm going to go ahead and move it over there for you.

I'll title it for now, but if you would like the title changed to something else, just post here, and one of the mods there, or myself can change it for you.
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Thank you. Sorry. was very new and pretty clueless and trollied at that point. A bit more with it now. <3

I have watched that programme a few times now on the on the old replay. What terrifies me esepcially the more I have watched it, is that people who have little drug experience (with RCS in particular) especially kids are going to think those mahoosive lines of Baxtercaine snaffled by that lot are normal.

Even those that are used to snoofing street drugs are going to rack up big as per say =coca cola and phet and are literally going to risk psychosis. Chemical Ali obviously was meant to be the counter 'voice of reason' about harm reduction and erring on side of caution-but most kids in grim northern (and southern) shitholes ar just gonna follow his lead?....worrying.
Makes me wonder what the hospital admission stats were like following a few getting some shiz-no scales and just going for it. I am no angel, but I am not an idiot (hmmm debatable). I fear for snapped teenagers minds-early onset of Schizophrenia and other schizo type drug induced psychosis. At least in my day we pretty much knew what and how much to take? 8(
 
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I love how they spent about 5 minutes on the couple who did everything by the book, allergy tests etc, then spent half an hour on the fucking retards sniffing "Baxtercaine" and injecting heroin
 
And why were these kids relying on this guy, Baxter, to supply them mystery substances when they could just use the Internet to do their own research and know exactly what they were getting and what effect it might have? I just didn't understand the set up.
 
They were careful to play horror movie music in the background while those people used. Why is it that showing people use has to be a "cautionary tale"? Who are they kidding? Drugs are fun; that's why millions upon millions of people use them despite the insane laws. I can't stand the way society views drug use as morally degenerate, even as they suck down their cigarettes and alcohol, and with no sense of hypocrisy.

I can't be to harsh on the documentary, though....I'd never heard of these RC's before; I'm now waiting on a tasty package through the mail.
 
I thought the Dr Zee bits & the Dutch distribution set-ups made for interesting viewing. Chemical Ali clearly knows his shit, but having messed myself up on barely twice his dose of 5-mapb, I was not comfortable with that shit getting used on camera.

Most of the documentary was unbearably awful! Very depressing but I s'pose not surprising for the British TV media...
 
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