Documentary "The Drug Years"

[TrainOfThought]

theres a sweet show on all sorts of drugs... turn to Vh1 now!

[Gothen]

Heyyyy, thanks for this. I was just watching Napoleon Dynamite for the umpteenth time, but now I have something new! Too bad I won't remember to watch the other 3, =(

[rainbows.rsexy]

i wanna watch people get high at a cannabis cup....

[yabatab]

Yeah this is on all week at the same time every night
(the drug years)

[halo]

I cant wait til the next installment tomorrow!!

I also really want to try acid now lol!

[D.Boone]

its a documentary about the rise of the drug culture in music and the counter culture in the 60's and 70's i find it very interesting since i wasnt around then. they started off with marijuana and talked about high times and cheech and chong and george jung they are gonna cover all the drugs from weed to heroin. i recomend everybody that has cable watches this its very interesting.

[orangeman]

Words cannot explain how much I love it when mary jane influences music. It's just a perfect combination if you ask me. Mary jane and music...ah...I dont think it's on for me :(, I hope some one records and it gets it to a file so I can view :D.:stoned:

[go toke up]

i was watchin that shit... it was cool to learn about sum of dat shit.

[grinzobenny]

Word ya'll! I hardly ever watch shows anymore since television is downright shite. But the past 3 nights, i have forgotten every day and around 12 or 1am after burning, I watch late night tele and run into this show. Now seeing this post, I am anxious to burn and watch this show tonight. I'd say it depicts the culture of 60's pretty well. People back then were more innocent and you can't help but realize that way of living couldnt exist today. Money rules the world so much more now. You have to drive with the way cities are laid out, you gotta work and sacrifice to afford decent living. YOu can't just live so "freely" anymore. My ole man went to Woodstock, and I can't help but feel like I would fit more into that time of life as opposed to today's world. Cheerio!

[Its a Plant]

Yah I saw a few episodes of this show, and it's always interesting to see stuff like this. It was pretty cool actually to come home from a huge ass festival where I was emersed in a hippy culture to seeing this on tv talking about LSD and how it was such a huge part of music back when Hendrix was up and coming. Man I wish bands handed out acid at shows now!

[WakingDream]

I watched the 60's last night tonight is the 70's. Very interesting.

[Skink]

Not looking it up,does this shit come on at like 3 or 4 in the morning??? that is the only time I watch stuff like that....

[WolfmansBrother]

i caught a little of that show the other night and i loved it. i hope they release it as a box set dvd or something cuz thats something interesting to have around.

[Kryzco]

fuck man I've been missing it!!!

oh well I'm not worried too much, vh1 repeats the hell out of their shows

[officerleeroy]

I saw the one where they were talkingt about hendrix's first show when no one knew who he was, took 2 hits of acid right before he went on stage:D

[wordddddd]

haha yeah i love that show. so good.

i also love the fact that acid like almost dried up once the grateful dead broke up...they would have lsd punch bowls at all of their shows hahaaha. thats so sick

[Its a Plant]

nahh acid will never "dry up." She'll be around for all time. The same goes for the Dead, too.

[m.g.]

Yah I saw a few episodes of this show, and it's always interesting to see stuff like this. It was pretty cool actually to come home from a huge ass festival where I was emersed in a hippy culture to seeing this on tv talking about LSD and how it was such a huge part of music back when Hendrix was up and coming. Man I wish bands handed out acid at shows now!

hell man, in the late 60's to early 70's a party wasn't a party w/o the kool-aid pitcher...or a sinkful of special punch! it's just a shame people like owsley, leary and hofmann are gone. today's lsd is not worth the time or expectations and it seems as tho the original recipe has been lost over these short few decades when the last good batch was available to the masses (windowpane!)...

[CBsDankNugs]

yea i saw that on the other night. i saw the 60's one and the 70's one. its pretty cool to hear all the people talk about their acid trips.

[Its a Plant]

hell man, in the late 60's to early 70's a party wasn't a party w/o the kool-aid pitcher...or a sinkful of special punch! it's just a shame people like owsley, leary and hofmann are gone. today's lsd is not worth the time or expectations and it seems as tho the original recipe has been lost over these short few decades when the last good batch was available to the masses (windowpane!)...

Oh I understand what you're saying as far as acid not being what it used to be, but it's still out there. Not nearly what it once was, but I don't think I'll ever write off LSD.

[Psychonaut28]

I dont understand how people can incorporate lsd into their lives so much like that. If I would try to take acid like that, i'd be a drooling, useless mess, letalone trying to play music, or socialize. How the hell can you do those things when you have no sense of reality? Everytime i ever tripped, i lost touch with reality (the only way i can think of to describe it, as tripping is un-describable) so bad that i could do nothing but sit there and hallucinate.

[m.g.]

The Drug Years, part 1 of 4 has just NOW started again...VH1

the rest to follow in order this evening...

(but it'll be on again)

[m.g.]

I dont understand how people can incorporate lsd into their lives so much like that. If I would try to take acid like that, i'd be a drooling, useless mess, letalone trying to play music, or socialize. How the hell can you do those things when you have no sense of reality? Everytime i ever tripped, i lost touch with reality (the only way i can think of to describe it, as tripping is un-describable) so bad that i could do nothing but sit there and hallucinate.


but it's still reality...just a different side of the same one we all know and currently reside in and the only difference is the perception of it all...

[miraz]

Yeah ive seen the two they aired. I watched the first one like 3 times. I saw the 2nd one last night. Am I the only one who gets high and watches this?

[Ganjasaurusrex]

watched it.

[imagoober]

I watched it and enjoyed it, i to wasnt around then but i wish i was these days suck!

[monty python]

I especially liked the beginning of the "Teenage Wasteland" episode where they kept playing the Who's "Baba O'Riley" as the background song.

I never understood how they made so much good music in that era.

[kush07]

It's a pretty good show. The thing that the History Channel did about drugs, Cannabis, Heroin, Cocaine, and Opium were discussed and the one about Cannabis was really good. You should watch it if you haven't seen it.

Happy Toking :rasta:

[420mory]

This groundbreaking four-part documentary series chronicles the cultural impact of illicit drug use in America during the past half-century. What modestly began with the counter-culture during the â??50s now touches every American life, from the inner cities to celebrity mansions. In revealing archive footage, THE DRUG YEARS tells the fascinating story of how we got here, and asks hard questions about the future. Produced and directed by Dana Heinz Perry and Hart Perry, THE DRUG YEARS is a VH1 and Sundance Channel co-production.

Now downloadable: http://www.mininova.org/tor/392752
Source: Sundance channel (http://www.sundancechannel.com/series/?ixSeries=37&PHPSESSID=54a034555448fec6441019099c184591)
See also: Bruce Eisner's Vision thing (http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2006/08/updated_with_vi.html#more)

[Dutch Pimp]

.......cool....

[Tots]

I just downloaded uTorrent, how do I get the file?

[Tots]

Nevermind I clicked on the title and I think its working now

[Its a Plant]

Yeah I love those shows. They've been on at random times for about 2-3 months now and I am always down to watch them. ~

[Captain Hanks]

This groundbreaking four-part documentary series chronicles the cultural impact of illicit drug use in America during the past half-century. What modestly began with the counter-culture during the â??50s now touches every American life, from the inner cities to celebrity mansions. In revealing archive footage, THE DRUG YEARS tells the fascinating story of how we got here, and asks hard questions about the future. Produced and directed by Dana Heinz Perry and Hart Perry, THE DRUG YEARS is a VH1 and Sundance Channel co-production.

Now downloadable: http://www.mininova.org/tor/392752
Source: Sundance channel (http://www.sundancechannel.com/series/?ixSeries=37&PHPSESSID=54a034555448fec6441019099c184591)
See also: Bruce Eisner's Vision thing (http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2006/08/updated_with_vi.html#more)

ha, i saw that, the part where the kid goes "i heard pot won't hurt you" where the lady replies "all drugs are dumb" like some moron really pissed me off

[Greenport]

long fucking download time :/

[halo]

Are they coming out on dvd?!

[Greenport]

how the fuck do you playit ? the status is seeding with no kb/s but its 100% and i cnat play it :/ can sum1 help me out

[paperlunatic]

thy're doing a good show now.

its about the drug year, its awsome, i can see what my parents used to do.
haha
um idk if a thread is already about this, but its a good show.
:stoned:
lots of pot smokin going on in this show, haha.
i think they are doing the 70's drug part now, before it was 60s

[napolitana869]

i'm watching that too

[royalHIGHness]

yeah...very informative...makes me wanna go do a bunch of drugs tho

[BabyFacedAbortion]

watching it nowww

[Samwhore]

yeap, ive seen that but its a little too old.... itd be nice if they could do the 90's or 2000's

[make it legal]

yeah its great i saw it a while ago. that hendrix concert they showed was incredible. but once it got into the 80's i kind of lost interest. i dont really give a shit about crack and stuff plus ive never readdly been too interested in the 80's for some reason.

[herbollah]

the 80's suck ass. the music was really bad . spandau ballet? duran duran ? shakin' stevens(:D)? plus all the dudes looked like chicks

[Samwhore]

the 80's suck ass. the music was really bad . spandau ballet? duran duran ? shakin' stevens(:D)? plus all the dudes looked like chicks


DURAN DURAN!!!!!!!:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

[Its a Plant]

They've done a 90's one, and all that mostly is about is the huge increase in XTC and all its wonders, which includes the rave scene. Then I think there was a little bit about crack, like in Washington DC. It's all informative and good stuff though.

I eat 'em up!

. . Drugs, that is. ~

[Natural Rx]

I've watched hours of this on the Sundance channel. Very entertaining!

[JaggedEdge]

I just came across this show on vh1 about hippies and it is pretty interessting.

[Samwhore]

whats it called, i might have seen it already?

[zephyrinne]

Oooh, watching now. Looks interesting.

Edit: It's that show called 'The Drug Years'. I've seen some of it before.. prolly watch it again. :)

[b0Ng h!tz 4 mE]

south parks startin on paramount comedy in a few mins.. and adult swims on bravo

[Samwhore]

Oooh, watching now. Looks interesting.

Edit: It's that show called 'The Drug Years'. I've seen some of it before.. prolly watch it again. :)

oh yea, thats old and interesting, i think it came on in the summer

[mafyew]

every time i watch the drug years i want to get toasted. I happen to be watching it right now, but im all out :/

[timothylearyisdead]

this lady on here is so full of shit. why are they showing her the most?

[Dmo18]

i love that show i watched it too, seen it like 3 times now. i want the soundtrack from it

[thcbongman]

When I was watching it last night, I pounded my head against the wall. I wanted to be right in the middle of it in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. I wanted to be at golden gate park when 30,000 people were tripping on acid.

[Mike23artist]

there doing one on weed now there is one on next hell ya:jointsmile::pimp: