You may remember Drugs, Inc. from last year, in which the intricate global chain of supply and demand of drugs such as marijuana and cocaine were chronicled. As a follow-up to those four-episodes, National Geographic Channel will be airing Drugged, a three-part series over two nights that investigates the effects of drugs on the human brain and body:
DRUGGED: High on Marijuana
In the last year, 28 million Americans have rolled a joint, smoked a pipe, sparked up a bong or eaten a pot brownie. Now, follow an entire marijuana high in an adult from start to finish, beginning with the inhalation of cannabis smoke. Using vivid CGI, see how the chemicals slip through a stoned subject’s membranes lining the lungs and into the bloodstream, then on to the heart, up the spine and into the brain. Find out why users get red eyes and the so-called munchies, and explore the difference in the body when cannabis is eaten rather than smoked. We’ll see what role genetics might play in a person’s response to cannabis, take a look at the mysteries of why a high sometimes turns to a low and learn more from the forefront of current marijuana research.
“How Marijuana Works” – What exactly happens to your body when you smoke marijuana?
Most medicines that doctors prescribe, there’s a lot of side effects, there’s a lot of risk and you have to balance out the risk benefit ratio, but with Cannabis it’s very much non-toxic. — Dr. Julie Holland, Author, ‘The Pot Book‘
Legalize it!
Careful, with information people might become informed. Hehe. Ug, cannabinoids are our friend.
Looking on my channel guide I noticed that an episode of Explorer is coming on at 7PM on Sunday and that too is about our favorite plant.
At Least it show’s that these people are not the Phyco People that the Media is trying to portray us being. We need to get a Documentry about the average Stoner and how productive, and Peaceful we are. Put a human face to us. All of us not just the Patient’s. And how Law enforcement dehumanize us with their Swat teams.
We need to stand up and speak out, not only the pot smokers, but the innocent just as much!!!!! Go to topix.com and vote on the Should Marijuana be legalized debate, in your local area. You can vote only once, and its USA wide. Lets boost the numbers so high, that President Obama HAS TO LISTEN!
Currently, my city is leading the comments….. here is a link….
http://www.topix.com/issue/marijuana/dyersburg-tn/
WE CAN SPEAK OUT ABOUT THESE HORRORS AND UNJUSTICES THROUGH FORUM TOPIX!!! ITS TIME TO STAND UP, AS A COUNTRY, AND SAY NO MORE!!!!!
SO far….. 48,269 people support legalization, and only 11,539 oppose. With 6,916 cities reporting.
How many cases of bronkidis has it caused
As far as documentaries about marijuana go, National Geographic is fairer and more accurate than Horizon, which tends to over-dramatize. I hope more people tune into this show than tuned into Horizon’s Prohibition propaganda.
haha how many cases of bronchitis? It’s amazing how people still cant spell even though…you’re currently on the internet….anyways, ive smoked since i was 16 and have never once had bronchitis, although when i was in high school kids got it all the time….although i remember non smokers getting it more often….maybe people just happen to get sick and we should quit living by the creedo of correlation=causation.
I wonder what the side affects include? no headache, no stomach ache, no aches or pains. In 20 years of daily smoking, the only side affect that i have discovered are the police, arrest, lose of job/career, fine, imprisonment and a crimminal record.
I am willing to bet that NatGeo will NOT air the fact that the government lied, I am willing to bet that the Constructive Fraud of the Government is never address. They like everyone else is a fraid of the bully we call the American Government. I am sure the Bully on the block will make sure that NatGeo dosen’t talk about the Constructive Fraud issue that the government has placed unlawfully upon the People. No I know they will not qaddress the crimes of the Government, why, because this no longer the land of the free, it is the land of the enslaved. And those good slaves at NatGeo will not tell the truth for faer of the master, like the rest of us, they too must face the bully each day. Sure wish NatGeo would tell the truth and help the people out from under the bully’s tumb. It would it be nice tomorrow morning if each of us could awake and go about our liberty without fear of the bully stealing our lunch money, breaking our spirit, beating on us, and denying us our constitutional rights of which so many have died for. Enough is enough, time to assert our liberty and freedom upon the government employees. Time to nullify their foolish unlawful behaviior. Time to stop the criminal government from destorying this country any further. Time to step up, get loud, and refuse to comply with an unlawful government. Time to boycott, time to sit in, time to smoke in, time to flood the Courts with paperwork. Time to stop these criminals. The government swore an oath to protect the constitution of these United States, time to hold them to it.
Thank you. I hope there is a contrast with someone misbehaving under the influence from alcohol, depicting alcohol worse than cannabis, which it is.
@ AfraidinCt You are 200% right. Exactly.
I am 56 years old. I have smoked cannabis regularly since the age of thirteen. I slowed down when my 2 sons were growing up but I never stopped completely. I never thought or felt that it was bad for me because it never stopped me from doing anything I felt like doing. I own a small business that has provided regular work to 7 people for the last 20 years. Just before Christmas, a close friend was diagnosed with cancer and my sister-in-law was diagnosed with MS. I went on the internet to look up these 2 diseases and found the curing possibilities of cannabis. I invite any doctor, researcher, etc., to use me as a guinea pig. Check me out and look at my medical history. We need to prove ASAP that this stuff is safe and even good for humans.
I wonder if that was misleading editing by NatGeo: the bit where one guy coughs & the other guy laughs… maybe he was laughing at a comment or joke, but it was edited to make it seem otherwise. Anyway, that clip seemed to be rather honest about the benefits of cannabis; the biological detail of the animated video is excellent! -really inspiring work. To be clear though, as was mentioned, smoking is dangerous. Smoking cannabis clearly influences cancer; vaporisation & eating/tinctures are safe methods (when used responsibly).
GET up,Stand up,stand up for your rights
While I think this program will be an advantage to those who are misinformed about marijuana smoking, I am also concerned with the casual grouping of marijuana with other drugs in the program/website (ecstasy, and cocaine). Marijuana’s worst effects are nothing compared to the ill effects of ecstasy and cocaine, but it would be nice if they clearly distinguished marijuana from the other drugs. We need to separate marijuana from drugs just like we do alcohol. Especially around 2012 election time. That will be one of our biggest challenges, and most important. That said, I can’t wait to see a nice scientific show!
How many police arrests has it caused
Cannabis is a healing plant, from the garden, if it makes you dream, you are fortunate.
i hope the nation will watch this. what i noticed is how natgeo has all good things to say about marijuana and its legalization, at the sametime debunk its bad rumors while, once again, have nothin good to say about cocaine, heroin, alcohol,cigarettes, and prescribed drugs. so marijuana = good things and other drugs = bad things. legalize
It’s going to shake the BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY and the FDA approved drugs in their tracks like a roaring train with no engineer. WOOOOH! WOOOOH! It’s time for the FEDERAL GOVVERNMENT to admit that they are in denial and to quit spewing lies and end MARIJUANA PROHIBITION. The natural medicine outweighs the synthetic and lets not forget the drug cartels hardcore street drugs. Let us not forget the idiots that use their garbage and sell it for they are the ones that will screw up their health, life span and violence created for drugs that are not fit for human consumption. No wonder we have all these DRACONIAN DRUG LAWS-LOSS OF FREEDOM and the CONSTITUTION going down the tubes. Still waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel. I hope NatGEO does’nt turn this program into a wolf wearing sheeps clothing.
This one will make you laugh. Its a quote i pulled from an article regarding JWH chemicals (the cannibinomemtics):
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said he applauded the DEA’s actions.
“I think it’s about time to do something with this drug,” he said. “Why isn’t there a law that bans any drug or substance that alters the mind or changes the nature of a person?”
http://www.enctoday.com/articles/chemicals-85229-jdn-ban-jwh.html
LOLOLOLOL what century is this guy from. Anyway, enjoy the amusement. The effects they want to ban JWH for? Basically, it gets people high safely. Anyone who panics on it is doing just that, because it IS very powerful.
I have been suffering with sleeping/stress/anxiety disorder for years, during this time doctors feed pill after pill to try and fix this problem. The last sleeping medication they put me on sposta be the best you could get prescribed, don’t get me wrong it knocked me out but I never felt well rested and other side effects were awful, and stress/anxiety would get worse and worse with the erratic sleep I did have. Till I said enough was enough and I decided to smoke marijuana. To this day I smoke a small amount after a days work and relax doing the normal run of the mill chores at home. When I would go to sleep and wake up REFRESHED well RESTED with no stress/anxiety AND NO SIDE EFFECTS.
This is a no brainier, make it legal!!!
Dibz thanks for the spell check but it was not an answer. Still don’t know after. The data failed to show an association between long-term marijuana smoking and airflow obstruction (emphysema), as measured by airway hyperreactivity, forced expiratory volume (FEV), and other measures, investigators reported. Short-term use of cannabis was associated with bronchodilation.
Investigators did find that long-term marijuana smoking was associated with an increased risk of certain respiratory complications — including cough, bronchitis, phlegm, and wheezing. Most of these complications persisted even after researchers adjusted for tobacco smoking.
So I guess the answer is no.
“The Reformation”
Genesis I:29,30,31
CDXX Communion Reveival
There are two types of people – those who “know” the value of cannabis, and those who “don’t know” the value of cannabis. Those who know, also “believe.” As soon as someone “Wants to believe,” they stop thinking, and start acting. It’s now a matter of conviction. You’re trying to get around that pair of red tail lights in front of you. It’s no longer a matter of preference [and] conviction, it’s now a matter of preference [or] conviction. Conviction is proptected by law. Conviction is to be made a serious matter. Conviction based on conscience. There’s a huge difference between “blind faith” and “confident faith.” Confidence, faith, conviction, and commitment will win out in the end. “There’s nothing more powerful than an idea that’s time has come.”
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I’m a 54 yr. old woman that has been smoking since the age of 17 I used to smoke for recreation now I smoke because of cronic pain, I’m disabled and it helps me more then narcotics. from Kansas but considering moving to a medical state that allows personal comsumption. Please legalize!
The picture of that guy hitting the pipe is the perfect antidrug commercial. If I thought I might be like that guy I would have never hit a pipe of any kind in my life.
Coincidence? What also happened on this date (today)…. 1920 Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
This show isn’t listed on my guide for tonight and I can’t find it on the channel’s site either. Is it only airing in America?
Legalize it and then the goverment could make money.
Need a better reason to legalise.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/14/study-toxic-chemicals-pregnant-women/
They said it can cause a heart attack. Has there been any cases of heart attacks due to cannabis?
[Paul Armentano responds: There are a handful of unsubstantiated case reports, which you can read on PubMed. The most prominent source for this claim is here: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/03.02/marijuana.html.%5D
That NatGeo ‘drugged’ show is reefer madness nonsense: in the first few minutes it falsely said, “cannabis hijacks the brain like a terrorist”. That is despicable & that conservative channel deserves no support for that kind of falsehood promotion.
Just watched it. The program was very disappointing. Although there were some very good points made at the beginning by the doctor and author of The Pot Book. Overall, there was negative unproven data, such as long term damage from pot smoke, which has not been proven, since no such study has been allowed in our great country. Also, the architect who blaims marijuana for everything bad that happened to him with tears in his eyes was pathetic. Why did he marry a woman that did not want him to smoke, kind of like a man that marries a woman who is fat and finds fat people disgusting.
I watched the program twice, and thought it was good until they got to the end of the program. They guy that was crying because marijuana ruins relationships because his wife or gf did not want him smoking. That is just something they do not have in common. That happens when couples disagree, but don’t blame pot !!!!
Did they mention the fact that marijuana is a gateway to other drugs? And did they mention those other drugs are farther down on the schedule, so logically marijuana leads kids to safer drugs and so it’s good that it’s a gateway drug!
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Did they mention that the government claims marijuana has no medicinal value while simultaneously holding several medical patents themselve on marijuana?
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Did they mention that nobody has ever been able to find a lethal dose for marijuana? Unlike alcohol, nicotine, sugar, oxygen and water!
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Is it just me, or does it appear that this was some what anti pot? They seemed to use a lower end dispensuaries, and said the the word “prescription” in a questionable way.
Just watched, very interesting!
Its hard for me to get up and get around Im glad for zone420@live.ca and alike mail order marijuana service they offer amazing budder which is exactly what I need and exotic strains for the taste buds.
Thought they used a lot of poor word choices that sub concisely will affect the audience in a negative manner. I think while they had some positive points and views of view but anyone against the drug will walk away as they did before they watched it. Could have been better but I hope it gets people talking about it.
What a terrible program this was. Sure there was some interesting information on how THC travels through the body, but the reefer madness BS about marijuana acting like an “herbal terrorist” “hijacking” the brain’s functions was so wrong and biased to make the entire piece seem like a federally-funded scare campaign.
I wonder if they got ONDCP funds for the production?
And there was nothing mentioned about how THC nourishes cells and protects them from cancer and other degenerative syndromes.
“cannabis hijacks the brain like a terrorist”
You can’t hijack or terrorize the willing! hahaha
I watched. It was full of contradiction and misinformation.
No one in a MMJ state gets a prescription for pot, its a recommendation.
They spend time explaining that thc doesn’t break down in water, so it must be cooked in oil or fat….then in the next segment claim that bong water filters out thc from a bong hit, requiring you to smoke more.
They completely ignored Dr. Tashkins research of 30yrs for the govnmt, while makin claims of higher rates of cancer causing chemicals in cannabis over tobacco.
They showed a woman who gets a little crazy on “street weed” with a thc level of 7% and a cbd level of .4%….then took her to a lab and had her inhale fake weed chemicals that would equal 100% thc and NO cbd, and amazingly were able to make some scientific correlation that pot will make you crazy.
This was an hour of new reefer madness, filled with contradictions, false science and propaganda, designed to help reinforce the fear and ignorance of drug war zealots, and designed to push you towards a pharma and govt controlled cannabis future.
I think Paul or Russ should make a “breakdown” video/blog about this one, and all the others that exist.
It might make producers of future documentaries check and double check their work before publishing it, and slow down the amount of misinformation being disseminated by our govt.
Call me a kook or ignorant but I believe I know and believe the truth. It’s about a lot more than a buzz. Marijuana is the lie to hide the hemp. I would like to know and hear How hemp laws are not treason against the Republic? Seeing where the country is now.Cannabis like DUH. Oh ya the show sucked. Too bias.
Good job Stonedkidney on critiquing the program! And,I agree with Clint that the government may have funded this program, or perhaps pharma?
“the Reformation”
Genesis I;29,30,31
CDXX Communion Revival
IT’S TIME TO COME CLEAN.
Government has perpetrated this deception long enough. Enough is enough! It’s time to come clean. We the People no longer care what government’s motives are. Good or bad, it’s time to give up this dispicable mendacious fraud.
Too many people “know” the difference between what is true and what is “not true,” Government’s continued posture has become ludacrous. Not only do We the People laff our asses off at government – but – we are taken to anger, and frankly don’t give a damn what government says – because – We the People know it’s a lie. We don’t like to be lied to. In and of itself -that’s pitiful to regard government as useless as they continually flunk out of common sense and reason.
The point is this – “IT’S TIME TO COME CLEAN!” It’s time for government to prove its allegations against cannabis – or – go with the truth. Shit or get off the pot!
I went to that Topix vote thing. The majority of comments for and against Cannabis legalization are specious at best….Come on people, if you want freedom, you need to act reasonably. Saying that it is a plant and not a drug or that god made it for us are piss poor reasons. The is the same kind of intellectually dishonest or lazy reasoning that prohibitionists are using.
I love the way that this “documentary” used false truths and twisted facts to make their point that marijuana is “harmful” or “addictive”. The scene where the kids were taken off of Marijuana and couldn’t sleep, or were easily irritated, or just sad, all of these are psychological addictions, you go through the exact thing when you loose a loved one, or miss your girlfriend, or a any number of other things. I really thought that the use of the word terrorists when the THC enters the brain was a brilliant way to try to deceive people into believing that it was harmful. The part about the tar and carcinogens hurting the lungs, well, yes, marijuana smoke does have some bad tar and carcinogens in it, but the healing effects of the THC counter effect the bad things, so it does not cause damage. They said that smoking through a bong only takes out some of the THC, total lie. The National Cancer Institute in 1988 deduced that smoking tobacco out of a water pipe decreased the amount of tar and carcinogens by as much as 80% without removing a noticeable amount of nicotine. Now, in the show when they were talking about THC not being water soluble, they were correct, this is also true with nicotine. This is not the case with tar and carcinogens. They were talking about how the effects of eating were harder to control the dosage, this may be true, although if you ingest to much cannabis all that will happen is that you will go to sleep. There have been no deaths contributed to marijuana in the over 5000 years of documented use. The part about increasing the heart rate to a possible heart attack? Well it can increase your heart rate, although there have been Zero heart attacks attributed to marijuana. All of the things going on in the lab, you may have noticed that they never used cannabis with high THC content, they always used “a substance that has similar properties”. How can you use something other than cannabis to test with and come up with bad results for cannabis?
God I hate being right. I knew that they could play fair, I knew they needed to lie some more. Sorry to see another 900,000 citizens get screwed because the government can’t follow the Bill of Rights. What sadden me most that many many young men and women who have fought and died for the Constitutio, for the concept of Liberty, and Freedom and it was in vain. They have died not for the protection of the United States and it’s people but for the elite and their money, for profits sake. This is not going to go down very pretty. Dam shame we as human being lack the ability to learn from our mistakes and tyrant like behavior. And like I say above I knew NatGeo wasn’t going to tell the truth. The lies deepen, distrust rises, violence increses with each day the corruption continues, gee, I wonder what is on the next page of this bullshit story.
Agree with “stonedkidney” Another piece of crap “Reefer madness” show.
hey guys i missed this…is this online somewhere or a torrent….please help
Cannabis is so wonderful, so relaxing, so good on the senses, it makes everything so much more vivid and important. It causes me to be much more contrite. I love it. I cannot say that about booze or tobacco, which I no longer use. So how can these prohibition laws continue? Cannabis WAS legal in the U.S. It’s time to get back to that.
Marijuana does not “hijack the brain like an herbal terrorist” it just makes the in-flight movie more interesting!
This program was so upsetting to me that I pulled a Rachel Maddow, and did some research about NatGeo. I wanted to understand what would motivate them to produce such a dispicable program. I found that NatGeo is owned by News Corp, or Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News. He and his son are good friends, and business partners with Big Pharma. His son James Murdoch, is on the Board of Directors for News Corp and is non executive director of GlaxoSmithKline. I could not believe my eyes when I read that! Plus, they get billions of dollars of advertising from Big Pharma and would do whatever is required to keep a good relationship with them. Anti-marijuana propaganda posed as a factual documentary has Big Pharma written all over it!
After Time put the article out for “Americajuana” in November 2010, pressure was put on editors to make more propaganda so people won’t support it. If the government cannot own the almighty seed, then nobody can own it.
Oh, and after further research– News Corp is owned by Saudi Oil! Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, through his Kingdom Holding Company, owns 7% of News Corp.’s shares, making Kingdom Holdings the second largest shareholder.
Well, I haven’t seen the Marijuana segment of the “Drugged” series but I have seen the MDMA and Cocaine ones. Neither the MDMA nor Cocaine documentaries seem to have a bias against the drugs. In fact, after watching the Cocaine documentary I walked away feeling like it’s safer than what the Ad Council (they get paid to lie) and Government say. After reading through these comments about the Cannabis documentary I don’t even want to watch it now. Both the Cocaine and MDMA docs. seemed filled with scientific data and real information (Read: truth). However the Cannabis doc. seems like it will just be another not-completely-against Cannabis but definitely has a negative tone towards it.
“I thought we were all in this fight together.” It’s not going to be much of a fight, let alone a victory, if we keep throwing punches at each other. Frankly, I’m tired of hearing the dems and libs throw rocks at the repubs and the conservatives, and vice versa. I’m tired of the old picking on the young, and the young returning fire. I’m most tired of the pot-phobic prohibs unleashing their unbelievable amount of bullshit on us…I say, I say – us. We are not without guilt in our attacks on them. If we…I say, I say – we intend to prevail, we will do it with the numbers game. We will out number them – but – we will do it standing and focused together – not divided throwing pissy little remarks at each other.
It was a JOKE.
Obviously they haven’t seen the “botany of desire” on PBS. Receptors ARE NOT HIJACKED. There are actually special receptors JUST FOR Cannabinoids….
I knew it would be bias BS, as soon as I saw that Disney was paying for the commercials.
I thought NatGeo was fair and neutral, but this piece is more biased garbage.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/12088.php
Cannabis extract makes brain tumors shrink, halts growth of blood vessels. Life over Laws Always!!!!!
the way they mis-portrayed cannabis in that Documentary was sad. Different century…same ol Reefer-madness BS. The “brain terrorist” comment was uncalled for and HIGHLY offensive to everybody from stoners to activists to…even the real terrorists were offended(not that I give a sh!t what they think), but still.
P.S. where’s Michael Phelps when ya need him?
hey nash, thanks for the heads up zone420@live.ca are really legit, they are not medical related but I know for a fact those buds are as organic as they get.
Legalize it all ready !!!
been smokin since 1977. 1973,1978, 1981 the science and politics was done to put a bill on the president’s desk. biggest conclusion, the sanctions against pot are doing more damage to the society than the substance itself is. by 1981 tho, ronny reagan was pres and i hope i’m not the only one who paid attention. we’ve come full circle again. 235 years ago we wanted amandate to protect us from big government. today we need a mandate to protect us from bigg business. follow the money. invest in drug testing (not really). i trust a democrat as far as i can throw a republican. the middle class is not a natural occurrence in a free market society. global capitalism is an arrogant sham. now i know why people fly airplanes into buildings.
this documentary sucked ass.
This video couldn’t say it any better. Weed just makes you feel good and it relaxes you. There is little risk to smoking it. The government needs to sell it instead of wasting billions to get rid of it and it could free up the prisons too.
OMG! I never realized how dangerous this plant is! After watching this program, I’ve stopped smoking all together. For God’s sake, I hope the government keeps this dangerous drug ILLEGAL!!!! So many lives have been destroyed already. It makes sense now! All the bad things that have happen to me is due to MARIJUANA. Thank God for Alcohol!!! It’s way more safer to drink than smoke that awful, disgusting plant…
*sarcasm* 😉
President Obama on Thursday called drug legalization “an entirely legitimate topic for debate,” but quickly added “I am not in favor of legalization.” my response is simply, Put Up or Shut Up Mr. President! The debate you claim is “an entirely legitimate topic for debate,” is long over due. We the People have been a……sking this Government to give us this debate and debate this issue like reasonable human beings. The government’s response has “shocked the sense of fair play,” they have openly lied and mis-informed the general public for since 1937. Mr. President we want this debate! We dare you to set this in motion and since you clearly stated, “not in favor of legalization”, you and your party should put up or shut up and defend Prohibition. We the People will bring it on, set the ground, we’ll debate who ever you send. All we ask is that it be live and transparent to the public.