(16 Aug 2004, 00:42:000 min )
This British documentary traces television and the wider media's reactions to cannabis, from the hysterical vilification of the drug in the 1930s, the punitive measures of the stop and search laws and prison sentences for possession, to the more considered debates now taking place and the real possibility of a change in the law. The story is told through programme clips from the BBC archives, newspaper headlines and interviews. It covers the high profile star busts of the 60s and 70s (when people like Tony Curtis, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney were taken to court) major drug hauls, science programmes, youth culture and politics. Comments on pot by Chicho Marx, Norman Mailer, Mick Jagger, Dennis Hopper and Shirley MacLaine among many others.
Interviewees include:
Jazz musician and broadcaster George Melly
Rosie Boycott, who used her editorship of the Independent to campaign for the legalisation of cannabis
Caroline Coon who founded Release, the drugs advisory bureau
Film maker and musician Don Letts
Stuart Walton - the author of Out of It
Harry Shapiro from the Home office drugs agency Drugscope
Dr Clare Gerada, a GP in Lambeth who acts as advisor to government health agencies
Garry Bushell, TV critic for The People
Mal Young, head of drama series at the BBC.
AVI File Details
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Runtime......: 00:41:57 (62,927 fr)
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Language.....: English
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