 | HempTV | CNN's "Higher Times" with Bernard Shaw
50 min
16 Feb, 1997
CNN presents "Higher Times" on cannabis and prohibition. Features experts from around the world. One of the best overall in-depth reports on the issue. This show originally aired in the summer of 1996, and this is an updated version. |
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 | HempTV | MAPS' Psychedelic Summit; LDS 50th Anniversary
1 hr 0 min
17 Apr, 1993
MAPS - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies conference of April 17, 1993, Psychedelic Summit; LSD 50th Anniversary. Features Laura Huxley (widow of Aldous), Carolyn Garcia, Dale Gieringer, Rick Doblin, Dennis Peron, Brownie Mary Rathbun, |
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| HempTV | US Government's Operation Green Merchant, Oct. 26, 1989
12 min
26 Oct, 1989
Several news clips from US national and Seattle, Washington area TV stations on the October 26, 1989 US federal sting on horticulture stores called Operation Green Merchant. The clips from NBC & ABC national reports, and Seattle area news shows are all from the day of the federal raid, which signaled a move by US president George Bush the 1st to attack US horticulture equipment suppliers to move on domestic US indoor marijuana cultivation using tough new federal mandatory minimum prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life without parole. 13 minutes. |
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| HempTV | Up Front, from Spokane WA on Marijuana Legalization (Jan. 1986)
57 min
14 Jan, 1986
TV show is from Spokane, Washington's KHQ-TV show "Up Front" called, "Marijuana Legalization: A Step Forward or a Step Back," where a local studio audience examines the then upcoming November 1986 Oregon vote on the OMI (Oregon Mariijuana Initiative) which would have legalized private adult marijuana possession, use and cultivation. A drug warrior from Colorado takes on OMI's John Sajo. 58 minutes. |
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 | Pot-TV | The Terrible Truth
10 min
05 Apr, 1951
Early (and sensational) film on marijuana use as a route to heroin addiction. Substance abuse, Drugs, Teenagers, California, Los Angeles. Ahh, those were the days. Join Phyllis as she moves from pot ("that's jive talk for marijuana") to heroin. Where are all these drugs coming from? "Some say it's the Reds. . ." (that's pogrom talk for communists) . I |
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| HempTV | Hemp for Victory; 1942 US Dept. of Agriculture
14 min
26 Jun, 1942
This 1942 re-discovered classic was made by the USDA to teach farmers how to grow hemp for fiber again, after it had been prohibited in the decade prior, but World War II cut off foreign sources of fiber and the US had to turn back to industrial hemp. |
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