Potumentaries

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This series uses visual effects and CGI and, for the first time ever, takes the viewer on an entire trip from start to finish inside the human body. With testimony from people who enjoy using the drug and those who have become addicted, the programme reveals how cannabis takes over the inner workings of the brain, creating mind-warping and heart-racing effects.

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This video transports you to the smoke-filled “coffeeshops” of Amsterdam and behind the scenes of the grow rooms where the biggest and best buds on earth are flowering. In Amsterdam, pot smokers puff away publicly without fear. Local police are happy to direct tourists to the nearest coffeeshop where they can choose from hundreds of strains of Dutch homegrown “Nederweed” and relax and enjoy smoking in a hip and inviting atmosphere. Grow Dutch features Wernard, Holland’s most respected grower and the guy who brought skunk and Sinsemilla to Holland in the 1970s. Wernard shows you step-by-step how Dutch growers produce the strongest marijuana in the world. Grow Dutch reveals how things could be in America if pot was destigmatized and decriminalized.

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A documentary examining the science and the movement to legalize cannabis as medicine.

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Beyond the hysteria of Reefer Madness and past the deceptive lessons of “Just Say No”, HIGH exposes the true story of America’s war on drugs. Using government statistics, expert interviews and a large dose of humor, HIGH takes a fresh look at this hot button issue and asks just how much this “war” costs Americans in money, stress, and even lives. There’s a violent drug treatment program that tortured children; an overbearing drug czar that doesn’t care for the people he hurts in his quest; patients who are being denied the medications they need; doctors being prosecuted for trying to help them; and a substance that we all know of, but nobody wants to talk about.

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See Amsterdam’s famous coffeeshops, where Cannabis and Hashish are sold. Visit Amsterdam’s, Hash, Hemp, and Marijuana museum. Get an exclusive tour of the Cannabis College.

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CNBC’s Trish Regan goes inside America’s controversial marijuana industry. Going from California’s marijuana dispensaries to talking to marijuana growers and law enforcement she paints a picture of how large and important marijuana is to this economy.

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The fight against drug use in America has been going on since the turn of the last century but the term “War on Drugs” only became part of our national dialogue in 1970 when it was first used by President Richard Nixon. The President later formed the DEA and started a push to outlaw drugs of all kinds. Among the most discussed drugs in this war is Marijuana. This special will look at the storied and strange history of Marijuana in America.

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CannaBiz unfolds in Grand Forks BC an eccentric border town nestled in the secluded Kootenay Mountains where draft dodgers and hippies planted the first “BC Bud” in the 1960s. Marijuana growers here and in other towns across Canada are now at a dangerous crossroads between crime and commerce battling for a share of profits from an industry worth a staggering $20 billion dollars.

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An informational film produced to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort during WW2. The film details the many industrial uses of hemp, including cloth and cordage, as well as a detailed history of the plant’s use.

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This comprehensive and in-depth video demonstrates many ways of making hashish and other forms of concentrated marijuana resin-oils. Explained in full detail is hand rubbing, dry-sieving, water extraction, pot butter, pot vegetable oil, eating versus smoking, honey and hash-oil, and using different types of solvents.

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The host Chef Magic and his assistant Su’ Chef Serge introduce the viewer to the world of medicinal marijuana and it’s usefulness as an ingredient to make various foods and snacks. Marijuana has over 420 different uses for the human body.

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The Magic Weed traces the story of the Cannabis plant, which has a ten thousand year history in human culture. With its origins in China, its uses have ranged from medicine, clothing, war, feed stock, and of course, recreational. Also explored in this documentary is the American relationship with hemp, including its ban during the 1920s.

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With California and the rest of the country going bankrupt, one business is booming. How Weed Won the West is the story of the growing Medical Marijuana industry, focusing on Los Angeles with over 1000 legal dispensaries doling out the buds. Following the story of Organica, a southland dispensary which was raided by state and federal agencies in August of 2009, the film shows that although much has changed with Obama in office, the drug war is nowhere near over.

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The Union: The Business Behind Getting High is a movie about the big industry that creates and selling illegal Cannabis. Cannabis is still illegal most parts of the world,despite that cigarettes and Alcohol is taking more life’s then Cannabis.

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The history of the American government’s war on marijuana in the 20th century.

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A comedy film that explores the truth about marijuana.

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Australian producer-director Anthony Clarke does a commendable job in researching and outlining hemp’s numerous strengths. He loosely divides his work into six sections–hemp for paper, textiles, fuel, medicine, and “inspiration” and the U.S. government’s role in squelching all of these uses–supplying substantial and convincing evidence throughout.