Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

Things about it is he is a super intelligent highly trained professional chemist. Tell him Jefferson airplane used to buy lots of laughing gas back in the day. I'm 74 & the 1st lsd I had was Sandoz. Years later I interviewed Albert Hoffman on my radio talk show('86-88) "new age forum" from UCSB. Met him at their psychedelic conference. Also met Tim Leary there. He couldn't do individual interviews so we held a press conference I videotaped

The DMT episode legitimately made me cry tears of joy watching the ceremony.

I have been a big fan of Hamiltons fathers documentaries for a long time. Errol Morris has been creating some of the most fascinating American documentaries since the late 70's. So, I was very happy when I found out his son Hamilton, was carrying on the family tradition.

These episodes are not only about the drugs and their effects on the body, but the cultures in which they are used. He goes to great extents, traveling internationally, to cover his substance and its roots in human culture in detail.

Each season seems to get a little better production quality wise, as he continues to track down the forefathers of the users of these substances, and interviews some really interesting individuals in the history of science, psychedelia and such like.

Then there is the production of the drugs side of things, where he meets chemists from various backgrounds, and breaks down in detail how they make the drugs. Some of them are high level chemists working on cutting edge research, too the undergound hippy or criminal org's, producing for the black market.

The series have all the hallmarks of quality documentary film making. You will be hard pushed to find anything else better researched, or as informative on the subject.

THis show has some episodes like the peyote and the salvia one that are so interesting has so much culture and data for all the family and friends

Vice should brodacst this in their youtube channel it would be their most watched videos !! HAMILTON tell VICE to wake up and to spread the psychedelic message

please keep them coming i never thought i would live to see something like this on tv.

ps : the guy that rated with one star doesnt know what he is talking about he needs some love

If you are interested in the broad subject of drugs this show has everything that to make learing about them fun and informative.

Great editing, humor, thrilling storylines, exotic exursion, rigorous research, whacky anecdotes that you can tell your firends, you name it.

Hamiolton is presenting balanced and critical comentary trough an scientific and evidence based Lens, while also letting the interviewed speak for themselfs, without any filters or propagateing any agenda except to understand the subject at hand.

Truly a masterfull work have never seen something close to this, I hope he decides to produce a fourth season even tough he said he wouldn't.