Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

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.

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.

These are not episodes full of rehashed facts you already knew, rather often revealing about things that you didn't know that you didn't even know. Most episodes feel like coming along for a journey with the host in the spirit of discovery. Best documentary series thus far on the subject.

If I were rating each season they'd each get a 10/10, but season 3 is on another level. The amount of love and care given to each of these episodes is astounding. Hamilton is out there speaking to real people in their own language, enlightening me on things I didn't even know existed. It is a serious (usually) take on what this stuff is and what it does. These are world-class experts in a variety of fields telling you what they think. I can't show enough love to Hamilton for getting real information out there.

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