Tonight on The Independents: You’re on Drugs

What
are the pharmacological distinctions between the drugs we take and
the drugs we prohibit? Not so bloody much, we learn tonight on
The
Independents at 9 pm ET, 6 pm PT (with repeats three hours
later).

First up on the show is Columbia University
neuropsychopharmacologist Dr. Carl Hart (watch his
Reason.tv interview
here; read an edited transcript of a presentation he gave at a
Reason event
here), who will talk about the similarities between meth and
Adderall, and how the histories of discrimination and prohibition
are inextricably linked. Next will be an interview about
performance-enhancing drugs (including those taken by classical
musicians!) with bodybuilder-turned filmmaker Chris Bell, director
of
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*.

Next we turn to a discussion of classic
drug scares, from
Krokodil to
bath salts to
Molly to spice
to absinthe
to
ice. Then comedian Dave Hill joins us as a
contestant on the side-effects gameshow, Name That Drug. Psychiatric-medication skeptic
Peter
Breggin comes on to explain why he opposes prescribing
behavioral medication to children, and why he thinks
anti-depressants don’t work. Carl Hart then comes back to debate
Fox News Legal Analyst and former prosecutor Lis Wiehl about the pros and
cons of legalization and decriminalization.

Throughout the show Kennedy will obviously be assaulting people
in the streets of New York about their drug habits, and the episode
ends with a plea by Kmele
Foster to (what else?) abolish the Food and Drug
Administration. Send your tweets to @IndependentsFBN
throughout, hashtag ‘em #indFBN, and
BYOD!