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What VH1 does best

It does sometimes seem to me that VH1 is playing "Best Week Ever" or "I Love New York" 24-hours a day.

But right now they're playing this great documentary (Rock Docs: Drug Years - Teenage Wasteland, The 70s) where Wayne Kramer of the MC5 just said the following thing about heroin, Vietnam and crime in the 1960s/1970s:

"When I was in jail there were a lot of my fellow inmates who were Vietnam veterans. They got hooked over there but when they came back, they found they couldn't support their habit as easily. So they reverted to what they knew -- weapons and tactics. They became bank robbers."

People participating in the documentary include famous drug smuggler Allen Long, Lou Reed, Henry Rollins, Richard Belzer, Country Joe McDonald, various famous photographers, DEA and former CIA agents. Fascinating. Among the fun facts I learned: apparently High Times magazine, which is now sort of quirky and quaint, was founded because drug smuggling friends of the publisher had tons of high grade golden marijuana and people didn't yet know what it was or how good it was. They decided to start a magazine to educate the market.

Like the Hip-Hop, Punk and Metal docs they did recently, this is what this channel does best.

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