Illegal drugs

POSTED BY: WhooDahn
UPDATED: Saturday, April 3, 2004 20:49
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WHOODAHN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:04 PM

Has anyone seen any reference to illegal drugs?

With all of the Chinese culture integrated into the show, there should be some reference to opium dens.

With all of the moons and planets, there would be some sort of illegal drug smuggling going on. Since Mal is a smuggler, it seems he would have been offered a job smuggling drugs.

I don't remember hearing anything about illegal drugs. Is Firefly drug free or did I miss something?

TALVIN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:15 PM

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Originally posted by WhooDahn:

I don't remember hearing anything about illegal drugs. Is Firefly drug free or did I miss something?

I would tend to say that, given the scarcity of technically *legal* drugs, the illegal drug trade is just beat out by the competition. Consider TrainJob and Ariel: both of these were deals involving medicines, and I suspect given the context that they were destined to be sold on the black market for "use as directed", not to get somebody high.

The main market for "drugs" as opposed to "medicines" would be in the Core Worlds, where medical care appears to be government subsidized and widely available (as per Ariel). Those recreational drugs that exist are probably produced in or close to the Core Worlds, and Mal is just not going to want to deal with all that implies.

The closest thing I could ever see Mal dealing with is smuggling some high-quality alcohol.

And we know what THAT would mean.

"Jayne. You'll be in your bunk."

SUCCATASH

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:30 PM

I'd like to see Serenity land on a Rasta Moon where people say, "Ya Man!"

The whole crew smokes some of the illegal cargo and hilarity ensues. Everyone acts goofy, except it turns River completely normal.

WHOODAHN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:32 PM

I agree that most of the recreational drug use would be in the core planets and that would either be close to the manufacturing locations or the Blue Sun gang has the inner planet drug market monopoly. It's seems there are enough outer planets that would still support recreational drug use. Add to that the Chinese opium dens and I would think there would be a lot of outer planet drug use. The opium dens may be legal but I assume there is a lot of illegal drugs available.

Have any recreational drugs been mentioned on Firefly?

TALVIN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:39 PM

No recreational drugs mentioned as such. Mostly alcohol, and some of it pretty cruddy.

Opium, cannabis, etc: these are agricultural products. Most of the outer planets are clearly agrarian economies, so if somebody really wants some, they probably don't import it from off-planet, they have lots of farmland (and lots of places to hide the crop) right there. Wayyyy too many acres and way too few lawmen to go around digging up that sort of thing.

Then again, in an economy where *apples* are a luxury and cattle is smuggled, would people bother growing poppies and hemp for the drugs?

WHOODAHN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:40 PM

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The whole crew smokes some of the illegal cargo and hilarity ensues. Everyone acts goofy, except it turns River completely normal.

Wash is rolling bombers, Zoe is giggling, Jayne is picking the stars out of the sky, Book is sweet talking Kaylee, Simon is sleeping and Mal has the munchies.

WHOODAHN

Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:43 PM

There is always a percentage of society that wants drugs and a percentage that will make money off of that desire. Perhaps the drugs are home grown but I would think that recreational drugs would be more sophisticated and there would be drug traffic from the core planets to the outer planets. There may be more to Blue Sun than we know of.

MALCOLM

Friday, April 2, 2004 12:18 AM

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Originally posted by WhooDahn:
Has anyone seen any reference to illegal drugs?

I seem to remember seeing a hooka (waterpipe) in Inara's shuttle at some point (maybe the pilot ep.?). Of course, it could be for tobacco.

-MBS

THEFOP

Friday, April 2, 2004 1:13 AM

Fop's Crackpot Drug Theory (or "what I did instead of my Top Girls Essay):

When they were stripping the hypothalemi of their victims, the blue hand men realised that they had to somehow placate the children, or else risk an uprising. So thrice daily they would be given therapeutic reefer. ONe night there were no doritos, so River was unsatisfied, and the next day, remmembering this she heroically managed not to inhale. Having done that, she wrote letters asking for help. Every time she skipped reefer therapy, she wrote a new letter, until Simon figured out the code. They freed river by rigging a bunch of vaporisers up in the ventilation system and loading them with high quality hydroponic marijuana. The Blue Hand Men, unused to breathing near pure THC started binging on twinkies and singing "I'm gonna burn one down", and so River was freed

once the snow got so deep you almost couldn't hear margaret atwood

SUCCATASH

Friday, April 2, 2004 2:42 AM

Serenity VII - One Last Job

Mal works for the Rasta People.

An aging man, Mal postpones his retirement party to do one last job for the Rasta Moon colony. But the unexpected happens as Mal finds himself surrounded by danger and treachery.

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