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Marijuana has over 200 names, including hashish, hash, pot, herb, weed, grass etc. Inside Marijuana on Sunday at 8 pm on the National Geographic Channel showcases the deadly effect of this psychoactive drug that can completely alter thinking patterns. Scientists studying this widely used, illicit substance, consider it among the most complex in the plant kingdom with 400 active chemicals and compounds. Its reach can be gauged from the fact that in California alone, the marijuana trade outpaces the entire wine industry, placing it among the largest cash crops in the USA.
An affair to remember AFTER Rebecca this one is Daphne du Maurier’s most famous romantic novel. Frenchman’s Creek on Saturday at 8 pm on the History & Entertainment Channel is a treat for those who like history intertwined with literature. Set in the 17th century, it stars Tara Fitzgerald as the beautiful, wealthy and bored housewife Lady Dona St. Columb, who impulsively got married and has regretted it since. She decides to leave her shallow husband and London’s corrupt sophistication to seek solitude in the family home in Cornwall with her two children. Here she discovers that French brigands are marauding the local community and her home is being used as a hideout by a pirate (Anthony Delon) with whom she starts falling hopelessly in love. The movie explores the complex mind of a woman. — NF
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