DOSE: Episode 1 Psilocybin “Ghost In The Mushroom”

Director Statement

Every Chemical has a Story.

DOSE is an one-hour anthology series featuring complex characters driven by desperate needs who turn to risky chemical substances to help them navigate through their deepest fears. This exciting new show delves into the new frontier of psychedelic science to take the viewer on an unexpected trip with Psilocybin, Ketamine, MDMA, Peyote, Ibogaine, LSD, and Ayahuasca as our visionary guides. Are you ready to take a DOSE? Your trip starts here.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND SYNOPSIS

DOSE – Episode One: PSILOCYBIN 
“Ghost In the Mushroom”

When Jeremy (Dominic Bogart) begins receiving messages from the grave, he finds himself caught in a “Mobius trip” while participating in an experimental form of psychedelic-assisted therapy, only to learn that his reality is far from what it seems.

Ep. 2 MDMA “Never Have I Ever”
After discovering her estranged father’s decomposed body in an apartment, Jessica’s world unravels. When her relationship also collapses, she hits up a rogue psychiatrist online for ecstasy pills hoping for a quick fix.

Ep. 3 DMT “Where Is the Sun?”
A college student travels to Arizona set on a psychedelic experience of “smoking toads.” He soon encounters a group of diehard environmentalists hard-pressed to stop him and cancel the entire town in the process. When the local sheriff learns of the altercation, he isn’t sure who to arrest first.

Ep. 4 KETAMINE “K-Holes & Candy Flips”
A group of bumbling thieves concocts an elaborate plan to break into a building’s dentist’s office and veterinary clinic on the same night to score nitrous tanks and ketamine. Desperate to make it to a rave party hoping to impress girls, they unexpectedly encounter the building’s late-night security guard, who is very dedicated to his job.

Ep. 5 LSD “Bicycle Ride”
A colorful retelling of Albert Hofmann’s famous April 19th, 1943 discovery, told in flashback from the perspective of the now 101-year-old scientist interviewed by famed psychedelic psychotherapist Peter Gasser (responsible for the first therapeutic use of LSD in 35 years) and renowned computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, the internet inventor, both who were voted among the greatest living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph Newspaper in the same year.

Ep. 6 METHAMPHETAMINE “Valedictorian”
After a poor rural family discovers that a majority of the students in their children’s school district are taking legal forms of amphetamines, they enlist the help of a local attorney to take their case to the State Supreme Court in an attempt to have their home lab operation legalized.

Ep. 7 OPIUM/HEROIN 2 PART- SEASON FINALE “The Palace”
A high-school teenager becomes addicted to prescription painkillers after a sports injury. Oblivious to his growing dependence, his parents enroll him in an after-school program for troubled teens. By reading books, he discovers a way to travel back in time to a Chinese opium den, where he receives the advice he so desperately needs from a straight-talking alchemist and other long-dead drug users from centuries ago.

SEASON TWO EPISODES

S2. Ep. 1 IBOGAINE “They Can’t Find Out About It”
A group of aggressive Washington lobbyists working for Big Pharma use intimidation and violence towards the founders of a new wellness center that administers Iboga, a drug proven to cure opioid addiction in a single dose and will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization.

S2. Ep. 2 CANNABIS “Please… Just Eat”
Three interwoven stories surrounding edible forms of marijuana, including an out-of-work off-Broadway actress unsure if she may be suffering from anorexia, a celebrity chef who refuses to cook without his new favorite ingredient, and a cadre of high-profile trial lawyers who accidentally eat an entire plate of pot brownies the night before the big trial, only to have a moral crisis and discover a gaping hole in their case that could cost them everything.

S2. Ep. 3 MESCALINE/PEYOTE “Egocide”
A lone Native American living in the wild desert mountains of 1800s Nevada befriends a prostitute beaten badly and banished by her alcoholic father. Wanted for murder with trackers nearby, he risks his life and her’s by evoking an ancient spirit in a long-forbidden ceremony.

S2. Ep. 4 COCAINE “The Warriors and The Suits”
In two groups of alpha males, Wall Street traders and prehistoric hunter-gatherers, their parallel timelines evoke similar behavior patterns, motivations, and drugs of choice.

S2. Ep. 5 GHB “Never Go Alone”
A hard look at male date rape told in an experimental, first-person documentary-style narrative by someone who’s reluctant to prosecute the wealthy and well-respected older woman who took advantage of him.

S2. Ep. 6 METHAQUALONE “Not Just Your Brothers Drug”
A self-proclaimed psychonaut schemes and travels to South Africa to purchase a large quantity of nearly unobtainable Quaaludes to reintroduce them to the US black market.

S2, Ep. 7 & 8 2-PART FINALE “The Rites of Eleusis”
A biopic telling the fantastical and sordid story of Aleister Crowley and his cohorts in their attempt to stage the greatest psychedelic play in history.