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Formula 51 — MI var callbackToken='473E0E00D28DC08'; Skip to main page content HOME CURRENT ISSUE ARCHIVE FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ALERTS HELP Keywords GO Advanced » Institution: DeepDyve User Name Password Sign In Formula 51 Christine K. Carrico , PhD , Executive Officer of ASPET Sony Pictures. 2002. “Formula 51,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, and Meatloaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) is a movie about a pharmacologist. Or at least that is what is printed on the UCLA diploma of Elmo McElroy (Samuel Jackson) when he is busted in 1971 for having a graduation-cap full of marijuana. It gets a little confusing for a true pharmacologist when McElroy pleads with the cop to let him off because a drug rap would prevent him from ever being able to get a license to practice. (Folks still don’t appreciate the difference between pharmacy and pharmacology. Is that our fault or theirs?) Be that as it may, thirty years later McElroy works as a “master chemist” for a drug lord known as The Lizard (Meatloaf). He has synthesized POS 51 (the Formula 51 of the title), a drug that is “51 times stronger than cocaine, 51 times more habit forming than