American Drug War The Last White Hope
Posted by MoRiDiN at 12:14, 17 Mar 2010American Drug War
The Last White Hope
35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars.
The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA.
AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some 'pro-drug' stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.
After 4 years of production including several sold out test screenings in New York, Austin & Los Angeles, the final version of American Drug War "the last white hope" is locked and loaded.
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Comments
3 July 2009
8 weeks 20 hours
this movie was should be seen by mainstreet america. it should be taught in the public schools.... maybe things will change soon.
14 April 2009
3 weeks 5 days
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12422589...
The world still continues, the effects that were caused by previous effects still have continue to influence, long past when their originator has stopped or is gone...
And people in the US will still generally believe that their beliefs and values and worldviews IS the World and will, thus, continue to live the worlds that other people create for them...
http://rushkoff.com/
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