Breaking the Taboo

[nomak]

This movie has just been made available to watch in full for free on the 6th of December.

Here's the description:
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" is produced by Sam Branson's indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.

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[IsotropicSpin]

The US has been in a sort of unspoken war in latin america for 40 years fighting drugs. And for what? It's great there is a film like this. Haven't got time to watch at the moment though.

Anybody have a wrap up?

 

[nomak]

It basically interviews the leaders of different states ( US, Switzerland, Colombia, Mexico, Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, etc) and you get to see two different outcomes based on the types of measures used.
The ones who used force and injected billions of dollars to stop drugs and create a drug-free society only ended up with people like Pablo Escobar getting filthy rich by smuggling tons of cocaine into the country, consumption rates went up, drug crimes increased.
The ones who decided to decriminalize drugs like the Netherlands observed that the consumption rate is actually smaller compared to other neighboring countries and they have a lot more money coming in to the economy.