‘America’s Longest War’ provides a brief history of drug prohibition, beginning with Nixon’s declaration of war in 1971 and ending with Obama’s broken promise to allow states to determine their own medical marijuana policies. It chronicles how, over the past 40 years, the drug war has escalated from a small domestic program, mostly focused on treatment, to the multi-billion dollar international war it is today.
Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates have not declined and illegal drugs are more available – and cheaper – than ever before. At the same time, the costs of the drug war are staggering. More than one trillion dollars have been spent. More than 50,000 SWAT raids occur each year. Hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in prison. And more than 60,000 people have been murdered in Mexico over the past six years.
There are many victims of the drug war, and ’America’s Longest War’ tells some of their stories.
This documentary was produced by Reason TV and directed by Paul Fein. It was first released in 2013.
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What about American governments addiction to war ? Including its longest running war on its own people.
I was 18 facing 8 years in a Michigan state prison for less the 4 grams of weed in 1998. I Ruined the future I had planned in the navy. Entered the revolving door of the " justice" system and learned to embrace my struggle. Here we are 2024 and not only is it legal here in Michigan but Michigan competes with California and Colorado in the quality of a fine flower. I'm still smoking, still working, still being a father. Still understanding the as far as the war on " drugs", well congratulations to drugs for winning.
It's immoral to control how somebody can or cannot feel. It's immoral to make drugs illegal and have people like me who will never be "drug free"(whatever that means) because we simply will never like how we feel and were basically born with drug addict and alcoholic genetics. "Just Say No" does not work for us because of malfunctioning neurons and a lack of neurons.
P.S. Your God is never going to "heal" anybody of any disorders and symptoms.
What do you mean we haven't achieved our goals? Wouldn't that depend on your goal? Consider this problem. You're a power hungry politician in a nation, who's highest self proclaimed value, is freedom. How else do you goad such a people into building a police state? Would flattering those people with the notion their own self-righteous law would make for "safe" streets, do the trick? The war on drugs criminalized citizens, law enforcement, and our politicians. We are now finding that we traded our freedom, and peaceful streets for this evil war on the nation's citizens. Now must let violent criminals loose, so we can lock up school children…who will ultimately become criminalized. Now we're seeing videos of rampent police corruption. We did away with alcohol prohibition, because a wiser generation saw that it corrupted judges, police, and politicians. Beware of politicians try to anger you over someone else's personal problems. "Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered". We've forced this girl to beg for he father's freedom.
Just so no.😂😂😂😂
4:33 👍 an age-old perspective. Send a problem back where it came from and there will be no problem.
How can we win the war on drugs when the CIA was bringing heroin back to the US during the war in Afghanistan and now we have a "president" (Biden) who's basically allowing fentenyl into the country through the US/Mexico border