The war on drugs has never been about drugs.
7.4
110 min
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?
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Eugene Jarecki | Himself - Narrator / Interviewer | Unowned | |
Joe Biden | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
George H. W. Bush | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Rudolph Giuliani | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
John McCain | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Nelson Rockefeller | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Hillary Clinton | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Bill Clinton | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Martin Luther King Jr. | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Barack Obama | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Nancy Reagan | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Ronald Reagan | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Richard Nixon | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |