Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Maya Schenwar | The People Vs. the War on Drugs

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The People Vs. the War on Drugs: Filmmaker Tackles the "Predatory Monster"

In an interview with Truthout's Maya Schenwar, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki says of the war on drugs: "Almost no one believes in this system. In looking for diversity, I ended up finding an extraordinary unanimity: The idea that the drug war has been with us for 40 years, we've spent a trillion dollars on it, we've had 45 million drug arrests and we have nothing to show for it."

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