| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A film about illegal-drug dependency among Western Whites that only partly acknowledges that the resulting War on Drugs was never initiated when Blacks were killing themselves with non-prescription narcotics.
Where this film gets it right, however, is in making clear that there is an ‘unbeatable market force’ of unending demand for an almost limitless supply. The War here is not then against foreigners or Blacks, but against the very family members Whites are so keen to ostensibly protect, yet who refuse to stop self-medicating no matter their Western affluence and material prosperity.
This is an exceptional movie about the market for non-medicinal drugs in the West; detailing both the supply and demand sides of the issue in all their complexity.
The US wastes billions of tax dollars dealing with illegal-drug supply in its so-called War on Drugs. Yet all this criminalisation achieves is to make them more expensive, more alluring, raise crime rates as users steal to feed their habit and incentivise drug-dealing by making it more lucrative.
All drug-pushers do is meet the demand of a Western culture so bereft of values that its young find the anaesthetic affects of drugs preferable to reality.
Market forces dictate that the so-called War on Drugs is pointless - as was Prohibition in the US. Dealing with the source means effectively declaring war on Others; dealing with supply means arresting dealers & users - both leave demand untouched. Anomie-ridden White Western cultures possess a great demand for drugs, but this is never addressed - only curative treatment programmes, not preventives. Yet, demand always comes before supply; without it, there could be no supply.
Unsensational presentation helps clarify issues and the uniformly excellent acting, dramatise them. Every bit as good as they say it is.
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