Watch “Breaking The Taboo” (On USA’s Failed War On Drugs) Narrated by Morgan Freeman
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The War on Drugs has failed.
After 50 years of prohibition, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world after food and oil, all in the control of criminals. Drugs are cheaper and more available than ever before. Millions of people are in prison for drugs offences. Corruption and violence, especially in producer and transit countries, endangers democracy. Tens of thousands of people die each year in drug wars.
Breaking the Taboo is a Morgan Freeman-narrated feature documentary. It 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.“
The movie features interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter,
Watch the film below.
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