Cocaine Unwrapped

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COCAINE UNWRAPPED tells the story of cocaine: coca farmers in Colombia, drug mules in Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories in the Bolivian jungle, dealers on the streets of Mexico, law enforcement officials on the streets of Baltimore -- and the everyday consumers around the dinner tables of the West.
It's a story of politics, death, economic and environmental devastation and human suffering, and explores realistic alternatives to the war on drugs.

The film features front line reportage, exclusive access to the political leaders of Latin America, such as Evo Morales of Bolivia and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, as well as revealing interviews with drug czars. Watch this film and you will never think the same way again about the 'War on Drugs'.

'Cocaine Unwrapped is an excellently made and timely documentary that lucidly shows how drugs like cocaine both affect and connect people--from the impoverished peasants who grow the coca leaf in the tropical Andes to the drug's many users and abusers throughout the world. Just as important, it also shows the damage that misguided U.S. anti-drug policies have had on those same people--fanning the violence and destruction that surrounds drug trafficking without really solving our problems with cocaine.' Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and Sociology, Stony Brook University, Author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug

'Cocaine Unwrapped is a terrific introduction to the insanity known as the War on Drugs. Teachers and professors who want to give their students a fresh and compelling perspective could not do better than to start with this documentary.' Jeffrey Miron, Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute, Author, Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

'Cocaine Unwrapped shows how drug wars have not only failed to reduce the production, trafficking, and consumption of drugs, but have left in their wake collateral damage as devastating as the problems they purported to resolve...This film should provoke casual cocaine users and policy makers alike to think twice about the consequences of their actions. Cocaine Unwrapped is a clarion call for revamping current drug policies.' Virginia Bouvier, Senior Program Officer, Latin America, Center of Innovation, United States Institute for Peace

'Rachel Seifert did an impressive job in connecting all the dots of the global drug cycle and its effects on society. Without blatantly driving the audiences' view, the film powerfully shows that some countries have been able to change the course of this vicious circle. Others still need to think outside the box.' Sebastian Graefe, Program Director for Foreign and Security Policy and Transatlantic Issues, Heinrich Boll Stiftung North America

'Cocaine Unwrapped is very, very good, and Seifert is to be commended for producing such a detailed as well as powerful narrative for what is one of the most pressing human rights and environmental disasters of our era...[The film] will shatter your illusions about the war on drug users if you harbour any and motivate you to do something about it if you don't.' Sarah McCulloch, Re:Vision Drug Policy Network

'Harrowing...Challenges viewers to rethink American anti-drug policies, if only because the current status quo is unforgivably brutal and ineffective. Highly recommended, especially for high school, public, and college library collections.' The Midwest Book Review

'Seifert lays bare a flawed system where military force and blanket criminalisation perpetuate a terrible cycle of violence...A hopeful future depends on stifling demand - and this is a compassionate, considered plea to weekend warriors to think twice before choosing charlie.' Simon Kinnear, Total Film

'An intelligent and contemplative look at the 'war on drugs,' Rachel Seifert's Cocaine Unwrapped features unprecedented access to many of the key players in the 'war' and examines with stark honesty the dark and true impact of this war that has largely failed in its stated objectives while, in many areas, proving to have a devastating impact to the economics of already poor regions of the world.' Richard Propes, The Independent Critic

'Gritty, hard hitting and jam packed with knowledge...A shocking documentary about an ever-expanding problem...Powerful. It leaves the audience seeking solutions, and the key governments and influencers in the world with their pants down...Really did rejuvenate one's faith in raw, honest and good storytelling.' Dwain Lucktung, Community Channel Review

'Undeniably raises important points for any informed policy debate to consider. In emphasizing the complexity and complicities of a global issue, Seifert has produced a film that demands to be widely seen.' Siobhan McGuirk, Red Pepper Magazine

'A terrific and original film. It shows well why a real development model is needed to combat the cocaine market and to respect people's rights. Not to be missed!' Constantino Casasbuenas Morales, Policy Adviser, Economic Justice team, Oxfam

'This film is about the human tragedies behind the war on drugs. You won't forget those images.' Baroness Meacher, House of Lords, London

'Powerful interviews...Cleverly illustrates the impact of this international, multi-billion pound war by highlighting the personal stories of individuals impacted by the cocaine trade.' Ari Rosmarin, Talking Drugs

'Provid[es] yet more evidence that international drugs policy is not working...Flies in the face of traditional policies which can ultimately lead to disturbing social, environmental and human health consequences.' Emmajo Read, Timeout London

'Powerful, intelligent and moving. Essential viewing. If only policy makers and tabloid editors could be forced to watch it, maybe then we'd start to see a new and compassionate approach to the issue.' Jennifer Nadel, former Independent Television News (ITN) journalist

'A very important documentary that ought to be obligatory viewing for any legislator or law enforcement officer anywhere in the world. The 'recreational' user should also be required to see it as penance for their thoughtless indulgence.' Jonathan Dimbleby, broadcaster and author, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Any Questions

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Main credits

Seifert, Rachel (Director)
Seifert, Rachel (Producer)

Other credits

Produced and directed by Rachel Seifert; executive producer, Christopher Hird; filmed by Owen Scurfield; edited by Chris Scurfield; coproducer, Katherine Eisner.

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Keywords

failure of war on drugs, suffering, devastation, coca-producing countries, cocaine users, realistic alternatives,; cocaine trade, drug trade, coca farmers, Colombia, eradicataion policy, drug mules, Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories, Bolivian jungle, mexican drug dealers, Baltimore police, incarceration, Western coke users, environmental devastation, drug czars, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Cesar Gaviria, Mike Trace, Neill Franklin, Plan Colombia, Francisco Santos, Sanho Tree, Kathryn Ledebur, Coca Yes Cocaine No, Ciudad Juarez, murder capital Mexican drug cartels, Quito, Gil Kerlikowske, Calderon,"Cocaine Unwrapped",Bullfrog Films,doc

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Yeah, I take cocaine.

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Not regularly, but
every now and then.

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I probably take it most weekends

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I started at the university.

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It's pretty popular.

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I don't really
know why I started.

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I suppose--

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It makes people feel good.

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That's why I take it.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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The US and Europe
are not doing enough.

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You cannot put all the
responsibility on us.

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We are doing an
extraordinary sacrifice.

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You need to look at the policy
you have in place is right.

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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It's not what you get told.

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I mean, we just get told
that it's bad for you.

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It's a bit of good fun.

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We get it pretty much
anywhere in London.

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Some people take it because
it makes them feel good.

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Why should you take it?

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Well, it's my choice.

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As long as there is demand
for the use of cocaine,

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whether it be in USA, Europe,
other parts of the world, then

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it will be produced.

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And it will supply the market.

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For the casual Western
recreational user of cocaine,

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I think you should
need to confront

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the fact that the supply chain
of your preferred commodity

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is a very dirty supply chain.

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And that has human,
financial, and social costs.

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It's like drinking
or smoking, isn't it?

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I don't really like
alcohol and cigarettes.

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It's sociable and as
much as you take it.

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I'm only harming
myself, aren't I?

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[RAP MUSIC]

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It used to be fun around
here back in the '60s.

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Now at night time, you don't
even want to walk the streets.

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And even sometimes
during the daytime,

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you don't walk the streets here.

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Reservoir Hill is the
community that I grew up in.

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And back during that time in the
'60s and even the early '70s,

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every home was occupied.

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This is Brookfield.

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On that corner, it used
to be Brookfield Pharmacy.

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And these two blocks on both
sides of the street right

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here were booming with business.

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They're now vacant lots.

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Boarded-up homes now.

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Each and every one of these
homes used to be occupied.

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Baltimore was a very booming
town, over a million people.

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Blue collar jobs on the
docks, steel mills, and so on.

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But then, industry
started to suffer.

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And the jobs started to go away.

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Many heads of these
households had

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to find a way to bring money in.

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And for many of these
folks, the hustle

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was illegal drug dealing.

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The operations that
you see out here,

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a typical scenario is--
car pulls down the street,

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drives down the
street very slow,

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which is an indication
that they're

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looking for something to buy.

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Someone will approach the car.

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That person, typically, will
not have the drugs on them,

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but they will take
the money and then

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direct the car to another
person, maybe a short distance

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away.

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Another way is that you'll see a
large number of people standing

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on a particular
corner or in an area.

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The numbers will slowly begin
to increase as you might

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see two or three at first.

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And when the numbers get up to
probably somewhere between 10

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and 20, then the person
selling the drugs will,

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what we would say, "open shop."

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So they'd go down an alley,
somewhere out of sight.

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And everyone will follow.

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They will line up.

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And within a matter
of seconds, a minute,

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they will sell drugs
to about 20 people.

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Just like that.

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Just that quick.

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And they'll repeat it
over and over again.

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And it's much more efficient.

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Less chance of them getting
caught by the police.

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Baltimore has had a very large
drug problem for many decades.

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But it wasn't always that
way here in Baltimore.

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And I think that changed when
law enforcement and the Nixon

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administration launched
the war on drugs.

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And Baltimore changed.

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And I've been in law enforcement
now for over 33 years.

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I think I've got
a very good grasp

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of what's going on out
here in the streets

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and what needs to change.

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From the law
enforcement perspective,

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we need to change
our policies quick.

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[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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The problem of drugs in Colombia
has different characteristics

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from anywhere else in the world.

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And it's international
security issue.

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So our policy is very
aggressive against all elements

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of drug trafficking.

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One of the elements
is eradication

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of crops-- air spraying,
which was the basic element

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of reduction of production.

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But in 2005, we started the
process of manual eradication.

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It's more effective.

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But you need the
combination of both--

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of air spraying in many areas
where it's very difficult

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and manual eradication
where there

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is more territorial control.

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[AIRPLANE ZOOMS]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[EERIE MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[BIRD CAWS]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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There are so many
unintended consequences.

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And for a country
that's been at civil war

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for four and a half
decades, our drug policy

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has been causing a lot
of these peasant farmers

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to become alienated
from the state.

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The sacrifice Colombia does
from fighting drugs is enormous.

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The social damage is terrible
and, most of the time,

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destroying the life of
people who are not criminals,

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who are just trying to survive.

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[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

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Now, it is my pleasure to call
on His Excellency Don Juan Evo

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Morales Ayma, President of
the Republic of Bolivia.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[SOFT MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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At the peak of
forced eradication,

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coca eradication became
very, very violent.

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And with the shift of the
use of the armed forces

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as the key eradication
force, what there was

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was troops coming on
forcibly to their land

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and ripping out every bit
of the family's coca leaf.

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Taking advantage of the strength
of the Coca Grower Union

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structure has allowed
them to reduce coca

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beyond the cato for each family
in a peaceful, negotiated way.

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[SCATTERED APPLAUSE]

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I don't really know
much about it, no.

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I suppose I probably should do.

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People never tried it.

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It's quite successful
with parties.

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You never get told
that much about it.

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It's sociable.

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No, I've never really been
told that much about it.

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It just seems that people
who want to take it, take it.

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[CRACKLE]

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[SOFT MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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The fumigation program
has not stopped.

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And they're also now moving
towards manual eradication,

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which in many ways is as
problematic, if not more so,

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than aerial fumigation.

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To see peasant farmers
being held back at gunpoint

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by the national
police or the military

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while a team basically
tear up their coca field.

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And so in the course
of 20 minutes,

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their entire source of
food security is destroyed.

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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We've never dealt with why
these peasant farmers continue

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to grow this crop year
after year after year.

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And that has much more to do
with historical abandonment

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by the state, lack of
economic alternatives, lack

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of export infrastructure,
getting crops

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to market, that sort of thing.

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And we've responded, basically,
with a big-stick approach--

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trying to fumigate and eradicate
these crops without giving them

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viable alternatives.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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We certainly thought that
we would see better result

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in terms of the amount of
cocaine that was being sent.

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But for Colombia, the situation
is dramatically different

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and has improved immensely
in terms of security

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in many of those areas, in terms
of that capability of citizens

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to live, to work,
to live normally.

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And in that sense, it has
been a success for us.

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But the incentives
of the demand that

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has grown so dramatically,
especially in Western Europe,

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has kept the price high and
has undermined the efforts

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that we're doing here.

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I think the challenge
for Colombia--

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now that it has made some
progress in improving

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the security situation
but little progress

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in reducing the
flow of cocaine--

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is social and
economic development

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of people who live in the
poor and remote areas.

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What they have to
let go of is the idea

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that if they keep pouring more
money into military and more

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money into the police, then they
will solve the drug problem.

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The flow of drugs to
Europe or to the US

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or through all of Latin American
countries will keep untouched,

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will keep flowing.

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And I think we need to
deal with the policy that

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is not so harmful to society.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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This improved quality of
life for the families--

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although they still live
in extreme poverty--

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has allowed them to do
something that they really

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were unable to do
successfully in the past.

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And that is, try
alternative crops,

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try alternative
strategies for income

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to augment their subsistence
income from the coca.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:00.885
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:38:55.670 --> 00:38:58.880
Will drug traffickers
perceive this as a void

00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.070
that they will try
to take advantage of?

00:39:01.070 --> 00:39:02.330
Quite probably.

00:39:02.330 --> 00:39:04.840
The Bolivian government now
is working very, very hard

00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.590
to strengthen the work
in the nation's borders.

00:39:10.075 --> 00:39:11.566
[WATER BUBBLING]

00:39:20.015 --> 00:39:21.506
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:39.540
I think that the Morales
system is an important model.

00:41:39.540 --> 00:41:40.900
It's not perfect.

00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:42.450
It has flaws.

00:41:42.450 --> 00:41:45.510
But I think that it does
have some key elements that

00:41:45.510 --> 00:41:47.120
can be used in other countries.

00:41:47.120 --> 00:41:50.070
And that is, a focus
on limiting coca

00:41:50.070 --> 00:41:52.562
but with alternatives
already in place

00:41:52.562 --> 00:41:54.020
as opposed to a
forced eradication.

00:41:57.540 --> 00:41:59.010
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:42:18.932 --> 00:42:20.390
I think the West
should acknowledge

00:42:20.390 --> 00:42:24.650
that absolute ban on all
forms of plants associated

00:42:24.650 --> 00:42:28.000
with the Western drug problem
is not a sustainable long-term

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.370
solution.

00:42:29.370 --> 00:42:31.230
Bolivia has made it
very clear that it's not

00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:32.850
in favor of cocaine production.

00:42:32.850 --> 00:42:34.760
And it's their
sovereign right that we,

00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.640
as the international
community, should

00:42:36.640 --> 00:42:39.140
be finding ways to live
with rather than trying

00:42:39.140 --> 00:42:42.160
to force Bolivian elected
politicians to live

00:42:42.160 --> 00:42:44.770
with our 50-year-old
international system.

00:42:48.710 --> 00:42:49.555
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:11.102
[SOFT MUSIC]

00:43:22.498 --> 00:43:26.384
Well, it's not giving you, b
but a lot of things aren't--

00:43:26.384 --> 00:43:28.050
I take it because it
makes me feel good.

00:43:28.050 --> 00:43:29.244
It's sociable.

00:43:29.244 --> 00:43:31.985
And it allows me to have
fun and stay up all nights.

00:43:31.985 --> 00:43:32.985
I take it most weekends.

00:43:32.985 --> 00:43:34.440
It's an instant release.

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:35.896
I take it because I like it.

00:43:35.896 --> 00:43:37.440
And that's why people do it.

00:43:47.140 --> 00:43:50.050
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

00:44:03.328 --> 00:44:05.268
[POLICE SIRENS]

00:44:05.768 --> 00:44:08.696
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:18.944
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:47:08.850 --> 00:47:11.340
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

00:47:36.240 --> 00:47:37.280
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:03.240
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

00:48:03.740 --> 00:48:05.156
[POLICE SIREN]

00:48:07.516 --> 00:48:08.350
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:50:58.062 --> 00:51:01.534
[SOFT MUSIC]

00:51:07.982 --> 00:51:09.470
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.170
What are people fighting over?

00:52:39.170 --> 00:52:41.350
They're fighting over
minimally processed

00:52:41.350 --> 00:52:45.560
agricultural commodities that
ought to cost pennies a dose.

00:52:45.560 --> 00:52:47.580
And it's because
of our war on drugs

00:52:47.580 --> 00:52:50.500
and our attack on the
supply and our interdiction

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:52.545
that makes these things
so incredibly valuable.

00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:16.110
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:54:37.862 --> 00:54:40.814
[SOFT MUSIC]

00:54:53.606 --> 00:54:54.460
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:56:57.920 --> 00:56:59.670
I think had President
Calderon not

00:56:59.670 --> 00:57:02.771
gotten involved to begin with
and let them solve their turf

00:57:02.771 --> 00:57:05.270
battle through their own ways,
which would have been violent

00:57:05.270 --> 00:57:06.720
but it would have
been short, they

00:57:06.720 --> 00:57:09.050
would have gotten it
over with and gone back

00:57:09.050 --> 00:57:11.706
to the quiet business
of drug dealing.

00:57:11.706 --> 00:57:13.080
So unless you
believe that you're

00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:15.900
going to defeat them and
eliminate them somehow,

00:57:15.900 --> 00:57:17.800
what President
Calderon has been doing

00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.939
is exacerbating the problem.

00:57:21.939 --> 00:57:23.230
There is too much profit there.

00:57:23.230 --> 00:57:24.630
We won't to eradicate it.

00:57:24.630 --> 00:57:26.710
We can engage in an arms
race with drug dealers

00:57:26.710 --> 00:57:28.195
as much as you like.

00:57:28.195 --> 00:57:29.820
If you're doing that,
what you're doing

00:57:29.820 --> 00:57:32.310
is you're creating the
circumstances where

00:57:32.310 --> 00:57:34.920
the most violent and the
most well-armed drug dealers

00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:36.200
are the ones who prevail.

00:57:36.200 --> 00:57:38.640
So we have to mold the
market in such a way

00:57:38.640 --> 00:57:41.750
that the terrible gang warfare
and violence and corruption

00:57:41.750 --> 00:57:44.060
is less viable over
a number of years.

00:57:47.370 --> 00:57:48.140
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:58:15.354 --> 00:58:16.842
[CRACKLES]

00:58:23.786 --> 00:58:26.334
It's looked on by
society as a bad thing.

00:58:26.334 --> 00:58:29.187
But actually, everyone I
know has, at least, tried it.

00:58:29.187 --> 00:58:30.270
I take it regularly, yeah.

00:58:30.270 --> 00:58:31.520
But I can take it or leave it.

00:58:31.520 --> 00:58:35.682
Some friends get addicted
into all sorts of problems.

00:58:35.682 --> 00:58:37.390
And they should
definitely be given help.

00:58:37.390 --> 00:58:39.098
Most people I know
are just casual users.

00:58:39.098 --> 00:58:40.242
They take it occasionally.

00:58:40.242 --> 00:58:41.700
I know a lot of
people who take it,

00:58:41.700 --> 00:58:44.345
who are very respectable
members of society

00:58:44.345 --> 00:58:45.848
with professional jobs.

00:58:51.337 --> 00:58:53.333
[EERIE MUSIC]

00:59:04.810 --> 00:59:08.802
[MUSIC - GEO 2, "LAMENTOS EN
POTENCIA"]

00:59:46.940 --> 00:59:47.690
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:00:57.750 --> 01:00:59.180
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

01:01:16.078 --> 01:01:18.548
[PEOPLE TALK INDISTINCTLY]

01:01:25.450 --> 01:01:26.200
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:03:15.746 --> 01:03:18.710
[SOFT MUSIC]

01:03:24.610 --> 01:03:25.360
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:04:26.877 --> 01:04:29.853
[MUSIC - GEO 2, "LAMENTOS EN
POTENCIA"]

01:04:48.020 --> 01:04:49.260
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:06:50.810 --> 01:06:54.030
Unfortunately, the way that the
laws are created under the UN

01:06:54.030 --> 01:06:56.610
system, if you're
arrested as a drug dealer,

01:06:56.610 --> 01:06:59.870
then we tend to give you very
heavy penalties-- whatever

01:06:59.870 --> 01:07:00.770
your story is.

01:07:00.770 --> 01:07:03.230
We are very poor
at distinguishing

01:07:03.230 --> 01:07:07.610
between the powerful in the
drug market and the powerless.

01:07:07.610 --> 01:07:09.500
What Ecuador has done
has shown us there

01:07:09.500 --> 01:07:11.360
is a different way
of going about this.

01:07:14.060 --> 01:07:14.880
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:07:50.525 --> 01:07:54.962
[SPANISH RAP MUSIC]

01:08:37.929 --> 01:08:38.750
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:08:52.950 --> 01:08:56.470
They start their addiction where
most people fear they will end,

01:08:56.470 --> 01:09:00.830
when they are addicted,
abandoned in the street.

01:09:00.830 --> 01:09:03.130
Most of them, they say
that they used drugs

01:09:03.130 --> 01:09:07.189
because that makes them
forget past pain or future

01:09:07.189 --> 01:09:09.140
pain and present pain.

01:09:09.140 --> 01:09:13.200
Their life expectancy of all the
street-kid population in Mexico

01:09:13.200 --> 01:09:16.460
is estimated in 25 years.

01:09:16.460 --> 01:09:21.020
And most of them, they die
of accidents or consequences

01:09:21.020 --> 01:09:25.390
of drug use or malnutrition.

01:09:25.390 --> 01:09:29.729
We are talking about
roughly 30,000 street kids

01:09:29.729 --> 01:09:31.310
in Mexico City.

01:09:31.310 --> 01:09:34.510
We are very optimistic
that 10?n have

01:09:34.510 --> 01:09:35.840
a place in an organization.

01:09:37.060 --> 01:09:37.810
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:10:27.940 --> 01:10:31.162
The frontier has
been closing in.

01:10:31.162 --> 01:10:36.730
And much of the product that
is supposed to cross the border

01:10:36.730 --> 01:10:38.040
stays down here.

01:10:38.040 --> 01:10:42.350
So cocaine has risen
up-- more than 50%

01:10:42.350 --> 01:10:46.630
cocaine use both in
crack and in the powder

01:10:46.630 --> 01:10:48.970
form in the past five years.

01:10:56.940 --> 01:10:58.010
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:11:57.820 --> 01:11:59.910
We have detox programs.

01:11:59.910 --> 01:12:05.360
And we mostly use psychological
counseling because it's cheap

01:12:05.360 --> 01:12:08.240
and it's good.

01:12:08.240 --> 01:12:12.070
Once they are
starting on detox, we

01:12:12.070 --> 01:12:16.390
teach them whatever trades
they have available.

01:12:16.390 --> 01:12:20.760
Then they can start a business
or a trade for themselves.

01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:23.550
We have little
trouble trying to get

01:12:23.550 --> 01:12:27.770
them integrated into society
because society rejects them.

01:12:27.770 --> 01:12:30.190
So we work a lot
in the community,

01:12:30.190 --> 01:12:34.495
try to get society
naked of stigma.

01:12:35.580 --> 01:12:36.330
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:13:20.730 --> 01:13:23.000
War on poverty would be better.

01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:25.330
War on inequality
would be better.

01:13:25.330 --> 01:13:29.770
A war on this stigma
would be much better.

01:13:29.770 --> 01:13:34.230
So what we would say at a social
level, what we're trying to do

01:13:34.230 --> 01:13:37.920
is to make this a health
issue not a criminal issue

01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:41.950
because the viewpoint
of the society

01:13:41.950 --> 01:13:46.840
is that this is criminals
and not sick people.

01:13:52.307 --> 01:13:56.283
[MUSIC PLAYING]

01:14:19.190 --> 01:14:22.550
Unfortunately, the illegal
drug trade in Baltimore

01:14:22.550 --> 01:14:26.345
is a very big part of
Baltimore's economy.

01:14:29.700 --> 01:14:32.840
For the illicit drug trade,
they recruit juveniles

01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:36.590
to run their products,
to hold their products.

01:14:36.590 --> 01:14:41.630
And you'll find them from
the age of six or seven,

01:14:41.630 --> 01:14:43.036
all the way up.

01:14:43.036 --> 01:14:45.160
You'll talk to some of
these young people out here,

01:14:45.160 --> 01:14:46.840
and they'll tell you right
off the bat they don't expect

01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:48.530
to live beyond the age of 25.

01:14:48.530 --> 01:14:50.030
It's dead for them.

01:14:50.030 --> 01:14:51.700
That's why the
violence is so easy

01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:53.770
because when you have
people who have no hopes

01:14:53.770 --> 01:15:00.790
and no dreams, they're far
down the road, believe me,

01:15:00.790 --> 01:15:04.900
violence is this is
no big deal to them.

01:15:04.900 --> 01:15:06.920
No big deal to them.

01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:09.430
This is the norm
for many kids who

01:15:09.430 --> 01:15:12.830
grow up in communities where
drug dealing is so prevalent.

01:15:29.074 --> 01:15:30.990
First of all, we want
to talk about the rules.

01:15:30.990 --> 01:15:33.700
The rules is very simple--
is you choose respect.

01:15:33.700 --> 01:15:35.270
One person talk at a time.

01:15:35.270 --> 01:15:36.205
You talk, I don't.

01:15:36.205 --> 01:15:37.740
I talk, you don't.

01:15:37.740 --> 01:15:38.990
One voice.

01:15:38.990 --> 01:15:40.090
One group.

01:15:40.090 --> 01:15:41.510
We do everything
together, right?

01:15:41.510 --> 01:15:42.740
Right.

01:15:42.740 --> 01:15:44.100
Maryland is a tough state.

01:15:44.100 --> 01:15:47.000
And Maryland puts people away
for a very, very long time.

01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:50.700
And mostly kids that come
to us have been in trouble.

01:15:50.700 --> 01:15:53.860
Baltimore has a very
high juvenile crime rate,

01:15:53.860 --> 01:15:55.430
very high juvenile arrest rate.

01:15:55.430 --> 01:15:57.270
I mean, the numbers
are staggering.

01:15:57.270 --> 01:15:59.050
The numbers are staggering.

01:15:59.050 --> 01:16:02.550
2,000 or 3,000 children are
arrested almost every week

01:16:02.550 --> 01:16:03.920
in this city.

01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:05.770
And they're arrested for drugs.

01:16:05.770 --> 01:16:08.910
That's how serious the
problems are with our children.

01:16:08.910 --> 01:16:11.580
They come here because
it has been identified

01:16:11.580 --> 01:16:13.340
that the child is using drugs.

01:16:13.340 --> 01:16:16.680
What type of distraction
can you use when those--

01:16:16.680 --> 01:16:19.080
I started off selling marijuana.

01:16:19.080 --> 01:16:22.800
Just a couple of
bags of marijuana.

01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:25.630
And they grow big.

01:16:25.630 --> 01:16:27.050
We was making more money.

01:16:27.050 --> 01:16:28.600
And we went to a high in drugs.

01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:30.625
We started cocaine.

01:16:30.625 --> 01:16:32.000
And we used much
of that cocaine.

01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:35.860
And it's high stuff from there.

01:16:35.860 --> 01:16:38.820
Basically, I started
from a lookout.

01:16:38.820 --> 01:16:41.644
People come and tell me,
look out, you see the police?

01:16:41.644 --> 01:16:42.810
Yeah, or anything like that.

01:16:42.810 --> 01:16:44.290
Started like that.

01:16:44.290 --> 01:16:45.630
Then you work your way up.

01:16:45.630 --> 01:16:47.430
You get to giving the stuff out.

01:16:47.430 --> 01:16:50.552
The more money you make, the
higher the position you get.

01:16:50.552 --> 01:16:52.680
When you get
there-- haven't seen

01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:56.224
a group bring in 60,000 ounce.

01:16:56.224 --> 01:16:58.640
When I'm over the different
group, the next, sight unseen,

01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:01.510
will do us almost 100,000.

01:17:01.510 --> 01:17:04.320
As you work your way up, you
learn about a lot of violence,

01:17:04.320 --> 01:17:04.860
too.

01:17:04.860 --> 01:17:08.332
I've seen my
homeboys get killed.

01:17:08.332 --> 01:17:10.290
I've been in the courtroom,
when and where they

01:17:10.290 --> 01:17:13.630
catch a lot of time.

01:17:13.630 --> 01:17:15.425
I've been locked up
away from my family.

01:17:18.770 --> 01:17:20.490
Robbed, everything.

01:17:20.490 --> 01:17:24.430
That's why I wanted to
leave it alone because I

01:17:24.430 --> 01:17:25.918
made a lot of mistakes.

01:17:25.918 --> 01:17:31.580
So I think I just want to be
sitting in a cell right now.

01:17:31.580 --> 01:17:33.020
But I'm lucky.

01:17:33.020 --> 01:17:35.020
I really am lucky.

01:17:39.964 --> 01:17:43.366
[RAP MUSIC]

01:18:07.170 --> 01:18:12.230
I'm incarcerated for conspiracy
to distribute crack cocaine.

01:18:12.230 --> 01:18:17.390
And my sentence is 25
years with no parole.

01:18:17.390 --> 01:18:22.220
I grew up in an inner
city of Baltimore City.

01:18:22.220 --> 01:18:23.920
Housing projects.

01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:27.550
Lafayette Homes, which are
no longer standing anymore.

01:18:27.550 --> 01:18:30.385
I just got caught up in the
same way people get high.

01:18:30.385 --> 01:18:35.840
I mean, I got high on money,
cash, and what I thought

01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:38.800
was power and respect.

01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:44.760
If locking an individual
up whom happens

01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:50.380
to be a genuine threat to
society, then by all means,

01:18:50.380 --> 01:18:51.704
I say OK, yeah.

01:18:51.704 --> 01:18:53.370
Because I'm going to
be honest with you,

01:18:53.370 --> 01:18:55.670
some guys that are in here,
I'm glad they're in here.

01:18:55.670 --> 01:19:02.450
But some people just got on them
drugs, and they got caught up.

01:19:02.450 --> 01:19:06.700
And on paper, only thing they
know that you are an offender.

01:19:06.700 --> 01:19:10.670
And it doesn't go beyond that.

01:19:10.670 --> 01:19:14.350
I've watch murderers
get out before me.

01:19:14.350 --> 01:19:18.129
I watch pedophiles
get out before me.

01:19:18.129 --> 01:19:20.420
When the court of appeals
send you a letter back saying

01:19:20.420 --> 01:19:21.790
that you've been
denied, they say

01:19:21.790 --> 01:19:23.665
that it's in the best
interest of the public.

01:19:26.310 --> 01:19:30.066
Well, what people
are you talking to?

01:19:30.066 --> 01:19:32.565
Because you haven't talked to
the people in my neighborhood.

01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:49.680
Incarceration is not the answer.

01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:52.700
You will completely
destroy your communities

01:19:52.700 --> 01:19:55.780
as we've already begun.

01:19:55.780 --> 01:19:58.550
When the war on
drugs was launched

01:19:58.550 --> 01:20:01.090
under the administration
of President Nixon

01:20:01.090 --> 01:20:02.730
and all this money
started flowing

01:20:02.730 --> 01:20:05.860
into these law
enforcement agencies,

01:20:05.860 --> 01:20:12.200
we started arresting people.

01:20:12.200 --> 01:20:15.140
We put a lot of
fathers in prison.

01:20:15.140 --> 01:20:21.360
We started a cycle of
these young black men going

01:20:21.360 --> 01:20:25.820
to prison in these urban areas
because a criminal conviction

01:20:25.820 --> 01:20:28.590
will follow you for
the rest of your life.

01:20:28.590 --> 01:20:31.900
It will prevent you
from getting employment.

01:20:31.900 --> 01:20:34.680
It will hinder you
from getting housing.

01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:38.410
It will hinder you
from going to school.

01:20:38.410 --> 01:20:42.770
It will prevent you
from getting loans.

01:20:42.770 --> 01:20:47.310
You can get over an
addiction, but you'll never

01:20:47.310 --> 01:20:48.415
get over a conviction.

01:20:53.690 --> 01:20:55.480
I feel as though
it was justified

01:20:55.480 --> 01:20:57.440
in sending me to prison.

01:20:57.440 --> 01:20:59.670
I don't feel as though
it was justified

01:20:59.670 --> 01:21:02.830
with the title and the
stigma that came with it.

01:21:02.830 --> 01:21:04.510
You're a career criminal.

01:21:04.510 --> 01:21:05.410
Sit in a corner.

01:21:05.410 --> 01:21:06.240
Do your time.

01:21:06.240 --> 01:21:09.770
You have absolutely
nothing coming to you.

01:21:09.770 --> 01:21:13.189
What that does is it says that
you come into the penal system,

01:21:13.189 --> 01:21:14.980
because of the amount
of time that you get,

01:21:14.980 --> 01:21:18.980
you are absolutely
eligible for nothing.

01:21:18.980 --> 01:21:21.830
And I was deserving
of something.

01:21:21.830 --> 01:21:23.621
But I don't think it
should have been this.

01:21:27.058 --> 01:21:29.030
The USA has always
been the country

01:21:29.030 --> 01:21:32.410
that has been most enthusiastic
about the war on drugs approach

01:21:32.410 --> 01:21:35.680
by heavy levels of arrest
and heavy punishments.

01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:38.450
And it's usually the poorest
and most disenfranchised

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who suffer the biggest damage.

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Calling this a war on drugs,
I think a lot of people

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see it as a failed war.

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The country and, quite
frankly, a lot of people

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have looked at the drug problem
as mostly a criminal justice

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problem.

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President Obama's
drug strategy will

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try to balance enforcement,
sanctions, et cetera

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with the importance
of public health.

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Part of that, of course,
includes the importance

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of quality treatment
programs that

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work, prevention programs
that can be quite effective.

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The messaging is good.

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And the recognition that this
is very difficult and not simply

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solved is very good.

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Whether there are big changes
to how US institutions operate--

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their prison institutions,
their drug enforcement

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structures, and their
international State

01:22:49.160 --> 01:22:51.968
Department structures--
remains to be seen.

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What we call the
war on drugs has

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been operated now in earnest,
internationally, for 50 years.

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We have to acknowledge
that we're not

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succeeding with
current policies,

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and we have to think again.

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Simply being tough
on drugs-- war

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on drugs, strong punishments,
widespread arrests--

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this itself does not
basically change the nature

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of the illegal drug market.

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There are real
negative consequences--

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human, financial,
and social costs.

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I think future drug
policies should

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be based on the principles of
human rights, human security,

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development, and social
welfare and health.

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I do believe that we need to
develop a real, debate so they

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can move policy.

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And at least, to move
resources from repression,

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from jails, from
the judicial system

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to treatment and prevention.

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Of course, I don't
think it's right

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that people are getting hurt.

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It's not my fault.

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--be educated properly
about the drug.

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We have been told
it's bad for you.

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And you don't hear
anything else.

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And yes, those who get
into trouble with--

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There's no alternative with
fair trade or ethically friendly

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cocaine, so we
don't have a choice.

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Yes, Western
societies have to take

01:25:21.440 --> 01:25:25.650
responsibility for the
high level of demand

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amongst their citizens.

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If you're a cocaine user, you
can either confront the fact

01:25:29.990 --> 01:25:32.680
and acknowledge that
the commodity you buy

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comes from a dirty trade
and has real ramifications

01:25:35.190 --> 01:25:36.420
down the line.

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Or you can say, well,
to your governments,

01:25:38.340 --> 01:25:41.380
give me a legitimate way
to buy this substance.

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People will always take drugs.

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We just need to manage that
phenomenon in a way that

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is the best for society.

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