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Breaking the Taboo

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Original title: Quebrando o Tabu
Year: 2011
Running time: 80 min.
Country: Brazil
Director: Fernando Grostein Andrade, Cosmo Feilding-Mellen
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | Drugs
Synopsis: Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years.

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. Improving our drug policies is one of the key policy challenges of our time. The time for action is now.

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Breaking the Taboo

2011

Fernando Grostein Andrade, Cosmo Feilding-Mellen