AMERICAN DRUG WAR
What: “AMERICAN DRUG WAR” – Free Screening in a Movie Theater!
When: 06/18/09, 6:45 PM-9:00 PM
Where:
Anthony Wayne Movie Theater
109 West Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA 19087
Details:
AMERICAN DRUG WAR (2007, 120 minutes):
35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars.
The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from “legal drugs” Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA.
AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some ‘pro-drug’ stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.
After 4 years of production including several sold out test screenings in New York, Austin & Los Angeles, the final version of American Drug War “the last white hope” is locked and loaded.
For more info, and to view the trailer, visit http://www.americandrugwar.com/
BONUS SCREENING OF LEAP PROMO (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) before “American Drug War” 6:45 P.M. – LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (15 minutes):
After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease!
Please note that Betsy Metz pays “out of pocket” to rent the movie theater for one night every month. While donations are gladly accepted, bringing guests is highly preferred. Please bring at least one guest , this event is being held to wake people up to the truth about the failed drug war. If you’re fed up with wasteful spending, and have no idea how much time, money, and lives are lost in this “war” on drugs you need to be at this event.