The Global Addiction - 40 minute documentary - trailer

[royalnaz1]

alcohol definitely is not the most dangerous. Its use can be controlled and are controlled by people all the time. I go a whole month without drinking. Let me hit some crack and I am going to want some more and more and more.

[royalnaz1]

opiates are great too. I like oxys, roxys, percs, codone,. I never shot up anything and I dont want to.

[royalnaz1]

the war on drugs will never stop. never ever. crack cocaine is a great party drug.

[johnosandra]

fuck bailing out greece give the money to columbia to clean up their country

pablo escobar nearly did it on his own

[johnosandra]

lol pablo escobar could make 100million in a day in columbia

smart man

[johnosandra]

drugs give every poor man hope

thumbs up

[vastawake]

i think that since 2008 when this video was produced Afghanistan has taken over as #1 in Opium & Heroin export.

[DrumzzKool]

At 6 min...grossly innacurate. Coca leaves are processed into Cocaine, not Heroin.

[GermanSTUKA]

might be an inadequate question, but whats the song called starting around 3:00 ?

[starlight2009xxx]

Thumbs down for the completely untrue statement about drug and alcohol highs = starving the brain of oxygen. Considering that howler is in the first few minutes, I won't bother thanks.

(Cognitive Neuropsychologist).

[Inferno350]

Prohibition is a failed strategy for addressing the drug problem.

[PsychoticButcher]

@poisonfox0 The "Most Intelligent" person of all spells "Because" - "Becuz"? Tard...

[DOYLERULES69X]

What was it that Kurt cobain od on again? Oh yeah he was huffing a shot gun when he died. So sad.

[Seeyourarm]

@DOYLERULES69X Haha yeah don't be touching that Remington Shotgun, thats the most effective! :P

[cecopiteco]

5:55 coca leaves and heroin ? uhm...

[ESP1EMG]

this is bullshit. the taliban TAXED the opium trade. they never abolished it. some local sectors burned fields (they were warlords and could do whatever they wanted) but most TAXED it for funds. I believe its worse now, but people make it seem like america sparked an opium trade in afghan. bullshit! was always there.

[0liZzz]

5:55 90% pure Heroin on US streets!?

I don't think you could buy almost pure heroin on the streets. Normally what you buy on the streets has about 5 ~10% of heroin in it.

[TheoriginalGrumphy]

@0liZzz Yes its fun..try sell bad licker and get a hard sentence for poisining people..but when addicts shot stryknin and shiat in their vains, its buisness as usual..in fact thes politicians with their doublestandards should b pusished for stupidity..And proberly drugcrimes..Cause there is only on reason for this stupidity, they make money on it..or are just plain dum, and shouldt sit in goverment1 The ordinary public unfortuatly are to..fedding own kids alcohol..You can sniff clean alcohol

[eedobee]

@TheoriginalGrumphy Learn the language you fucking spastic. No one will ever give two cents about you unless you do. Parasite.

[JackHabbit]

if drugs were legal how would politicians make a living off blackmail and bribery? Us civilians need political figures to portray us as greedy capitalist pigs and kill poor people for the resources below them.

Support your local police and government officials by purchasing illegal drugs

[TheCaptainLulz]

Crikey, 1:15 - thats the endangered long banged hillbilly mullet! Theyre on their way to extinction they are.

[DontBotherTETRiS]

The difference between alcohol and other substances are the deterioration of the body. Alcohol mainly destroys the lever, chemical drugs like MDMA, cocaine and heroin (etc.) attack the brain among other organs. And the addiction and tolerance rate is much faster with chemical substances than with alcohol.

[yootoob69er]

Lets get this shit right. Information is power, wrong information is BS. First off Coca leaves are not processed into Heroin. How can you expect anyone to take you seriously if you can't get your info right! Also lets stop being ignorant to the fact that there is an ocean of difference between weed and heroin. Weed is not a gateway drug! On the other hand Oxycontin, is...oh and its legal! Yes alcohol and tobacco are problematic but compare the average tobacco addict to a heroin addict...

[klard]

Our militarized criminalization is counterproductive and is destroying society. We need to regulate addictive substances and treat addicts.

[TheCaptainLulz]

Can I has that bucket o'weed pleez?

[Marzy5821]

Seriously unhappy people!

[ESPX214]

As long as there are so many people willing to spend their money on drugs, there will be ample suppliers.

[Bmeson]

this "document" is so biased. 08:00->

[jobedied]

Salo73 good points the war on drugs is an industry in and of itself. It can be very sad to see a family member or friend do the slow self destruct on booze or drugs. But as you say we are a free nation some chose to masturbate their minds on television, some booze and drugs,some eat themselves to death, some sex addict until they get aids or some other SUD ,  many choose their poison to adjust to civilization.

[TheCaptainLulz]

the amounts of money and weapons on the drug dealers side dwarfs that of all modern armies. the war on drugs was lost the second it started.

[jobedied]

Good points Cosmo1pug but wars on drugs have not worked.

And new transport pipelines are being forged from a few evil business men and military. We are saturating this country of Afghanistan with Americans a few will get into this trade. And with the poppy production in Afghanistan increasing exponentially untold riches are waiting to be harvested.

[jobedied]

The government is losing a hell of an income source by not taxing incoming drugs. The war on drugs is a long term total failure. But Holly Wood makes great movies about drug profits.

[cosmo1pug]

I'm so looking forward to the anarchy your type will bring to this world. You dips will continue to say "LEGALIZE IT" LOL .... You make arguements like tax and non addicting. Here is the bottom line in one sentence (though it is doughtfull you will not understand it) Ready? Once you give a population a privilage ie tobacco or alcohol, IT IS EXTREMLY DIFFICULT TO TAKE AWAY. So if legal drugs become a problem there is no way to make them illegal again. The prohibition will be my presidence

[salo73]

@cosmo1pug and what is wrong with that? if someone wants to kill themselves slowly with drugs, then so be it,

[salo73]

@jobedied they make much more with taxing people for the war of drugs, and that is why it isn't going to change,

[bubafoo]

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons, you dont even flinch.

[crackfiendables]

jail does nothing for addicts, it only gives them more reasons to use when they leave lock up and return to nothing... treatment in those cases would be the solution but instead prisons are full and drug related crimes continue

[sleepnow18]

its hard to say what drug is the worst, im not sure if you can, i think it depends on the person using, its seems that most drugs are talked up to be worse then they are, if there were more push for helping people with addiction instead of putting them in jail i think we would see less addiction and crime

[rcrmeyer]

what crime or pain, problems in the drug culture can be related to anything other than the legal status of the substances??

[EasyCocks]

heroin is worse then alcohol the number of alcohol related deaths corresponds to the large number of people who use alcohol, less people use the more harmful drugs because people see heroin will fuckin kill you

[crackfiendables]

true but alcohol is readily available and passed off as a cultural norm... people drink their entire lives and this causes huge problems... more people die from tobacco and alcohol every year than any other substance

[ClarkieDude]

The single most dangerous substance [drug] in the world is alcohol--and, yet, it has one of the largest, most influential lobbies in the House and Senate. The drug of choice? Alcohol. Its prohibition is long since dead. Why not do the same with every other drug on the black market? From heroin to crack; tax the sale and distribution to dope to people over the age of consent, erase the national debt, free up prisons for real (violent) criminals, and allow law enforcement to do its job.

[crossbow121]

If you legalise it the use will proliferate and it will affect every facet of business , from absence to performance to disfunctional behavior from bus drivers to corporate stock investors to politicians and then you will see the utter devastation to business and family . Its already bad enough .

Then you wont go to prison for use or posession but the crime and consequences as a result of its use and your money going up in smoke . The jails will be fuller .Broken family , lost job and house.

[TheCaptainLulz]

@ClarkieDude well, technically nicotine in tobacco is FAR deadlier.

[TheCaptainLulz]

@ClarkieDude UM, NO...Tobacco is WAY more deadly worldwide (10x or more) than alcohol and FAR more addictive. You cant get booze in muslim countries, but you can get cigarettes.

[TheoriginalGrumphy]

@ClarkieDude You are darn right

[eedobee]

@ClarkieDude Alcohol is the most dangerous because it is legal. Cigarettes, caffeine.

[Pimpjit85]

@ClarkieDude Understandable, but you need to do your research. I'm not arguing against legalization of drugs BUT visit a family who's been affected by LSD, cocaine or even worse, crystal meth then post. If you think this issue can be resolved by simply by legalizing it, the only people agreeing with you will always be those with as much knowledge (or lack thereof) as you. Your point of view MIGHT be accurate for 1 or 2 drugs, but for most it's a completely irresponsible and dismissive.

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 Not really, the thing is people are going to use drugs anyway regardless of whether they are legal or not. At least if they are legal we eliminate the need for drug cartels and in turn we can prevent gross human rights abuses. Instead of spending all that money on law enforcement to lock up people who at most are only harming themselves we should be spending it on educating people instead and then giving them the freedom to choose how they treat their bodies.

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 Prevent gross human rights abuses? Only harming themselves?  You have a lot to learn. And if you really think criminalization of drugs hinder ones freedom of how they want to "treat" their bodies you must be high.

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 You simply resort to rhetoric and slander. I can back up what I say with sound logic and scientifc evidence. Tell me how a person who smokes marijuana is harming somebody besides themselves directly. Even in extreme cases such as heroin addiction, the heroin addict again is only physically harming themselves, if the addict is to commit crimes such as theft to fund his addiction, this is a question of their morality and not a direct consequence of the abuse of an arbitrary substance.

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 Um, where was the logic and scientific evidence? Crime, incarceration, drug addiction treatment costs, medical costs from overdose or general psychological/physiological complications, drug related injuries, time lost from work, social welfare programs etc etc etc.

Get a grip dude. I'm a realist, Marijuana is a tough debate. But if you're "logic" leads you to believe people commit crimes, use any money earned for drugs but drugs aren't the driving/direct cause, your delusional.

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 I commend you for trying to be informed but you'll have a tough time finding anyone to agree with you. Drug's severely affect all of society, youtube isn't the forum to help you understand why but I suggest you do the research. In 2008, 24000 ppl in Chicago alone were admitted due to Heroin. Who do you think pays for treatment? And keep in mind, the millions spent on publicly funded treatment programs is just a small piece of the pie in chicago, let alone the country or entire globe.

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 You believe legality influences use? Look at the facts.

"The figures for cannabis use among the general population reveal the same pictures. The Netherlands does not differ greatly from other European countries. In contrast, a comparison with the US shows a striking difference in this area: 32.9% of Americans aged 12 and above have experience with cannabis and 5.1% have used in the past month. These figures are twice as high as those in the Netherlands."

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 Um, you didn't address my comment at all, instead you're discussing legality...Anyway, I think most realize that marijuana can be legalized with little negative consequences. What's your point? MJ is not like cocaine, friend. You wanna talk history of legalizing drugs, cuz in foreign nations it NOT been successful. Opium was legalized in China earlier this century. That decision resulted in 90 million addicts and it took a half-century to repair the damage.

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 I agree that drugs cause problems, but people are going to use them irrespective of our current enforcement, this is why I advocate legality and regulation. Our current system causes MORE problems (drug cartels, taliban profiting off opium cultivation etc). We need to approach the problem differently, through a fucking bucket load of education, we need to reduce the demand for drugs, reducing the supply to a point where demand will significantly decline is far too problematic.

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 You mention 'facts' but then group a drug like MJ with all other drugs. That's irresponsible, dismissive and lazy. Egypt allowed unrestricted trade of cocaine and heroin in 1920s, a damn epidemic of addiction resulted. Even in Iran and Thailand, countries where drugs are readily available, any idea the mess they have there? Did you even know netherlands are reconsidering the legalization of MJ. This is because property crime has doubled & studies show 80% of arrests are drug addicts

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 Keywords to consider, 'unrestricted' and 'readily available', I simply advocate legalisation because by putting the drug trade in the hands of the state it will allow them to regulate and restrict advertising, restrict commercialisation etc.

Where I live in Australia currently, if you want a drug, you can get it within 24 hours maximum. I live in a high income area as well. Clearly enforcement isn't working, we need to put sale into the hands of the state and not criminals.

[Pimpjit85]

@nickyaz111 For the sake of your friends/children or whoever else you preach this nonsense to, please understand the issue is bigger and much more difficult then just saying "well fuck lets legalize and tell everyone it's bad". It's a global issue and immensely challenging. I agree we should educate the shit out of people. But back to my original point, taking drugs affects EVERYONE. It is NOT your "civil right" to do what is wrong or harmful to yourself, your family, or your society.

[nickyaz111]

@Pimpjit85 In my opinion, take the distribution of drugs away from criminals, put in the hands of the state. Then draft extremely strict laws in regards to illegal trafficking and illegal purchase.

[Moosicles16]

@nickyaz111

That's already happened. They are called pharms. They are just "official" versions of heroin and meth. Same shit. The only thing is that there are laws against illegal pharm use but it's so easy to get pharms. Tell a doctor you have anxiety or ADD.

[tainoaz]

Do your job as a parent and you wont have to worry about it. You can't keep anybody from jumping in front of a rolling semi! What are you going to do to keep a fool from worshiping the Devil? Implant us all with a micro camera and GPS on our forehead? The Puritan Dilema is what this is about. To some the pleasure of sex is deplorable, so do we start in vitro reproduction and remove penises and clitorises at birth? Give me a fucking break!

[tainoaz]

Do your job as a parent and you wont have to worry about it. You can't keep anybody from jumping in front of a rolling semi! What are you going to do to keep a fool from worshiping the Devil? Implant us all with a micro camera and GPS on our forehead? The Puritan Dilema is what this is about. To some the pleasure of sex is deplorable, so do we start in vitro reproduction and remove penises and clitorises at birth? Give me a fucking break!

[tainoaz]

The 'little people' every shade by the way, I mean poor with NOTHING to lose)bring us the drugs we use, we keep 3-5 degrees of separation and avoid all or most of the law enforcement, they get killed, kill each other and do time (even for pot they do years and years!)so we can have our cheap thrills.

[youboob1989]

Columbis is America's bitch

[mobajwa]

out dated information.. at least the part about afghanistan

[pillowmurder]

wait, isn't the opium poppy also what morphine is made from? and doesn't that help save lives? wait is this plant evil or a wonder? tsk tsk, you are all so full of shit when it comes to "drugs".

[vlas987]

now days morphine is made in laboratorium, not from poppy. Witch is quit stupid if you buy them from pore afgans, than it will not fund taliban.

[Cala6491]

great video