Sundance Grand Prize-winning Filmmakers of "The House I Live In" Respond to Sundance Premiere

[cheaphomemademoives]

like to see that documentary!!

[TheZulmaRosario]

hoping to view the full documentary...keep up the support against these 'civil wars'

[Cyn729]

Drug rehab does work, if you want HELP. In case you do not know then maybe I can enlighten You, that only 10% of the problem is Drugs, the other 90% is usually a mental health issue that needs to be addressed. Unless you truely understand what ADDICTION entails, You need to re-educate yourself, or shut the ---- up and listen to learn. Thank you for this movie, and they need to make a sequel too it on Narcotics Anonymous, and Recovering Addicts, that live productive lives. The program WORKS.

[MNRick041]

If people want to do dope just let them do it, if they want to stop they should be able to get the help that they need but it seems pointless to spend all this money arresting them and running them through the courts to force them into something that most of them are not going to complete or gain anything from anyways.

[CacheConcious]

Excellent! We need to beat the drum until folks understand the depth of failure associate with the war on drugs. For those that fear what a decriminalization of drugs would do, investigate Portugal's experience. They removed most criminal elements and shifted to a medical model for treating drug addition in 2001, & now we are seeing the results: NONE of the greatest fears of the opposition have been realized. Instead they are simply not locking up all those people and wasting $ & human resources

[barkley570]

I don't know how long this country will continue to spend atrocious amounts of money on a failed system of mandatory minimum sentences. Do we look around at other countries and pride ourselves for incarcerating a larger percentage of our citizens than any other in the world? If so, shame on us. I'm excited there are people like this to continue to try and get the word out. We are too smart to remain so cruel.

[CJM5374]

The more we read, the more we learn. The more we see, the more we believe what we read. Hiding our heads in the sand about how drugs touch each and every one of our life in society will only continue if we do not reform our prison systems, educate advocates who are the front runners in this terrible war, and, finally, open our eyes to the true and simple fact that we can only know what we can truly understand.

[CJM5374]

The more we read, the more we learn. The more we see, the more we believe what we read. Hiding our heads in the sand about how drugs touch each and every one of our life in society will only continue if we reform our prison systems, educate advocates who are the front runners in this terrible war, and, finally, open our eyes to the true and simple fact that we can only know what we can truly understand.

[Chris17psi]

Yeah, me either. Can't wait.

[Ferret488]

Yeah...blah, blah, blah. Blame the system. That's easy to do, to expose the faults. What's the answer? Don't enforce it? Drug rehab as an alternative doesn't work. Look at California. Less than one-third sent to rehab ever follow through. Why don't you go do a film about real alternatives?

[hmfowler]

@Ferret488 they pretty much said it already: "it's Draconian, and it doesn't work," We aren't getting return on investment, except in the prison industry.

[mrlurp]

Congrats! Can't wait to see it.