The World on a Trip - USA

Aug 1997
This film highlights the difficulties of global control in a world where drug consumption has never been so high.

In Cape Town - South Africa, young men crouch in an alleyway smoking Mandrax, a slimming drug. In Germany they'd never get away with it. There we see drug officers degrading young addicts who can be subject to searches 3 times a day. German judge Nescovic tells us police crackdowns have no effect. Harry, in his 30s, has been experimenting with drugs since he was 10. He tried to go straight many times but always he succumbed to crime to finance his addiction. The days of the ideological drug culture, alternative lifestyles, consciousness-raising ideals, are over. Drug-taking today is more indiscriminate, less idealistic. In the USA, injecting crack cocaine was once a desperate thing to do. Today Cliff, who's thoroughly middle class, shows us how it's done. In Holland we look at what the unique liberalisation of drugs has meant. Throughout Western Europe the cutting edge of drug reform concerns cannabis use. We examine the endemic use of cannabis, and the institutional resistance to it. Society faces a dilemma. What is right and what is wrong?

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[GermanSTUKA]

maybe a bit of a inadequate question but whats this blues-song starting around 9:00 ?

[andrewmeder]

Buttons eksé, buttons! Gee my krushed buttons bru!

[disssco]

yeah I dont care what they say, cocaine addiction is not proper addiction. if youre not sick (I mean climbing walls, not overly tired) when you dont have your dose then you are not physically addicted.

[elitet0kr]

Pff, crackheads complaining about cocaine "withdrawal." "Going through it."

Please... I know many opiate addicts who would kill to be able to sleep for a couple hours during withdrawal, much less sleep through the whole thing.

[badsign1980]

this is a 1997 doc things are much better now in europe

[badsign1980]

it was because these theorys that i smoked lot dope and had a breakdown

[badsign1980]

these where the days...

[freekmunky]

iv'e been down 2 Durban in S.A- smooked loadsa buttons(mandrax) with the ' bushies' down there hahaha...trying to dodge the fuckin S.A Police.. what a hoot we had!!!!!!! SMOKING BUTTONS CHINNNAAAAA!!!!!!

[PowerTurkish]

hahahaha they were fuckin high!

[fridogg]

teh beginning is so funny. Bunch of morons hacking up there lungs. Reminds meof my college days. Except no Mandrax just green dope