This movie trying to ram down our throats well to do white kids being functioning heroin and crack addicts while ignoring the plight that is eating away at the inner cities. The makers of this trash should be ashamed and the lefty ferrys that will buy this lie hook line and sinker
shareWhere/when does this movie say we should ignore drug problems in the inner cities?
shareLefties underplaying the plight of drugs on inner city minorities? I think you are confused...
Are you not entertained?!
Traffic is a movie and with short term narrative. So to be cohesive it has to limit the stories it tells. Still the movie message was Anti-Drug War.
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One can't help but wonder precisely what statement the filmmakers wanted to make. Caroline would likely still be a drug addict in the absence of the War on Drugs. People are entitled to their point of view. However, drugs aren't dangerous because they're illegal; they're illegal because they're dangerous. The War on Drugs has been, in a number of ways, an astounding success. This isn't a distortion of the Religious Right. (I'm a progressive.) It's simple math.
shareDrugs aren't illegal because they're dangerous. They are illegal because of deeper political reasons that really have no impact in modern day times but are enforced anyway. Alcohol became illegal because the feminist movement was pushing for women's rights and used making alcohol illegal as a way to push their 1920's moral views. The creation of the prohibition era stemmed the black market and for the first time criminals saw the value of selling a substance that wasn't allowed but in high demand. It's against our constitution for the government to decide what can or cannot be put into your body because your body is your own property. That's why every "illegal drug" is really technically legal. They just use loop holes like international laws such as opium being illegal as a law passed with China or making it impossible to obtain stamps like with cocaine. Cocaine isn't illegal, you can still have it but need to be a doctor and obtain a stamp authorizing its use on a patient (much like with morphine or pain killers) except no one will ever authorize it. So because there is still that one slight possibility you can get cocaine it is able to be considered not breaking the constitution.
There are too many government organizations that would be dissolved if drugs became illegal and would never let it happen. All those people in the DEA and there budget would disappear because there would be no need for them. It's the same with cops, ultimately you would thinks cops would want a world without crime, but in reality if they ever could achieve that then none of them would have jobs anymore.
In the end the government doesn't care if you take drugs, they just want you to take THEIR drugs. Do heroin and go to jail, get a prescription for pain pills and you can pop them to your hearts content in front of a cop. And let's not forget about cigarettes, the only FDA approved drug that if taken correctly will kill you...
Maybe if drugs we're regulated and controlled like alcohol is then things would be better. Yes people get addicted to and abuse alcohol all the time, but no one is killing people over obtaining it and sneaking it into our country. And if you drive on it, go to work on it or use it outside of a designated area or your house you go to jail. Since most of our country doesn't seem to be alcoholics it seems like something is working there.
I genuinely believe that you are one of the stupidest people I have ever encountered.
You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King.
This film showed how the war on drugs touches everyone's lives ... from highly placed politicians to the wives of low paid Mexican policemen. I think this film did a great job of showing that it's not just poor young black boys who get pulled into this battle.
shareThe logic in your post contradicts itself - wouldn't "lefty ferrys"(?) with a political agenda prefer to make a movie about inner-city plight?
...For your health.
If you want a dramatization of the drug trade's impact on inner city communities, then watch The Wire.
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I seriously hope English is not your first language because your first sentence is a head scratcher.
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