Fresh
A thoughtful, intelligent examination of the US war on drugs.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012 · 1h 36m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
Matthew Cooke
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Overview
Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
Director and cast
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77%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This zippy documentary by Matthew Cooke can't compare to Eugene Jarecki's tragic and masterful The House I Live In (2012).
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Highly entertaining and informative look at the war on drugs, offers a tongue-in-cheek manual of how to become a cartel leader. But it's not just a glib exercise & confronts the implications of a drug policy that many would agree is a disaster.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Ultimately, the most frightening lesson the film teaches is just how dysfunctionally impervious to defeat the so-called war on drugs is ...
Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It often works, despite in-your-face graphics that occasionally do the job of resembling cheesy sales pitches a little too well.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
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