Meth Storm..!
When I became a Dad, I wondered if my views would change on certain things, like all my thoughts and beliefs would suddenly head Eastwards (or right-wing.) One of those topics I feared for was definitely drugs and their legalisation herein.
After watching 'Meth Storm' (a HBO production but shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK), an examination of Meth addiction in rural Arkansas, which has been saved on our box for a while, I'm certain that I am entrenched as ever. The only way to 'beat' drugs is to 'join' them, by legalising it and taxing it appropriately to undercut the dealers, the current system does not work, it just makes a lot of dealers at the top very rich men and women, at the expense of everyone else.
I don't know which side was more stupid here; the drug addicts endlessly using, until they are buried in a box while wondering why all their offspring have gone the same way, even when their kids admit on film that they took drugs in front of them when they were children!
Or the drug addicts who became small time dealers to fund their addiction, going in and out of prison, at as great an expense to the taxpayer as to their ruined personal lives.
Or is it the Cops? Celebrating collecting 4oz from a corpulent guy hogtied in his boxer shorts outside his shack, while openly admitting that between 20-40KG comes into that one County, every single week.
The only thing that came out of this ninety minute trudge was that there were no winners.
You need something to stand out, making a film like this, even if you just film the most dysfunctional tribe of people in the World, like 'The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA - But all this documentary added to the plethora of drug addiction docs was a cool car chase at the beginning (and re-showed from a different Police car near the end!), it is nowhere near reaching the pantheon of the genre.
Like the subject matter itself, it was all just a case of history repeating.
After watching 'Meth Storm' (a HBO production but shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK), an examination of Meth addiction in rural Arkansas, which has been saved on our box for a while, I'm certain that I am entrenched as ever. The only way to 'beat' drugs is to 'join' them, by legalising it and taxing it appropriately to undercut the dealers, the current system does not work, it just makes a lot of dealers at the top very rich men and women, at the expense of everyone else.
I don't know which side was more stupid here; the drug addicts endlessly using, until they are buried in a box while wondering why all their offspring have gone the same way, even when their kids admit on film that they took drugs in front of them when they were children!
Or the drug addicts who became small time dealers to fund their addiction, going in and out of prison, at as great an expense to the taxpayer as to their ruined personal lives.
Or is it the Cops? Celebrating collecting 4oz from a corpulent guy hogtied in his boxer shorts outside his shack, while openly admitting that between 20-40KG comes into that one County, every single week.
The only thing that came out of this ninety minute trudge was that there were no winners.
You need something to stand out, making a film like this, even if you just film the most dysfunctional tribe of people in the World, like 'The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA - But all this documentary added to the plethora of drug addiction docs was a cool car chase at the beginning (and re-showed from a different Police car near the end!), it is nowhere near reaching the pantheon of the genre.
Like the subject matter itself, it was all just a case of history repeating.