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.
Though over-emphatic, it benefits from great access to concerned celebs, ex-addicts and former dealers, most of whom found addiction at the end of the rainbow.
What a shame it's got an 18 certificate, given that teens would probably learn most from its lessons.
Cooke’s film is less gruelling to watch than The House I Live In, but is making the same point – namely that current US drug laws don’t make any sense at all, and that there are compelling arguments for legalisation.
It becomes a compelling, clear-sighted trip through the jungle; a documentary that rushes us in and then proceeds to point the way out.
The subject matter is not always well served by the hammy, overcooked satirical treatment.
General release. Check local listings for show times.