In 2011, a group of world leaders, including seven former presidents, formed the Global Commission on Drug Policy to end the four-decade war on drugs. But wars are easier to start than end. In 1971, U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon said: “We must wage what I call total war against public enemy number one of America, the dangerous drug problem, officially beginning the war on drugs.” Let’s go to war.”
The answer for a country that had already waged war in Vietnam was another war, but this time the war on drugs, to combat the number of Americans using illegal narcotics. But the war on drugs will not be limited to the United States. In order to stop the production and supply of illegal drugs, the United States insisted on turning to the rest of the world for help.
The United Nations drug conventions amount to a worldwide ban on the manufacture, transport, sale and possession of all drugs classified as illegal. It’s set in stone, and it’s an attitude toward drugs that’s been going on for decades.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Breaking the Taboo features interviews with several current and former presidents from around the world, including Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. The film follows the mission of the Commission on Global Drug Policy to break down the political taboo surrounding the US-led war on drugs and expose what it calls the biggest global policy failure of the past 40 years.
