A hidden effect of the War on Drugs – people across the world are unable to get medicines they actually need.
From delays in access and research into cannabis-based medicines to driving a street-valium crisis in Scotland to critical pain-relief shortages across the global south, we explore how the War on Drugs impacts the medical world, causing massive, unnecessary suffering along the way.
For half a century, prohibition has been causing chaos and misery worldwide. Any attempt to shut down the drugs trade invariably sets off a chain of events that just makes things worse, leaving a trail of death, illness, violence, slavery, addiction, crime and inequality across the globe. The War On Drugs is a war in which everyone loses – except, in a weird kind of way, the drugs themselves.
Watch more from this series:
The Prescription Drug Epidemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJc-YI7OWfY&ab_channel=VICE
The War on Drugs is Racist to the core
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5qFIpJ2sk&t=15s&ab_channel=VICE
A World on Speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VkWkPs1aw&ab_channel=VICE
Psychedelics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiT15PIelbA&ab_channel=VICE
Cocaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ped04I84Q&ab_channel=VICE
The Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzSzcm7JPoI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=VICE
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