The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)

Directors

Brett Harvey

Cast

George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Joe Rogan, Lester Grinspoon, Tommy Chong

The story

The film explores the growth, sale and trafficking of cannabis. The documentary examines the underground market by interviewing growers, police officers, criminologists, psychologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, revealing how the trade is booming despite being a criminal enterprise. The history of cannabis and the reasons for its present prohibition are discussed, often comparing it to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920s, suggesting that gang drug warfare and other negative aspects associated with cannabis are a result of prohibition, not the drug itself.

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