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Overview

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Director:

Brett Harvey

Writers:

Brett Harvey (writer)
Adam Scorgie (co-creator)

Contact:

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Release Date:

8 June 2007 (Canada) more

Genre:

Documentary more

Plot:

BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union'... more | full synopsis

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations more

User Comments:

An indictment against freedom in America. more (4 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)
Chris Bennett ... Himself
George Bush ... Himself (archive footage)

George W. Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Larry Campbell ... Himself
Rielle Capler ... Himself

Tommy Chong ... Himself (also archive footage)
Jack A. Cole ... Himself
John Conroy ... Himself
Greg Cooper ... Himself
Stephen Easton ... Himself

Marc Emery ... Himself (also archive footage)
Lester Grinspoon ... Himself (as Dr. Lester Grinspoon)
Paul Hornby ... Himself
Perry Kendall ... Himself
Mark Klokeid ... Himself
Dana Larsen ... Himself

Cheech Marin ... Himself (archive footage)
Todd McCormick ... Himself
Jeffrey Miron ... Himself
Richard Nixon ... Himself (archive footage)
Darryl Plecas ... Himself
Joe Rogan ... Himself

Craig X. Rubin ... Himself
Norm Stamper ... Himself
Kirk Tousaw ... Himself

Jesse Ventura ... Himself (archive footage)
Watermelon ... Herself
Greg Williams ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:

Canada:104 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono


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An indictment against freedom in America., 18 August 2009
Author: Nickolas52 from Canada

I was pleasantly surprised by this documentary. As a non-user of cannabis viewing what had to be just another pro-cannabis argument, I had low expectations. My expectations were wrong.

This documentary has about as much to say about North American Society as a whole as it has to say about the legalization of marijuana. Taken in its greater context, the documentary is about how Society allows limits of personal freedom to evolve. The documentary uses the example of the 1920's Prohibition on alcohol to demonstrate how Society can change to allow something within its perceived bounds of decency, for which it previously tossed people in jail. I have seen in my own lifetime the legalization of homosexuality, which also finds its roots in Canada, initiated as it was by a visionary Prime Minister named Pierre Trudeau. What a less tolerant society once restricted through oppression to dark, secret places, it is now allowing freely, even if it is all still happening in dark, secret places. If Society had finally recognized that these prohibited things could not be eliminated, Society may have also recognized that they would at least not be promoted by legalizing them. Not everyone is happy with either societal change, but the majority are. We are now seeing the evolution of acceptance of cannabis in Society. But that's not the point. To me the documentary is not about cannabis. It is about disparities of freedom.

The point is driven home by an exposé on the United States penal system, a system run to a great extent by private corporations who's primary interest, by definition, is to make money. What the documentary helps the objective viewer to realize is America's is not as free a Society as many, if not most, others in the world, and it helps the objective viewer realize, if chillingly, the reason why.

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