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Inside New Zealand: High Time? (2011)
An exceptional TV documentary about cannabis in New Zealand
"Inside New Zealand: High Time?" is the most successful installment of the "Inside New Zealand Series", having been broadcast the most times (three) and winning TV Times Pick Of The Week every time.
Director Arik Reiss turns his camera on the underground cannabis market, where he is granted unprecedented access to black market growing operations, gangland tinny houses, and illicit cannabis clubs that are openly flouting the law.
With a stellar cast of international commentators supporting his basic premise that prohibition causes more harm than cannabis which should be legalised for the public good, the documentary shook up the tired standards of New Zealand's middle road broadcasting, slipping past the Broadcasting Standards Authority to make a profound impact on the cannabis debate in that country.
Druglawed (2015)
A comprehensive and entertaining breakdown of cannabis prohibition
The film sheds much-needed light on cannabis prohibition, from its murky origins over the past hundred years, through to its current disintegration. An all-star cast delivers the blunt truth on a fascinating subject, spanning multiple countries and offering fresh angles and information untouched by similar documentary efforts.
Breaking away from the talking heads format of the genre to a scenes of alcohol-fueled street riots, dozens of original-footage cannabis arrests and SWAT team raids, and historical pieces covering everything from Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's establishment of New Zealand's cannabis industry in 1883, to Richard Nixon's appointment of Elvis Presley into the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the film spins a tightly woven narrative that keeps a brisk pace throughout.
Written as New Zealand's answer to The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, the film delivers on its promise to clear the smoke around the forbidden cannabis plant.