Americas Longest War (2013)

AMERICAS LONGEST WAR is a documentary about the extraordinary costs of the US governments 40year war on drugs Drug prohibition has failed Drug usage rates have not declined and illegal drugs are more availableand cheaperthan ever before At the same time the costs of the drug war are staggering More than 1 trillion taxpayer dollars have been spent More than 50000 SWAT raids occur each year Hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in prison at our expense And more than 60000 people have been murdered in Mexico over the past six years AMERICAS LONGEST WAR tells the stories of some of the victims of the drug war and more importantly points to a viable alternative approach to drug policy