The House I Live In
The war on drugs has never been about drugs.
7.6
79 votes
October 5, 2012
1h 50m
Documentary
Overview
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?
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Cast
Eugene Jarecki
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
Joe Biden
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudolph Giuliani
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John McCain
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nelson Rockefeller
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jim Webb
Self (archive footage)More like this
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