- What was the first name of the documentarian’s African-American caregiver?
- Since 1971 how much was the War on Drugs reported to cost? You will see this answer written so you don’t have to listen for it.
Over $1 Trillion Dollars
- There is a small-town cop in the documentary who is on the look-out for drug traffickers. There is a scene where he sees a vehicle and he suspects that the person inside may be a drug trafficker. When asked why he thinks the person may be a trafficker, he responds “the truck and fast food”
- Opium wasn’t considered criminal until it was associated with what group?
Chinese people.
- A ratio was given for how much more punitive the sentences are for crack-cocaine as compared to powered cocaine. What is that ratio?
Crack cocaine is 100 times more punitive than powdered cocaine.
- While crack has been associated mostly with blacks, what two groups (considered disliked by most of society) were listed as “two sort of despised” groups associated with the new drug epidemic -- meth.
White people and gay people.
- There is a guy closer to the end that is talking about why we can’t consider the drug users themselves “the problem”. To make his point he makes an analogy to an illness, pointing out that if the illness causes a cough, the cough is not the problem, it is the symptom. What illness does he use in this analogy?
pneumonia
