The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war

A half-century into America’s “war on drugs”, a new Netflix series uses dollars, cents and economic incentives to ask: is prohibition worth it?As a CIA analyst in Shanghai and Pakistan during America’s “war on terror”, Amaryllis Fox was familiar with drawn-out, intractable conflict. She’d studied the compounding effects of redoubling on failed policies, of redundant good versus evil arguments peddled into a quagmire, costing billions and an incalculable loss of life. But the situation in America’s longest military war, now nearing two decades, paled in comparison to the subject of Fox’s post-CIA project for Netflix: America’s costly, decades longer engagement known as the “war on drugs”. Related: 'It was a rollercoaster': Outcry, the most surprising docuseries of the summer Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/14/the-business-of-drugs-netflix-amaryllis-fox #documentary #netflix #factual_tv #media #television #culture #drugs