A documentary on how a street dealer can rise to drug cartel lord with relative ease. 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs' is an insider's guide to the violent but extremely US lucrative drug industry. Told from the perspective of former drug dealers, and featuring interviews with 50 Cent, Eminem, Russell Simmons, Susan Sarandon, and David Simon (creator of The Wire).
The film gives you the lessons you need to start your own drug empire while exposing the corruption behind the war on drugs.
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The Economist wrote in June 2015:
WITH less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States holds roughly a quarter of its prisoners: more than 2.3m people, including 1.6m in state and federal prisons and over 700,000 in local jails and immigration pens. Per head, the incarceration rate in the land of the free has risen seven-fold since the 1970s, and is now five times Britain’s, nine times Germany’s and 14 times Japan’s. At any one time, one American adult in 35 is in prison, on parole or on probation. A third of African-American men can expect to be locked up at some point, and one in nine black children has a parent behind bars. [ ]
Reducing the prison population to European levels is probably impossible, for America is still a much more violent place, even if most districts are reasonably safe. There are roughly 165,000 murderers in American state prisons and 160,000 rapists. If America were to release every single prisoner who has not been convicted of killing or raping someone, its incarceration rate would still be higher than Germany’s.
