fckoff-85081
Simply astonished by the way this film was put together! Great editing, solid camera work, excellent graphics, well-structured and highly entertaining from beginning to end. Amazed at how this film encapsulates so many aspects of the failed Drug War and by the original content which deviates from the same fact list that most films of this subject cover - especially the history of NZ cannabis being established by a Catholic order of nuns. What would Mother Mary Aubert say about the prohibition of her most valuable crop? This is the kind of activist film that should be on every TV station. Download this film so that the producers can make as sequel!
faith42
This film gripped me from the opening to closing frame! The historical perspectives it gives are mind blowing! I had no idea about Mother Mary Aubert, or Elvis and Nixon, or the true origins of cannabis prohibition until I watched this film. As a casual marijuana user I know there is nothing really harmful about marijuana, but to see how much good it can do people in the medical section of the film was a real surprise. Then you see how it compares with alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals - wow! People need to watch this to become educated on this subject. This film needs to be seen by every Kiwi! What a great effort! Support local talent by downloading this film! Ten stars!
Vinny Eastwood
There might be a spoiler alert in here somewhere...Druglawed is one of the best documentaries of any topic to be made in New Zealand for at least a decade. The complexity and wide reach of the drug war has never been so clearly defined in such a captivating way. Speaking from personal experience as more of a victim of the law rather than the drug, I can state categorically that what's being done in the name of enforcing outdated, racist, anti-competitive and cruel legislation, is costing society more than this drug ever could hope to, no matter how misused it might be. This is not just a film to enjoy, but one to radically inform and motivate people to support common sense drug policy, not tyranny, cruelty and oppression towards peaceful people who are not criminals by nature, only by name."I've never seen people on pot get in a fight because it is f**king impossible" - Bill Hicks
Gary Chiles
Druglawed is the most comprehensive and up to date documentary investigating New Zealand's role and history regarding cannabis prohibition and the USA's global war on drugs.Extremely well produced and skilfully edited, this movie clearly and comprehensively covers the entire NZ cannabis story, starting with the cannabis based medicines of Mother Mary Joseph (Suzanne Aubert) all the way through the lies and deceit that initiated prohibition, up to the current day. This movies makes it very clear that drug prohibition is an absolute failure as a policy. Yet, prohibition continues to destroy lives for no good reason.Filmed over a period of more than four years, edited together from hundreds of hours of interviews and law reform protests, this documentary illuminates the activist and law reformer side of this struggle, a side of the story that the NZ news media constantly fails to report.However, don't be mistaken into thinking this is simply a documentary made by activists, for activists. Druglawed should be viewed by absolutely everyone in order to fully comprehend the senseless waste of continuing with the failed war on drugs.Druglawed is one of the best documentaries I have viewed on this subject ever, easily as good as other drug war documentaries I have viewed from elsewhere in the world.Druglawed is the best full length New Zealand documentary you will see in 2015.
