Worth a watch on BBC iPlayer from last night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05rkqn6/stacey-dooley-investigates-series-6-3-the-cannabis-smugglers

The war on drugs, still going great guns /s


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[2 Points] CrazyBearShark:

Disclaimer: I have not watched the first two parts of this series.

Stacey Dooley is an idiot.

In the third and final part of this trilogy, she discusses how importing cannabis over borders is an issue. She also goes to South Africa and explores the social effects of a cannabis-heroin mixture that is regularly smoked by youths.

She describes the transportation of cannabis as terrible and discovers that nearly every import is an "inside job". She fails to comment on even ONE SINGLE negative effect that this has on ANY local communities. (maybe because there aren't any direct negative effects to smuggling a harmless drug, other than people being criminalized and the violence that comes with the gang cultures)

She visits Swaziland where thousands of kilos of cannabis are grown in the mountains away from LE. She then explores why people there grow it: to provide funds for education, housing, food, and clothes. The particular family she visits consists of a grandma and a grandson - no parents. The grandma grows it because she has no other way of funding her grandchildren's life.

In Africa, she visits a particular 18 year old boy who lives only with his 11 year old sister. The boy has only recently quit his addiction to this heroin (very impure may I add) and cannabis mixture.

Again, she fails to see the root of the problem. She goes to the community leaders and follows them around while they sing songs about hating drugs and cut down locally growing cannabis plants - all while the local heroin smokers laugh and do nothing to stop them. Some even join in with the chanting and singing.

For the poor brother and sister, she states that it is the drug causing the problems.

Really. Can you be so naive? Let's take this out of context - A boy's mother dies when he is 8 years old, leaving him alone to care for his 1 year old sister. 6 years later he becomes addicted to heroin.

Only a complete FOOL could possibly link the hardships in their lives to the heroin abuse. I'm sure if Obama was born into such a life, there would be a high chance of him becoming addicted to drugs. Or maybe not, maybe he has a gene called "Parent's-bank-statement" that means that despite his poor upbringing, he could still become president of the USA. /s

This woman has no clue what she's talking about and takes everything at face value. She is one of the sensationalist mantra chanters "Drugs are bad. Drugs cause bad things. If we stop drugs, we stop bad things."

Even high school graduates are taught that correlation != causation.

Fuck, how can money be found to film and produce 3 hours of such crap... Just another clickbait ass to lick for the closed minded


[1 Points] google1980:

Just watched this, quite interesting but fuck me that Stacey Dooley does my nut in.