VIDEO: 5 min. 3 sec. Traffic (2000) – Robert Wakefield’s Speech
In this video the film character, Robert Wakefield, in delivering his first speech as newly appointed U. S. drug czar, realizes mid-stream that the war on drugs reaches into families which cannot consider their family members to be criminals. As such, the war on drugs is not well-founded, and is not sustainable.
In fact, the war on drugs is a war on oneself.
If you enjoyed Professor Bruce Alexander’s paper presented earlier in this article, you may also like his February, 2015, talk on addiction, taking a historical view. To read the portion of that speech relevant to the war on drugs, visit the next page.
