Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

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Audience Member The movie seeks to make the crack epidemic out to be some conspiracy by Washington to destroy the black community, without once taking responsibility for engaging in the behavior. Extremely off-putting attitudes from the interviewees that shirk any sort of criticism for their actions. The movie starts with the conclusion that it was a racially motivated attack on the community, then (unsuccessfully) attempts to find evidence to support this conclusion. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member The interviews with everyday people, along with more well-known professional figures, all of whom lived through what was truly an epidemic and scourge for primarily brown and black people in America (who overwhelmingly and by far and away were prosecuted and imprisoned in disproportionately enormous numbers, as users and dealers, in comparison to their almost always middle-class white suburban counterparts), are really beautifully and heartbreakingly rendered in this must-see documentary, (and this being a subject that completely reverberates to this present moment, something that clearly countless people are still in strong denial and willful ignorance about, as evidenced by the quite incoherent negative screeds left by a few other reviewers). If you have a soul and a conscience, and especially if you have been on the dark path of substance abuse and hopelessness but were able to escape with lessons learned, it is an excellent and vital film. If it doesn't achieve that impact for some, it is at least an invaluable presentation of education for all. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremly biased,one of the main characters in the documentary is Carl Hart self proclaimed "safe" heroin user who is basically telling you that drugs are not the problem and everything bad that has happend was result of some kind of conspiracy or corrupt goverment etc forshadowing millions of lives that were lost or ruined by crack or as a result of dealing crack ,killings.Othrr characters in documentary are drug dealers who are potrayed by the filmmaker as some sort of heroes of their time and in some way like martyrs forgetting the fact that these people are scum who would sell drug to your children without thinking twice.At one point in the movie one of the characters actually sais that the drug war was basically racist movement which was targetting black women.Movie did make some right points like hastily made anti drug law which was made in only 4 weeks and was not very well thinked trought,but the biggest lesson the documentary forgot or did not want to point is DONT DO DRUGS escpecially heavy ones like crack or heroin.Crack did not brought anyone good and it wont bring it to you Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Yes, it was all Washington's fault that selfish people chose to use and sell drugs to destroy their own communities. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member This was an excellent watch. I work in addictions, and I've never seen a documentary on the Crack epidemic told from 'the streets'. It touched on every aspect that played into the crisis at the time from politics and government involvement, criminalization of addicts, stereotypes and false propaganda that was spread, etc. My only issue is that I can't purchase it for use as a teaching tool. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A solidly made documentary about how crack cocaine became such a massive problem in the USA. The documentary gives a good background to the policies of US governments in the 1980s and 90s that lead to the drug epidemic and the disastrous effect that it had on poor, disadvantaged and majority black communities. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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