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Subject: I agree with this!! Author: Gina [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:29:07 10/13/12 Sat Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America's 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a "charade" in urgent need of a rethink. The Hollywood actor came aboard recently as an executive producer of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In, which won the Grand Jury Prize in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The film opened in wide release in the United States on Friday (local time). Ahead of a Los Angeles screening, Pitt and Jarecki spoke passionately about the "War on Drugs" which, according to the documentary, has cost more than $US1 trillion ($NZ1.22 trillion) and accounted for over 45 million arrests since 1971, and which preys largely on poor and minority communities. "Brad Pitt blasts US War on Drugs" "I know people are suffering because of it. I know I've lived a very privileged life in comparison and I can't stand for it," Pitt told Reuters, calling the government's War on Drugs policy a "charade." "It's such bad strategy. It makes no sense. It perpetuates itself. You make a bust, you drive up profit, which makes more people want to get into it," he added. "To me, there's no question; we have to rethink this policy and we have to rethink it now." -------------------------------------------------------- [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]