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From
the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a
penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing
the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.This
weekend the top documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival went to
"The House I Live In," which questions why the United States has spent
more than $1 trillion on drug arrests in the past 40 years, and yet
drugs are cheaper, purer and more available today than ever. The film
examines the economic, as well as the moral and practical, failures of
the so-called "war on drugs" and calls on the United States to approach
drug abuse not as a "war," but as a matter of public health. We need "a
very changed dialogue in this country...
