Why Cocaine Is Worth $150,000 Per Kilo | The War on Drugs

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From the coca leaves illicitly grown in the jungles of South America to the lines snorted in nightclub toilets around the world – the global cocaine trade alone is worth 100 billion dollars a year.In this show, we follow the money to find out how the cocaine industry actually works, why it functions the way it does, why the brutal tactics of the War on Drugs (designed only to suppress the business) are doomed from the start and needlessly target the most vulnerable across the world. In War On Drugs, we examine the social implications of prohibition worldwide. Any attempt to shut down the trade in drugs such as heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine or weed invariably sets off a chain of events that just makes things worse, leaving a trail of death, illness, violence, slavery, addiction, crime and inequality across the globe. Everyone loses – except, in a weird kind of way, the drugs themselves. Watch more from this series:How America Got Hooked on Opioids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJc-YI7OWfYDebunking Crystal Meth Myths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VkWkPs1awThe War on Drugs is Racist to the Corehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5qFIpJ2skKetamine: The Next Big Antidepressant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfmPu8l24wY ‘Spice’ is Britain’s Most Dangerous Drug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L62rHDJFAkg The Great MDMA Drought and Its Deadly Consequences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUNvLPNLxSw Why Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dU5yiKBqCk Mephedrone: The Drug That Changed Dealinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvxZyMyc7go&list=UUn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw Is the Netherlands Turning Into a Narco-State?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5uP2R_9bg&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGanXjSfH1bQNVheppFQWWo&index=4 How America Got Hooked on Opioidshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJc-YI7OWfY&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGanXjSfH1bQNVheppFQWWo&index=9Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don't even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE. Connect with VICE: Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Click here to get the best of VICE daily: http://bit.ly/1SquZ6v Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice The VICE YouTube Network: VICE: https://www.youtube.com/VICE MUNCHIES: https://www.youtube.com/MUNCHIES VICE News: https://www.youtube.com/VICENews VICELAND: https://www.youtube.com/VICELANDTV Broadly: https://www.youtube.com/Broadly Noisey: https://www.youtube.com/Noisey Motherboard: https://www.youtube.com/MotherboardTV VICE Sports: https://www.youtube.com/NOC i-D: http://www.youtube.com/iDmagazine Waypoint: https://www.youtube.com/Waypoint

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