The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
by Brett Harvey
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Actor: Joe Rogan, Tommy ChongDirector: Brett Harvey
Brand: Trinity
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: PAE 48600
Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertainment
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- UNION, THE: THE BUSINESS BEHIND GETTING HIGH (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
DVD Review: Among my best cannabis documentaries
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this documentary about cannabis. I've seen a few and what I liked the best about this one was the sobering black market analysis that showed how this enormous economy ties into the legal market as well. Also, it kept the usual fringe-type, conspiracy stuff at an absolute minimum. I really, really dislike the one dimensional "rah rah cannabis is God and can solve all problems in the world". Sure, some got to say that too, sort of, but all in all a very serious documentary.
It was also refreshing to see someone tackle the issue from a mainly grower viewpoint. Most of the time it's tied helplessly into crime and policing and so on. That issue was - again - in there, but it was downplayed more than usual.
That helps normalize the issue. Closest analogy that comes to mind would be an 1920-1933-era documentary on home brewing, distilling and wine making during American alcohol prohibition with the whole "Elliot Ness & Capone thing" at the sideline.
So why only 4 stars, when it's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen? It's probably mostly me, but I'm also a sort of expert on the whole War on Drugs issue and have even made a speech in the Danish parliament building for like-minded experts, criminologists, social workers, drug researchers, politicians and people treating addiction. I really wish someone with an interest in cannabis would have the guts to come out and say that every single thing that can be said for the pathology of the black market for cannabis also applies to every other other drug out there. This even applies to our much loved alcohol, as the American experiment from 1920-1933 showed us that every single bad thing you can think of (plus a few things that nobody even had the imagination to think of) happens to ANY drug that's subjected to something as vile, unjust and harm-accelerating as The War on Drugs.
Also, to have hit the 5 star rating the movie would have had to touch me (like "In Pot We Trust" did). Though in all fairness, the angle of the movie didn't really play up to that sort of thing, and maybe that's a good thing. Especially for the more critical viewers who, in my experience, reacts quite skeptically to the really deep, horrible things perpetrated by the War on Drugs. This documentary contains just enough reality to make the point, but not enough to put off those viewers with a low to moderate knowledge of the subject. Some realities are just too horrible to contemplate, like what faces people like Marc Emery and his employees and those countless other casualties in the politicians' career platform called "The War on Drugs".
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