I can pinpoint most of today’s ills beginning with Ronald Reagan’s tenure. AIDS? Failure; the man didn’t even mention the word although thousands had already died. The homeless crisis? Dismantle the federal health care system, and put thousands of people with mental health concerns on the streets. Smart, huh? From economics to the Iran-Contra disaster, Reagan’s legacy is more dream than reality, spawning the America we know today.
But it was the ridiculous Just Say No campaign and the failed War on Drugs that really took as down a path of righteous wrongheadedness. Yeah, all those kids are criminals! Lock ’em up! Completely ignoring that drug use is a public health issue — not a criminal justice issue — Nancy and Ron helped create the opioid epidemic by making us think, “If a doctor prescribes it, then all is well!”
God, it just makes me want to light up a huge spleef.
Finally (and luckily for me), the country is getting wise (and wiser) to the fact that pot ain’t the enemy. And a lot of the legalization efforts in the U.S. were spurred by the full legalization of cannabis in Colorado five years ago. In this new doc by director Jane Wells, you’ll get a look at how it’s all playing out and what this blazed new world looks like. Pot Luck, narrated by Robin Quivers, is now available on DigitalHD and DVD in North America. It was released on the unofficial marijuana “holiday” of 4/20, but I got a little sidetracked by this pandemic thing. (I might as well blame Reagan for that, too. Isn’t it boring blaming Trump for everything?)
Pot Luck​ takes a road trip across the state of Colorado to find out what the new normal looks like. The war on drugs has failed, but is legalization of cannabis the answer? It has been five years since the people of Colorado voted to legalize cannabis in all its forms. A colorful cast of locals including businessmen, budtenders, barbers, cops and farmers share a stake in the still-evolving world of legal cannabis.
Pot Luck​ takes a road trip across the state of Colorado to find out what the new normal looks like. The war on drugs has failed, but is legalization of cannabis the answer? It has been five years since the people of Colorado voted to legalize cannabis in all its forms. A colorful cast of locals including businessmen, budtenders, barbers, cops and farmers share a stake in the still-evolving world of legal cannabis.
