The Business of Drugs 1
2020-07-14 | Documentary,Crime | 6 episodes1 Season
Episode
Cocaine (2020)
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Directed By
- Jesse Sweet
Writer
- Amaryllis Fox
Synthetics (2020)
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Directed By
- Jesse Sweet
Writer
- Amaryllis Fox
Heroin (2020)
Fox travels to Kenya, where she speaks to people living and working on the front lines of one of the world's newest and most profitable heroin routes.
Directed By
- Jesse Sweet
Meth (2020)
Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
Directed By
- Jesse Sweet
Writer
- Amaryllis Fox
Cannabis (2020)
Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
Directed By
- Jesse Sweet