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incarceration of our people.

We hunt the poor

And incarcerate them at levels

unheard of in the rest of the world.

No other nation comes close.

Not China, not Russia, nobody.

There are only two explanations,

one is that we are uniquely evil,

and the other is that we have

uniquely counterproductive laws.

And while the prison population

continues to grow,

the demand for illegal drugs

is still rising.

50% of America has consumed

an illegal drug.

Do they think they can lock

up half of the country?

There's just no stopping us.

Everybody I know wants to

do drugs is doing them.

They don't care if it's legal

or illegal, they're doing them.

And they are proud of it.

Some of America's most famous

business leaders, like Steve Jobs,

has said taking LSD was one of the most

important experiences of his life.

Quite a few americans agree with him.

I don't think it's as much a question

about drugs as it's about freedom.

Whatever this freedom word means,

we really gotta grab hold of that.

Either we have the right

to do what we want to do

as long as we aren't

hurting someone else,

or we're not living

in a free country.

I'm just horrified by the way

that we think of people

because of the choice of substance

that they put in their bodies

to alter their perception.

And we judge them as good or bad,

while we sip our wine

and have our cocktail parties

and you know...

Stick that hypocrisy right up

society's ass for me.

Some of them can kill you the first time you

try them and other ones are really fun.

And someone's lying to you

if they say they're not.

Our own power as individuals over

our own bodies, our thoughts,

our minds, our ideas,

and our feelings,

those are not things that

can be taken away from us.

And anybody who would allow

the state to take them away

doesn't deserve the title

"American citizen."

The vast majority

of drug dealers never make it.

They're either killed,

or wind up in prison.

But Americans just keep

demanding more drugs.

Approximately half a million Americans

are incarcerated on drug charges.

In recent years we've spent

more money building new prisons

than building new universities.

And they are beneficiaries, the

people who manage these prisons,

the prison guards' unions,

they all have a vested interest in

perpetuating this broken system.

And famous American freedom advocates

have been speaking for years

about the conflict of

interest for politicians.

Are you running for office,

and you need more dough?

Adopt a tough on crime position,

you'll get a lot of money from the

prison industry. Think about it.

But even the largest prison system

in the history of the world

is just another market

for drug dealers.

There are drugs inside jail.

Oh, you can find weed, coke, crystal meth, ecstasy.

Even heroin, you can find.

People work there, bring

it over, or visitors.

There's drugs inside jail.

Congratulations.

As a cartel drug lord

you're the number one organized

crime threat in the United States,

having set up franchises in

over 1,000 American cities.

You have an operating budget

larger than most countries.

You and your partners in crime make

over 150 billion dollars a year.

And business shows

no signs of slowing down.

Because like any good game, the machine

creates an endless supply of players.

The government always says drugs are

illegal, because they're bad for you,

and we're trying

to protect societies,

but the government doesn't

give a f*** about your safety.

The government, they don't

want you to use your drugs,

they want you to use their drugs.

So every night on TV, you see

a weird ass drug commercial

trying to get you hooked

on some legal sh*t.

And they just keep naming symptoms till

they get one that you f***ing got.

I think once

I took my first Vicodin

it was just like this feeling of,

"Aah," you know,

like everything was not only

mellow but didn't feel any pain,

it didn't...

It just kind of numbed things.

I don't know at what point exactly

it started to be a problem,

I just remember liking it

more and more.

People tried to tell me

that I had a problem,

I would say,

"Get that f***ing person out of here,

"I can't believe

they said that sh*t to me.

"They know nothing

about my f***ing life.

"Are they out of their f***ing mind?

"I'm not out there f***ing,

you know, putting coke up my nose,

"I'm not smoking crack."

You're struggling

with the argument of,

do you have a problem

or do you not have a problem,

can you control it or can you not,

and I literally thought

I could control it.

And for one out of ten people,

this is how easy it is to fall

into the hands of addiction.

I snorted OxyContin and I remember

just falling down on that couch

and just feeling euphoric,

and feeling that,

"This is how I should feel,

this is how it should always be."

I had fun for a lot

of those years.

But for five or six of them, every time

I did it, it was a freaking nightmare.

Once you're addicted,

the drugs become interchangeable.

You're taking things

that people are giving you

that you don't even know

what the f*** they are.

They look like a pill and they're

shaped like something that you take,

so you take it.

You know. Xanax, Valium,

tomato, tomahto.

You know what I mean,

it's the same thing.

All in the same family,

f*** it, take it.

You know, OxyContin is very

expensive, and I couldn't afford it,

so eventually a friend said,

"Well, you can do heroin.

"Heroin's a lot cheaper and you can...

It's easier to get, actually."

And the cost was huge.

Beyond the price,

beyond the dollar.

I started losing my mind,

I was doing too much cocaine,

becoming too paranoid.

People started smoking it,

I started smoking it.

I was sweating, I was shitting,

I was vomiting everywhere,

and, you know, I said,

"I need to go to a hospital."

Had I have gotten to the

hospital about two hours later,

I would have died.

Having my mom look over me crying,

over her little baby boy,

in a hospital,

at 2:
00 in the morning,

I just felt like sh*t.

My organs were shutting down,

my liver, kidneys, everything.

They were going to have

to put me on dialysis.

They didn't think

I was gonna make it.

My bottom was going to be death.

Within a month, I had relapsed,

and shot right back up to the same

amount of pills I was taking.

I remember just walking

around my house

and thinking every single day

like, I'm gonna f***ing die.

I'm looking at my kids and I

need to be here for this.

It was everything that I loved.

And everything that loved me

was a price that I was

willing to pay to do coke.

That's a horrible price.

And for many addicts,

if they can't afford

to support their habit,

there is an easy solution.

I think when you come from a

poor family, you wanna do drugs,

and drugs cost money,

and then you see a way out.

OxyContin is very expensive.

And people keep calling you,

you know, people want drugs.

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