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The Story of Drug Trafficking

Season 1
The growth of the world's narcotics trafficking system has mirrored the growth of the world's economic system in many surprising ways over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Currently, illicit drug production and usage runs rampant throughout the world, with the health of humankind suffering as a consequence, and with no apparent end to illicit, addictive drug sales in sight.
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  1. S1 E1 - The Era of Empires

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    December 1, 2021
    53min
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    The spiritual carnage drug addiction has wreaked globally over time was seeded in 1790 as globalization began in earnest. In the next 181 years, key geopolitical countries grappled with issues stemming from governmental ideologies, economies of scale, and sociological systems.
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  2. S1 E2 - Era of the Drug Lords

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    December 1, 2021
    53min
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    Combining diplomacy and drug enforcement at the ground level, Nixon's War on Drugs forced drug cartels to radically adapt new business methods, and thus, from the ashes of the Old World, drug trafficking reorganized at lightning speed and grew exponentially. Enter the era of the drug lord. Now, the world faced a new, unprecedented level of narcotics trafficking, one with seething ambition.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Lost Territories

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    December 1, 2021
    53min
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    Over time, as illicit drug production and use grew to enormous levels, so too did grisly drug violence. In recent years, narcotic traffickers realized that the old forms of production and distribution were of declining value due to changes in the geopolitical environment.
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Directors

Vincent Metzinger

Producers

Christophe Nick

Cast

Alfred W. McCoyVanda Felbab-BrownDavid T. Courtwright

Studio

Cow Lamp Films
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