RxCannabis
(feature length documentary)
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RXCANNABIS
Ten years after California voters legalized marijuana for seriously ill patients (the first of currently 12 states with medical mariijuana laws), the federal government still classifies it as an illegal Schedule One drug, with “no accepted medical use.”
RxCannabis zooms in on Southern California, ground zero for the recent medical marijuana backlash. In July, 2006, the Feds, invited in by sympathetic San Diego county officials, closed down all marijuana dispensaries in the county. Suddenly thousands of registered medical marijuana patients are driven to the streets to get their medicine.
We follow Rudy, Craig, and Pam, “ordinary heroes” who refuse to be treated like victims, as each one confronts local politicians who are trying to overturn the State medical cannabis law. And they add their voices to thousands of others who describe how cannabis can replace hundreds of drugs that make the pharma companies billions of dollars in profits yearly.
RxCannabis is a metaphor for the entire War on Drugs, an entertaining and provocative look at a complex plant that has often threatened those in power. Not only about medical marijuana, it is a captivating story of democracy and civil rights in action.
