Despite the Drug War's $1 trillion in spending, abuse and addiction rates remain largely unchanged. Meanwhile, the nation-wrecking fallout is everywhere—in hollowed-out African American neighborhoods, in education budgets starved to fund our addiction to a vengeful jurisprudence, and in stuffed, for-profit prisons whose owners reliably buy elected officials committed to the status quo. No, this isn't a new story. But it's not bullshit to say it's never been told better, or more effectively, than in Eugene Jarecki's damning documentary. by Denis C. Theriault