This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This movie blew me away, and if the guys that made it are stoners it disproves all the stupid allegations that prohibitionists make about pot making you slow and stupid. Clearly not the case here, every angle gets covered here, and prohibition gets smoked! The medical segment was of particular interest to me as the survivor of a motorbike accident who now relies on cannabis for pain relief. How the hell can oxycontin be legal for me to take in huge doses but a herb that has 4,500 years of proved safe medical efficacy is banned. That sack of shhhhhh PETER DUNNE - what a DOOSH! NZ HAS GOT TO GET RID OF DUNNE! Wake up, New Zealand! 1.legalize cannabis 2.tar and feather Peter Dunne in the streets of Wellington.

This film gripped me from the opening to closing frame! The historical perspectives it gives are mind blowing! I had no idea about Mother Mary Aubert, or Elvis and Nixon, or the true origins of cannabis prohibition until I watched this film. As a casual marijuana user I know there is nothing really harmful about marijuana, but to see how much good it can do people in the medical section of the film was a real surprise. Then you see how it compares with alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals - wow! People need to watch this to become educated on this subject. This film needs to be seen by every Kiwi! What a great effort! Support local talent by downloading this film! Ten stars!

Druglawed scrutinizes the global War on Drugs and shows how it has impacted on New Zealand. It features interviews with academics, lawyers, drug policy experts, medical cannabis patients and activists, all of whom indict the War on Drugs as a colossal, cruel failure. Year after year this unwinnable war drags on, leaving needless suffering in its wake.Archival footage and graphics add historical depth to this feature length documentary - a film that anyone who cares about justice and human rights needs to see.

The cannabis laws get slammed in an exciting, informative, tightly woven narrative that spans 150 years and several continents, without skipping a beat. With its narrow focus on New Zealand and a wider focus on the international prohibition handed down by the USA and the UN, the film documents the rise of Harry Anslinger and Reefer Madness and its evolution into a global marijuana prohibition that has caused immeasurable devastation to societies and ecosystems around the world. A rise in police militarism, the prison industrial complex, crop spraying, racism, the erosion of human rights and access to medicine, all of the flow-on costs of cannabis prohibition are detailed in a logical sequence of 9 chapters. This film instantly takes its place among the pantheon of cannabis documentaries.