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How to
Make Money Selling Drugs
Film Review
by Kam Williams
Tongue-in-Cheek Documentary Offers Tips on Dope Dealing
“Are you unemployed or stuck in a
dead-end job? Don’t worry, we have an answer!” That is the dubious proposition
made by How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a tongue-in-cheek (I pray) documentary
about the art of dope dealing. The film arrives accompanied by proven
provenance, as it features appearances by celebs with street cred like 50
Cent, Eminem, Rick Ross and Russell Simmons.
This fairly
thorough training guide focuses on marijuana and cocaine, although its advice
undoubtedly could be applied to heroin, ecstasy and numerous other narcotics as
well. However, we learn that pot is probably the easiest way to get started,
given that it’s a weed that all you need is water, lamps and electricity to
grow. In fact, it is now the most profitable farm product in the U.S.,
easily outstripping tobacco, cotton and even corn as the country’s top cash
crop.
According
to one former kingpin, the possibility of jail time is actually worth the risk,
provided you’re Caucasian, since 90% of the million Americans arrested annually
for drugs are black or Latino. So, this illicit profession isn’t highly
recommended for minorities, since the authorities not only target their
communities, but employ tactics like profile stops which make apprehension all
the more likely.
As hip-hop
mogul Simmons explains it, “If you’re a blonde fashion model, you’re not going
to jail. But if you’re a black kid from the ‘hood, you’ll go away for twenty
years.” He is a big advocate of an overhaul of the laws implemented as part of
the War on Drugs which has really been waged in the ghetto while lily-white
suburbia has benefitted from a pass, by and large.
If you do
decide to traffic in narcotics, and land behind bars, the picture has a chapter
on “How to Beat an Arrest.” But, permit me in closing to urge any viewers of How to Make Money Selling Drugs to
resist the temptation to attempt anything illegal you see here and to watch the
flick strictly for entertainment purposes.
A
step-by-step instruction video I fear might inadvertently influence some impressionable
young minds to try an ill-advised line of work that will only land them in a
lot of trouble.
Very Good
(3 stars)
Unrated
Running time: 94 minutes
Distributor: TriBeCa
Film
To see a trailer for How to Make Money Selling Drugs, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxRVhgbVN9o