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How to Make Money Selling Drugs

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

Documentary · 2012

Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.

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How to Make Money Selling Drugs

2012 Documentary 1h 36m

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Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.

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Directed by

Matthew Cooke

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Matthew Cooke

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Matthew Cooke

Narrator (voice)

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

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Barry Cooper

Self

Eminem

Eminem

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50 Cent

50 Cent

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David Simon

David Simon

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“Ambition earns the room.”

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The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Importance has entered the chat.”

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