http://www.tugg.com/titles/american-drug-war-2
An eye opening night in the theatre! American Drug War 2 directed by Kevin Booth spotlights the Cash Hyde story. The parents of 2 year old “Cashy” are told by traditional medical experts to begin making funeral arrangements for their son. Hopeful, even having been through radiation, surgeries, and numerous resuscitation process during their battle with cancer, the family turns to Cannabis.
Three Southeast Florida Screenings:
American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny
Presented by Cannabis-Health
Thursday, June 06 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Fort Lauderdale, FL at AMC Coral Ridge 10 $10.00 General
Tickets at: http://www.tugg.com/events/3853
AND
West Palm Beach, FL at Muvico Parisian 20 & IMAX $10.00 General
Tickets at: http://www.tugg.com/events/3848
AND
Miami, FL at AMC Aventura 24 $10.00 General
Recently New York Mayor Bloomberg was quoted as saying 'Medical Marijuana Is
One Of The Greatest Hoaxes Of All Time", proving once again that although the
scales seem to be tipping towards the legalization of this controversial piece
of nature, the fight is a long way from being over.
Being highly aware of the over saturation of 'POT DOCS' filmmaker Kevin Booth realized that if his new film didn't break new ground it would be instantly swallowed up by the almost daily premier of marijuana related documentaries. This is how American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny takes its place in movie history. Until now, there has never been a film that focuses in on how our country's archaic drug laws destroy the lives of children, families, and the basic fabric of our culture.
The main thread of this new film is the story of a young Montana family battling what has to be every parent's worst nightmare. After their two-year-old son Cashy Hyde suffering with a brain tumor lies in a coma for 40 days, the hospital staff instructs the Hyde family to make funeral arrangements. #ADW2 hits hard and causes the viewer to think to himself 'If only the U.S. government would allow them to use the one thing that works?' Father Mike Hyde finds a man on the Internet named Rick Simpson who had cured his own cancer and hundreds of other people's cancer with a modern version of ancient cannabis oil, right before fleeing Canada to avoid prison. Sound crazy? Maybe or maybe not until you learn that our own department of Health and Human Services obtained the patent to cannabinoids as medicine back in 2003. This alone is not that startling, but when you realize that because of all the 'Bloomberg's' in the world we are still arresting over 800,000 people per year for simple Marijuana possession.
Without giving a spoiler alert – the story starts with the Hyde family sneaking this illegal oil into their dying son's feeding tube and soon a miracle takes place. This is only the beginning of what becomes an emotional roller coaster. I recommend packing tissue.
As in American Drug War #1 director Kevin Booth puts himself in the middle of the story. Not able to have children of their own he and his wife become foster parents and soon find themselves being forced to administer powerful psychotropic medications to a young teenage girl.
#ADW2 – American Drug War 2 also takes the viewer across the Mexican border into a neighborhood where young boys are recruited by Cartels to commit murder for an average of forty U.S. dollars.
Whether for or against the movie's subject, this documentary opens windows into little-seen life stories and blows open some myths, many times to the astonishment of the so-called experts in the field.
This new film has worked as a powerful conduit to bring activists together with entrepreneurs. Working with John English, who is devoted to Patients Out of Time, the only AMA and ANA accredited Cannabinoid Continuing Education Credits for doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals -- ANYONE with the desire to know the VERY GOOD NEWS of very likely this generations most remarkable medical science, via UC San Francisco School of Medicine AND Florida based 'Cannabis-Health.org'.
The film has the distinction of breaking TUGG.com 's record for the most premieres in one evening. The movie will actually screen for the first time publicly in seventeen major markets across the U.S. The TUGG screening system gives supporters of a film the opportunity to buy tickets ahead of the screening in order to show support for a film. The film only screens if enough tickets are sold, proving again the popularity of this topic. The film is also digitally distributed by Gravitas Ventures aided by Warner Brothers and is available now for pre-order via ITUNES.
'Working with Cannabis-Health.org has been a pleasure, without John and AL Byrne and Mary Lynn Mathre, co-founder's of Patients Out of Time, www.medicalcannabis.com spreading the word into more conservative areas such as Florida, we would not have reached the important and broader Florida citizenry at a time when Florida, THE largest big pharma pill mill state, is very close to medical cannabis legislation that is paramount to the national and global community.
Some of these screenings would have been next to impossible, until www.cannabis-health.org advance purchased Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Tampa to help educate Floridians and be sure #ADW2 set the record for all www.TUGG.com premieres. It is very important that Warner Brothers and Gravitas come to understand the mainstream demographic appeal of cannabinoid medical science education. We can look forward to the stunning medical science ameliorating a plethora of ailments and maladies that now plague uncountable numbers of citizens of the world. We MUST stop the Veterans and Military Personnel suicides now every 81 minutes of every day with the well known and successful cannabinoid quieting of PTS.
Mary Lynn Mathre, THE cannabinoid nurse, no question, will introduce the Miami screening, John English and others will introduce Fort Lauderdale, Jodi James of THE Cannabis Action Network...www.flcan.org and Jeff Kennedy, whose legal case was very important to S Florida, will intro West Palm Beach, and Cathy Jordan, a nationally prominent 25 year surviving through cannabis ALS patient and the soul of www.flcan.org, and her long time care giver husband Bob will introduce Tampa.
FLORIDA .... PLEASE SHOW UP AND MAKE THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN FOR YOUR ELDERLY AND VETERANS AND CITIZENS OF EVERY SORT.
"I have been investigating the drug war now for ten years, and it never ceases to amaze me that most people only start to care when something bad happens to them or a family member, and by then its usually too late. Allowing the government to dictate what we can or cannot consume shatters the very basis of what our forefathers fought for. I obviously want people to see this new film, but I also want them to know that this is not about getting stoned. We spent over three years compiling this evidence and have boiled it down to 90 minutes in hopes that the average person can at least understand what's really at stake.' -Kevin Booth
Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/13/06/w3647535/us-thursday-june-6-7-30-pm-most-venues-thought-provoking-sequel-to-amer#ixzz2VSNdpfho
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Being highly aware of the over saturation of 'POT DOCS' filmmaker Kevin Booth realized that if his new film didn't break new ground it would be instantly swallowed up by the almost daily premier of marijuana related documentaries. This is how American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny takes its place in movie history. Until now, there has never been a film that focuses in on how our country's archaic drug laws destroy the lives of children, families, and the basic fabric of our culture.
The main thread of this new film is the story of a young Montana family battling what has to be every parent's worst nightmare. After their two-year-old son Cashy Hyde suffering with a brain tumor lies in a coma for 40 days, the hospital staff instructs the Hyde family to make funeral arrangements. #ADW2 hits hard and causes the viewer to think to himself 'If only the U.S. government would allow them to use the one thing that works?' Father Mike Hyde finds a man on the Internet named Rick Simpson who had cured his own cancer and hundreds of other people's cancer with a modern version of ancient cannabis oil, right before fleeing Canada to avoid prison. Sound crazy? Maybe or maybe not until you learn that our own department of Health and Human Services obtained the patent to cannabinoids as medicine back in 2003. This alone is not that startling, but when you realize that because of all the 'Bloomberg's' in the world we are still arresting over 800,000 people per year for simple Marijuana possession.
Without giving a spoiler alert – the story starts with the Hyde family sneaking this illegal oil into their dying son's feeding tube and soon a miracle takes place. This is only the beginning of what becomes an emotional roller coaster. I recommend packing tissue.
As in American Drug War #1 director Kevin Booth puts himself in the middle of the story. Not able to have children of their own he and his wife become foster parents and soon find themselves being forced to administer powerful psychotropic medications to a young teenage girl.
#ADW2 – American Drug War 2 also takes the viewer across the Mexican border into a neighborhood where young boys are recruited by Cartels to commit murder for an average of forty U.S. dollars.
Whether for or against the movie's subject, this documentary opens windows into little-seen life stories and blows open some myths, many times to the astonishment of the so-called experts in the field.
This new film has worked as a powerful conduit to bring activists together with entrepreneurs. Working with John English, who is devoted to Patients Out of Time, the only AMA and ANA accredited Cannabinoid Continuing Education Credits for doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals -- ANYONE with the desire to know the VERY GOOD NEWS of very likely this generations most remarkable medical science, via UC San Francisco School of Medicine AND Florida based 'Cannabis-Health.org'.
The film has the distinction of breaking TUGG.com 's record for the most premieres in one evening. The movie will actually screen for the first time publicly in seventeen major markets across the U.S. The TUGG screening system gives supporters of a film the opportunity to buy tickets ahead of the screening in order to show support for a film. The film only screens if enough tickets are sold, proving again the popularity of this topic. The film is also digitally distributed by Gravitas Ventures aided by Warner Brothers and is available now for pre-order via ITUNES.
'Working with Cannabis-Health.org has been a pleasure, without John and AL Byrne and Mary Lynn Mathre, co-founder's of Patients Out of Time, www.medicalcannabis.com spreading the word into more conservative areas such as Florida, we would not have reached the important and broader Florida citizenry at a time when Florida, THE largest big pharma pill mill state, is very close to medical cannabis legislation that is paramount to the national and global community.
Some of these screenings would have been next to impossible, until www.cannabis-health.org advance purchased Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Tampa to help educate Floridians and be sure #ADW2 set the record for all www.TUGG.com premieres. It is very important that Warner Brothers and Gravitas come to understand the mainstream demographic appeal of cannabinoid medical science education. We can look forward to the stunning medical science ameliorating a plethora of ailments and maladies that now plague uncountable numbers of citizens of the world. We MUST stop the Veterans and Military Personnel suicides now every 81 minutes of every day with the well known and successful cannabinoid quieting of PTS.
Mary Lynn Mathre, THE cannabinoid nurse, no question, will introduce the Miami screening, John English and others will introduce Fort Lauderdale, Jodi James of THE Cannabis Action Network...www.flcan.org and Jeff Kennedy, whose legal case was very important to S Florida, will intro West Palm Beach, and Cathy Jordan, a nationally prominent 25 year surviving through cannabis ALS patient and the soul of www.flcan.org, and her long time care giver husband Bob will introduce Tampa.
FLORIDA .... PLEASE SHOW UP AND MAKE THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN FOR YOUR ELDERLY AND VETERANS AND CITIZENS OF EVERY SORT.
"I have been investigating the drug war now for ten years, and it never ceases to amaze me that most people only start to care when something bad happens to them or a family member, and by then its usually too late. Allowing the government to dictate what we can or cannot consume shatters the very basis of what our forefathers fought for. I obviously want people to see this new film, but I also want them to know that this is not about getting stoned. We spent over three years compiling this evidence and have boiled it down to 90 minutes in hopes that the average person can at least understand what's really at stake.' -Kevin Booth
Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/13/06/w3647535/us-thursday-june-6-7-30-pm-most-venues-thought-provoking-sequel-to-amer#ixzz2VSNdpfho
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AMERICAN DRUG WAR 2
Review by Robert
Wilson -
With American Drug War 2: Cannibis Destiny,
filmmaker Kevin Booth again takes aim at the political machinations between
government and commerce. However, this time the message is even more
personal.
American Drug War 2’s launching pad is the November 2012 elections, a
watershed moment in marijuana history. Both Colorado and Washington state
voters deemed pot to be legal for recreational usage. Furthermore, more states
voted to make weed legal for medical use. However, one state, Montana, elected
to rescind its medical marijuana law. How one Northwest state (Washington) could
vote to make pot totally legal while another (Montana) pulls back demonstrates
a real disconnect in this country.
The film delves into a number of marijuana-related
subjects: The medical marijuana movement; the testing of cannabinoids, as
cancer-fighting agents,; automated pot dispensing machines; hemp soap makers
who have to buy their hemp from Canada because the United States is the one
western country that doesn’t allow American farmers to grow it. (alas, even
China permits it); even a primer about how to grow your own medical
marijuana. Booth also takes his cameras across the border to Juarez. Mexico to
show how drug cartels bring about many more casualties in the drug
war.
Booth makes some of his best points when bringing up the
issue of the proliferation of mind-altering and legal drugs produced by
the pharmaceutical companies. Why does the federal government continue to hide
behind its “protecting the children” mask when it rationalizes keeping pot
illegal while allowing a record number of kids be dosed up on much more powerful
pharmaceutical drugs ? The answer isn’t surprising. The pharmaceutical lobby
carries a lot of water. Much more than the marijuana
reformers.
Furthermore, the film delves into the use of
prescription drugs by foster children who are 13 times more likely to be
prescribed mind-altering drugs. Why is that? Money, of course. Booth and his
wife, Trae, describe their own personal experience in the foster system when
they wanted to become foster parents. The scenes featuring their own foster
child are not dogmatic but rather deliver points on a micro and personal
level.
ADW2 also follows the story of Cash Hyde, a two-year-old
boy from Montana who suffers from a brain tumor. When traditional chemotherapy
fails, Cash’s father turns to cannabis oil with surprising results. Without
giving too much away, the story of Cash is what really gives the film its
emotional heft. Indeed, it delivers a message that a hundred talking heads
could not do.
Booth presents his argument that marijuana is still
illegal because cops want overtime, drug cartels want bigger profits and certain
federal enforcement agencies make a lot of money from the drug war. However,
Booth doesn’t simply push an agenda. He gives time to opposing viewpoints from
key people involved in the drug war.
Whether Booth is interviewing people who are trying to
legalize marijuana for their own business interests or those who want to keep it
illegal for primarily the same reason, he keeps the film moving at a good
pace.
ADW2 is not easy film to watch at times but these
unsettling scenes are what really gives the film its soul. Every war has
collateral damage and Booth doesn’t pull punches in presenting it
here.
You don’t have to be a pot smoker (or a former one) to
appreciate this film. All you need is a desire to learn how the drug war isn’t
always in the best interests of the American people.
Will American Drug War 2 lead to real change in
public policy? Most likely, it won’t. Politicians tend to stay away from
independent documentaries, usually because they’re too busy with their hands
down the pants of lobbyists. However, the film will lead to more discussion
about marijuana reform. And that is a good thing.
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