Kevin Booth's follow-up to American Drug War puts the human cost of prohibition on screen through the people who lived it. Ricky Ross, the South Central dealer whose supply chain reportedly ran back to CIA-linked traffickers, describes how crack flooded Los Angeles in the 1980s. DEA agents, prisoners serving decades under mandatory minimums, and family members of people killed in drug raids sit for extended interviews, while Booth intercuts archival news footage of Reagan and Nixon-era anti-drug messaging against the reality of overflowing prisons. The film tracks how sentencing laws written to target cartels ended up locking up low-level users and dealers, and how militarized SWAT raids sometimes ended in the deaths of innocent people in their own homes. Medical marijuana patients and doctors also appear, arguing the same laws block legitimate treatment. Booth builds the film as an indictment, not a balanced debate, but the raw interview footage, court documents, and prison testimony give it the weight of a reported case file rather than a rant.