Marijuana enforcement in the United States is the subject here, framed by a single statistic: in 2006, police made more than 800,000 arrests for marijuana offenses nationwide, and 89 percent of those were for simple possession, not sale or trafficking. The film lays out the cost side of that number, the billions of taxpayer dollars spent each year on enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration for a drug that remains, despite all of it, as easy to buy on the illegal market as ever. Rather than building a case for or against legalization outright, the film assembles the numbers and lets them make the argument: money and police time going toward simple possession charges while the underlying market stays untouched and unregulated. It closes by putting the question directly to the viewer, whether these laws are actually working or simply running up a bill. The tone stays factual throughout, closer to a policy brief than an advocacy piece.