The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness

Year: 1972

Runtime: 22 mins

Language: English

Director: William Templeton

Documentary

The film depicts bleak life eased only by marijuana, alcohol and opium. It traces opium’s history, the Opium Wars, then follows heroin’s discovery and a U.S. trade of two tons a year, with only 100 lb seized, in New York. Interviews with officials and addicts contrast the 1956 law with the 1966 amendment, urging treatment and alternative crops.

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