He’s no longer doing drugs but he knows a lot about them, actor admits

Oct 15, 2012 13:25 GMT  ·  By
Brad Pitt talks about America’s War on Drugs, describes as an “incredible failure”
   Brad Pitt talks about America’s War on Drugs, describes as an “incredible failure”

Brad Pitt is opening up on his drug use past but only to point out that the so-called War on Drugs that America has been waging for over 4 decades is a joke, an “incredible failure.”

Pitt and director Eugene Jarecki recently sat down for an interview with The Huffington Post, with the Hollywood star getting frank with the publication about his stance on the war against drugs.

Jarecki is now promoting his documentary “The House I Live In,” which Pitt produced through his production company.

As he sees it, though he’s no longer using anything anymore, Pitt can still walk into a town and, within 24 hours, make the right connections to score. In that, he sees the biggest failure of US authorities.

“My drug days are long since passed but it’s certainly true that I could probably land in any city in any state and get you whatever you wanted. I could find anything you were looking for. Give me 24 hours or so,” he says.

“And yet we still support this charade called the drug war. We have spent a trillion dollars. It’s lasted for over 40 years. A lot of people have lost their lives for it. And yet we still talk about it like it’s this success,” the actor goes on to explain.

The War on Drugs is, at best, “a barrier to keep the impoverished down,” Pitt argues.

“To keep them shackled. And I thought well that [producing this documentary] may be even too liberal for me [laughs], but we just came off of Hurricane Katrina. We had just witnessed that there was a particular portion of our society that was being ignored and that this could be the case,” the actor argues.

Pitt also believes that the only way to end the War on Drugs is by taking all profit out of it, which could be done by decriminalizing drugs. This, in turn, would help control the quality of the product.

The full interview is here.