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Politics and Film Paper Traffic or The People VS Larry Flint

...... Traffic ends on a note of optimism while also leaving the War on Drugs unresolved. Soderbergh seems aware that United States drug policy will not change any time soon. The film also offers a scathing critique of the way foreign governments become entangled with organized crime: to the point where the two become indistinguishable as with Salazar and the Obregn brothers. Soderbergh does not venture a suggestion on how to tackle Mexicos problems. However, the filmmaker does strongly imply that government officials in the United States become more aware of the ramifications of the War on Drugs. If politicians and policy makers act as Wakefield does at the end of Traffic, then it might be possible to change policy toward a more meaningful eradication of organized crime. The current policies create a lucrative black market economy that is especially seductive in poor countries like Mexico. Income disparity and the lack of upward social mobility entices poor people to become involved in the drug trade, just as street-level traders in American urban gangs are drawn to drug trading too. Decriminalization of drugs would essentially drive out the black market, minimizing the need for guns, gangs, and attendant violence
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