The rise and fall of the world´s largest cartels

People have been using drugs since the beginning of time and for almost as long someone has been trying to stop it. The war on drugs has been a constant battle and there is no end in sight. The propaganda put forth by various governments about their individual efforts to combat drug trafficking is usually somewhere between a lie and a cover-up.

Drug Wars travels from South America and their on going dependency on the coca plant, to Asia, as Thailand and Burma battle for control of a drug abused border crossing. Discover qat in the Middle East and the obsession practically the whole country of Yemen has with the drug as it slowly lulls its citizens to sleep. See what happens in Europe as a government decides to become the local heroin dealer in Switzerland and a group of Irish drug vigilantes decide to take matters into their own hands.

Drug Wars exposes life in a Brazilian slum, where Drug Lords and gangs rule and the police are afraid to enter. Learn of the everyday fear of politicians, law enforcers and just plain citizens in Colombia, as cartels kidnap and kill to get what they want. Go inside a guerilla operation, started to combat the Columbian government but using drug trafficking as their means of survival. And see the whole story of the world´s most notorious drug czar of Columbia into one of the world´s most successful and most feared drug traffickers, and his capture, escape and eventual execution.