On the street terms used for cocaine include: Coke, Candy, Crack, Jack, Rock, Jimmy, Nose Candy, Whitecoat and...
Cocaine is derived from the leaf of the coca bush native to the Andean mountains.
The Incas chewed coca leaves and believed coca to be a gift from the royal sun-god, Mano Capac.
Andean Indians measured journeys in COCADAS - the time between doses of cocaine (about 40 minutes).
The early Spanish colonists, concerned about the divine and mythological aspects of coca...
issued a royal decree condemning it as a demonic influence.
In the 1600s, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Crown thrived on revenues earned from the coca plantations.
During the 1870s, "Vin Marianî" a wine made with coca leaves went on sale in France, London and New York.
Thomas Edison and Pope Leo XIII endorsed the wine.
After Atlanta banned alcohol in 1885, John Pemberton reformulated his version of a coca wine.
He removed the wine, added caffeine and named it Coca-Cola.
Up until 1903 Coca-Cola had 6mg of cocaine per bottle.
During the 1950s, TV tended to portray life as consisting of perfect families in perfect neighborhoods.
4.3 million babies were born in 1956, more than any year before or since.
In the 1950s, Swanson TV dinners debuted along with Sugar Pops and Tupperware.
By the mid 1950s, 25% of Americans lived below the poverty level.
During the 1950s, suburban white women increased their usage of Valium by 400%.
Psychologists in the 1950s blamed women for an array of problems within the nuclear family.
These troubles included their husband's anxieties and impotence...
as well as their children's spoiled natures and juvenile delinquency.
In 1956, mental patients occupied more hospital beds than any other illnesses combined.
The average divorce rate in the 1950s was one in ten.
During the 1950s, one third of all U.S. families could not get by with the income of one working parent.
In 1958, the U.S. experienced an economic recession.
Unemployment went over five percent.
Johnny Depp was five years old in 1968.
In 1968, Hippies commemorated the summer of love in Haight Ashbury, San Francisco...
with flowers, drugs, music and free love.
Manhattan Beach is directly south of the Los Angeles International Airport.
The declared "War on Drugs", began during the 1968 presidential campaign...
when Richard Nixon was searching for election ammunition.
Nixon's advisor, John Erlichman, told Nixon that narcotics repression was a "sexy political issue".
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
In June 1968, Senator and presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated in Los Angeles, California.
Many U.S. colleges experienced protest rallies and the burning of draft cards on "Turn in Your Draft Card Day" in November 1968.
George escaped going to Vietnam by intentionally getting caught selling marijuana.
He received a general discharge.
In 1968, Paul Reubens was 16 years old.
During the 1960s, possession of more than just one marijuana cigarette was classified as a felony.
The Manhattan Beach Police Department in 1968 consisted of less than 40 men and only one was assigned to narcotics.
In 1968, wholesale marijuana sold for $60.00 per kilo (35.2 ounces) in Manhattan Beach...
and sold retail for $10.00 an ounce.
In 2001 prices range from $400 to $5,000 per pound in the southwest and $700 to $7,000 in the northeast.
Marijuana is the Indian hemp plant, Cannibus Sativa...
and was first cultivated in the U.S. around 1600 with the settlement of Jamestown.
The hemp plant was used to make ropes, sails, clothing and used as legal tender.
During the 1800s, marijuana plantations flourished in many states and marijuana was a major source of revenue for the U.S.
In 19th century France, smoking hashish (a strong resin derived from marijuana) was popular.
Until the 1930s, marijuana was widely used as a medicinal drug;
available for purchase in pharmacies and general stores throughout the U.S.
Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, making marijuana illegal.
Acute intoxication from marijuana may occasionally induce hallucinations, paranoia and psychosis...
lasting from four to six hours.
There is no evidence that the residual effects of marijuana on cognitive functions last longer than two days.
Chronic use does not establish physical dependence.
Upon withdrawal the regular user does not suffer extreme physical discomfort.
Marijuana use may cause a psychological habit.
Chronic marijuana smokers may experience problems with their respiratory, reproductive and/or immune systems.
Stricter laws during the 1950s set mandatory sentences for drug related offences but were repealed in 1970.
In the late 1970s, President Carter asked Congress to abolish criminal penalties...
for those caught with less than one ounce of marijuana.
In 1986, President Reagan signed the "Anti-Drug Abuse Act"...
reinstating mandatory minimums and raising federal penalties for possession and distribution.
Men consistently have a higher rate of drug use than women.
Marijuana is by far the most commonly used drug with 11.1 million users in the U.S. during 2000.
The majority of imported marijuana to the U.S. is supplied by trafficking organizations in Mexico.
Virtually all marijuana is smuggled into the U.S. concealed in false compartments...
found in fuel tanks, seats, and tires of private and commercial vehicles.
Larger shipments are smuggled in tractor-trailer trucks...
and among legitimate bulk shipments such as agricultural products.
George's rented Winnebago filled with 125 kilos of marijuana would net $10,000 to $30,000.
In 1968, a one year Ivy League college tuition including room and board cost less than $5,000.
A new Ford Thunderbird cost $4,600.
Marijuana is also referred to as reefer, pot, herb, ganja, weed, tea, grass, sinsemilla and smoke.
Puerto Vallarta, located on the Bay of Banderas, was a sleepy fishing village in the 1950s...
until John Huston filmed THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA there in 1963.
Puerto Vallarta became a "getaway" for Hollywood's rich and famous...
including Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
George Jung remembers hanging out at the Ocean Bar in Puerto Vallarta with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
In 1969, an estimated 300,000 youth sludged through the mud to experience four days of rock 'n roll in Woodstock, New York.
In 1969, the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others were linked to Charles Manson and his cult.
In 1969, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. protested the Vietnam War.
In 1969, Puerto Vallarta farmers were paid by local dealers about $8.00 per kilo of marijuana.
A farmer could make three to five times more money on an single acre of marijuana than on ten acres of corn and beans.
In order to cultivate a potent crop of marijuana it is important to weed out all the male plants...
before they release their pollen and fertilize the female plants.
In the late 1960s, George Jung took flying lessons at the Santa Monica airport.
Within a month he was qualified to fly solo.
He was trained to fly only during the day and had no knowledge of radar.
An isolated landing strip at Punta de Mita, on the northern tip of Banderas Bay, was used by many marijuana operations.
It was often congested with smuggling air traffic.
George Jung was eventually caught by the Mexican authorities.
During his first 24 hours in the Mexican prison...
George was tortured with electric shocks to his testicles.
George bribed the arresting officers and judge with $50,000. Within 3 months he was released.
In 1969, no Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes monitored the border.
It was easy to fly below radar range to avoid detection.
During the late 1960s, George Jung was consuming a tab of LSD a day.
LSD is also called acid and was brought to the limelight by Timothy Leary...
who coined the slogan, "Tune in, Turn on and Drop out".
In 1970, Jimmy Hendrix choked on his vomit while asleep and died.
In 1970, The Jefferson Airplane was fined $1,000 for verbal profanity.
In 1970, Janis Joplin died of an alleged drug overdose.
In 1970, $35,000 was the median family annual income.
George Jung's estimated annual income was $1.5 million.
Rolling Stone Magazine reported on the rapid rise of cocaine consumption and distribution...
noting that in the entire year of 1967 a total of 22 kilos of the drug were confiscated...
but in 1970, in one week alone, 10.5 kilos were confiscated.
In 1970, the combined forces of 20,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia.
Four Kent State University students were killed from shots fired by the National Guard...
at an anti-war rally in the spring of 1970.
For days afterwards, protests and student boycotts closed down college campuses throughout the country.
In 1970, marijuana was categorized separately from other narcotics...
when the "Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act"...
repealed mandatory penalties for drug offenses.
In 1964 "It Ain't Me Babe" was written by Bob Dylan, as an explicit good-bye to the folk movement he helped reinvigorate.
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941.
e started writing poems at age 10 and taught himself rudimentary piano and guitar in his early teens.
In 1970, the medical world initiated a "War on Cancer".
In 1970, the total cancer deaths in the U.S. were 330,972.
In 1970, the average number of Americans who died each day from cancer was 907.
Cancer incidences increased slowly from the 1970s through 1992.
From 1992 to 1996 cancer rates steadily dropped by about 2.2% a year.
George was enchanted with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of free will and the internal combination of good and evil.
George felt that he had both demons and angels guiding his life.
Since George had skipped bail, the FBI office sent his file to an FBI office near his parent's home.
An FBI agent often visited his parents.
George's father called a lawyer to stop the FBI agent's visits.
Fred Jung was an excessive gambler, losing his first fleet of oil trucks at the race track.
Ray Liotta was born in 1955.
Johnny Depp was born on June 9, 1963.
Rachel Griffiths, born in 1968, is actually five years younger than Johnny Depp.
Rachel lives in Sydney, Australia.
George was 31 years old when he arrived at Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.
The population of Danbury consisted of mostly white-collar offenders...
mob members and high-end drug dealers.
Danbury's former famous inmates include, Gordon Liddy, the Watergate defendant...
Clifford Irving, the author of the hoax Howard Hughes biography...
and the two Father Barrigans, famous Vietnam War protestors.
Experts believe treatment for drugs is seven times more cost effective in reducing drug demand than law enforcement.
In 1965, 33% of federal prisoners were minorities. In 1980, 64% of federal prisoners were minorities.
When George was an inmate, all Danbury prisoners had to work from 8am to 4pm for a pay of 20¢ per hour.
George's class was a group of New York City pimps charged with tax evasion.
In the 1970s, Nixon became the first president to place drugs before foreign policy.
Approximately 15% of U.S. soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War returned home addicted to drugs.
President Nixon felt a need to deal with the drug problem before soldiers returned home...
and mandated medical treatment as a priority to fight the massive drug addiction.
In 1972, Anti-drug Legislation passed unanimously in Congress.
In the 1970s, a kilo of cocaine could be processed for $1,500 in Colombia and sold in the U.S. for $50,000.
The white powder, Cocaine Hydrochloride, is made by soaking coca leaves in a lime, kerosene and sulfuric acid solution.
250 kilos of coca leaves boil down to 2.5 kilos of paste.
From this paste a 100% pure cocaine alkaloid is formed called "base".
The "base" is dissolved in ether and combined with hydrochloric acid and acetone.
This mixture dries into the familiar fine white powder seen in the movie.
In the early 1970s, it cost 80 quarters to call Colombia for three minutes from New England.
Until the 1970s Colombia controlled less than 15% of the world's cocaine market.
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty constitutional.
In 1976, Apple ©, Inc. was established in a Silicon Valley garage.
Their goal was to produce no more than 100 computers at $50 each.
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld states' rights to enact laws making homosexual acts illegal.
It even affected sex between consenting adults in their own home.
In 1976, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution...
assailing Israel's occupation policies in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
In 1976, "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees became the fourth platinum single in music history.
The use of dogs to detect contraband in major air/sea and land borders was introduced in 1970.
A dog can examine a vehicle for contraband in 5 to 6 minutes and check 400 to 500 packages in about 30 minutes.
In 1996, dogs detected over 253 tons of narcotics with a street value of $3.7 billion.
Throughout the world, customs and police seize less than five percent of all illegal drugs being smuggled.
In the early 1970s, drug traffickers used "mules" (drug carriers) on commercial air flights to smuggle cocaine.
"Mules" used false bottom suitcases, and swallowed drugs wrapped in condoms.
Cocaine has been smuggled in wigs, shoe heels, aerosol cans, toothpaste tubes, shoulder pads and bras.
When smuggled as a dissolved substance, cocaine could also be concealed in soda cans or shampoo.
In the early 1990s, smugglers were found with cocaine stuffed into surgically implanted buttock packs.
Early cocaine smuggling was also accomplished using small planes...
flying from Miami to Nassau, an island in the Bahamas.
In Nassau, pilots would file flight plans to fly to other islands during busy air-traffic time...
but instead would fly to a 5,000 foot airstrip outside Medellin, Colombia.
The planes would return to Nassau and from there fly back to Miami...
loaded with duffle bags full of cocaine.
To avoid the DEA, the planes would drop below radar before reaching the Florida coast.
The planes landed in North Carolina. The duffle bags of cocaine were then driven back to Miami.
There are minimal restrictions in Florida for gun ownership.
Florida does not require a permit to purchase or license rifles, shotguns and handguns.
The only permit required is to carry a handgun.
George would earn an average of $10,000 per kilo of cocaine smuggled.
With two trips a week to L.A. he would net $500,000.
Cocaine is cut by dealers with quinine, novocaine, lactose and mannite, a mild laxative.
Cutting with quinine is the least desirable method because it creates a burning sensation in the nose.
When using cocaine, people are often talkative and full of energy to the point of being restless and fidgety.
Cocaine can temporarily increase focus and mental alertness, eliminate fatigue and decrease the appetite.
One million dollars in one hundred dollar bills weigh exactly 20.4 lbs.
Six million dollars worth of crisp new one hundred dollar bills in a single stack measures 21.5 feet in height.
In 1987, 85% of the cocaine in the U.S. came from Colombia and was valued at $4 billion.
Many of Medellin's poor people, paid by the cartel, became wealthy drug carriers, bodyguards and assassins.
Starting out in petty scams, Pablo Escobar was an accomplished car thief by the time he was 20.
In 1993, Pablo Escobar's personal wealth was estimated to be two billion dollars.
Colombian banks readily converted unlimited amounts of U.S. dollars into pesos.
Between 1976 and 1980 bank deposits in Colombia's four major cities more than doubled.
With cocaine money, Escobar started his own newspaper...
financed a housing development for the poor called Barrio Pablo Escobar...
funded money for road and electric lines, built roller rinks...
and handed out money at public appearances.
To the Colombian people Escobar became "Paisa Robin Hood."
Even the Catholic Church of Medellin backed Escobar's social programs.
In 1982, Escobar was elected to the Colombian Congress, granting him diplomatic immunity.
Pablo Escobar's motto in dealing with the authorities was known as "plata o plomo"...
translated to mean accept Pablo's "plata" (silver) or his "plomo" (lead).
During the 1980s and early 1990s as many as 2,000 police and civilians were murdered each year in Medellin by the cartel.
Escobar paid bounty ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 on the lives of police.
The cartel also assassinated more than 30 judges, the Minister of Justice and a presidential candidate.
In 1989, they bombed the offices of El Espectador (an anti-drug newspaper)...
and blew up an Avianca passenger plane killing over 100 passengers and crew.
In 1983, the largest cocaine lab in the world was built in Tranquilandia, Colombia...
with an airstrip and its own power and water supply.
In 1984, Tranquilandia was raided by the Colombian National Police.
Fourteen metric tons of cocaine were confiscated and dumped in the river.
In 1993, Escobar was killed in a firefight with Colombian National Police at a private residence in downtown Medellin.
In 1979, freebase cocaine was developed by cooking cocaine powder, water, and baking soda...
until it formed a solid substance that could be broken down and sold in individual "rocks".
Freebasing was popularized by dealers and glamorized by Hollywood media.
During the early 1980s, George was transporting two to five million dollars in cash a week.
Between 1978 and 1980 George snorted an average of five grams (125 lines) of cocaine a day.
This equaled around 13.2 pounds of cocaine in two years.
Money laundering can be defined as the process of concealing the existence...
the illegal source, or the application of income derived from criminal activity...
and the subsequent disguising of the source of that income to make it appear legitimate.
During the Middle Ages, it became a tradition for couples to kiss over a small cluster of cakes at their wedding.
Later, a clever baker in London decided to group all these small cakes together...
covering them with frosting and the modern tiered wedding cake was created.
Iron was used by the Romans to make a wedding ring.
It symbolized the permanence of marriage.
Mirtha was 24 years old when George met her in 1977.
She was born in Cuba and when her sister married a Colombian, Mirtha was introduced to the world of cocaine trafficking.
Penelope Cruz was born in Madrid, Spain in 1974.
Johnny Depp is a member of the band "P", whose other members include Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes...
guitarist Bill Carter, Sex Pistol Steve Jones, Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea and Sal Jenco.
Penelope studied classical ballet for nine years before she became an actress.
Penelope starred in Pedro Almodovar's Academy Award-winning film "All About My Mother".
Cruz won Spain's Oscar equivalent, the Goya Award, as Best Actress...
for her role in Fernando Trueba's "The Girl of Your Dreams".
In 1977, one fourth of the world's population lived on less than $200 a year.
90 million people survived on less than $75 a year.
In 1977, the U.S. median family income was $35,000, remaining the same as it was in 1970.
In that same year, the Jung's average household expenses ran about $60,000 a week.
George's house had a 250-gallon oil storage tank in the basement, large enough to store $3 million in cash.
George owned many cars, including a Porsche 924, a turbo-charged Carrera...
Thunderbirds, BMWs, a couple of Mercedes Benzes and a Ferrari.
George gave his parents a brand new Ford Country Squire station wagon.
They never used it.
In 1979, cocaine violence was brought to the limelight...
when, in broad daylight, Colombian drug traffickers staged a deadly shoot out at a Miami mall.
In 1982, Miami citizens lobbied the federal government...
to help stop the increasing violence caused by the drug trade.
President Reagan created the "Vice President's Task Force on South Florida".
It was headed by George Bush and used agents from the DEA, IRS, Army and Navy.
In 1985, after Colombia extradited four Colombian narco-traffickers...
a hit list from the Medellin cartel was made known in the U.S.
It included U.S. businessmen, journalists, embassy members and their families.
In the 1980s, an average of 125 tons of cocaine a year entered the U.S...
equaling, after being cut 3 to 4 times by dealers, about $40 to $50 billion.
If cocaine drug trafficking was a legal business during the 1980s...
it would have ranked as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500.
Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfield in Sarasota, Florida.
When Paul was eleven he joined the local Aslo Theater.
In the mid 1970s Reubens appeared on the Gong Show.
The Bahamas consist of 700 islands and over 2,000 islets...
that occupy 100,000 square miles of ocean in the Atlantic.
The island chain, which lies as close as 52 miles from Miami and which stretches as far south as Haiti...
was a favorite staging ground for drug smugglers.
Norman Cay is a small island in the Bahamas, 210 miles off the Florida coast.
In 1978, the Medellin cartel bought large pieces of Norman Cay, including a hotel, an airstrip and a marina.
Robert Vesco, a swindler who defrauded investors of $224 million...
was in exile on his own island 10 miles south of Norman Cay.
He was instrumental in assisting the cartel with bribing the Bahamian Government.
With Bahamian authorities looking the other way...
and the local inhabitants being scared off...
the island became a stopover and refueling hub for the cartel's cocaine smuggling operations.
Yachtsmen sailing near Norman Cay were swooped down upon by cartel helicopters...
and through a loudspeaker were told to clear out fast.
20th century French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre first coined the term "existentialism" by using it for his own philosophy.
Existentialism, a philosophical and literary movement, holds that man is totally free and responsible for his acts.
This responsibility that causes man's dread and anguish, is one of George's favorite topics.
The German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, argued that human beings can never hope to understand why they are here.
Instead, each individual must choose a goal and follow it with passionate conviction...
aware of the certainty of death and the ultimate meaninglessness of one's life.
Cocaine use triggers symptoms associated with the "fight or flight" syndrome, increasing the heart rate and blood pressure.
It constricts blood vessels, dilates the bronchioles, increases the blood sugar level and prepares the body for emergencies.
Cocaine can have traumatic effects on the heart, including a disordered heartbeat and/or possible failure of the cardiovascular system.
In 1980, Richard Pryor, was badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
In 1982, at the age of 33, John Belushi died in the world famous Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles...
after allegedly using a combination of cocaine and heroine.
President Reagan launched the "War on Drugs" in the mid 1980s by saying...
"The American people want their government to get tough and go on the offensive."
Casual and popular use of cocaine dwindled in the late 1980s...
yet the Reagan and Bush administrations called for an escalation in fighting drugs.
In 2000, the U.S. federal government spent over $19.2 billion on the "War on Drugs"...
and state and local governments have spent at least another $20 billion.
During 1999, in the U.S., someone was arrested every 20 seconds for a drug law offense.
An average of 648 people were locked up every day for drug violations.
In 1985, the cocaine George was arrested with had exceeded the eight ounces specified...
in a new minimum-sentencing statue signed into law only months earlier by Gov. Michael Dukakis.
George was facing a mandatory sentence of 10 years without parole.
Before mandatory minimum sentencing laws were passed, the average drug sentence was 21 months.
It is a federal crime for anyone who has been released on bail...
to willfully fail to appear when required to do so.
The drug war creates huge "asset forfeiture" for the DEA.
Asset forfeiture occurs when the DEA seizes property from drug arrests.
In 2001, it's estimated to be a half billion dollar per year enterprise.
In exchange for U.S. arms for the cause of the Nicaraguan Contras, Panama's president, Noriega...
was allowed to use Panama's planes to smuggle drugs for the cartel into the U.S. during the 1980s.
Noriega's drug running operation was integral to Oliver North's arms running operations.
In 1989, 24,000 U.S. troops invaded Panama, captured Noriega and arrested him for drug trafficking.
Noriega was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering.
He was sentenced to 40 years in a U.S. federal prison.
In 1987, 25% of children lived below poverty level.
The poverty level in 1987 for a family of four was $12,000.
Some of the effects of drugs on an individual's ability to drive include:
impaired reaction times, fatigue, impaired perception and loss of attention.
About two in every five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives.
During the 1990s, four times as many Americans died in drunk driving accidents as were killed in the Vietnam War.
Marriages are the first casualty of arrest and conviction.
Imprisonment is statutory grounds for divorce in most states.
The mental stress of arrest and imprisonment is often followed by the added trauma of divorce and loss of parental rights.
Before George's trial, the one-kilo of cocaine to be used as evidence against him, mysteriously disappeared.
George served only 40 months in a minimum-security prison.
70% of all children born in 1980 spent a portion of their childhood in a single parent family.
Over one million children are affected by divorce each year.
Non-custodial fathers paid, on average, seven percent of their personal income in child support in 1990.
This figure is low, mainly because so many non-custodial fathers paid no child support in 1990.
Over 80% of all non-custodial fathers either paid no child support...
or spent less than 15% of their personal income on child support.
Single parent households grew from five percent of all U.S. households in 1970...
to nine percent of all U.S. households in 1990.
Single parent households with children under the age of 18 numbered 8.6 million in 1990.
This is a 46% increase since 1980.
Seven million were single parent families headed by a woman with 1.6 million single parent families headed by a man.
The average amount of child support received by mothers in 1989 amounted to $2,995 per child.
In 1990, 45% of single parent families headed by a woman...
and 19% of single parent families headed by a man lived in poverty...
as compared to only eight percent of married couples with children under the age of 18.
The number of single parent households headed by men increased from 14% in 1980 to 19% in 1990.
In 1986, President Reagan signed a classified national security decision directive...
declaring drug trafficking as a "national security threat".
In 1989, President Bush signed the National Security Dire Directive 18...
which called for more than $250 million worth of military law enforcement and intelligence systems to fight the Andean cartels...
and another $65 million in emergency military aid to Colombia alone.
Johnny Depp's first daughter was born in 1999.
From 1996 to 1999 federal informants were paid at least $260 million by U.S. government agencies.
The DEA acknowledges having twice as many documented informants as field agents.
The number of DEA agents in 1973 was 1,470 compared to 4,561 in 2000.
The DEA budget in 1973 was $74 million; in 1990 - $769 million; in 2000 - $1.5 billion.
George believed there were three ways to get arrested in the drug business:
by accident, selling or buying from an undercover cop or from the "inside".
People with certain histories and personality traits are more likely to become addicts.
In theory, addiction seems to run in families, although the specific addictions can vary.
For example, an alcoholic father might have a workaholic daughter.
Approximately 30% of alcoholics' children become addicts.
Johnny prepared for the role of George Jung by visiting with him on numerous occasions at the prison.
They discussed both his experiences and his philosophies on life.
"He really saw himself as a modern pirate," said Depp. "He didn't believe in the system or politics or rules or bosses."
"He didn't want to go out and end up in a cookie cutter job like everybody else."
"He just wanted to go out there and really live."
Depp felt he could relate to Jung's dizzying rise to fame and fortune.
"It reminded me of when I started acting because I didn't want to be this at all when I first started out."
"But I started making money like I'd never seen before in my life."
"And I think that's what happened to George. He was going into business, the way he saw it."
Addiction is a physical and/or psychological dependence on a substance or behavior.
It begins by using something to feel good.
Over time, the person feels less pleasure, and more addicted.
Eventually, the addiction leads to a feeling of "I don't care, as long as I can..."...
even when the effects are devastating to the addicted person or others.
Getting it - and more of it - becomes the person's top priority. Everything else is expendable.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the mandatory minimum sentencing laws forced judges to hand out fixed sentences without parole...
to people convicted of possession or the trafficking of illegal drugs.
In 1990, more than half of the federal inmates serving mandatory minimum sentences, were first time offenders.
In 1993, 21% of the total federal prison population were low-level drug violators with no history of prior incarceration.
Mandatory minimum prison sentences were applied in 65% of drug cases in 1997.
The Federal Bureau of Prison's budget increased more than 1,400% after the enactment of mandatory minimum sentences.
The budget jumped from $220 million in 1986 to $3.19 billion in 1997.
In 2000, the U.S. had one of the world's highest proportion of its population in prison.
Today, illegal drug traffic constitutes one of the most profitable and extensive markets in the world.
Volume of sales is calculated between $400 and $500 billion per year...
or about ten percent of the world's international commodity trade.
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