I research, I am a closet sleuth. I spent two weeks, for example, at Penn State to go through the boxes of Harry Anslinger's archive. I went to TV stations and over 200 archives in North America. I am somewhat perfectionistic in that sense. There are books that cover different periods of the history, but there is not a complete legislative history of marijuana prohibition.
Propaganda films are the cornerstone of drug policy.
The other thing is that I spend a long time as a kind of perfectionist with the films which is one of the reasons why I'm in Dallas with this HD state of the art. My films are theatrical. There's only a handful of documentary filmmakers who get their films released theatrically. So I try and make the work more elegant. There is a Dolby digital soundtrack.