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Synopsis
The Business of Drugs (2020), Season 1 — watch all 6 documentary episodes online on iFILM. Former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox approaches the drug trade as exactly that: a trade, with supply chains, market dynamics, and profit margins that dwarf most legal industries.
Each episode follows one substance. Fox traces cocaine from Andean farms through smuggling networks to street-level sales, then maps the synthetic MDMA market into the legal grey zones that make it unpredictable and deadly. She flies to Kenya to walk one of the world's newest heroin corridors, then moves to Myanmar — Southeast Asia's ground zero for methamphetamine production. California's cannabis legalization did not kill the black market; roughly 80 percent of in-state sales still bypass the legal system entirely. The season closes on opioids, where oxycodone's origins inside the pharmaceutical industry make the scale of destruction harder to separate from corporate decisions.
What separates this series from standard drug documentaries is Fox's approach: she interviews farmers, traffickers, recovering addicts, and policy researchers with the same open curiosity, no prosecutorial edge. Stream The Business of Drugs Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Cocaine
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
S1·E2Synthetics
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
S1·E3Heroin
Fox travels to Kenya, where she speaks to people living and working on the front lines of one of the world's newest and most profitable heroin routes.
S1·E4Meth
Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
S1·E5Cannabis
Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
S1·E6Opioids
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
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