This is your brain on drug policy - remake of classic PSA with Rachel Lee Cook

In 1998 actor Rachel Lee Cook starred in the "This is your brain on heroin" PSA, smashing up a kitchen with a frying pan:https://youtu.be/dAHoxaphbEs

Nearly 20 year later, Cook is back in the kitchen, frying pan in hand. But her concluding message is different:

The Drug War is ruining peoples lives. It fuels mass incarceration, preying on people of color in greater numbers than their white counterparts. It cripples communities, costs billions and it doesnt work... Any questions?

Cook says, "Ava DuVernay's 13th [a documentary that explores the "intersection of race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States"] was a complete revelation for me. The shocking, cold water education her documentary presented compelled me to reexamine my own involvement with a larger movement that has gone on to harm so many. When my unique position brought about the opportunity to raise my voice again about this issue, I knew it was the right thing to do. My hope now is to bring attention to the wildly unfair practices of drug sentencing and advocate for their reform."

The new PSA was created in partnership with Green Point Creative and the Drug Policy Alliance. It was directed by Ryan Kleier from Motiv Creative.

Here's the moronic ad that started it all:https://youtu.be/GOnENVylxPI

And here's the Drug Policy Alliance's Tony Papa and how the Rockefeller Drug Laws affected his life:https://youtu.be/j0l1AY6eb0A