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Ruthless streetwise tough guy Tom Powers (a terrific and electrifying performance by James Cagney in his star-making breakthrough role) and his loyal partner Matt Doyle (well played by Edward Woods) rise to the top of the criminal heap selling bootleg alcohol for the smooth, hard-nosed Paddy Ryan (a fine portrayal by Robert Emmett O'Connor) during the Prohibition era.

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If we truly want to make an impact on this drug crisis, we need to have a serious conversation about prohibition and criminal punishment.

We have come so far down the road of prohibition, punishment and prejudice that we have become indifferent to the suffering that we have inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society.

My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

The third thing I want you to remember is that even though we're more comfortable with this idea of "them," a set of bad guys separated from us, we are actually accomplices to them, either through our direct consumption or through our acceptance of the inconsistency between our policies of prohibition and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption.

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