Dope Is Death

Dope Is Death (2020)

March 6th, 20201h 18min

Documentary
80%

Overview

The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.


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