The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

Canada, 2007, 105 min

Directed By: Brett Harvey
Executive Producer: Adam Scorgie
Producers: Graeme Flannigan, Stephen Green, Kieran MaGuire
Camera: Brett Harvey
Editor: Stephen Green
Music: Michael Champion

http://www.theunionmovie.com

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039647/


Highly entertaining as well as informative, The Union takes a look at BC's ever-expanding marijuana industry.

Beginning with a brief history of the use of marijuana in North America, director Brett Harvey takes us on a

journey that includes interviews with growers, clippers, criminologists, politicians, doctors, police officers and

pop culture icons to illuminate the business of BC bud and how it is that such a powerful industry can function

so successfully while remaining illegal. With enormous profits to be made, he questions who benefits the

most from the current state of affairs and comes up with some not-so-surprising answers.

In examining more closely the propaganda of the anti-marijuana lobby, some unexpected facts and figures

surface regarding the health risks of marijuana as well as the economic, agricultural and societal benefits of

growing hemp, and the current laws prohibiting such crops in North America. As an industry that brings in

seven billion dollars annually, the business of growing and distributing marijuana is even more profitable for

those involved on both sides of the law due to the prohibition. The Union is a fascinating and in-depth look at

one of BC's most profitable industries and the players involved, from the growers and dealers to

pharmaceutical companies and builders of private prisons. Winner, Outstanding Documentary Feature, 2007

Winnipeg International Film Festival.

This film is nominated for the National Film Board's Best Canadian Documentary Award.

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To burn;

Select all, Copy, and Paste onto a blank Disk. Your OS or burn program will do the rest just like any document.


By the way, I don't have any software to rip anything, I don't see ANY use for it.
You take your disc, dont fuck with auto-play (disable it in the default), open your disk like you open any folder

and "select all, copy, and paste" it in a folder anywhere you like, or onto another disc.

Try it. I dont see how software makers had anyone believe they need to BUY and RUN a riper.

One more thing, whenever I find an ISO disc, I take any zip (7zip, Izarc, Rar) and unzip it, and then do as

above.

Oh, and I use Imgburn simply because it is faster than my OS(vista) one.

You can also take the "VTS_01_1.VOB" to "VTS_01_5.VOB" and replace the VOB ext to MPEG (the system will

alert you and say blablabla; I never care because they're the same encode "mv2 dvd compatible") and play

them or load them to your prefered DVD editor software. This will enable you to do your own "VTS_01_0.VOB"

and BUP and IFO files and have the disc your way.

If your system cannot play mpeg, go to http://shark007.net and get the Vista codec pack. It also have the

sets for "WindowsME to Windows7". (it gave me the ocasion to get rid of realplayer for once;) I use flashgot

to get my FLVs and other web videos.

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