Phoenix House Founder Mitchell S. Rosenthal, M.D. is attending a transatlantic conference debating a new approach to the War on Drugs. Hosted by the Ditchley Foundation, the conference focuses on the question: “How should drug control policy change?”

The biggest fallacy of the new film, “Savages,” is its depiction of the marijuana trade as a simple case of good guys vs. bad guys: innocent California pot growers/dealers finding themselves unwittingly entangled with The Big Bad Mexican Drug Cartel.