Dope Is Death

7.0
2020
1h 18m
Released
Documentary

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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Director: Mia Donovan

Cast: Mutulu Shakur

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