“I saw the problem from the inside. I have children who are old enough to consume it. I am aware of how easy it is to obtain it. And the business that has become the consumption of the product, goody bags and company. We took a tour of all the countries in the world that have legalized cannabis. Not to say that it’s good, but to see how things are going with them today
,” explained
Mathieu Kassovitz
during the press presentation of his new work.
To discover
TV tonight: our selection of the day
In collaboration with Antoine Robin, the director of
Hate
signed
Cannabis
, a major documentary investigation that France Télévisions is preparing to broadcast in different forms.
A serial format in ten 20-minute episodes to follow on francetv.slash, aimed at younger audiences.
A large 90-minute documentary format to be discovered soon on France 5 as part of a special evening which will be followed by a debate, especially for parents.
France, the leading consumer of cannabis
Two formats to reach all targets.
Two formats to go further.
The idea is brilliant.
Ten episodes to travel the world, meeting the players in the legalization of Cannabis, the countries that produce it, the issues that the question raises, the problems that this new market brings and the more or less happy aftermath of such a decision .
The idea is great too.
Morocco, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand... Mathieu Kassovitz, here an investigator, embodies, questions, shakes up, explores and discovers, like the viewer, the ins and outs of a trade that we can hardly believe is 'he may one day be virtuous.
With at the end of each episode, an educational module to provide information on the law, public health problems and prevention.
Inform and renew dialogue
“We think the ban solves all the problems. But France is the leading consumer country of Cannabis, with a majority of young people, between fifteen and twenty years old
, notes the producer,
and you should know that this is the age when the brain is the most fragile, to tolerate substances of which we know neither where they come from, nor what they are made with, nor their THC content.
This is demonstrated each year by the number of depressions, decompensations and even suicides attributed to drugs.
So, good or bad choice?
“Cannabis” is not intended to answer the question.
She wants to inform, open minds, help dialogue between parents and teenagers, which is sometimes so difficult.
And that’s already it.