Through individual stories of people involved in the international drug trade from impoverished farmers harvesting opium on the battle scarred poppy fields of Afghanistan; to peasants turning Coca leaf into Cocaine deep in the Jungles of Columbia; to federal police chasing traffickers through the streets of Tijuana; to cops cutting down Marijuana plantations in Northern California; to drug wholesalers revealing the inner workings of the Heroin market in Chicago; to Methamphetamine addicts finding salvation in Missouri and to the British Navy searching ships for drugs on the high seas - the biography of drugs explores the entire supply chain of the global trade in Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine and Marijuana.