Despite $1 trillion spent on enforcement and 2.5 million death toll, more illegal drugs are being produced, trafficked, and consumed than ever before. Featuring interviews and action filmed with key players on both sides of the law, this 10 part series will examine the drug wars - both past and present - to explain why.

How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico’s history.

Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking