Bear with blood on its snout
"Cocaine Bear."
  • "Cocaine Bear" depicts an ursine rampage through Georgia's Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest.
  • The film is a fictionalization of a real event involving a bear finding cocaine thrown from a drug-laden airplane.
  • The story of how Pablo Escobar's drug flights to the US led to such a film is also worth exploring.

The sight of a bear enthusiastically snorting a line of cocaine off a severed human leg may be an enduring moment in all of cinema.

To be clear, violence related to drug trafficking is no laughing matter. The international cocaine trade has caused untold deaths and threatens the security of virtually every nation in Latin America and the Caribbean.