In Scarface, when Tony comments on a news broadcast about legalizing drugs, screenwriter Oliver Stone used this moment to slip in his own political views on the war on drugs. Stone explains… "Three or four grams of coke [went] for $12 in Ecuador: it was so pure you’d fall asleep it was so good, [although] they’d cut it and cut it and cut it by the time it got here. It was a big business, and the DEA made it bigger by making it more [so] by getting more involved and raising their own budgets, by passing the RICO Act. The RICO Act was just crap; the [government] used it politically, I mention it in the script: I have Tony say they ought to legalize drugs if they had any brains. The RICO Act is one of the precursors to the Patriot Act; that was the mentality—you turn drugs into a monster, et cetera. So, for me there was a political motive." 1/2 Quote comes from Ken Tucker's book Scarface Nation