The Craziest Ways Cartels Traffic Drugs | The War on Drugs
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What do watermelons, submarines and sex toys all have in common? They’ve all been used to smuggle drugs.
The War on Drugs has forced cartels to become serious innovators. For every method police develop to catch them, drug traffickers will come up with new ways to get their product from producer to seller to buyer. This can lead to advanced technological innovation like narco-submarines and "trap cars". But it can also create violence, coercion and massive political corruption.
And, just occasionally, it can lead to hundreds of pounds of cocaine getting eaten by wild bears - a true story, which has now become the inspiration for a Hollywood film.
We look at the craziest and most inventive ways cartels have smuggled drugs, and how these have become more and more advanced over time.
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00:00 Intro
02:01 The Golden Age of Drug Smuggling
05:26 How the Modern Mexican Cartel Was Created
07:50 The So-Called ‘Trap Car’
In The War On Drugs Show, we examine the social implications of prohibition worldwide. Any attempt to shut down the trade in drugs such as heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine or weed invariably sets off a chain of events that just makes things worse, leaving a trail of death, illness, violence, slavery, addiction, crime and inequality across the globe. Everyone loses - except, in a weird kind of way, the drugs themselves.
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@lucid4entrelises
7 ай бұрын
How 0 likes?
@Coolsomeone234
6 ай бұрын
@@lucid4entrelisessame. Idk how
@heha3131
4 ай бұрын
broke ahh pin
Disappointed every time I go to the grocery store and end up with a pineapple that isn't full of cocaine tbh
@stevenewton7787
Жыл бұрын
I know I had the same fantasy when cutting into a watermelon yesterday!
@sugarhieroglyph
Жыл бұрын
Gotta get yer vitamin C.
@ingridakerblom7577
Жыл бұрын
Those are reserved for the staffs christmas party..
@cdk1016
Жыл бұрын
You are statistically more likely to find cocaine hidden in banana crates.
@cdk1016
Жыл бұрын
A port in Texas donated 2 pallets of over ripe bananas to the Texas department of criminal justice which they later discovered to contain cocaine worth an estimated street value of 18 million $. Maybe diversify your your fruit selection if you would like increase your odds of scoring nose candy. And that's not a one off. I'd go for bananas, pineapple, oranges and occasionally avocados. Diversify and increase your odds. Might help if you purchase on the southern side of any states bordering Mexico but it pops up randomly across the country. Its like cross country narco-produce whack-a-mule. 😆
I literally got a cocaine bear advertisement while watching this 😂
@jpprod2043
Жыл бұрын
Same here lol
@EarthWasHere
Жыл бұрын
Same💀
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
what you actually saw was an ad inside an ad, because the movie studio paid vice to make an ad that looks like one of their articles
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
p.s why are you seeing ad's during videos? free ad blockers work
@aeon_zero
Жыл бұрын
They sponsored the video, it says it at the end
Side note this is my favorite Vice series by far! "We would like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs"
Everytime the government discovers a method, 5 different methods are being used.
@Yodaddi_13
Жыл бұрын
Yup u can thank ur CIA for making different strategies and methods for the cartel.
@slowedversion6393
Жыл бұрын
And more and more etc
@alexcope8142
Жыл бұрын
when will heroin be legalized? when will cocaine be legalized? when will meth be legalized?
@tylersmash7134
Жыл бұрын
@@Yodaddi_13 shouldn't the cartel be thanking them or does that require too much brain?
My neighbourhood barber was just arrested for selling drugs it's crazy how I've been his costomer for 4 years and never knew he was a barber 😮...
That poor bear. He only tried a few hundred kilos of cocaine ONE time and dropped dead. Hopefully kids and adults alike can learn from this. It only takes trying it one single time to destroy your life or even worse, take your life. Not to mention the shame this will bring to his bear family. I hear they rarely ever leave their den these days. They say the gossip amongst all his "supposed" little forest friends is simply too much to bear.
@GRANOLA77
Жыл бұрын
😔😔😔
@listenhere1623
Жыл бұрын
Get out
@nathangarland9453
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍺🍺🍺🍺
@tommyvercetti7632
Жыл бұрын
Literally saw a ad for Cocaine Bear movie before this video…
@mohammadg50
Жыл бұрын
@@tommyvercetti7632 bro it showed the same ad for me in middle of the video. Cocain bear lol😂
I’ve seen one of the drug subs. It was before anyone had ever heard of them so I’m assuming they weren’t caught because we didn’t report them. I was on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. I just happened to look over the side and saw a periscope just putting along. We all checked it out and wondered why in the hell anyone was riding around 400 miles from shore in a sub with a pvc periscope. Our driller was retired Navy and said it definitely wasn’t military. Looking back now, it’s clear what it was. This was around 2005-2006.
@RichOffYayy
Жыл бұрын
No shi
@brokentombot
Жыл бұрын
I wonder why they had a periscope out but failed to use it to see an oil rig. Must have been high in there.
@juanocampo2262
Жыл бұрын
So you just saw a periscope floating along 😂
@candycouldntbesosweet
Жыл бұрын
That’s a pretty cool story
@crushadin5793
Жыл бұрын
I believe it, I saw Santa's sleigh last year
Sergeant: "Where did those massive bags of cocaine go?" Officer: "A bear ate them" Sergeant: "Ok, that sounds believable. I'll notify the press"
@G666REY
Жыл бұрын
Whats the Movie being called?
@stealthisaccount433
Жыл бұрын
i got an ad for that before this vid lol
@llclassifiedll8179
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂you know what you’re right lmao
@mart1547
Жыл бұрын
@@G666REY, Goldilocks and the three crackheads
@el0013
Жыл бұрын
@@G666REY cocaine bear
These tunnels are the main reason why building a wall made/ makes no sense. The boarder literally is too long and the cartel is always 10 steps ahead.
@lexj432hz6
3 ай бұрын
Can you hear? He literally said the VAST majority of drugs are not transported underground. Then immediately after, he said “they (drugs) come over the border.” Wym a wall makes “no sense?”
The submarines are not built in just the Amazon, they are built on the west coast of Colombia.
Safest way to move drugs long distance these days, would apparently be by weather balloon.
@jamesbrownie4704
Жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA "I WAS JUST TRYING TO SEE IF THE MEDIA WAS TRUE ABOUR HOW COLD IT WAS IN THE EAST!" AHAHAHAH
Those little submarines are so cool. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
9:09, he sums up my sentiment exactly. The U.S. government is too stupid to legalize drugs and make this smuggling and cartel problem disappear. They'd rather seize 1 pound for every hundred thousand that makes it through so they can feel like they've accomplished something.
@joshuagibson2520
Жыл бұрын
They're in on it. They don't want it legal. Us gov has been involved in lots drug dealing throughout history too. I'm with you, but its not because they're stupid so much is that they use it for gain. Just like any smuggler or anyone else. We'd all benefit if legalization happens, and the gov will lose.
@alexc7242
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuagibson2520 No disagreement there. I just think that taxing the hell out of it could still prove beneficial for the government, and people within the system could still fatten their own pockets, per usual.
@jerm7159
Жыл бұрын
They dont want it legal. If its legal how can they control and jail the masses?
@alexc7242
Жыл бұрын
@@jerm7159 Good point. Can't say that isn't accurate.
@MelGibsonFan
Жыл бұрын
Legalizing and taxing would be marked improvement but it’s delusional to think the cartels would go away. They’re pushing fentanyl, meth, labor exploitation, sex workers and yes even CSAM. They are a cancer and they won’t be removed by pie in the sky bullshit like “oh let’s just legalize weed”
Love the Cosby sweater. 😭
I wish these segments were longer
I love this guy, he's so right about his last sentences
@kaamos79
Жыл бұрын
Permissive or lax drug policies in the US have not really ended well - SF is in a severe crisis, as is Portland. Prohibition alone isn't the answer of course, but just giving up and accepting serious, highly addictive, health wrecking, mind consuming, life destroying drugs are just something we have to live with only tends to make awful places with endemic social problems.
9:08 is the MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE for ALL the governments around the world! WAR on anything including drugs NEVER solved anything! Thank u Vice for making this!👏👍
Great video !
As soon as they were talking about the bear finding the coca , a commercial of the coca bear just came on for a new movie .. I said “wth” when it came on and in the commercial , the ending has a guy saying “wth” and we said it at the same time. This was wild
Kind of narcosub situation was going on in northern Europe back in 1920 up until the beginning of WW2. A metal pontoon was built and filled with canisters of illegal alcohol. This was built so it would be completely submerged and was attached via long rope to a fishing boat to pull over the sea border. When smugglers spotted the coast guard they simply cut the rope and pretended to be regular fishermen.
This videos never change
im so hyped about the cocaine bear movie
Another banger to start the day
the real victim here was that poor bear..🤙🤙✌️✌️👍👍🇲🇽🇲🇽
Great 👍 job good video keep up the good work
Thanks for the tutorial
Now that was some clever advertising. Bravo.
If there's a demand then there will always be a supply... they will always coexist... If we can't focus on the demand side then this is just a problem that'll keep going on forever...
top content, ty
We’d like to Congratulate Drugs on winning the War on Drugs. best intro to a song!!
Almost surprinsing, vice doing good content its been a while
@soulife8383
Жыл бұрын
far left as usual. They made cocain bear a hero when Cocaine bear rhymes with insane nightmare for a reason.
@isaacwismer7567
Жыл бұрын
Haha right
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
this is obviously an advert the movie studio paid them to make look like an article, and that's good content to you? i know youtube has gone down hill but things aren't really that bad are they?
@wav_909
Жыл бұрын
@@stocktonjoans i dont care about that, video was actually informative, and didnt feel like it was pushing some sort of agenda
@Idontknowwhat2type
Жыл бұрын
@@stocktonjoans this is a long running series that covers this exact kinda stuff… it’s not really a big deal it fits the MO perfectly
Stay safe everyone. I hope everyone had an amazing day! Thanks vice for always staying informational. Sex toys to smuggle drugs though….
@lisafranklin9089
Жыл бұрын
Aye, aye captain!
@CaptainFrandy
Жыл бұрын
@@umpin3 so true! I never thought about that. Better than swallowing bags
@somerandomfella
Жыл бұрын
Imagine how numb ur 🐱 would be?
impressive.
Nice
Some say the bear was unlucky... but what bears do you know that have movies made about them? This man is up there with Paddington, and Winnie.
@jamesick
Жыл бұрын
the bear died
War on drugs is truly a losing battle, its the same with prohibition as long as their is demand for something their will always be supply
lmaoo the fact that this is sponsored by Cocaine Bear
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
why do so many people not understand that the studio paid vice to make an ad for them that looks like a vice article? or do you honestly think that a small private plane (one of the most routine methods of smuggling) belongs at the start of an article about the "craziest" ways drugs are trafficked?
Thanks vice I'll try it
Interesting stuff
The war on drugs will never be won
@nihiqallam5616
Жыл бұрын
yes it can be if I was the president
@badway420
Жыл бұрын
Drugs already won
@cristodude
Жыл бұрын
Has been. Drugs won. Congrats. I wonder if this could become olympic at one point in the future.
Watching this I feel like we’re 30 years behind them ( there has to be A LOT more recent stories similar than the 80’s coke days), the good ole boys days btw
congratulations to the war on drugs for winning the war on drugs
As longs as their is a War on terror their will be no Real War on Drugs.
To be fair, I could sort of maybe understand the inclination towards prohibition in the 1970s and 80s; back before we knew prohibition didn't work. But if you still, in the 21st century believe prohibition is the right move you're just a lost cause and have learned nothing from the past. You're not gonna stop people from doing cocaine and there's no reason to when we already allow tobacco and alcohol use, despite their addiction rates being even higher than cocaine.
@sara-cf2tz
Жыл бұрын
and sugar.. which mice literally choose over coke. so if sugar is marketed to CHILDREN, whose brain receptors it severely alters to render them addicted for life thus provoking health epidemics such as obesity and diabetes, how are consenting adults not allowed to decide for themselves over less dangerous drugs? it always shocks me how for example shrooms are considered a class A drug along with the most dangerous such as heroin when it is literally an ancestral plant that has so many health benefits, specifically for mental health disorders. my country was the first one in the world to legalize cannabis and sell it in pharmacies and it completely solved the problem of foreign gangs and cartels smuggling cheap, low-grade and spiced marijuana. now everyone that chooses to do so is smoking top-grade, california-style weed! the overwhelming majority of the country approves this law even if they don’t smoke because obtaining and smoking weed has become much less dangerous and is now regulated by the government, so no more gang violence, police brutality over having one joint in your pocket, risk of jail etc. let’s hope the whole world sees us as an example (usa & canada already have) and chooses to legalize cannabis along with considering the same for other drugs.
@tz8785
Жыл бұрын
In the 1970s, the Noble Experiment of 1920-33 still was very much living memory. It wasn't a case of "we didn't know any better", it was either total delusion or "this time it's different".
@Ryan88881
Жыл бұрын
@@tz8785 I know but I'm talking about the War on Drugs specifically starting in 1971 which changed everything and this wasn't alcohol or the early 20th century anymore, it's the modern era. What they were doing in the 70s and 80s, especially in foreign countries was pretty new when it came to cracking down on illegal psychoactives.
@tz8785
Жыл бұрын
@@Ryan88881 In other words, "this time it's different".
@Ryan88881
Жыл бұрын
@@tz8785 Yes but the drugs themselves and capabilities of law enforcement were a lot different too. It wasn't really fully clear that you could not stop illegal drugs until the early 90s or late 80s at earliest. DEA didn't even have that much funding or agents prior to Kiki's murder in 1985 which then made the DEA a lot more legitimate.
Great show
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
you misspelled "advert"
Fire 🔥🔥🔥
I got cocaine bear commercial 😂
My grandmother told me stories as a young pharmacist assistant, you could get everything Opium, coke etc over the counter. You had few junkies, but those were functional because the stuff was clean. You had no social problems, everyone was doing ok. Maybe few issues here and there like with alcohol. Than come the 70s and things started to change
@default179
Жыл бұрын
Or they hid it better because society was different but sure
@jantschierschky3461
Жыл бұрын
@@default179 I seen people who use drugs, especially heroin and you never know, because they use good stuff. Is all those crap they use to cut it is a problem
@pabloes588
Жыл бұрын
Drugs aren’t the problem as most people who take them aren’t addicts Most addicts have mental health issues or suffered trauma in their lives Sell the drug’s legally and invest the stupidly large profits into early detection of said illnesses Saying that didn’t the us basically legalise opioids a few years back and now has the highest overdose rate ever?
1:02 "...and one unlucky bear!" bet the bear didnt feel so unlucky lmaoo
@soulife8383
Жыл бұрын
it OD'd and died. Not sure why they left that tidbit at "unlucky".
Did anyone else get an ad for the movie Cocain Bear during this video!? Crazy!
I love how I got a ad for Cocaine Bear lol
I know a dude who used cocaine for some years, now he is clean but kind of hyperactive.
@spicysalsaking791
Жыл бұрын
He likely has ADHD and was just self-medicating.
@davidcomtedeherstal
Жыл бұрын
@@spicysalsaking791 At age 59Y?
loving these drug docs🔥
9:12 - Im dang sure this guy wildin with parties 😂🤝🏾💯
El chapo escaping on an underground bike cracked me up
Thats funny that the guy on the video being the narrator is actually a heroin addict irl
@Prbkkb
Жыл бұрын
How You know fr?
@G666REY
Жыл бұрын
@@Prbkkb unless he knows him than he’s just Guessing because he has glossy eyes with small to normal sized pupils. Might as well be on weed. Lol
Vice: “The government makes drugs illegal but that stops no one.” Also Vice: “The government should make guns illegal”
@voutolliC22
Жыл бұрын
people having the right to change their consciousness is not the same as people thinking they have the right to have a killswitch on others.
@shelbyspeaks3287
Жыл бұрын
@@emiliolautaro87 that's a stupid point because you can't reverse time and take the millions of gun already in the US out.
@shelbyspeaks3287
Жыл бұрын
@@voutolliC22 YOU DONT HAVE A F***** CHOICE, what do you hippies not understand about that???
@Prat-zi1ou
Жыл бұрын
Are you comparing production of guns with guns lol
Nice book report bro
Lmao... vice really does have the best drug videos! Well done...
Anyone else get the cocaine bear movie ad with this video? Lmfao
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
everyone who's dumb enough to _still_ not have any ad blockers
@mrkool501
Жыл бұрын
@@stocktonjoans some people use their phone to watch videos, not their pc
@7996hobguy
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkool501 I pay for KZread premium. Which gives me KZread Music along with KZread Red. I haven't seen an ad on my phone, PC or TV in years.
@stocktonjoans
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkool501 lame
cocain is Americas cup of coffee
🤯My pre-ad for this video was 'Cocaine Bear'🤯
That dogs having a fucking field day
Whatever happened to just pooping a balloon?
@mlgjan5046
Жыл бұрын
nitrus can be more damaging than cocaine use tbh
Those people that discover stashes of drugs or money and decide to contact the police you amaze me. I would take my cut and leave the rest for the next adventurer who discovers it and they can take the burden of calling the police
@sara-cf2tz
Жыл бұрын
till u get caught w a pound and try to tell the police u found it and they don’t believe u lol
Drug report sponsored by the Cocaine Bear well played Vice
Can we just bring the 70’s back. No fentanyl just powder and bud. 😢too many people dying here in my town
I bet they only found "$2000" 😒
“Finding a piece of hay in a haystack, completely impossible” I think that would be pretty easy to be fair seems as all you need is one piece of hay and there’s a whole haystack, this guy needs help.
@kudzaim5434
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 I had to rewind a couple of times
Hahaha. A KZread ad for the cocaine bear movie interrupted half way through this video and i thought the coincidence was hilarious. 😂
Gotta love the ole skool 80s 90s cokain cowboys rockin mullets n all haha
Well...drugs won the war on drugs
I like the fact that I got the cocaine bear trailer beforehand
Interesting how the cocain bear movie advertisement was the add for this right after he gave them a shout-out.
if you get caught with 50g of drugs on the Chinese boarder, you get death penalty, it seems to work pretty well preventing drugs get into schools, maybe the US can learn a bit
@Pleezath
Жыл бұрын
Idk maby not make it illegal in the first place seems better to me
Какой же бред, своей политикой государства губят жизни, люди должны сами распоряжаться своим телом, как это показано в одной из Новелл в фильме "Трасса 60". Запреты не дают вырасти качеству лекарств и поэтому умирают люди :С
I got an ad for cocaine bear on this video 😂
Kudos to VICE,they always come through with very informative stuff
I’ve watched the series for a while and always wondered what VICE’s belief on the handling of the drug crisis should be?
@rr212
Жыл бұрын
The same as handling the crisis on sugar should be. NON EXISTANT. Ppl need to be free to choose things that are good and healthy, as well as things that are bad and unhealthy to them. If this is not the case, we are not Free individuals.
@lonesome3958
Жыл бұрын
@@rr212 except for seriously dangerous drugs that havr no benefits like gentanyl or similar
@joshuagibson2520
Жыл бұрын
@@lonesome3958 no. Fent as well.
@JoseDoesntGetHistory
Жыл бұрын
@@lonesome3958 if you're an able-minded adult as long as you don't force other people to do drugs with you or deal with your bullshit it should be no one's business but yours what drugs you take, even if you want to inject propane into you veins and turn yourself into a human stove
@esimler
Жыл бұрын
@@rr212 and who pays their medical bills when they eat them selves into diabetic coma?
the war on drugs is a joke and waste of resources
@lizbethartemis4886
Жыл бұрын
it is a business
That's crazy
I got that ad for that coke bear movie on this video lol
It was actually one very very lucky bear...🤣
damn, this whole video is an ad for a movie. Next level marketing.
Cocaine bear ads outta control 😂
" Rec tum,----- nearly killed him!"
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just vice being vice in the end. what you hope will happen. woke up people!
Sooooo cocaine bear is the ad for this video lol
They should pay you for this movie promotion!!!! Marketing is genius now days especially try stories
Oh wow!!!!!.....
When are we going to accept that prohibition has, and never will work?
@MrPink5754
Жыл бұрын
Truth.
That 🐻 was luckily unlucky
I bet they've got full submarines by now. Just much harder to spot.
Cocaine bear crazy 🤣
Commenting for the algorithm!
crazy that this video is actually sponsored by cocaine bear
Indeed... Good luck with dat!
7:42 it's like finding a needle in a stack of needles