How the US Failed to Take Down Narco-terrorism | The War on Drugs

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Hezbollah is a Lebanese terrorist organisation and the political party responsible for deadly attacks all over the world. This is the story of how they became major players not just in the Middle East hash trade, but in the global cocaine and amphetamine business - trafficking tons of drugs across the world, and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for South American cartels.
Even murkier is how a major DEA investigation into these activities was allegedly undermined by the CIA and the White House - leading agents from different agencies to all end up accusing each other of endangering national security.
00:00 Intro
01:35 Beqaa Valley Weed
04:48 Trafficking Captagon
06:41 “This Was Some of the Biggest Drug Trafficking We’ve Ever Seen in the World”
08:23 Operation Cassandra
09:34 The Iran Nuclear Deal
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  • @VICE
    @VICE8 ай бұрын

    ¿Quieres ver el video en español? Haz clic en el botón de configuración para cambiar la pista de audio. Want to watch this in Spanish? Head over to the settings button to change the audio track.

  • @brucelee4996

    @brucelee4996

    7 ай бұрын

    Vice: Where's Jaime Clifton been? I haven't seen one of his 'War On Drugs,' videos - in a while. Please don't get rid of this series.

  • @Stinky_Couch_Pickle

    @Stinky_Couch_Pickle

    7 ай бұрын

    noo.. I stay.

  • @alexissalas2880

    @alexissalas2880

    7 ай бұрын

    Second fastest growing language. Nice!

  • @Stinky_Couch_Pickle

    @Stinky_Couch_Pickle

    7 ай бұрын

    @@alexissalas2880 Huh? you must be one of the intelligent Citizens of the USA.

  • @user-yr7xi1om3h

    @user-yr7xi1om3h

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@alexissalas2880there are more people that speak spanish than english homie 😂

  • @darkersideofthemoon8657
    @darkersideofthemoon865711 ай бұрын

    "We would like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs"

  • @mahkuntizitchy2083

    @mahkuntizitchy2083

    11 ай бұрын

    Ok, CONGRATULATIONS

  • @djoh615893

    @djoh615893

    11 ай бұрын

    I told that to a Colombian and the look I got was horror and bewilderment. That joke hits differently there I guess

  • @sn1ffy85

    @sn1ffy85

    9 ай бұрын

    Oh I wonder where you stole that from??!!

  • @mahkuntizitchy2083

    @mahkuntizitchy2083

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sn1ffy85 it's not called "stealing" you idiot, it's called "re-posting". People quote other people all the time, if it upsets you go to the cooking channel.

  • @EmmaDeFazio5938

    @EmmaDeFazio5938

    9 ай бұрын

    Why did the war on drugs start

  • @riddlerecsful
    @riddlerecsful11 ай бұрын

    "trafficking drugs to non believers is ok" I love the mental gymnastics involved here

  • @greatexpectations6577

    @greatexpectations6577

    11 ай бұрын

    Islam allows any and all activities that can potentially weaken or destroy groups that which it considers enemy or rival. In Islam, there is no moral code when it comes to non Muslims.

  • @oddalfhutlur6760

    @oddalfhutlur6760

    11 ай бұрын

    Classic muslim BS

  • @lilh0mie

    @lilh0mie

    11 ай бұрын

    ⁠these terrorists claim Islam but have extremist views and beliefs

  • @shetos1233

    @shetos1233

    11 ай бұрын

    You do realise the guy they showed in the video said it's all forbidden in Islam while the one saying they allow it to non believers is the vice reporter just spouting a claim he didn't pack whatsoever with any source

  • @dslhernandez3001

    @dslhernandez3001

    11 ай бұрын

    Maybe the reasoning is they get to "corrupt" the buyers with drugs while funding their group?

  • @VICE
    @VICE9 ай бұрын

    WATCH NEXT: Cartel Propaganda is Fuelling Mexico’s Drug War - kzread.info/dash/bejne/oo58m7ySdriYZrg.html

  • @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly
    @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly10 ай бұрын

    *Governments are much bigger at this game than any cartel will ever be*

  • @bitahonintegrative5710

    @bitahonintegrative5710

    10 ай бұрын

    Bla bla bla bla

  • @dolceanstar

    @dolceanstar

    3 ай бұрын

    You got that right. I used to watch bales of drugs being delivered, by school buses, to a local naval base in the Caribbean. Centre of operations was moved, since the 2010 earthquake, to Haiti I believe.

  • @carlabroderick5508

    @carlabroderick5508

    19 күн бұрын

    That is due to cartels taking over the government.

  • @CapitalVices
    @CapitalVices11 ай бұрын

    The DEA ”A group of drugdealers investigating a group of drugdealers”

  • @windowlicker_4207
    @windowlicker_420711 ай бұрын

    No matter how bad the world wants to paint cartels and gang members as the bad guys, we know that it's really the people who work for these governments, militaries, or police forces, that are doing so much worse. Corruption at the top is what fuels these problems

  • @ok.ok.5735

    @ok.ok.5735

    11 ай бұрын

    I thought governments, militaries, and police forces were all cartels and gangs. Red, blue, green what else could those colors mean. If they weren’t gang colors?

  • @steadly3668

    @steadly3668

    11 ай бұрын

    Name checks out.

  • @cabezadepija7318

    @cabezadepija7318

    11 ай бұрын

    no it's the fact that people including cops and officials want to have fun once in a while... sobriety is the most boring miserable thing ever for more people than you'd think and trying to oppress people for it only makes it more dangerous and profitable

  • @DCM88

    @DCM88

    11 ай бұрын

    @@cabezadepija7318 that's good ol judeo-christian values for you with a pinch of puritanism.

  • @juliangriffiths9583

    @juliangriffiths9583

    11 ай бұрын

    funny how you say this, since the cia is the reason mexico is so fucked right now... if they never funded cartels in mexico it wouldve most likely been stable now.

  • @judylandry302
    @judylandry30211 ай бұрын

    "The War on Drugs" in the U.S is an annual $100 Billion Dollar Industry. Taxpayer dollars are lobbied for, budgeted and used to fund the Criminal Justice System, employs millions of people, in numerous local, state and federal agencies, and funds thousands of contracts to corporations, dedicated to this operation. Illegal drugs in and from foreign countries are an integral mainstay of The United States economy.

  • @lissyflur1907

    @lissyflur1907

    11 ай бұрын

    The War on Drugs is the real Crime here...

  • @nilanperera4774

    @nilanperera4774

    11 ай бұрын

    Not forgetting the $$$ being made on supplying guns and ammunition to the cartels...that flow is uninterrupted from the US.

  • @NJIT22

    @NJIT22

    11 ай бұрын

    Brainwashed. This is what enemies of this country wants US population believe about the state institutions. It’s a very simple tactic. Erode social trust and the country will collapse from within. Everyone should know this and understand that drugs today is a weapon of indirect action and defense apparatus of the country should treat individuals involved as enemy combatants.

  • @AaronfromEngland1989

    @AaronfromEngland1989

    11 ай бұрын

    Biggest military in the world thousand government agencies,border patrol ect seem like they are allowing it.

  • @40ozofdeath65

    @40ozofdeath65

    11 ай бұрын

    Yuppp it’s part of our economy, the drugs will never stop

  • @FaithRox
    @FaithRox11 ай бұрын

    Why would the Federal Agencies take down their own operations? 🤔

  • @charispapadopoulos1634

    @charispapadopoulos1634

    11 ай бұрын

    hahahaha true and also tax all the untraceable money that is tax free for so long .

  • @wizkaqueefa9003

    @wizkaqueefa9003

    11 ай бұрын

    Gary Webb exposing the Iran-Contra & C.I.A. involvement in Cocaine trade in Nicaragua made him the first "Edward Snowden" figure of the internet age.

  • @RobinPhillips1957

    @RobinPhillips1957

    11 ай бұрын

    MONEY!

  • @TheDankShrimp

    @TheDankShrimp

    11 ай бұрын

    I came for this lol

  • @Hmongboi228

    @Hmongboi228

    11 ай бұрын

    A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

  • @mohamadsami7131
    @mohamadsami713111 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • @AQpizza
    @AQpizza9 ай бұрын

    Absolute favorite series on YT

  • @BILLYBOBB3080
    @BILLYBOBB308011 ай бұрын

    We didn't try to fix it. We went into business with them.

  • @Ahahahhaaah

    @Ahahahhaaah

    11 ай бұрын

    And now you libs promote use with safe drug using facilities. Good job.

  • @Hmongboi228

    @Hmongboi228

    11 ай бұрын

    A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

  • @JuanCastillo-nx3oi

    @JuanCastillo-nx3oi

    11 ай бұрын

    Bingo

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    We started the business

  • @rob5598
    @rob559811 ай бұрын

    Hard to "take it down" when our own CIA is involved in it🙄

  • @Boston82bl

    @Boston82bl

    11 ай бұрын

    Exactly. Cia is the biggest drug cartel in the world by far.

  • @ufukpolat3480

    @ufukpolat3480

    11 ай бұрын

    Sssh, VICE doesn't want you to know that.

  • @biguubtorres7907

    @biguubtorres7907

    11 ай бұрын

    Owns*

  • @cadicamo8720

    @cadicamo8720

    11 ай бұрын

    I know what you're talking about.... And it's irrelevant.

  • @ElPalo.

    @ElPalo.

    11 ай бұрын

    Fax

  • @ehaaron
    @ehaaron11 ай бұрын

    "trafficking drugs to non believers is ok".💯 Thank you vice for being brave and exposing the cult. ❤

  • @cr3292

    @cr3292

    6 ай бұрын

    This is a ridiculous video .. the guys shooting in Begining aren’t Lebanese or in Lebanon . Vice used the hesbollah name as clickbait cuz the organization would never give them an interview secondly . Just because there’s a drug organization mafia who happens to be Shia doesn’t automatically make them hesbollwh connected like this video is suggesting

  • @JaysonBernardo-ch9fv

    @JaysonBernardo-ch9fv

    6 ай бұрын

    Honestly I think the people at the top of these groups aren't even believers( at least not fanatical) they just use the religion to manipulate like (not all) many religious leaders do

  • @eyelike82

    @eyelike82

    5 ай бұрын

    Don't do drugs then 😂

  • @humzahaq1435

    @humzahaq1435

    4 ай бұрын

    Literally isnt even true lmaooo even touching drugs is haram but go off

  • @Ismo-sx6ih

    @Ismo-sx6ih

    Ай бұрын

    So you judge islam by what some drug addicts do,Interesting.Try learn instead what islam says about these things.

  • @ReinhardtMiller
    @ReinhardtMiller7 ай бұрын

    Excellent news feed.

  • @ChilsonTV
    @ChilsonTV11 ай бұрын

    title fix: "how the U.S. funded and armed narco-terrorists"

  • @dpellek74

    @dpellek74

    11 ай бұрын

    Perfect 👍

  • @texasgirlmomx2342

    @texasgirlmomx2342

    11 ай бұрын

    Exxxactly. I was like the Title is click bait. The US never tried 😂😂

  • @spicychad55

    @spicychad55

    11 ай бұрын

    Title fix: "How the US govt and corporations make money from the illegal drug trade"

  • @spesial1199

    @spesial1199

    11 ай бұрын

    Pergect

  • @naradaian

    @naradaian

    11 ай бұрын

    Seems like a list of Israels enemas so far, hezbullah, syria, Iran. Seems like a nice young man, shame he's a shill

  • @Joseluz1969
    @Joseluz19699 ай бұрын

    Very informative, the DEA vs CIA dispute in the Cassandra operation. Case in point: In 2022 the US Treasury sanctioned former president of Paraguay Horacio Cartes under the Magnitsky Act, accusing him of laundering drug money for Hezbollah.The guy owns a few banks and basically half of the countrie's big business. The US government repeatedly threatened to deport the him to America to undergo trial and there was even an airplane sent to Paraguay to allegedly fly him back to the US . But a year has gone by and he is still alive and kicking. This really baffled me, until I saw this video.

  • @smarttarded
    @smarttarded9 ай бұрын

    Its been a while since I watched a program like this from Vice, glad its making a comeback

  • @Snowycaaa
    @Snowycaaa11 ай бұрын

    A bit hard to counter something you helped established

  • @JayjiNZ
    @JayjiNZ11 ай бұрын

    Great to see another episode of this series

  • @msoda8516
    @msoda851611 ай бұрын

    It’s time we admit the war on drugs is a complete failure

  • @joshuawichman9320
    @joshuawichman9320Ай бұрын

    your videos are amazing bro

  • @CeluiEtSeul
    @CeluiEtSeul11 ай бұрын

    To answer that question: The US either failed to take out their competition or they are secretly working together.

  • @MrAracag
    @MrAracag11 ай бұрын

    Man I have missed these episodes. So good!

  • @LuciusJohn
    @LuciusJohn10 ай бұрын

    This is a terrific report

  • @K.V.P14
    @K.V.P1411 ай бұрын

    Great to see Vice going Vice again 🙌

  • @deathuponusalll
    @deathuponusalll11 ай бұрын

    If the war in the Middle East taught us anything is that once an organization gets aid from the US to establish itself in power, it will be next to impossible to take them down

  • @mikaellindqvist5599

    @mikaellindqvist5599

    11 ай бұрын

    All US wars just lead to worsen the situation big time. Destabilizstion is what us is all about. Funny how they consider them selves the world police when all they do is fueling drugtrades and spreading terror. The country with the heaviest collective deathkarma in the world for sure. Glad to not be american when its time to collect the collective karma...

  • @kinngrimm

    @kinngrimm

    11 ай бұрын

    It will take some time to get rid of the DEA for good.

  • @garethjones2528

    @garethjones2528

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kinngrimmhopefully not

  • @deathuponusalll

    @deathuponusalll

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kinngrimmhopefully all the agencies meddling that further help the problem persist and they all watch out for eachother not out of cooperation but from blackmail from what some ex DEA agents have said about their life being threatened. Also it should be noted how the war in the Middle East ended, the country was handed over to the taliban who used to be the mujahadeen with new equipment to run their government with the agreement that the US would still have access to its opium, that should tell us something as to how this problem will most likely be “solved” here. This whole mess gets shadier and darker the more you look into the past starting from when Mexican cartels started having deals with governments both Mexican and US agencies like CIA when the CIA needed to raise black budget funds without notifying congress of their dealings to fight the Sandinistas in El Salvador against communism

  • @tonyrios9668

    @tonyrios9668

    11 ай бұрын

    If by that you mean Israel, yeah.

  • @piku5637
    @piku563711 ай бұрын

    Just legalize, tax and regulate most drugs like we do with alcohol and tobacco. Decriminalize the most harmful others. And have rehabilitation treatment centres available as part of a universal healthcare system. Therapy in general needs to be universalized too. Better than leaving it up to the dark market.

  • @lazymass

    @lazymass

    11 ай бұрын

    No, its better to fuel war and let the mafia all over the world to take all the drug money and finance all their activities with it... Why would you take the market for yourself and take all that profit from mafia? Poor mafia guys... /s

  • @charispapadopoulos1634

    @charispapadopoulos1634

    11 ай бұрын

    Goverments and in general goverment people hate to pay taxes , so drugs being ilegal it benefits every country leader cause the money is untraceable . Or you believe that if they wanted , the " so nice people " that they so much care for us they can't stop the drug trafficing ? Srsly you believe that they CAN'T ? Or you believe they just DON'T WANT TO . If you had a successful bussiness for the last 40 years would you change it ? ( legalize it) ofc not , it's all about the money the profit and the numbers going up .

  • @matthewcarey5842

    @matthewcarey5842

    11 ай бұрын

    Useless approach that never works, it's why there's homeless drug addicts all over liberal cities

  • @scenenuf

    @scenenuf

    11 ай бұрын

    And all those making hundreds of millions upon billions out of the current drug war, would either have to adopt the industry transfer or lose to others forcing the adoption. It is in itself a war on morality and ethics and psychopathic power plays.

  • @scenenuf

    @scenenuf

    11 ай бұрын

    But I am fully all for this too, but that would never ever ever happen. Ever.

  • @AQpizza
    @AQpizza9 ай бұрын

    Makes you wonder if the few G’s you bought are partially fueling these international conflicts, like a lil investment 😂

  • @h00psandy0y0
    @h00psandy0y011 ай бұрын

    This is a perfect example of how “diplomacy at any cost” undermines American interests and national security. Bravo to Vice for covering this.

  • @bobhappyman

    @bobhappyman

    11 ай бұрын

    The US has never followed that.

  • @romanski5811

    @romanski5811

    11 ай бұрын

    Naw, the Iran deal was very valuable and worth the drug hassle because the solution to the drug problem is elsewhere, namely to make all drugs legal and thereby removing the breeding ground for illegal drug trade.

  • @GermanMythbuster

    @GermanMythbuster

    9 ай бұрын

    @@romanski5811 "namely to make all drugs legal and thereby removing the breeding ground for illegal drug trade." That is exactly why there is a Black Market. You can't "win" a war on drugs. If people want them, someone will sell it to them. *By banning them you create "the breeding ground for illegal drug trade"!*

  • @Bell_plejdo568p

    @Bell_plejdo568p

    9 ай бұрын

    exactly what is he talking about and. the Us is behing thease groups and the US calls anybody they don't like a terriostt organztion@@bobhappyman

  • @JGalt-em4xu

    @JGalt-em4xu

    8 ай бұрын

    "Odd" how an investigation carried out by US intelligence agencies lends itself to eternal, inevitable conflict.

  • @Hypnotoad1987
    @Hypnotoad198711 ай бұрын

    We all know the Lebanese army is the 3rd strongest army in Lebanon.

  • @Berm_Blaster

    @Berm_Blaster

    11 ай бұрын

    Truth. 😂😂😂

  • @CDLightt

    @CDLightt

    11 ай бұрын

    Who’s the second?

  • @Hypnotoad1987

    @Hypnotoad1987

    11 ай бұрын

    @@CDLightt drug gangs, and before you ask their boss hezbullah aka irans army is the strongest

  • @hussein9228

    @hussein9228

    9 ай бұрын

    Amal movement@@CDLightt

  • @bongwelll
    @bongwelll11 ай бұрын

    This is by far my favorite Vice program. Always good information. One thing you left out post 9/11 US soldiers guarding and paying for destroyed or planted poppy fields. We all saw it on actual news and other documentation. Gotta wonder with our countries history of running drugs. End the drug war end mass incarceration.

  • @markdog9104

    @markdog9104

    11 ай бұрын

    Why do you think we destroyed poppy fields the same time we picked up trade with Asiatic countries, such as VIETNAM. We got that good smack from there, we don't need any afghan pure.

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    It's almost like when you destabilize an entire region of the world they retaliate. It's almost like they didn't fly planes into buildings because they felt like it.

  • @DETRACT0RD00M

    @DETRACT0RD00M

    11 ай бұрын

    Don't forget selling those "confiscated" farms to the Sacklers

  • @t_rexdiaz6778

    @t_rexdiaz6778

    11 ай бұрын

    So to start selling drugs for their own profit??

  • @Rezin_8

    @Rezin_8

    11 ай бұрын

    Or the duffle bags FULL OF CASH coming back stateside unsearched for decades.....how does a man get a GTR in 6 months in Afghanistan 😂

  • @samc265
    @samc2658 ай бұрын

    The thing that will stop bad habits is ppl being informed on how bad it really is and providing safer alternatives

  • @Headhunter_212
    @Headhunter_2128 ай бұрын

    VICE has been workshopping this title for 10 years. That Queens accent in the intro. Wow. What an antique.

  • @Deraldgjr
    @Deraldgjr11 ай бұрын

    The US was guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan. 😂

  • @prdgmshft9107

    @prdgmshft9107

    11 ай бұрын

    First they burned them down which inadvertently created a power vacuum that fuel more violence because the poppies where/are a big part of the culture/economy. After learning that hard lesson they allowed the fields to be grown

  • @prdgmshft9107

    @prdgmshft9107

    11 ай бұрын

    First they burned them down which inadvertently created a power vacuum that fuel more violence because the poppies where/are a big part of the culture/economy. After learning that hard lesson they allowed the fields to be grown

  • @mokhachoka2918

    @mokhachoka2918

    11 ай бұрын

    They wanted to take Iran out by flooding it with heroin but that failed. So many soldiers died for someone else's failed strategy.

  • @xijinbling2373

    @xijinbling2373

    11 ай бұрын

    US assets guarding Mexicos narco trade.

  • @ForTheMemessss

    @ForTheMemessss

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, i think afghan poppies export rose when u.s. occupied afghanistan.

  • @denizthekingslayer1250
    @denizthekingslayer125011 ай бұрын

    He is the best presenter ever more things he needs to find to talk about %100 will watch.

  • @labram_jahames
    @labram_jahames11 ай бұрын

    if vice goes out i’ll really miss this program

  • @hughjaass3787
    @hughjaass378711 ай бұрын

    As bad as the 80s American CIA & DEA missions in Central America with coke, as it is, it is also just ONE of the times the public knows about.

  • @Gavin-III7
    @Gavin-III711 ай бұрын

    Failed? I bet you anything they took part in it. 😂 you can make disgusting amounts of money by selling drugs.

  • @Blacksun1984

    @Blacksun1984

    11 ай бұрын

    Someone of few people that are not blind they havent lost they are in control of that 🎉🎉🎉

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    It's almost like the system is doing exactly what it's designed to do 😂😂😂

  • @OK-yy6qz

    @OK-yy6qz

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah if anything DEA succeed in shutting down part of these organisations and then the US (mainly CIA) shut down the DEA

  • @d1specdrifter
    @d1specdrifter11 ай бұрын

    The united states isnt trying to stop it though.😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @Hmongboi228

    @Hmongboi228

    11 ай бұрын

    A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

  • @Berm_Blaster

    @Berm_Blaster

    11 ай бұрын

    They just want their cut.

  • @dizzy7859
    @dizzy78599 ай бұрын

    Our problem is our world is so dysfunctionally stressful, unbalanced and thus depriving the human soul of true happiness that many (myself included) have looked to drugs as a form of temporary happiness and relief. Without consumers. There is no demand. The problem is the addiction. It’s us. Yes the world has fucked us. But it still starts with us. Genuine happiness is still plausible even with the cards stacked against. We’re just gonna have to work/want it harder and we can’t do it alone. All glory to Jah.

  • @mattttam7934
    @mattttam793411 ай бұрын

    Fentanyl was made in MIT and Janet Woodcock authorized it for safe use in children in the FDA before retracting that deco on a month later.

  • @LK-em1bv

    @LK-em1bv

    3 ай бұрын

    Fentanyl is used in hospital settings and prescribed for serious pain there is nothing wrong with it when the dose is known and monitored by professionals The issue is when it is not regulated and produced on the black market as the strength of the product is unknown it’s a clear example of the increase in danger with current United States drug policy Regardless it is true the United States is at fault for the fentanyl crisis due to how they approached the opioid crisis years ago They should have provided safe supply when the heroin epidemic was raging and people wouldn’t have moved to fentanyl as heroin is a preferred drug but isn’t available By now they would have seen decreases in overdoses addiction and crime rates rather than increases

  • @ceraphim
    @ceraphim11 ай бұрын

    It's hard to take down anything that your own people actively fund.

  • @adspur

    @adspur

    11 ай бұрын

    The addicts demand it.That’s the source of the problem.Nobody is making people do drugs.They just want to get HIGH

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@adspuryou think addicts are funding this 😂😂😂 try the whole political system

  • @tz8785

    @tz8785

    10 ай бұрын

    @@adspur The politicians demand it.That’s the source of the problem.Nobody is making people prohibit drugs.They just want to get on their moralist HIGH ground.

  • @3puntoscolega
    @3puntoscolega11 ай бұрын

    I can hear conservatives now “Every time you smoke the devils lettuce you’re giving money to the alquaedas”😂😂😂

  • @adspur

    @adspur

    11 ай бұрын

    They don’t think or, say that.Weed is mainstream now and it’s Nixon fault whey cannabis was considered non medicinal and dangerous.Been plenty of administrations since him from different parties and they continue to try to hold on to the power.Weed is the last of our worries.I’m against any synthetic drug that kills you easily though.The demand is there because most humans are slobbering addicts.

  • @3puntoscolega

    @3puntoscolega

    11 ай бұрын

    i can’t see the reply

  • @APSweden
    @APSweden9 ай бұрын

    I love the "High Resolution" stamp on their medieval TV. Very high resolution like 800x600 😁😁

  • @tommy2tuggz
    @tommy2tuggz11 ай бұрын

    I really liked this VICE program. Keep it up!

  • @mrhoque4262
    @mrhoque42629 ай бұрын

    2:25 is the cutest think I've seen all 2023. I feel more American than ever

  • @EastsideHilltops
    @EastsideHilltops11 ай бұрын

    When you do one on israeli drug trade?

  • @MonkeyDropBoss

    @MonkeyDropBoss

    11 ай бұрын

    We both know why…

  • @user-hj8oo6hk1w

    @user-hj8oo6hk1w

    11 ай бұрын

    Bc israeli drug trade isn’t funding a islamic terrorist organization lool

  • @cl9615

    @cl9615

    11 ай бұрын

    What proof is there for that?

  • @lampshadecollector8

    @lampshadecollector8

    9 ай бұрын

    Oy vey.

  • @Channel-ml4qv

    @Channel-ml4qv

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MonkeyDropBoss Because people complain it paints Arabs in a bad light since they are leading the drug trade in Israel? Or do you just not know anything about it?

  • @InfoHiveJzyP
    @InfoHiveJzyP11 ай бұрын

    Vice always delivers the best material!

  • @Piccolopete

    @Piccolopete

    7 ай бұрын

    Best lies

  • @blackhat6345
    @blackhat63458 ай бұрын

    I am starting a campaing to report your videos @Vice . You crossed the lines this time.

  • @heyslade64
    @heyslade6411 ай бұрын

    lucki sample at the end

  • @Lenoxlanellc
    @Lenoxlanellc11 ай бұрын

    It’s crazy cause the United States did the same thing with the contras smh

  • @ChiTownGuerrilla
    @ChiTownGuerrilla11 ай бұрын

    Hash is great. I really prefer it over bud and oil concentrates.

  • @HaydenRaceOp
    @HaydenRaceOp7 ай бұрын

    That hasbulla guy is more dangerous than I thought

  • @bigsmoke8344

    @bigsmoke8344

    7 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @QualeQualeson
    @QualeQualeson11 ай бұрын

    The war on drugs is so astonishingly senseless, so abundantly misrepresented, abusive and counter productive it defies description. Legalize "everything". The pros vs the cons are virtually 100-0.

  • @joshlewis575

    @joshlewis575

    7 ай бұрын

    Baffling to think how many trillions and trillions of dollars we've wasted fighting something people have done since Neanderthal times, probably sooner. I'd imagine between all the people who work the border and port inspections, all the non violent dealers in prison and the lost taxes, we're blowing 200+ billion easily every year.

  • @teejay3250
    @teejay325011 ай бұрын

    Nothing is ever simple.

  • @bloatedsodium7301

    @bloatedsodium7301

    11 ай бұрын

    Leaving a comment is.

  • @judylandry302

    @judylandry302

    11 ай бұрын

    "The Truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    "the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more complex"

  • @judylandry302

    @judylandry302

    11 ай бұрын

    @@DonMarzzoni Thinking takes effort. Critical thinking takes intelligence.

  • @DonMarzzoni

    @DonMarzzoni

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@judylandry302occams razor still stands either the government is fully aware and participating in this or we are imagining it. I'll take my chances

  • @Rockabillyrobb
    @Rockabillyrobb11 ай бұрын

    Media needs to separate the us government from the us citizens. They are not the same ..

  • @charispapadopoulos1634

    @charispapadopoulos1634

    11 ай бұрын

    Yep and i really have a hard time telling who is worse .

  • @ehaaron

    @ehaaron

    11 ай бұрын

    @@charispapadopoulos1634 the people are the government and the government is the people. you cannot escape your own. and therefore people will get the government they deserve. and so civilizations are formed, some that allow women education and some that force them to cover up.

  • @dewmontain123
    @dewmontain12311 ай бұрын

    This is the vice we have been wanting. Back to its roots...😂

  • @kyvanthrone
    @kyvanthrone11 ай бұрын

    Vice news is the best news out there. They go to the scariest places, it's crazy. The other one I can think of is Trafficked by Mariana

  • @andresciahooten9598
    @andresciahooten959811 ай бұрын

    Was that a little boy holding a gun?! WTH

  • @Pascal9004
    @Pascal900411 ай бұрын

    This is what happens when the US resorts to sanctions to squeeze them. Instead of destroying them, they thrive outside the regular economic system.

  • @FauulaBoy

    @FauulaBoy

    11 ай бұрын

    Wait you suggesting USA invade Lebanon and Iran? Cause that is really a dumb idea.

  • @SS-uy9fx

    @SS-uy9fx

    11 ай бұрын

    Speaking as a syrian 😅 the US’s foreign policy pushed the regime to do such things since they control syrian oil reserves. Which makes them thugs for steeling it ! + this has been going on for years now and it looks like they want a cut from that too 😂 but uf u rly want to know how it all started. Go back and take a look at ISIS ! How brutal they were ! That is what captagon makes to a human being. In order to fight tgose basters they had to make some for the syrian army as well. Don’t be fooled by this shitty media that makes you forget who crushed those MFs and who payed the price for it. Oh and one last thing 😅 they all had american made state of the art weapons what a fucking coincidence 😉

  • @Pascal9004

    @Pascal9004

    11 ай бұрын

    @@FauulaBoy Did I actually write that in my comments? Because it looks like you didn't read the comment and that's a really dumb idea.

  • @FauulaBoy

    @FauulaBoy

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Pascal9004 You literally said to destroy them instead of sanctioning them. Hesbulla is part of the government to destroy them USA would have to invade Lebanon. Just like how they tried to destroy the Taliban which was the Government of Afghanistan before USA invasion and we all know how that result of that.

  • @Pascal9004

    @Pascal9004

    11 ай бұрын

    @@FauulaBoy I think you misunderstood my comment. I meant that the US wanted to destroy those nations through sanctions, but instead, those nations thrived outside the normal economic system. Instead of wiping out the threat, the US made them more dangerous. The terrorist groups can create entire industries outside regulation because of those sanctions in the first place.

  • @ryancorroll4667
    @ryancorroll46678 ай бұрын

    3.46 mins in, man those plants look really sad😢

  • @krisfleischer7467
    @krisfleischer74679 ай бұрын

    The oyster shells gig is up

  • @leostreat3573
    @leostreat357311 ай бұрын

    I'd like to congratulate the presenter of this video on his great hair.

  • @AlanHell080
    @AlanHell08011 ай бұрын

    Did they just spoil the plot for the new season of Jack Ryan ?

  • @mattgraver3604
    @mattgraver36049 ай бұрын

    How many times do we have to tell you guys to make these longer???

  • @BenficaFem
    @BenficaFem11 ай бұрын

    The US doesn't like competition.

  • @keztukariri
    @keztukariri11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the info, always learning new random stuff with you guys & i cant stand watching the "news" so this is as close as it gets 😎😁 even as a kiwi who doesnt really give a sh*t, i believe the US govt is always involved in this stuff 😂🤑 honestly 🙄 much love to the real ones of the USA 😊❤

  • @xzxmemoxzx
    @xzxmemoxzx11 ай бұрын

    because they didn’t want to? they invented, invested, and still profit from it daily

  • @dpellek74

    @dpellek74

    11 ай бұрын

    Bingo

  • @Joseph714xo
    @Joseph714xo10 ай бұрын

    Old Vice vibes 🔥

  • @davidinLA424
    @davidinLA42411 ай бұрын

    Exceptional reporting Vice, but could future episodes consider using A cam only for the host?

  • @yadiramendez.
    @yadiramendez.11 ай бұрын

    Pray 🙏 to God we should not get tempted by all this evilness. We mustn't fall weak to this.

  • @WeMatter247
    @WeMatter24711 ай бұрын

    …. The drugs were never the problem, it was the violence that was attached to the money that made things difficult.

  • @azizbelkharmoudi2564

    @azizbelkharmoudi2564

    9 ай бұрын

    C'mon drugs addiction and drugs destroying lives are not problems 😐😐😑doing drugs is morally wrong period

  • @WeMatter247

    @WeMatter247

    9 ай бұрын

    @@azizbelkharmoudi2564… doing drugs is a CHOICE… Bozo 🙄

  • @azizbelkharmoudi2564

    @azizbelkharmoudi2564

    9 ай бұрын

    @@WeMatter247 a bad and a morally wrong choice

  • @mohamadsami7131
    @mohamadsami713111 ай бұрын

    Commenting for the algorithm!

  • @OttomanLebanon
    @OttomanLebanon9 ай бұрын

    "Terrorism is good for bussiness, it's acts as an insurance, as long as their is war on terror their can be no war on drugs" Modern Warfare 2 quote.

  • @absyusuf4932
    @absyusuf493211 ай бұрын

    The global narco trade is worth about the same as the entire economy of Germany, 4+ trillion. Imagine if that ceased to exist.

  • @jondoe5937

    @jondoe5937

    11 ай бұрын

    Well, I seriously doubt all that money would just poof, as if all drug consumers instead put their money intto a retirement savings. People like spending the money they have.

  • @silver2zilver

    @silver2zilver

    11 ай бұрын

    The global drug trade is only slightly more profitable than global sex trafficking of children. What are we even doing on earth?

  • @naradaian

    @naradaian

    11 ай бұрын

    Banks wouldnt let that happen.... Can Trump and Russia and China and Iran and North Korea be blamed yet?

  • @ianwilkinson5069

    @ianwilkinson5069

    11 ай бұрын

    @@naradaian good luck with that, it would appear that the Bidens have more to do with this than Trump. Whos son is running around in his underwear smoking crack on camera as he argues with his dead brothers wife.

  • @tappajaav

    @tappajaav

    8 ай бұрын

    @@naradaian No.

  • @isaiahmccray855
    @isaiahmccray85511 ай бұрын

    Husbula got the drug game ON LOCK😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @caddilacjones2397
    @caddilacjones23979 ай бұрын

    For a second i got the title confused and thought that man baby was dealing drugs.

  • @panama-canada
    @panama-canada11 ай бұрын

    I thought Vice went bust. Why are they still broadcasting?

  • @The_Quaalude
    @The_Quaalude11 ай бұрын

    America is supporting cartels around the world 😂

  • @hourbee5535
    @hourbee553511 ай бұрын

    The US has failed at many things. It is normal.

  • @shervinrh7103
    @shervinrh710311 ай бұрын

    How can I contact vice news for a report?

  • @user-fz1sy9bi4s
    @user-fz1sy9bi4s4 ай бұрын

    I’m waiting for the Netflix series

  • @michaelcacho1367
    @michaelcacho136711 ай бұрын

    Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs

  • @ishowspppd7494

    @ishowspppd7494

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes Portland is America's Dumpster 🗑️

  • @mykel808

    @mykel808

    11 ай бұрын

    @@ishowspppd7494 so is oklahoma where they have strict drug laws, more incarcerated citizens in that state than any other country in the world. i'd rather live in shitland oregon getting my car broken into than live with a meth addled family in trailer park oklahoma destined for a life of prison and poverty.

  • @tz8785

    @tz8785

    10 ай бұрын

    Even leaving aside the federal drug laws, decriminalisation is a bit like applying a bandage to an open fracture.

  • @laisiasapuamau5511
    @laisiasapuamau551110 ай бұрын

    2:36 thank you for calling it a terrorist group ❤

  • @scherry2900
    @scherry290011 ай бұрын

    Been to several cocaine producing countries. The problem (supply) only shifts from region to region, but will never disappear as long as demand exists. Very simple market economics. If you really want to learn something about the subject: read the book Narconomics.

  • @userMB1
    @userMB111 ай бұрын

    Vice's drug related news is the best in the world! Nowhere can you find well informed, objective drug related news that is brought is such a succinct, easy to understand way.

  • @irollerblade13

    @irollerblade13

    11 ай бұрын

    I agree I just wish they didn't have so much BS other topics they cover that are so biased it is no longer Journalism.

  • @sofpsocf

    @sofpsocf

    11 ай бұрын

    @@irollerblade13easy, don’t watch it. You don’t have to watch everything if u don’t like it 🤯

  • @winzyl9546

    @winzyl9546

    11 ай бұрын

    If theyre so good at it they should do it to help pay for that bankruptcy.

  • @maigepresents5840

    @maigepresents5840

    11 ай бұрын

    Must be why they are going through bankruptcy...

  • @userMB1

    @userMB1

    11 ай бұрын

    @@maigepresents5840 i have premium so i don't know if the videos have ads. I imagine that might be a problem because there are a lot of videos that might not be suitable for for most companies.

  • @cameronrich2536
    @cameronrich253611 ай бұрын

    Cough-by supporting it-cough

  • @SameAsAnyOtherStranger
    @SameAsAnyOtherStranger11 ай бұрын

    Keeping drugs illegal and dehabilitating is a vested interest of every invasive power in the world. That being as it is, making drugs a preferable alternative to life without them by depriving the masses of the basic joys of life is also a major objective.

  • @mr.wonkastyle2558
    @mr.wonkastyle255811 ай бұрын

    Real life is crazier than any movie

  • @user-xh8ii2hj6r
    @user-xh8ii2hj6r4 ай бұрын

    DAMN.... I flinched at 2:26

  • @Youtube123Viewer
    @Youtube123Viewer11 ай бұрын

    If you cant beat, join

  • @lilsmokerboi204
    @lilsmokerboi20411 ай бұрын

    vice should make a video of why and how vice went bankrupt

  • @user-kq5xd9uj1e
    @user-kq5xd9uj1e11 ай бұрын

    Where is the end of the video clip originally from ??? …“I’d like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs”

  • @mahirmarcus5092
    @mahirmarcus50926 ай бұрын

    Bout time y’all got back to the basics

  • @simonmolina8827
    @simonmolina882710 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂 gotta love my country always blaming someone else while in fact we the ones behind it

  • @thomasyancey5887
    @thomasyancey588711 ай бұрын

    Failed implies they actually tried

  • @pedroparkros2569
    @pedroparkros256911 ай бұрын

    3:21 is das Olaf Scholz 😂

  • @Ilyaswashere
    @Ilyaswashere11 ай бұрын

    Wow this is great Vice content, many media are afraid to condemn terrorism in fear of being called racist but this stated all the facts…10/10

  • @the_local_bigamist

    @the_local_bigamist

    9 ай бұрын

    What a stupid comment. The world has just had a "war on terror" and, if anything, is less afraid of condemning terrorism than it is of utilising the threat of terrorism in order to attempt to police the world and dominate political spheres. Also, terrorism is not a race issue and thinking that it is shows that you probably have issues with race yourself. Would you make assumptions about the FARC based on their varied ethnic background? What about Ulster Loyalist terrorists, who are mostly white and who now mostly run drugs?

  • @nnkk7742
    @nnkk774211 ай бұрын

    Everyone involved in the war on drugs needs to be thrown in prison.

  • @graysonjd5624

    @graysonjd5624

    11 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately Nixon is permanently indispose.

  • @Ahahahhaaah

    @Ahahahhaaah

    11 ай бұрын

    So the democrats.

  • @adspur

    @adspur

    11 ай бұрын

    The one’s buying and using do too for they are the source of the whole problem

  • @ehaaron

    @ehaaron

    11 ай бұрын

    making drugs illegal and unregulated created a market with increased profit margins. At the same time the youth of the nation, being imprisoned, were further pushed into the crime world. resulting in more criminals. Are drugs really bad or is it the law that is manufacturing this crisis? majority of drug incarcerations are end users. all for what? to satisfy righteous people, preaching its immoral to do drugs? A law based on morality? Can this law be misused to lock up a certain demographic? people like you are part of the problem. If drugs are made in America by American farmers this problem would never arise. A manufactured crisis.

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