New Zealand's Deadly Synthetic Drugs Epidemic
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Up until 2014, the sale of synthetic cannabis in New Zealand was considered a global test case for legalised drugs. With the introduction of tighter controls the synthetics market has gone underground, and the harm to the community has spiralled. At least 25 people are believed to have died from synthetic drug use in 2017. VICE follows animal lover and former addict Tammara, 20, as she grapples with her recovery from the drug that has dominated her life for six years. We also meet ex-user Trey whose best friend died after smoking synthetics aged just 17. Talking to family members, a former dealer, police, customs officers and an emergency medicine doctor/toxicologist, VICE investigates how and why this drug has become responsible for the deaths of New Zealanders in unprecedented numbers, revealing the raw reality of this under-reported crisis.
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Aussie here. When I was in my late teens this was easily legally available here. Me and my mates just thought it was some sort of legal weed. It is the most intense shit I have ever smoked in my life I cannot believe they let that be legal yet won’t legalise regular old weed
ohhh yeah when i tried it i could not BELIEVE it was legal that shit spun my fade 100x more than my first ever hit of real weed did
Churrr Gee
-Spice / k2 what ever u wanna call it reminds me of Ice because the purity can be anywhere from 20% upward you don't know what you're smoking making it extremely coin flippy you might feel nothing u might drop dead and its cheap.
I've smoked both and had almost pure crystal and cut its on the same level at least in toxicity even pure ice feels dirty as hell it is basically base with cut ice in crystal form so think of this spice stuff as the same its basically dried cardboard with chemicals sprayed on it and were talking multiple stages of spraying this stuff is going through more coats than a brand new car.
The altar that he has for his friend is so beautiful. As a momma of loss, that would just warm my heart to see his friend remembering him like that. 💔
his memorial for his friend moved me. that's true love right there. i've lost many people to overdoses but the most painful death was that of my closest friend. it changed me forever and i will never look at life the same way again. that poor kid, i could see the pain on his face from everything's he's gone through. it's so easy to feel hopeless when in that position. i hope he's doing okay now.
Real nice indeed. My boyfriend died 6th of june this year. Not from drugs but from alcohol, and I guess starvation, he looked so ill the last weeks. But there was nothing I could do. It was longdistance also so. To lose someone you love, I didn't even wanna stay alive. I got alcoholaddiction aswell, selfharming with razorblades and burn myself with matches, so depressed, diagnosed with bpd. I'm lucky to have good friends and shit to keep me above the surface. But this pain I have, will always be there, until I die. I'm an atheist but I hope I got it wrong, that heaven exists so I can meet him again.
@@AcidOnTheStreet I'm so sorry. But then again, if you have BPD you deserve all that pain and more. Everyone you love will leave you. Hope you enjoy dying alone and miserable.
@@tabbykat8564 Saying this is like telling a fat person they fat, like we didn't know we're messed up. I guess someone with bpd hurt you. Sorry for that mate. Hope you recovers soon.
😢❤Arohamai
Real speal, lost both my childhood friends in of a span of a few years. One from the mix of alcohol withdrawal and a combination of light prescription meds that if his body wasnt in shock from stopping alcohol might of handled that combo better and the fake people he was livin with didnt leave him in a position to suffocate, coulda kicked his body over and thatd been better what they did, and second one really got me because i had just reconnected with him after years of lost contact only to have him lie about having a brain injury from a fabricated story and was so just happy no matter his condition just to hear his voice for only trying desperately to meet up in the days following to be met with not much response a harrowing message tat he had passed in his car while sitting at a gas station. I got into it with his mom who God hed be alive if he had my mom but she was cluesless as i came to understand hed been taking research chemicals he passed off to his mom as prescription from a dr. But doesn't take much to understand he had no dr like that and was ordering just weird RCs that mimicked benzos and opiates from china. Crazy thing is he had easy access to regular drugs and chose those maybe because his mom wouldnt recognize those but theres a reason there research chemicals and not fit for human consumption. Kills me because i asked him if he was still struggling because drugs have always been a battle and always will be to a degree for my friends and i, addiction doesn't just come n go. Id given him a bottle of subutex and all the weed in the world and wish i just drove down there and forced to see him. His shame of what he had done to his brain because thats what kills me. Made a whole story about getting in a hit n run that brought me to tears only to find the summer prior he'd taken such a combo of shit he went into a seizure and was never the same. But this is where i guess my mom and his differ my mom would have been on 911 as i was seizing no one followed up in care and she and he probably out of fear of what hed done had gone to a dr about it. The mom lived with him and your son basically goes from normal to like hes got down syndrome and no one follows up. I lost contact with the mom after calling one night extremely high on meth and heroin as i relapsed once after and stupidly called. Really had so many questions but if anything it woulda broke her heart more realizing how disconnected she was to someone supposedly the closest to you and love the most. Shoulda never even called but ya live n learn certainly taught me never to call anyone under the influemce. Im doing well n sober these days but just wish i had a few of my friends that were like brothers still too reminace old time and childhood those ideas n thoughts died with them too. Deaths and shit like that changes you for sure, in fact i really need to go see a therapist between all the death and illness ive dealt with including head games played on me and a definite case of ptsd. Ya, it aint easy movin on
I was once a k2 addict . It has a withdrawal like any other type of hard drug. After hours of not smoking I would be on the toilet with my face in a bowl throwing up nothing but stomach acid ... I'm a tall girl , 5'10 to be exact and 130 is not how small I should be . I would get hungry but as soon as I hit the blunt my hunger would go away. I lost soooo much weight. It took me a while to be able to hold food down , I could eat 2 fries and be full ... Might just throw them up . I would get very irritated when I didn't have it. Went to rehab when I found out I was prego w my son because I was so chemically dependent and I always had it and whatever I wanted (I sold it) . I would buy $30 meals and eat nothing but smoke $30 of my product EVERYDAY (abt 5-6 grams) . My kids had the best of the best and I was happy because they were happy and I was high so I saw nothing wrong w my living 😢 . All I did was sleep , I would have to clean up really fast because I may get sick while im cleaning and I don't want to smoke while I'm doing anything or I will fall asleep ... Life was hell , no energy for anything . Me and my child's father would physically fight over blunts at bedtime (even tho we had it we were angry because we had to roll another sweet) . 1 hr was the max sleep I got before I woke up to hit it again and go right back to sleep. I thank God for my recovery 💙 I have 2 recovery dates March 12 2017 , relapsed in November . My new recovery date is November 21 2019 and I promise I will never go back down tht road . I did things I would've never done if I wasn't in active addiction . Our God is really great .
you are great. stop giving credit to a god that enslaved your ancestors .
lord im from georgia i quit july 10, 2019 and i just relapsed a month or so ago ...... i gottta quit i have to QUIT ..................................BUT HOW?///?????
@@OfficialRandyG Stay strong. Keep at it. Seek help from others if you can't do it alone. Quitting is possible. You did it before.
Hey girl! How are you doing so far?
I'm 5 years clean the wife helped me I'm so God dam lucky I feel everything you described I went through it..even years later I feel like it harmed me so bad I might not ever heal
That memorial broke my heart. Good man to keep his memory alive and use it to spread awareness 💕
feel so bad for the parents of that girl,she is still trying to blame others for her actions so sad poor parents...
Yeah she's got a long, long way to travel yet.
That's it, we can't be helped until we take accountability
@@GayFrogsTho - she won’t get there. She’s not going anywhere . . .
She's actually a really talent chef I went to cooking school with her.
Taking accountability for your actions can be an amazing thing
hope this is directed at the government who got everyone addicted to this in the first place. if it’s not, i hope you live in new zealand, because if you don’t you can take ur comment and shove it, because you have no idea what it’s like here.
you sound like someone whos never had any of these problems, the world is a cruel place and everyone's lives are different, nobody wants to have a dark deppressing life but for alot of the world its like that. Ive met alot of different people and you can see how the brain can get twisted in so many ways, look at bdsm for example... also this drug caught most people off guard, it was somewhat safe then turned into one of the worst drugs ever, me and my mom started smoking the shit before weed was legalised cause it was cheaper and we could just go to the store to get it, had no idea it was going to turn into what it was
@@magdalena_dewinter how exactly did the government "get" everyone addicted? Jacinda never gave me a bag....Winston never gave me a hit.
@@ThurstonWatt legalising a highly addictive substance, then criminalising it without offering any help to the people that were suffering.
@@magdalena_dewinter i typed out a whole long-winded response, but you know what? have it. we are all hypocrites, there's nothing that i can say to add anything meaningful. have a good one.
This is UNBELIEVABLY depressing. How are there only 1,000 views?
cause it's depressing?
E P u have just answered your own question.... because it depressing and sad
theres two. one on vice, and on on vice asia. the one on vice has around 1mil views.
@@nottoday9223 what
That girl with the red hair is delusional
She’s definitely on many other drugs
i had to skip everytime she spoke, just blaming everybody else for her problems
That girl is so sad….
Was really good at ice skating but threw it all away because she hanged around with the tough people and started smoking stuff….
The father is so pained by the whole thing. Hurts to see him like that
just breaks my heart bro
That man is lucky to have a good mom… luckily so was I, with opiate addiction when I was a teen. My mom said almost the same thing that I had purple lips was pale and dry heaving she found me laying on my bathroom floor and she saved my life
The government is to blame? They did not force you to smoke it. Accept responsibility for yourself.
that young lady has destroyed any hope she had by blasting her brains out with drugs, it's sad
You are EXACTLY right. She will NEVER get better because she won't be an adult and take responsibility for her actions. She wants to blame everyone and everything for HER bad decisions. No one put a gun to her head and forced her to take drugs, she made that decision by herself.
@@WhitneyDahlin BINGO.. she's an absolute trainwreck, it's so sad
Yeah but put it this way if a drug is put out in the market you'll be more likely to try it when it's from the government, something we're supposed to trust rather than the streets. Yes at the end of the day it's your own choice but it shouldn't have been put out in the first place.
You guys are SO judgemental. You have no idea what is was like for her growing up, what sort of family she was born into, the pain she had to endure. The government made something that is incredibly dangerous legal, and she used it as a copying mechanism, and then got hooked. People use drugs to fill a void that could not be filled in their everyday life. She clearly has a lot of hurt in her life. And you are all sitting up on top of your high horse judging her for her choices and saying how she is a "trainwreck", acting as if you have never made a mistake in your life. It's horrible to see so many people lacking basic human empathy or compassion.
Rest in love Devonte. Im with your dad and he's missing you so much it's hard to describe the pain we feel that you aren't here.
But we feel you around xx
🖤
so sad about the old geezer, the guy kept pictures of the girl he raised and loved, almost cried when he spoke of her figure skating days, and the next frame is this... thing, so high it couldnt string a sentence together, talking about how the government is stupid for trying to give her a counselor
i wish people would split it from cannabis ccompletely, its not similar and shouldnt share the name
You do know the name is self explanatory. Synthetic weed, Aka, Fake Weed. Weed is Grown, and Synthetics weeds are made made in labs without using real weed.
Although in Canada, they have a lot of Types of drugs that use weed extract. Like weed Vapes, weed oils, and tons other stuff that you can get high of off. Which is probable why No one I know even bothers with synthetic weed.
your dumb the reason why it has the same name is because its laced weed u handicap
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@@xmaoriskuxchhur2494 its not actually weed it's some other random herb that they dry and then spay with the chemical
Hey Hori fx, I think Original Post meant they shouldn’t call it synthetic cannabis if it doesn’t contain cannabis in the first place.
Government is partly to blame, introducing a so called legal safer alternative to weed, it wasnt even properly tested, then suddenly take off shelves.. but ultimately it comes down to individual.
The government seems pretty liberal, not sure why they haven’t legalized weed yet
@@maxsjoberg788 there was a referendum recently but it didn’t go through
@@maxsjoberg788 the government is but a lot of the people aren't. i think a big issue was the way this stuff was marketed when it was legal, it was clearly sold as a legal alternative to weed when in reality its a potentially dangerous chemical. as a result you had kids buying it up and smoking whole joints of the shit and going into convulsions, ending up in hospital. if the people selling this stuff had been more honest we probably wouldn't have the psychoactive substances act, they should have regulated the marketing the way they do with cigarettes but at that point it was too late.
@@maxsjoberg788 labour and greens yeah, national fuck no, it’s all the old people and the prissy rich aucklanders voting against it. the rich fucks get to use what they want with no consequences, if we were allowed to as well we’d be one step closer to equal with them and that terrifies them.
The government didn’t introduce it anywhere, companies did. It specifically says “not for human consumption” to get around those pesky government regulations when it comes to food and drug products.
How strange exactly the same here in the uk, entered the same way via shops etc then the government made it illegal and now we have an epidemic 😠
Michael Cohen Yes you’re right. Unfortunately, it’s a silent epidemic and there’s not much news coverage on the issue.
Almost wonder if they did it purposely
@@diannh2894 In my opinion they did. Like a twisted social experiment of sorts
We had the same in Russia in 2009/2010-2013
Boohoooo nobody forced you to do the drugs junkie. Its all their own fault and choice
My ex husband started smoking synthetics, which in the Waikato we called Legals, when our daughter was a baby, his exccuse was so he could use it to get off weed. He'd get so wasted, it was like he was on heroin. He dropped our daugter from his chest height because he thought he was closer to the ground then what was actually reality, she was 10 months old, luckily we had mattresses all over the floor from my little sisters sleep over. Our marriage ended not long after that. His brother was worse off, he ended up in a psychiatric ward for two weeks because he went into psychosis. This was 10 years ago and he still deals with alot of mental health issues. Thankfully my daugters father has been clean from legals for i think 9 or 10 years, but he is also deealing with alot of mental health isssue, which isnt entirely the legal synthetics fault but it definitely contributed to it.
“I hate when people use animals to manipulate me....”
Tamara, Christ, blaming every one but her self.
bunch of idiots who think they are cool because they overdose on synthetic drugs and wear snapbacks, and blame anyone but themselves, these are the type of people that will never go anywhere
She's 100% on the Methadone, people really just want to belong, just wanting to be part of a group..
@@zanedickson2725 I knew her bro she was definitely a huge sinny addict
That's what addicts do
She's not narcissistic at all...
Allergic to accountability
Typical junkie
I'm from Christchurch, we saw it all over the country, addicted for several years. That shit was evil, worse than the worst drugs, I remember waking up from a 'nod' needing another, or getting up several times throughout the night for a hit. Gave up around the time this video was released know a couple people that died & that drove me to get clean. What made it worse here is we were still getting over the city falling down.
❤Happy for you... 😊
Her dad!!!!!!! Omg :(( he’s so disappointed, wow
Yep! If only kids would listen to their elders.
He's disappointed but won't say it directly.
I would be as well if my daughter was this orc looking junkie.
9:00 the captioner clearly doesn’t know the yea nah slang😂
New Zealand iccsunt is the worst ever
Right!? 👀😆
The first girl seemed real confused or real stupid. The government didn’t “bring it around and legalize it and put it in all the shops.” The government didn’t “bring it around” or put it anywhere, and they didn’t “legalize it”, there was no law made that said “this shit is legal”, it just wasn’t ILLEGAL cuz it didn’t exist before. Like all new things. And then the government saw how bad it was and made it illegal because that’s how things work. While I’m all for blaming corrupt governments, she was just entirely wrong
Decriminalization of all drugs is the answer
Why?
Then you can take all that money that is spent on that "war", educate young people about which drugs are more harmful and hopefully they steer clear. However, turning someone into a criminal for using a certain chemical to feel differently should be just as insane as arresting adrenaline junkies because motorcycles or sky diving is dangerous.
Lol no it's not. Look what's happening in Portland, Oregon. Its turned into a city of crime and crackheads
Problem is these people don't want to spend the money They got money for spending on other things better than shit like this like fixing our country. I just don't understand why we're spending so much money elsewhere in other countries and when not doing it in this country. Or in any country like what is going on here? It's like they want this to happen because it depopulates. It's like the system was built to fail.
We have that in some parts of Canada. It doesn’t work. They have decriminalized all drugs in Oregon, US and it’s not working there either. Addicts dropping off all over the place. My husband told me about a bakery that has been in our city for 75 years that is now closing because customers will not risk their well-being to make their way through the droves of addicts that hang around these businesses downtown. I thought decriminalization was going to be the answer too but it isn’t. I don’t know what is, but making it completely legal to use is just increasing the use and making things much more difficult for those who are not addicts and just trying to go about their day.
@DaniHMcV yes! That's pretty much what's happening here in New Zealand except they haven't decriminalized drugs here. The police are just so so lazy and don't care. I'm from Tennessee originally and now live in Auckland New Zealand and hate it. I was mugged at knife point a few weeks ago and the police said they won't do anything because it was less than $800 and there's no point!!!!! It was about $200 but I didn't care amount the money or cards or anything. It was the fact they pulled a knife and robbed me!!!
lol go look at Portland.
We have this in America as well, it's called spice. I experimented with it as well and I had seizures.
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Where are you located??
We had SPICE* in nz for a wee while, but by the time it was being sold people were figuring out how dangerous the artificial stuff was and just went back to smoking weed.
*tried it myself a few times but didn't like it much.
Holy shit dude, probably 8 years ago I started on k2 and then it advanced super fast from there for 2 years and bro, when I tell you that withdrawl is rough, shew its rough. Not worth it bro
Can you still get stoned on normal weed? Just interested.
@@Kholaslittlespot1 yes
@@robertburris5140 That's good then. You were lucky! I'm glad you cleaned up. I got hooked on legal benzos and loads of other stuff myself. It wasn't fun.
@@Kholaslittlespot1 you can mate.12 years hard user k2 saying that!
@@Kholaslittlespot1 and i get rid of that
It was never "legal", it simply wasn't criminalised.
Me and the boys at 17 would buy it at the counter of shops in Cambridge, collecting the different brands because the packaging was very appealing. Would buy it everyday we couldn't find any weed. It was very much legal mate. this was 8 years ago
pretty sure you can't buy decriminalised items at the dairy, friend ;)
Are you a kiwi Bob? Because it was literally available at the dairy 😂 That's legal 😂along with the old BZP pills
@@augustr6456bombaclaat
And here I am, ignorantly thinking that NZ was full of happy people, surrounded by the shire, who have no need for drugs. This is grim. Drugs suck.
This is common as in New zealand. Meths the go to here now.
Synthetics use to F me up a couple of times I felt like I was gonna die.. that’s why I stopped doing it.. I can’t believe they were once legal and could buy it at the shops
Why is this video so underwatched??
theres one with 1.4 mil views
Because this is the side of the world people pretend doesn't exist.
Because it’s dog shit
That dad needs to put his daughter out of this misery and just end it..
I’m from NZ! South Auckland ✊🏻 I also became addicted to synthetic cannabis, this was years ago but the only reason why I started smoking it was because it was too hard finding weed. When I discovered they were selling synthetics at the local dairy that was pretty much the start of a very bad trip. My first experience was horrible totally tripped out very intense hallucinations and altered state of reality but I still became hooked! I was just gobsmacked that this was legal and weed wasn’t. In my opinion synthetics can only be enjoyable once you understand the drug, as long as you can remember your going to come back from wherever you’ve gone too you will be fine lol but great doco vice for reals great seeing my country out there even if it’s for the use of synthetic cannabis lol 😆✊🏻
Im not trying to shame you, i just want to know why, living in one of the top countries I qualify of life, education, etc, people do drugs ?
@@giveitup0996 it's for various different reasons
Some are genetically more likely to get addicted, others just need to cope really badly
Mainly, it's to "fill the void", not feel all that pain for a while
And then there's also a physical addiction, your body will become dependent on the drug and you will get very sick when not taking it (physically and mentally) so it's very difficult to stop once you're hooked
It's difficult to explain since it's very complex and everyone's story is different, but just know that no one decides to become addicted and all of them are hurting in one way or another, and shouldn't be shamed, laughed at or anything but instead given alot of empathy
It's a very very difficult struggle, since once you are addicted it's not only the problem you've already had that you need to sort out and heal from, but also now the addiction that has helped you cope
@@giveitup0996 it's because they are lazy. The rest work hard while these people take welfare and spend it on drugs and complain about how hard it is.
dayum people really think NZ is like that? this place has turned to shit in the past 5 years@@giveitup0996
Good on you brother I'm also from New Zealand but from the south island hopefully one day I'll be able to give it up as I've lost a lot of people because of it and am still losing people because of it
Everyone needs true love in whatever form. True love is stronger than any drug
Saying "Its cheaper then weed that's why I brought it" Then blaming the government lmao.. bro it was your choice
who is that first dude
Thank you Vice for making this doco. Im a new zealander and i that nearly everyone seems to be on this sh*t or meth..kia kaha💚
P.S This sh*t use to be legal and was sold in shops everywhere until they made it ilegall and now this is the mess that we are left with to clean up!
is it really still around these days? haven't heard of it being around for years now. maybe its just an auckland thing. damn :(
I brought a few bags of kronic to show my kids that it was once legal! Still got them!
Let alone the 'legal party pills". Met stoners who went crazy on that synthetic shit...NZ Govt has a lot to answer for! Legalise the real deal!
Just legalise normal weed
That girl with the red hair said she started using synthetics at 13 but forgot to tell everyone that she was using acid mushrooms, heroin, and crack before that
tf
1:13 I hate when this is done. Clearly trying to make this scandalous by showing a small child’s scooter with audio about drug use over top.
Everyone is responsible except then self.
But that's like putting a jar of candy 🍬 in front of a 6 year old & saying, I'm going out for a while, don't eat anything.
DH!!!!
12:15 that device she is using costs over 60k dollars damn
"The governments to blame"
- person who refuses to take personal responsibility.
Blaming everyone else for her problems 🤦🏻♂️ she’s got a long way to go and hopefully she gets clean but first she needs to get rid of the chip on her shoulders
Holy shit as an 18yo who’s lived in NZ my whole life that’s mind blowing to me that it was sold at shops
same, i had no idea synnies were ever legal and that this is a problem minorities are still dealing with today. If only schools taught us the true history of aotearoa
Yep Blame John Key
Piece of Shi+ he is
@indigosaura Charge & Rapture were pills they sold at the Liquor stores from about 2002-2008
Yeah, they were just called "legals" back then.
It's a very very scary drug and I'm still trying to figure out in my head why this government tried to make it an alternative to smoking/scoring weed!!
My personal experience on this stuff was not a good one,last stuff I tried was Tai High Silver Bullet? And I would hear a mixture of what sounded like a 3 month old crying and clowns at some sort of evil carnival just laughing and giggling away rolled into one big messed up noise
I really hope that whoever is on this stuff seeks help immediately before it's to late
My mum was on synz, was the worst phase of my life. She was smoking it when it was in the shops too, with my dad and their mates. Years later I’d go with her & her drugmates to go steal from Farmers to get some kids toys for the dealers daughter instead of cash.
One of her mates ended up killing himself on it, apparently the guy stopped dealing afterwards.
It made her see & hear things, like her partner & brother as two white strange men.
I prefer the meth users over this, it’s been years now but that ruined me as a little girl.
I New Zealand and Australia you can just educate yourself almost for free and after 2-3 years make 100k/year if you work in the good industry.
I was there and made 2500AUD/week in construction.
They hire everywhere and pay well
Addiction is the only disease you can be yelled at for having
Nobody takes responsibility anymore.
Legalize all drugs and people will default to safer drugs instead of less researched and more dangerous alternatives. We should also respect those who choose to take designers and the drugs themselves. All drug use should be legalized and destigmatized
Doesn’t work. That experiment is going on now in my country (in a part of my country) and also in Oregon, US. It has failed enormously. I don’t know the answer but making all drugs legal to use is not it. Maybe it’s best for that day, in a certain addicts life, but overall it does not help them find better coping skills or help the people around them whose lives are affected by addicts surrounding the areas and affecting their businesses and their enjoyment of life in general.
@@DaniHMcV I definitely was meaning after we made drastic changes in the U.S. Also no vending to people under 21, etc, structured legalization like alcohol. Tobacco and alcohol are perfectly tucked into their own little category, and they kill their fair share of people. Making drugs legal would also deal with the hardships that come with being charged for a victimless crime. It would also make addiction less of a taboo in society which in turn would mean it would be easier for people to get off drugs because they don't feel bad for doing them in the first place. We should not be making these people felons or criminals of any sort, as someone who has dealt with it first hand I know how hard and expensive both fiscally and mentally it is for someone to go through such an ordeal. So yes I agree we should not go passing legislation without properly putting in proper infrastructure such as education, outreach programs, community programs, better mental health care, etc. BUT once we do, legalization is the only answer because it is and always will be "my body, my choice." I do think that drug users should go through a program of some kind to be able to purchase drugs. This class would be generally informing the user of the risks of using said drugs (we should do that with prescriptions as well), and I also think there should be a limit to how much you can purchase, like with cannabis legislation now. This would drastically reduce the risk of addiction and make addiction decrease in general. There are methadone clinics, so we just expand that to all the other drugs, and we shouldn't have an issue. I would like to hear your reply because I do think this is a constructive conversation.
Why? If a human being needs drugs to cope, then there's a bigger problem at play. There's no such thing as a safe drug! You people should stop spreading misinformation.
i know like 30 different people that sound like tammara
Thats the problem with these people blaming everyone but themselves
Sad, comment: but in all reality it's true.
I am an ex user from britain last used 7 year ago
@Nordic Nation WTF?
Heard about that problem through the death of a rapper called Louie Knuxx from Auckland. I kinda admired and loved his music so much, the pain, the emotions felt real. Now I know why, and that they were real.
@@peaceThroughEducation i don't know actually. But heard him speak about the problems and obviously in his music. RIP
But how did that hole in wall happen 😂
sinnies make u crazy bro. Give you all sorts of mental issues and they cant help it. Ik some people that are real bad
@Officer Barbrady agreed my bro, The familys that have to live with that, man if you had seen my mates old house from his brother its basically like living outside from all the wholes everywhere, they just had posters all over the walls to try and cover most of it up.
She likes it rough
My question exactly!
Governments not to blame sis! You are! Nobody makes you smoke it, but you. Take some responsibility and grow up.
it was about 10 years ago i almost died from this shit, i still feel like its affecting me nowadays, this shit ruins lives. everyone experiences like different kinds of sycosis or weird issues from using this shit, i remember my vision turning into a blurred zig zag screen overlayed on top of my sight, its like i was in my brain in a room looking out the cockpit of my eyes, there was glare and everything, its impossible to describe but its one of the few sensations i remember, not phsycadelic at all, just felt like my brain was broken and was going insane, i wanted to kill myself just to make the crazy shit stop
Man. I smoked these back then supposedly to help me sleep and there was no natural weed available. But instead of helping me sleep, it kept me up all night.
I lived in the Lower Hutt and had work in Wellington early in the morning. In my desperate need to sleep, I smoked 2 more cones in the hopes that I pass out.
Instead, I ended up having this crazy visual hallucination in what felt like a day then luckily I sobered up just in time but the problem was, I was still in Lower Hutt and work was about to start in about 15 mins or so.
So in a panic, I just washed my face, drank my coffee, put my seatbelt on and drove to work.
It wasn’t till I was halfway in the Wellington Motorway that I realised…
I fucking left my car at home.
You can't be driving to work then realize you left your car at home -_-
@@Blockah 😂😂😂
3:14 the ONLY person to blame for your addiction is YOU! It's no different than someone abusing a Legal drug like alcohol. Alcohol kills more people every year than any other drug but that isn't the governments fault for making alcohol legal it's the addicts fault for becoming addicted. Why should the government out law ALL alcohol because SOME people can't handle it and get addicted. Why should the rest of us be punished because of the few irresponsible users. I can't stand people like this, who blame EVERYONE and EVERYTHING else before admitting it's their fault. No one put a gun to her head and forced her to take the drugs over and over again. SHE and ONLY she is the one at fault. She will never get better because she won't admit shes made bad decisions and she's at fault. Be an adult. Stand up and accept responsibility for your bad decisions and accept the consequences, don't just blame the government. The government is to blame for a lot of things but not your drug addiction 😂😂
You *are* aware that drugs tend to get more dangerous under prohibition?
Lmao you seem to be lacking any compassion for other people, acting like you have never made a mistake in your life.
You just proved yourself as an ignorant person, congrats.
Very sad. Lesson? Don't give up on your children. Ever.
People need to be smarter
Thank God I only do original marijuana ( No Chemicals ) and never did or had the cravings to do anything else, but I do hope and pray that all those afflicted by this gets well and get their lives back together soon. Salah.
Googled: Cannabis is a complex plant with over 400 chemical entities of which more than 60 of them are cannabinoid compounds, some of them with opposing effects.
@@masterchief5437 yes we know this
I wonder what would happen if they just legalized cannabis.
What a horrible place 😢
1:57….now that’s a fatty dog! He’s just chillin on the corner checkin traffic.😂
I'm sorry, 25 people died of this drug and you are talking about an epidemic? Boy, it's amazing how dramatic people can become when there are no real issues to deal with.
Why don’t they just smoke real pot?
Availability and some synthetics don't show in drug tests.
In the US they test for spice now too.
@@BrandonGates spice doesnt show up in drug test
@@BrandonGates they can only test for the kinds that get banned but they have 100s of compounds similar built from the structure of the banned ones usually that they cannot test for
way cheaper did u listen
1989 in New Zealand case of stolen child that was sent out of the country please reply
Take responsibility for your own actions/decisions in life. Staying green since 2012 baby 🤙
Nah sister, don't blame the government in this case. It is always a choice
I disagree observing America's opioid crisis. Big pharma to blame on that one.
@@tkatrich3nahh its a choice. Only weak people become a junkie bc they have zero backbone and always blaming others
Do you know what an Australian grenade is? this is a poisonous snake that unwinds, rushes and bites into the enemy, and instead of shrapnel poisonous spiders
I went to school with Divante at Whakatane High, he was a good person. Sucks he's not here.
That's why you guys earnt the name. 'Whacky Westies'! 🤣🤣🤣 You guys can keep that name. Lol.
a kilo of spice is no where near a million dollars
These guys know who sells it, but they go on camera talking about the horrors and do nothing cool.
I remember the very first synthetic cannabis back in 2008 it was called Spice
What else is there to do in that grey town?
Damn this was nation wide not just west Auckland cuz
The government! Hahahahah
It's not the government's fault that people chose to take drugs and become addicted to them. It's their fault and their responsibility. We're also not all like this in West Auckland, most of us are like Tamarra's dad, not like Tamarra or drugged up hood bogans.
Go back to playing roblox bro
John Key government allowed the sale of that shi+
@@KanyeKetchupso? He didn't force it down ur throat tho. That's the choice of the junkie taking it
@@GRRRRAAAAAAHHHHgo back to anime weakling.
I wish they wouldn't call it cannabinoids. Its nothing like it, fucking spice
synthetic ganja ? just smoke actual weed
The government's to blame...nah bruh you are for trying it. Can only blame yourself for every decision you take and make.
Im glad i never done drugs and never will!!
Good for you. Keep it that way!
Do you drink coffee? Or alcohol? smoking?
Ni i dont drink coffee or alcohol and i dont smoke :) i drink lot of teas thought
No, Ms. Zeal Andia. We WON'T legalize pot, but how ever these toxic chemicals, those are fine!
Who's zeal andia???
I'm a kiwi and ain't ever heard of them.
Dad's enabling her. Soft parenting leads to this madness. People with their off leash pit bulls shouldn't own dogs
Don’t smoke bottle caps kids .
Canadian here. Why not just legalize real weed and people wouldn't need to do that synthetic crap? Despite good intentions, trying to control people for no real rational reason has its consequences.
11:24, so a kilogram then.
why she wrote you the letter? maybe because you want to smack her in the face?
NO YOUR TO BLAME......... PEOPLE ARE SO IGNORANT AND BLIND
Oof, that poor girl is a mess. I hope she got her shit figured out. That was hard to watch. I've totally been there.
she's right, it really is the gouvernments fault. if that was my child vertbally abusing me like that htough shed be out the door fast.
I'm always amazed by how they literally turn every drug into an "epidemic". It seems like they just visit some junkie and film them get fucked up.
Do you live in Aotearoa / New Zealand? these types of drugs are an epidemic mate, and narcotics, all sorts, and even more so in small countries and cities. so shush
@@augustr6456 I think that's a global issue and not an "epidemic". Drug addiction has always been a part of human existence.
@@sidvicious3789 of course its a global problem. But whats the issue with saying that these drugs are an epidemic in a particular community? same/same. "AN EPIDEMIC is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region." - which this is, as well as many other drugs. But of course its a global issue as well, a pandemic. I think you're focusing on a pretty ridiculous point. even if they are just meeting up with "some junkie" (also, lay off the derogatory name calling eh? they're people that need help, and are the product of a shitty government a lot of the time) whats the problem with that? this shit needs to be known.
@@augustr6456 I have no problem with making educational videos about certain "drug epidiemcs". I just don't like when it gets sensational and exaggerated for views. I call them junkies cause that's what they are. They have made their decisions and the also have a responsibility. I don't like this narrative that somehow it's the government fault these people are sick.
@@sidvicious3789 PS - it's quite obvious you have zero knowledge on this subject, if you have an interest in it then perhaps do some research. Maybe start with the Oxycodone story, that's an easy place to start. cheers
Relapsing? She's nodding out right next to you brutha
she looks 45 yrs old.
It’s not the Government’s fault, stop passing the blame! Take accountability for taking the drugs.
You have no clue the part they play at making MILLIONS by infiltrating their own societies with every drug available. The homelessness, the overdoses, the loss of all motivation, the murders and gangs--- it was ALL planned. Even the hippie movement of the 60-s and the introduction of LSD; ALL PLANNED and then executed into effect. So, knowing how many lives have been ruined worldwide, yeah, people have a RIGHT to blame their governments, as well as themselves. But our cultures were sabotaged. Almost every human has been affected by this twisted plot. Certainly the innocent children. And
I mean in EVERY culture. Dont be so naive. Smh.
"I wouldn't change nothing" ..
.. except maybe how she talks to her Birds 😑