@@mralexjbishop that's usually a byproduct of the illegality. They either don't know what they're getting, how much they're getting, or aren't informed of effects and expectations. Not all, if course, but a vast majority. This is still a part of harm reduction
I started doing drugs years ago as a teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
You don't seem to understand how those words work. Just because something is factually dangerous, doesn't mean it isn't potentially dangerous, for example drinking once glass is not dangerous but drinking multiple is potentially.
@@mrgarchomp5418 I know. I've been a heroin addict for over 20 years and I've wished I were dead during withdrawal but I know you won't die from it. I'm in a residential program right now and I've been clean for a little over a year now. Keeping my fingers crossed.
But Oregon didn't legalize it. They decriminalized it. That doesn't mean a safer legal market is forming to replace the black market. They've just stopped punishing people for engaging in the black market. It's kind of the worst of both worlds.
Honestly idk what everyone is so worried about... how could legalizing drugs possibly be worse than what we’ve already experienced the last 40 years under the current strategy?
@@MaggotMuseum handing out 10-20 year prison sentences for minor possession of cocaine and crack is absurd too. I don’t see how throwing away someone’s life is helping anyone, helping society, or helping the overall problem
@@BostonsF1nest Also the economic and social cost of imprisoning people for 10 years is insane. Even if you don't care about the human per se there are no valid arguments for that kind of practice. That person does not pay taxes, doesn't raise their kids, don't contribute to society in any way and have to be fed, sheltered and given something to do in an environment where they automatically develop criminal knowledge, contacts and motive. It's not like prisons are drug free anyway.
I'm not sure. As much as I love the idea of it, I can't sit here honestly and say my drug use wouldn't increase dramatically. Ease of access is the main thing that prevents me from taking a lot.
I had a few days in Interlaken, Lugano and Basel a few years ago on the way back from Italy. Switzerland is an absolute paradise (expensive, paradise mind you).
@iLoveJackingOn Can guarantee a lot of these fucking mayors and cops are definitely on the payroll to look the other way with known traffickers and heavy moevers.
@@electrifiedrhythm5426 exactly people are gonna be addicted regardless so you cut out the black market by legalizing all drugs and then all the crime associated with selling drugs goes away if people just go to pharmacies to get their drugs instead. You’re missing the entire point...
@electrified rhythm You're misinformed. Go research, please. And do it with an open mind. Maybe smoke a little weed. I know a lot of people who use drugs responsibly. There is no reason to punish people. It's always better to be informed. The truth is out there. You just need to not be hypocritical. I bet you have you're own vice yet you think it's fine. Coffee or soda is what comes to my mind. Sugar and caffeine are just two of the most addictive substances in the world yet i dont see many that mention it. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
If the young are willing to start voting for politicians willing to push these changes there may be a move forward. Nothing will happen if 80% of the oldest hit the polls while only 40% of the youngest do.
On November 4th I'll have a year clean after roughly 12 years of opiates, 3 years with crystal and benzos, and have has to live on the streets 3 times for roughly 4-7 months at a time, and trust me being addicted to something that makes you sick as fck if you don't have it while laying on the wet ground under a real-estate sign, with it being 28 degrees while it's snowing/raining you haven't eaten anything in two days, have no way of getting water, not to mention again that you feel like dying and can't barely walk because of the withdrawals wearing just a long sleeve shirt with no gloves, no hat, and just jeans on, and you're all alone... yeah it's absolutely the worst
Legalize it , tax it to fund rehab and education programs completely with the goal to combat addiction properly with qualified therapists, doctors and social workers not with armed police and prison
that would be too effective and too good of a solution for society. Prison system is privately funded. They want healthy criminals that don't drain their precious free in house healthcare.
Imagine being transparent and allowing people to have access to safety, a house, mental health care. These are people and I think we often forget that when we see them on the street. They are fighting something we can’t see and I think that’s the hardest part for them :(
I have found on many occasions It’s not the drug or the user it’s the demons they are possessed by with out any help or intervention prior to using a drug or while trying a drug they never realised you could get high by being happy
I agree with this 1000%. Yes i have a children and im also a recovering heroin addict. It wasnt heroin itself that almost killed me, it was the homeless lifestyle and being in the streets. My heart goes out to everyone suffering and helpless.
A friend of mine 22 years old gave me this speach in our last conversation together, he had argued my concerns by stating "i know what i can handle, and as long as i know what im getting I'm fine" he died 2 days later from fetynol...
I suggest posting sources on where people can go to fight against the war in drugs so that our passion for this moment doesn't die at the beginning of the next video that happens to play..
I’m pretty sure that under the constitution states are allowed to make these things called laws. Everything isn’t about the constitution, it just makes you seem like one of those people that regurgitate talking points from fox. Instead use actual facts like harm reduction is proven to actually work
@@reidyo5404 it's called the 10th amendment not a talking point it's a fact the war on drugs on a federal level is unconstitutional if you understand law and how it's supposed to be applied it should be the state's right to set law in each individual State the fed has been overstepping its authority for the last 75 years
You could even gate access to legal drugs behind, say a 2-day seminar. This would mean there is still a barrier to entry into drug use and it would ensure users know safer-use and the effects of the drug on them, allowing them to make educated decisions.
Do you not realize how many times people OD, before they finally OD for good? Do you think addicts are so stupid they don't know the risks they are taking? Because they do, very well, and they take them anyway. They even get pissed when you wake them up with narcan during an OD. The only place education like this might be appropriate is in high schools. The problem with that is, teenagers are 10 ft tall and bulletproof, and they think bad things will never happen to them, so they do stupid stuff despite being educated not to
Ex drug addict here, currently on subaxone, love everything about this, I almost cried thinking about my past and how it could of been different on so many levels it drugs were legal. Such a sad topic for me.
don't dwell on what could of been, you have a new path in front of you, your still hear. don't live in the minute, but plan your day from the second you open your eyes in the morning. stay strong an aware. whatever you do dont take up drinking because you have stopped taking drugs. i have known far more people to die from replacing one addiction to another.
Me too. 24 years working to feed my heroin habit. Back on methadone maintenance again. For some addicts it's too late. I have spent 4 years plus half my life on drugs. Heroin and methadone. I cant function without one or the other and I always relapse when I have managed to detox. I would rather buy my gear from a pharmaceutical company that's been taxed and is clean rather than dirty smack that's been smuggled inside dead animals across the pakistan and Afghanistan borders.
@@jld7779 I think younger people wouldn't get into it if it was legal and regulated. They would have to already have an addiction to start to qualify for pharmaceutical drugs
@@jld7779 that's better though, you would feel safe because you would be safe. The problem isn't really people doing drugs, the problem is the HARM people get due to doing drugs. In a legalized and safe environment, the harm is ought to decrease substantially. And it would also narrow the possibility of people getting 'hooked' on whatever drug they are doing.
You are physically addicted to an extremely powerful synthetic opioid and you are calling yourself an ex drug addict? I understand the language in recovery can be confusing but don't you feel any sense of hypocrisy when you say that? I'm on methadone and have struggled on and off for years. I'm an addict and so are you.
I recommend everyone to watch a film called "pleasure unwoven". it's a great medical film explaining how alcohol and drugs work in the brain. Talks about the lymbic system, midbrain, GABA, ETC... And best part it's not boring! 😀
I like this "host," he makes me want to pierce my left ear, get a tracksuit, bottle of cider and top it all off with a Burberry hat on some random corner of a dimly lit estate in Rochdale surrounded by the soothing sounds of roaring citroens.
Meanwhile in the county that I grew up & live in in TX, they tried to give a guy who had gone to the same school that I had attended 99 years for one batch of pot brownies. Edit: this didn’t take place at school, this took place at his dad’s apartment when he was 19. According to the story I’ve heard, the fire department was evacuating the complex due to an unrelated small kitchen fire. They knocked on his door, & they smelled weed when he opened it, so that gave probable cause for police to come & bust the door down. After I believe 8 months in county jail, his case became a national outcry & received the attention of some higher tier lawyers who came in & somehow got him out of county jail. He then fled to California where the weed community welcomed him with open arms, and he’s likely never coming back to TX.
The problem with all of the legalization talk is you’re looking at the situation as a problem that needs to be solved, when the government sees it as a feature rather than a bug. The war on drugs helps the government and law enforcement more than any other single policy in the history of the United States. Ruining the lives of people with drug problems, or just casual drug users, funds the police and a large portion of the government. They need to keep those prisons full to keep their pockets full, and nothing fills prisons like the war on drugs. Turning huge swaths of the population into criminals with the stroke of a pen made it so that prisons are a booming industry, and then you factor in all the fines and fees associated with arrests, probation, drug diversion, etc. you see that this isn’t a problem in the eyes of the government, it’s a major revenue stream. If we legalized drugs we would have to seriously rethink law enforcement as well, and as we have seen recently that’s something that the government is absolutely unwilling to do right now.
@@theomaiklem3413 no they love the poor, that’s where they get the folks to fill their prisons and who funds the police force with the myriad fees associated with arrest, court, probation/parole, drug diversion programs, etc. They absolutely adore the poor, so much they do everything possible to ensure the poor remain poor, because they’re the easiest group to pick on.
When ever I think about this issue the only way to “solve” the problem is legalization, we should inform people on how dangerous this drugs are but at the same time if some chose to use them ( they obviously do) at least they get them from a safe environment and not fueling criminal organizations
We already do this and it doesn't work. People know damn well what the drugs do, not one person in this world grew up never seeing a crack head. Drugs are not a disease they are a choice with consequences, any one saying they can't get off them it's a disease it's that it's this are just bullshiting it's them they don't want help. The people that want help get help and stay off. The ones that are in and out of rehab are just being pushed to go but really they want to be left alone to get high.
@@ghettogrower3499 hun hate to say this, but you're terribly incorrect. read up on scholarly articles about the changes that happen to a individuals brain when substance abuse is present. if you even wanna try to say it's a choice, that's your opinion. what about all these children being born addicted with proven & observable brain changes that make them predisposed to a life of substance abuse?? maybe a little more empathy & medical evaluation/assistance could be the solution to lowering addiction rates; obviously what we're doing now isn't working.
@@karimbelba5597 as a pharm. tech trainee I can say that doctors are sooo careless & I see so many control 2's sold everyday.. It's hard to see our patients prescribed to so many dangerous drugs, but doctors just do whatever they want IG 🙆♀️0🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️
@@Cbd_7ohm You sound stupid af advocating drug addiction. Just because the war is massively unsuccessful we're supposed to embrace drug addiction instead of fighting against it? Drugs are drugs because they are substances people enjoy themselves with, they aren't just substances you can put in your body because "it's your right". And more importantly, they are substances you enjoy that literally kill you if you keep enjoying it. So hell no, attack addiction instead of welcoming it.
Nothing will change. Here in Canada it's much cheaper to get your marijuana off your local dealer or through the internet. The government stores are expensive and the quality is notoriously low.
I’m a recovering heroin addict and all my charges are stemmed from my addiction I’ve done over 3 years. I’d love to see some type of resolution. I live in Akron Ohio and I’m pretty sure we are the 2nd state for overdoses. I love seeing a video like this. Locking me up just makes me a better criminal when I come out
Cleveland here. Ive done alot to help raise awareness about harm reduction. I try to explain to people the importance of safe injection sights, how legalizing and regulating drugs helps lower crime rate and addiction rates and lowers the stigma. All some people here is 'letting druggies have access to their fix' and think it will make things wore, even though I present them with facts and studies that show the complete opposite. I'm like 'how it that *war on drugs* goin for ya'? People can be so ignorant.
@@jef9635 yea man the people who don’t want the education about it or are very ignorant to it and look like at us like what u said about just wanting the fix. There is 100% proof harm reduction works. 9/10 too people who aren’t addicts have still been effected by an addict(s) in some way and to not want the education sickens me fr I went thru hell and back to get where I am now
...or, in a legal drugs setting, even getting prescription drugs without prescription: you sign a waiver in which you declare that you take full responsability for what you'll do with them... Hand me ten oxys plus three or four xanax, doc, please. Than you move to the proper hemp/smart shop shop and buy a couple of ganja spliffs, last stop to the sueprmarket for buying a couple of beers: i'll do it in days, not in a single night, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT TEN OXYS AND FOUR XANAX ALL AT ONCE CAN KILL ME! SELF - RESPOSABILITY!!! On the same level, if you buy alcohol, you receive an instruction paper on how to safely drink, same for tobacco products and coffe/caffeinated beverages, you firm a waiver where you take responsability for your behaviour, and then you go on your way! Ketamine in England and Salvia Divinorum in Italy in the early 2000's were legal, BTW. Some fucked their bladder up, which is sad enough, some had a good time of self knowledge and universe exploring. With salvia, some freaked the hell out, some discovered parallel universes. With them being illegal ,the situation remains the same, or gets worse. WAR ON PROHIBITION!!! REGULAMENTATION AND LEGALIZATION RIGHT NOW!!!
This may be the most sense ive ever heard in a video. Prohibition literally is funnelimg billions of dollars to the people they are trying to stop. Legalize. Regulate. Tax. Fund treatment and rehabilitation when and to whomever possible.
I was a heroin addict a long time ago and the only thing that helped was injectable methadone I was addicted to the rush of it rushing into my brain . It takes the criminal element out of it the stealing, scoring ect I was so stable I ran a successful business for 9 years . then suddenly the government was saying NO its too expensive yet its more expensive now with crime ect oral methadone just don't work aswel ..I lost everything.... I have now been clean 13 years this summer ...
Yes know a few ppl who where on injectable meth. Let's not 4get the infamous smack ciggies from the chemist or the diamorphine (heroin) tablets ppl used 2 get from UK pharmacies
Can I ask what country you are from and when this was? I have never heard of injectable methadone! So interesting. I can say that methadone probably saved my life, and it has been an invaluable tool in my recovery. 15 years in recovery, even longer than that off of heroin. It's absolutely possible, for anyone who is still struggling.
@@camillapalmer82 what the hell are you on about... He said when it was somewhat legal to do heroin which hasn't been since the 20s and the way he said it made it sound like he'd visibly seen the addicts 100 years ago. As if you tried to explain what the UK was...
@@ilovedogs2642 did you not watch the video? They talked about this and that is what he is referring to. The British system was in place into the 60s where anyone who needed it could get a prescription for heroin and they had a fraction of the users and diseases and safety issues as the US during that time.
I've thought this was the way to go for over 30 years but not many will listen to the reasoning. My uncle is a missionary in Portugal (a very conservative man) and even he admits the benefits he's seen since decriminalization in 2001.
All studies coming out of Portugal are so promising. Rehabilitation for abusers, not making them criminals, because they have an addiction health issue. It’s not a choice. There is a good TEDx talk about this and they go over Portugal 💪🏻❤️
@@KimSkid2k What about people that are occasionally using softer drugs like psychedelics or mdma and are never addicted, manage to live healthy and productive life?
But in the US if you get caught with anything on you your still going to jail, it's still criminalized they are just SAYING that it's not criminalized but it still is, at least it is in Wisconsin where I live. People are still being arrested for overdoses. A friend of mine had a seizure after doing some " supposed heroin" it wasn't an overdose it was a seizure but her boyfriend thought she was overdosing and gave her narcan and called 911. A detective came with the EMTs and apparently the detective was searching her pockets while she was still having a seizure and even looked inside her bra but her boyfriend took the drugs off her before they got there. And the boyfriend tripped out on the detective when he pulled her open. And then he asked him where's the needle she used and he said I got rid of it already and the detective was pissed and said that was evidence. All the detective cared about was trying to find a way to get her charged criminally but he didn't have anything. Now this is a very smart girl so even though she had to let them take her to the ER she knew that the ER couldn't make her stay so they could do a blood drug test on her for her to be charged with internal possession. So as soon as the doctor came in she said I'm fine and I don't need to be here give me my discharge papers and they did. By the time she was walking out the door her boyfriend had called a friend for a ride and was walking up to the hospital doors. Then the detective pulled in and jumped out of his car and said "hey where do you think your going? And she said "back home you dick"!!!! Lol 😂🤣 and he asked her did they do a blood test?" She said no I refused treatment and I left" apparently this detective was so pissed off that she knew her rights and he didn't have anything to charge her with and this was only like 3 years ago now. So trust and believe that they are still trying to criminalize any kind of drug use even going as far as to go to the hospital to find out what was all in her system so that they could charge her with internal possession. So even though they are saying their not they still are 😡🤬.
Legalisation will also not only reduce harm for users, but also for all the people in countries like mexico, colombia and brazil! hundreds of thousands of people die at the hands of the cartels, both people involved and people who had no involvement. Legalisation would also reduce insane amounts of corruption in countries where cartels have a heavy influence!
5:21 just like a drug dealer can sell pot and heroin or cocaine, or both, or more, a doctor can push treatment. and if your dealer is trying to get you off of drugs, instead of on them, and trying to get you functional, instead of letting you beg, you and society as a whole are probably in a better position to thrive.
I've sold for awhile and when people buy too much, I start to let them know that they should chill out or maybe flat out stop. I let them know what's in it and what it's doing to them and alot of addicts just dont care, they just want to feel numb. Im happy to see Alot of them have stopped but I agree that legalizing it would decrease users. People wouldn't hide it as much and people would deal with it like you deal with Alcoholics. (never meth, crack, or heroin) Selling someone one of those is the same as killing them
@@PunisherFord what a horrible argument to make. This is youtube so I won't focus on statistics; but if you are bored, delve into the dramatic rise of lover disease, and more specifically that which is a result of alcohol abuse.. I'm all for the first amendment, but peelike you should have an asterisk when providing "data".
@@PunisherFord it is a difficult and subtle issue, one that can be better dealt with in the light of day than in the darkness of an alley. i typed another comment and deleted it because of fear of misunderstanding, it is that much of a mess. hell, we can even go to the violence that dealers deal with and in, what recourse do they have if someone robs them? this issue just bounces back and forth with those who try to stand above saying "just don't do it" while taking vicodin or some crap like that to relax. it is a giant mess, and the only solution is sunlight.
I would love to be able to buy pure heroin or MDMA instead of worrying about a possible deadly cutting agent. I wouldn't have to test my stash anymore.
I accidentally bought fake MDMA once and it was hell. Thankfully I was okay but for 48 hours I was just a mess and couldn't stop vomiting. I don't understand how anyone would be willing to sell fake/laced drugs but I guess profit comes before anything else for some people.
We hardly have legal CBD in France... Red Bull was still prohibited 20 years ago. Thermo-industrial civilization will collapse before we get legal weed.
@@verzeda No it won't. Biden will not allow this to happen. He has said this multiple times. The most that dinosaur is willing to do is to decriminalize it federally.
I doubt it people dont care about drugs when they got work and Bill's to pay, oregon has low unemployment this would affect only poor communities in the south
Try 🍄s instead🤣 Most ecstasy will be cut with methamphetamine. Street drugs are usually cut. Real prescription drugs are pure but people sell fakes as well. If you want to experiment, be safe and responsible. Stick to the plant homies though 🌳 and 🍄s
@@tylerstrippin9630 I'm only 21, but in all my years being around drugs I've never seen a user or a dealer use a substance test kit. They completely should! But I feel like its safer to just stick to plant homies 🌳🍄
@@JJ-me4yu you obviously are partying with complete fucking idiots.... by the age of 16 I had seen more tester kits then I could count.......... there 75$ online dude........
Not really great to completely legalize it, I know so many people who fall for temptations, now your telling me you want kids to share cocaine instead of cigs/alcohol at a young age... If its legalized it would have to be extremely limited and reviewed depending on how strong/dangerous the drug is. Crystal Meth is not Marijuana for example.
In the USA drug dealers already file taxes sometimes. You can say your money came from "other sources" and then pay taxes which makes the taxman happy.
My only hangup on the sale of these drugs for everyone is ive listened to a lot of people say things like if someone offered me heroin id take it even after years of sobreity. They no longer put themselves in situations where they see people who use or go to areas that you can easily get it. What do they do when they could easily get it off the market? There's no natural high on earth thats comparable to these drugs. Its hard for me to get on board with it because of that reason.
Idk what to say about someone offering you drugs, but as for buying them a system could be put in place where you inform the pharmacies of your past addiction and ask them to permanently blacklist you from buying certain drugs. I do agree with you that it’s a dangerous thing for recovering addicts, but I am sure that there is a viable approach that minimizes harm and promotes education and healthy use. Also congratulations on your sobriety!
@@joshlentz7468 Perhaps that would be a good solution, and it was a hypothetical. Thank you but i've never been addicted to any substance other than my vape haha.
As well as the poor, disabled, and women, and its obscene. We need to call it what it is. Systemic Genocide, and Population Control, and State Sponsored Racism/Eugenics. There has to be a better way. The crisis in regards to black men cannot be ignored or overstated, but it is NOT just a war on black men. Its a war on all of us, and mostly between the capitalists and the rest of us
@Ab T John Ehrlichman, one of Nixon's aides, has outright said that Nixon's launch of the drug war was a way to crack down on his primary opposition, Black people and the "antiwar left" (Hippies). The drug war has always targeted minorities, because they're disproportionately pushed toward drug dealing and drug use by their circumstances. That's just the reality of it.
Let's stop blaming everyone for people's poor choices whether they be black white Mexican whatever. They choose the life. If you don't sell drugs you don't get busted for it. I know tons of people who will strip and prostitute but I never have nor will I. No one can take away your free choice. If "blacks " decide to commit crime then "blacks" get busted for it. Smh
Such a great video!! Very well done, well presented and I couldn't agree more with the message. The War on Drugs is a complete failure. Drugs need to be regulated and controlled. We also shouldn't judge addicts as having some kind of moral failure. They are people that need help and compassion.
They did fail at some point or in some way in life if they are "addicts" Being a drug addict shouldn't be taken lightly, drug addicts do not have such a bad reputation out of no where.
Drugs are already regulated and controlled, and those same regulated, controlled drugs have fueled the opioid crisis in the US, that has left hundreds of thousands dead.
As an addict (Heroin) for over 25 years i was saved by my country having a very good Methadone program. I will say that yes i swapped one drug for another but i also swapped lifestyles as well. I had already been to jail by the time i was 25 & was a three times a day user of home made heroin but very pure heroin (in NZ until recently it was a hard place to be an addict we made Diamorphine from scratch which would kill most street users because of strength & OD's were very common) once getting on Methadone & stopping intravenous usage life became exceptionally better i got work new friends but as an addict i regret now i am in serious pain i am being denied pain management because of my past but i would say a lot of people are addicted to needles & the ritual of injecting once that has gone life gets easier.
Stay strong Man.....Let all Bad things go away......I'm on methadone too 11years.....Get support and never ever mix (methadone)with meth..... Good luck to you and stay Strong
@@Matbai7881 Indeed Bro the joke's on me for enjoying life i guess but I'm in a really great place as far as medical issues go public health is exactly that here i dread watching pieces on RUclips about places where there is virtually no Social Welfare backup for health scares me to hell circumstance & accidents of birth aside i am good. Respect Bro
I can relate to you karl... not 25 years, but 15 for sure... got tired of it or all the bullshit that comes with it and got off 4 years ago. Life is better without but I can't say I don't often miss it.
Idk, I don't think methadone works. Never seen someone quit completely with it. I'm sure examples exist, but for everyone you show me I'll show you a hundred just dosing on top of using. Quitting is the hardest decision they will ever make and methadone is false hope and a daily disappointment to your cravings. It's the hope of relief followed by disappointment.
@@filthyan1mal588 It's not everyone's panacea for jumping off & having hope helps but i agree with you a little but not about all, as we all have baggage when looking at making such a decision & this baggage can sometimes be just to heavy.
That’s great and all but I live in Canada and weed is legal and I still by off the black market. It’s cheaper and they deliver to your door. I can’t see the black market ever going away
The regulated market is still in its infancy. You’ve had a fair few teething problems, not least adequate supply and cost. These things will iron out eventually. It will likely get to the point where the black market won’t be able to compete. Even if that day never comes, at least you have the option. That option is an even greater necessity for drugs like MDMA and Heroin.
I was disappointed when I went to Vancouver and didn't see a single dispensary. Where I live in California I can order from one of several Cannabis dispensaries that deliver. The only people who use the black market are teenagers.
The black market will never go away but, the makers of this video are socialists and they don't understand economics. Still, they want the state to be involved. State involvement is precisely what created this mess from the very beginning! They need to stop worrying about what everyone else is doing.
How exactly do you legalize Fentanyl, Carfentanil and heroin, when very little of a dose is fatal?? If you're going to limit doses, then you aren't changing anything, as dealers will fill that void. The only solution is to destroy the drug cartels with military airstrikes. I'm the only one saying the truth that no one wants to hear.
@@douche8980 did u watch the video? tell me what drugs are too harmful bc its most likely they are dangerous bc of cuts or contaminants, and not the drug itself.
From my experience, cigs are the gateway drug, cause if your can take a puff without coughing it, you cant hit any drugs that are inhaled. When people dont get high on weed anymore or get the nic hit or dont get drunk on a few glasses, they tend to look for new ones to get that same buzz
That's so true! I know a guy who went to buy some weed from a sketchy dealer since his normal guy was out and they had coke and the rest is history. Just stick to weed yall
I think it’s the scheduling. Weed is a schedule 1 drug. Teens try that, realize it’s not bad, and then think everything is a lie. People just need to be honest and specific about the short term and long term effects of every substance. Most people don’t even know which drugs dilate your pupils and which ones constrict them
I remember as a kid growing up, the DARE presentations, at school and the boys and girls club. The adults I grew up around provided clear info on the effects of illegal drugs, and of the before and after of people addicted. Honestly, scary stuff. Being around informative, honest adults really influenced what is most important to me- my health. This video really puts it out there too. Everyone deserves to have good health. Health is wealth.
DARE was a joke. At least when the presentation was given at my school they went all in on All Drugs Are Bad Yes We Mean Everything-- when I told the person doing the presentation I was on drugs to regulate my seizure disorder they got really flustered and you could see them start to visibly sweat that this ten year old just threw a massive wrench in their big "uplifting" talk. I thought this had to have been an isolated incident until I started to meet other people my age on the internet who said the same things.
This needs to get out to more people man.. personally I got a single heroin charge at 23 and while driving.. “stupid decision” and I now have 2 felony’s been on parole for 5 years and went to jail for two months plus had to do rehab. I’ve been clean for all five years thank the lord but it’s absolutely ruined my life.
Just like all the stupid decisions that led to DUIs for alcohol. Actions have consequences amd they suck. I don't think that should be a felony, however, it did force you into rehab and has kept you clean for 5 years. We need criminalization for that very reason, we just need to change laws so that people who do like you did and learn from their bad choices, don't have a record that follows them forever
As an opioid addict, the only thing scary about taking drugs to me is the gamble you have to take off street dealers. I can literally die from my next attempt to get high, or from the withdrawal chasing me like satan.
Its soooo frustrating that we are just so dense and stubborn (when I say "we", I mean the us in general and the big fish who make the decisions) that we havent at least TRIED this! I mean yeah we are on our way I guess with oregon or whatever, but OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY saying "hey, dont do that!" Doesnt always or even usually. Work. Anyone whose ever had a 2 year old or a teen knows that. So if we know that the next best thing from absolute abstinence (which is impossible) is making it safER...giving people some self respect and dignity back...making people feel safe about asking for help, without fear of their jobs or kids being taken...just being real and open with kids and tell them the truth about drugs, and not lying just to scare them, but rather exploring what it actually does to your body and mind. If that alternative is by default safer than what we have now...jail, the same circle round and round, institutions..why not try it? Why cant we change our collective perspective on junkies❤, with compassion and love rather than kicking them when they're down? How can that make anything WORSE than it already is?! The fundamentals of how we deal with it are outdated and proven ineffective. Access to mental health services, clean gear (needles, cookers, tie offs, sterile water, etc.) and narcan. Trying to prevent and/or at least process through traumas. Having safe using places with people to monitor you. Fighting with something, wars about things, rarely get much accomplished except for one to completely take over the other. You're more likely to get through to someone when you come alongside them and really listen to what they need. But when people are suffering, with pain, whether it be past, present, or fear of the future...mental, physical, or emotional...there will always be a desire to escape from that in the easiest and quickest way. Instead of D.A.R.E., teach kids some fucking real world COPING SKILLS for some REAL WORLD MODERN PROBLEMS!
here's a video without nudity, violence or even swearing that is about the importance of education instead of prohibition, especially toward young people.. behind an age gate that expects you to give up your privacy. google really needs to die.
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
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@@sheadoherty7434 Right cause for some reason allowing Americans who are already leading in overdoses to harm themselves legally is the thoughtful solution
Definately on board with harm reduction as someone who has been on &off drugs my whole life I know for a fact that if we had policies based on harm reduction my family and friends & myself would have had completely different lives and less shameful results for future decision making and lifestyle choices
Think about how many lives could be saved and how less money would have to go to an unending war. I'm no expert, but I can imagine that, as a result to legalization, the prices of (now illegal) drugs will plumit, and more money can be directed towards better goals, like more affordable housing. Surely first there will be a period of many people becoming curious and become addicted from trying drugs. But much of that "wanting to try" is also because it is prohibited, it wont be such a 'cool' thing if it is legal and in their younger years, only the 'cool guys' use it. People just need to be informed about what they are taking in, and (most of) the consequences will be for themselves. Long term I imagine, to name a few: - more money for other things, which will become more problematic if we dont act now. - less need for i.e. large scale expensive agressive operations. - less need for imprisonment, which leads to less (expensive) prisons. - less people need to work for big drug lords, more over all happyness across the world. - less deaths, not just because it becomes less popular, but also because there wont be as much accidents as a result. How I think it should be regulated, is mainly throughout pharmacies and declaration on passports that people use certain drugs. People who currently work in the drug business can seek jobs in places where drug control might be extra important, so they wont be without a job. In short: there should be a while new reshuffle on how people see drugs. Because as it is right now it is just a waste of money, resources and time.
Awesome! Half the battle is educating the public on policy. Never taken an illicit drug in my life, but completely on board with total legalisation and decriminalisation
I agree the war on drugs has failed young people, but from a personal perspective i don’t think we need protection from “the war on drugs” I think we need protection from ourselves. If i was better educated when i started Highschool and honesty just told the truth about how drugs work, I would probably not be where i currently am.
By not at least decrimanizing weed on a federal level in US, they've only been able to make money through state revenue sharing and income taxes. It feels too me it's either something nefarious keeping drugs illegal, especially weed, or just pure incompetence and lack of foresight.
I am currently reading Ioan Grillo’s new book “Blood, Gun, Money”. It is about the iron river of guns going from the USA and south across the border. Very interesting and easy to read.
War on drugs is killing more than what the drugs would kill by overdose in many areas! Maybe this might be the solution. We have bars and hotels serving tea, and coffee, to alcohol and weed, but it doesn't mean we go there if we don't need or want it. It's upto the person.🥱 Great video and great topic.👍
I’m 37 now and 21 years a heroin addict. I need a better way then long term methadone prescription clearly that doesn’t work. Also like the Norwegian lady said I don’t want to be clean and sober life is way too hard without drugs. I don’t know sadly I just wana get high and fall asleep forever coz it’s all too much
*Every citizen of every country should be given a dosage of Pentobarbital or similar drug needed to sleep in and never wake up again, somewhere stored safely.* It would save people all sorts of trauma over not having housing, food, or even clean drinking water. It would decrease unemployment, poverty, homelessness, slums, malnutrition, crime, ect. & Reduce the burden on homeless shelters, food banks, public hospitals, ect. ~ ~ Liquid Pentobarbital is commonly used by owners to euthanize pets. When given to humans, the drug can give them a painless death in under one hour. In the Netherlands, it is part of the standard protocol for physician-assisted suicide for self-administration by the patient. ~ Pentobarbital is also used by mouth for physician-assisted death in Switzerland ~ Having the assurance of a relatively clean, fast, painless way out any time that I want, would put me more on ease by a lot. I want the freedom to have that 'way out'.
@@glennbrown3426 Everyone needs to stop having children. *Refraining from reproducing would end 100% of human suffering permanently* The daily pains we all experience; too tired to wake up in the morning, headaches, thirst, urge to urinate, urge to empty our bowels , the weather (too cold , too hot , humid , windy , rain ) , tiredness, . On top of this , are the major sufferings , losing loved ones , major physical illnesses ( including the illnesses that will lead to death in old age) . Add to this , the potential harms , physical illness ( there are more than hundred diseases ) , mental illness, relationship problems , crime ( violence , theft ) , financial problems , job loss , unemployment, poverty, hunger, malnutrition, accidents ( *accidents can happen very easily* ) , climate change, rising sea levels, natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, drought, food shortages, clean drinking water shortages, air pollution, ect. Life is mostly filled with negatives. Even *rich (millionaire), tall(6’0), good looking, blue/green eyed men* like Leonardo DiCaprio, Grant Gustin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jared Leto, did not have any children. ~ *Even BILLIONAIRES like Oprah Winfrey and Jack Dorsey did not have any children!*
@@JD-jz5rr yeah but you’d miss the positives and why not experience what life has to offer. We’re all gonna die at some point so why not just ride it out.
Alcohol is well-regulated (if perhaps a bit too strictly) in Norway. You can only buy wine and spirits at the governmental wine monopoloy, but beer under 4.7% at supermarkets. Commercials for alcohol and tobaco are completely illegal.
One of the questions that I have regarding increased access is the potential introduction to novel drug users. It’s important to note that many (if not all) of the drugs discussed within this short documentary are deemed clinically addictive. Enabling physicians and pharmacies to facilitate these drug transactions does not in any way hinder the addictive capacity of these drugs. I am also a bit wary regarding the idea of selling cocaine, MDMA, and other stimulants as mere over the counter transactions. I hypothesis that many inquisitive individuals may seek these drugs if the barriers to access becomes so minimal. Novel users must traverse a hostile environment to obtain these drugs, and there remains suspicion of the quality of these drugs. To provide an anecdotal example: I am an individual who has always been fascinated by psychedelic, and I fear that if the barrier to access becomes so low, that I might impulsively purchase these drugs if they were offered and branded at a pharmacy. Just my thoughts, would love to hear anyone’s opinion.
Maps2020 is making sure mdma is legal for ptsd treatment in 2022-2023 and mushrooms after that. FDA phase 3 trials are active The right way according to my research is mix of Sweden’s alcohol system systembolaget and Norway Denmark Switzerland Portugal Holland are showing the right rehabilitation options that work best. Tracking of purchases and help offered if abuse is suspected is the currently best model. Black Market goes away like alcohol and tobacco black Market is non existent(only in regulated countries like Saudi Arabia where purchase of whisky is like being a kilo of coke in any eu country
Those kids or teens if experimenting with drugs are going to go out and find the drug no matter it’s legality. And they are dying because of this. That’s the point. Legality has no influence on if someone wants to take a drug or not
@@EmmaDeFazio5938 I'd disagree, the leading cause of death right now in American for 18-45 year olds is Fentanyl overdose Most of those people are dying from fentanyl contaminated heroin, if there's any heroin in it at all. People are also dying from fentanyl in cocaine and meth. The main reason for legalizing these drugs is for harm reduction, you aim to keep people from dying or getting diseases, and offer them help so maybe they don't completely ruin their lives or end up dead. In my opinion none of them should be allowed to be advertised, there should be a 21 year old age restriction, aside from special cases if prescribed by a doctor, and they'd be under very thorough regulations to ensure the products are clean and of a known potency. At first there might be an increase in drug use, but all the other examples in the world show that the drug use actually decreases from the amount there was during prohibition, plus thousands of people lives could be saved, children, parents, siblings. Also, think of all the tax dollars that could be made to spend on rebuilding infrastructure, giving opportunities to neighborhoods that were most negatively affected by the drug war, there's so much positive that could come out of it. People are going to do drugs, regardless of their legal status. We need to accept that, and focus on harm reduction.
Decriminalization of drugs has been an utter disaster with crime rates surging nationally. Gee, who saw that coming? All crime is linked directly to drugs.
I’m so glad vice has gone back to their roots for covering badass topics.
Vice and badass do not belong in the same hemisphere
@@jungxehuin9404 when they do videos like this they do..
@@littlecozettescrew6818 Facts. Their investigative journalism 5-10 years ago fantastic.
@@littlecozettescrew6818 you find this badass?
@@jungxehuin9404 Yep Incredibly badass
those testing tents at festivals for xtc or any drug you are planning to take is an absolute MUST ! good people !
Imagine taking a pill just to enjoy yourself... How contrived
Imagine worrying about other peoples choices or what they put in their own bodies.
@@user47362 what's the weather like up there on that big ol' horse of yours?
@@demarais2424 its when their behavior while on such drugs starts to become everyone else's problem.
@@mralexjbishop that's usually a byproduct of the illegality. They either don't know what they're getting, how much they're getting, or aren't informed of effects and expectations. Not all, if course, but a vast majority. This is still a part of harm reduction
I started doing drugs years ago as a teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
Yes Mr.medmushies
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
How can I find him? Is he on Facebook
how to end the war on drugs™:
stop buying coca-cola products until they put the good stuff back in
@DOMMEX ya how to not be white or some like that
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@DOMMEX excellent opportunity to support south american farmers
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Lmfao you trademarked it 🤣
He said alcohol and tobacco are potentially dangerous. No, they're factually dangerous.
You don't seem to understand how those words work. Just because something is factually dangerous, doesn't mean it isn't potentially dangerous, for example drinking once glass is not dangerous but drinking multiple is potentially.
Alcohol and benzos are the only main drugs to cause death from withdrawal. Most of the rest of from reckless using and overdose.
@@mrgarchomp5418 I know. I've been a heroin addict for over 20 years and I've wished I were dead during withdrawal but I know you won't die from it. I'm in a residential program right now and I've been clean for a little over a year now. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Bro my grandma is 90 and has been smoking since she was 13 smoking a pack a day since she was 30
@@thomasanguita6568 well your grandma has lungs of steel, jesus.
" we can't legalize all the drugs, that's illegal."
Oregon: hold my bong.
😂😂😂😂😂😂❤️
Very accurate!
We out here in Bend Or. rn puffing tough as we watch this 😂😭
@Hairless Xoloitscuintle I have lived in Oregon for 30 years, it has been going downhill fast the last 10.
But Oregon didn't legalize it. They decriminalized it. That doesn't mean a safer legal market is forming to replace the black market. They've just stopped punishing people for engaging in the black market. It's kind of the worst of both worlds.
@@alexneuge665 The latest statement of the new drug politican was that cannabis is not broccoli.
Harm reduction is crucial especially here on RUclips as most teens are searching for advice on this very platform!
Stop stealing my culture you dam theif
@@americansniper1641 dude💀
Miss your videos man!!!
See this mug commenting on Vice all the time. Everyone forgetting when this guy got underage fans drunk and slept with em? Na just me?
With his big hair and his feminine personality he only attracted 14 year old scene girls to his channel so no wonder he took advantage
I’ve been addicted to heroin for about 11 years, but psilocybin mushroom has helped me stay clean. 2 years clean now.
@angelinacorine7544Yes, cole.shroomm!*
On instagrm
Psychedelics are great remedies for mental health illness. Really works.
I never had a bad trip with DMT
Psychedelics took me to a better place in life, never had a bad trip.
Honestly idk what everyone is so worried about... how could legalizing drugs possibly be worse than what we’ve already experienced the last 40 years under the current strategy?
That is actually a very good point.
@@MaggotMuseum handing out 10-20 year prison sentences for minor possession of cocaine and crack is absurd too. I don’t see how throwing away someone’s life is helping anyone, helping society, or helping the overall problem
@@BostonsF1nest Also the economic and social cost of imprisoning people for 10 years is insane. Even if you don't care about the human per se there are no valid arguments for that kind of practice. That person does not pay taxes, doesn't raise their kids, don't contribute to society in any way and have to be fed, sheltered and given something to do in an environment where they automatically develop criminal knowledge, contacts and motive. It's not like prisons are drug free anyway.
It would be much worse. Imagine a world where heroin is as widespread as alcohol.
I'm not sure. As much as I love the idea of it, I can't sit here honestly and say my drug use wouldn't increase dramatically. Ease of access is the main thing that prevents me from taking a lot.
Living in Switzerland, I can say that drug and homeless issues are taken care of very well here.
Swiss cocain bombs actually
Well, it doesn't hurt being one of the wealthiest nations on earth.
Keeping South America above water and fueling use of Swiss franc. Too sad.
@@LtKharn America is the richest nation in the history of Earth, and it hasn't helped them at all.
I had a few days in Interlaken, Lugano and Basel a few years ago on the way back from Italy. Switzerland is an absolute paradise (expensive, paradise mind you).
It would definitely prevent prostitution and people going flat broke. I used to love the GTA radio ad for “vote yes to medicinal cocaine”
@iLoveJackingOn Because more than likely politicians make quite the dime from things being "illegal", if you ask me.
@iLoveJackingOn Can guarantee a lot of these fucking mayors and cops are definitely on the payroll to look the other way with known traffickers and heavy moevers.
Medicinal cocaine lol
Nothing will ever prevent prostitution and it should be legal
@Jekyll Won't Hide Any job can be dangerous, if it is regulated and taxed it could have benefits
Alcohol and tobacco are just dangeous, without "potentially"
Yea
No they are potentially....Not everyone has a bad experience using them, and that's a fact.
@@MiggsMultiple Most people don't have an issue with doing ecstasy or psychedelics, but they're portrayed as dangerous for some reason.
War on drugs will end when you explain to the citizens how much it costs and how much you can tax if drugs were legal.
That will just push them back to the black market, you don't get it people are always gonna be addicted to drugs it's never going anywhere
@@electrifiedrhythm5426 exactly people are gonna be addicted regardless so you cut out the black market by legalizing all drugs and then all the crime associated with selling drugs goes away if people just go to pharmacies to get their drugs instead. You’re missing the entire point...
@@electrifiedrhythm5426 No, it won't, look at weed prices in the usa, look how much they have dropped since they are legal.
Vice still doesn't know the war on drugs was never meant to be won, but to gain money.
@electrified rhythm You're misinformed. Go research, please. And do it with an open mind. Maybe smoke a little weed. I know a lot of people who use drugs responsibly. There is no reason to punish people. It's always better to be informed. The truth is out there. You just need to not be hypocritical. I bet you have you're own vice yet you think it's fine. Coffee or soda is what comes to my mind. Sugar and caffeine are just two of the most addictive substances in the world yet i dont see many that mention it. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
I could safely and responsibly live in the world you're describing.
It is objectively better than this one.
Let's do this.
If the young are willing to start voting for politicians willing to push these changes there may be a move forward. Nothing will happen if 80% of the oldest hit the polls while only 40% of the youngest do.
@@noxis93 Hmm sounds an awful lot like brexit - wait what?
HAHAHAHA....BRODHA I GET IT WHAT U MEANT N WHAT U HAVE IMAGINED ABOUT THIS TOPIC MIGHT B WHEN U WAS HIGH ON LSD HAHAHA....
"Objectively better"
But there is a big problem...There is no way to return the same society where we are living now !!
Nobody thats ever declared a war on drugs, has actually ever fought one.
Okay? The majority politicians that created any laws haven't been in any. You really thought you said something smart here?
@@superbtrack_6482 I think they meant a personal war/battle with drugs not just any sort of war.
@@superbtrack_6482 funny how your trying to hate when you didn't even understand what he said
@@sm0k1nmus1c lol ikr
Ronald reagan era.
So grateful I got clean and don't have to live that anymore... The high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high.
@RyanCoomer Just don't take anything today... If you don't get loaded today you'll wake up clean. Then do the same thing all over again.
So u support legalisation?
@@cobidbeksin5200 No... I don't. I used to.
That's good song Clifton Collins
On November 4th I'll have a year clean after roughly 12 years of opiates, 3 years with crystal and benzos, and have has to live on the streets 3 times for roughly 4-7 months at a time, and trust me being addicted to something that makes you sick as fck if you don't have it while laying on the wet ground under a real-estate sign, with it being 28 degrees while it's snowing/raining you haven't eaten anything in two days, have no way of getting water, not to mention again that you feel like dying and can't barely walk because of the withdrawals wearing just a long sleeve shirt with no gloves, no hat, and just jeans on, and you're all alone... yeah it's absolutely the worst
tottally right about this, but also, I love how the host came straight out of a 95" Blur music video. lol
That is what drugs does to you... :D
See kids, this is Where Drugs can get you, hosting for Vice
Underrated comment
This is England bruv innit
That vibe is totally coming back in the UK/Europe
Legalize it , tax it to fund rehab and education programs completely with the goal to combat addiction properly with qualified therapists, doctors and social workers not with armed police and prison
that would be too effective and too good of a solution for society. Prison system is privately funded. They want healthy criminals that don't drain their precious free in house healthcare.
That's very smart of you, that's why you have to repeat grade 9 twice hahahaha
From an ex addict.....combating addiction properly DOESNT exist. You CANNOT help someone who doesn’t want to help THEMSELVES. Never forget that.
@@k24civic No, just legalize it so that the whole country can become another california fill with junkies hahahahaha
Taxation is theft
Imagine being transparent and allowing people to have access to safety, a house, mental health care. These are people and I think we often forget that when we see them on the street. They are fighting something we can’t see and I think that’s the hardest part for them :(
I hope more people will have compassion for people with mental health issues especially since we are all facing that during a pandemic.
I hear "I wouldnt wish dopesick on my worst enemy" but I would wish it on those that look down their nose at addicts...
Behind every addict is almost always trauma
I have found on many occasions It’s not the drug or the user it’s the demons they are possessed by with out any help or intervention prior to using a drug or while trying a drug they never realised you could get high by being happy
@@Trublumatt I think there is alot of truth to that
I agree with this 1000%. Yes i have a children and im also a recovering heroin addict. It wasnt heroin itself that almost killed me, it was the homeless lifestyle and being in the streets. My heart goes out to everyone suffering and helpless.
You have kids but took smack?
SCUMBAG.
How embarrassing for your kids.
A friend of mine 22 years old gave me this speach in our last conversation together, he had argued my concerns by stating "i know what i can handle, and as long as i know what im getting I'm fine" he died 2 days later from fetynol...
@@SMR311SMR i should clarify i don't really think even heroin should be taken recreationally by anyone...but yeh thats what he intended to use....
If it was regulated he would have atleast had a damn label to read...
@@andrewmerk like Gorilla glue? 😀
ok maybe _not_ decriminalize fentanyl since it's like 1000x times stronger than heroin. but def start decriminalizing heroin, cocaine, MDMA, etc.
That's because he was a junkie
I suggest posting sources on where people can go to fight against the war in drugs so that our passion for this moment doesn't die at the beginning of the next video that happens to play..
ROE V WADE...HER BODY?
@@moonpeach4684 I always found that ironic. Abortion being legalized because “my body my choice” but shouldn’t drugs also be labeled like that?
Anyone know how we can back this?
There's 0 authority in the US Constitution for the State to say what an individual can put in their own body.
The states don't have a backbone to stand on the 10th amendment
There's also a difference between decriminalization and legalization genius
I’m pretty sure that under the constitution states are allowed to make these things called laws. Everything isn’t about the constitution, it just makes you seem like one of those people that regurgitate talking points from fox.
Instead use actual facts like harm reduction is proven to actually work
@@reidyo5404 it's called the 10th amendment not a talking point it's a fact the war on drugs on a federal level is unconstitutional if you understand law and how it's supposed to be applied it should be the state's right to set law in each individual State the fed has been overstepping its authority for the last 75 years
u finna do meth? go ahead see what it does.
You could even gate access to legal drugs behind, say a 2-day seminar. This would mean there is still a barrier to entry into drug use and it would ensure users know safer-use and the effects of the drug on them, allowing them to make educated decisions.
Do you not realize how many times people OD, before they finally OD for good? Do you think addicts are so stupid they don't know the risks they are taking? Because they do, very well, and they take them anyway. They even get pissed when you wake them up with narcan during an OD. The only place education like this might be appropriate is in high schools. The problem with that is, teenagers are 10 ft tall and bulletproof, and they think bad things will never happen to them, so they do stupid stuff despite being educated not to
Ex drug addict here, currently on subaxone, love everything about this, I almost cried thinking about my past and how it could of been different on so many levels it drugs were legal. Such a sad topic for me.
don't dwell on what could of been, you have a new path in front of you, your still hear. don't live in the minute, but plan your day from the second you open your eyes in the morning. stay strong an aware. whatever you do dont take up drinking because you have stopped taking drugs. i have known far more people to die from replacing one addiction to another.
Me too. 24 years working to feed my heroin habit. Back on methadone maintenance again. For some addicts it's too late. I have spent 4 years plus half my life on drugs. Heroin and methadone. I cant function without one or the other and I always relapse when I have managed to detox. I would rather buy my gear from a pharmaceutical company that's been taxed and is clean rather than dirty smack that's been smuggled inside dead animals across the pakistan and Afghanistan borders.
@@jld7779 I think younger people wouldn't get into it if it was legal and regulated. They would have to already have an addiction to start to qualify for pharmaceutical drugs
@@jld7779 that's better though, you would feel safe because you would be safe. The problem isn't really people doing drugs, the problem is the HARM people get due to doing drugs. In a legalized and safe environment, the harm is ought to decrease substantially. And it would also narrow the possibility of people getting 'hooked' on whatever drug they are doing.
You are physically addicted to an extremely powerful synthetic opioid and you are calling yourself an ex drug addict? I understand the language in recovery can be confusing but don't you feel any sense of hypocrisy when you say that? I'm on methadone and have struggled on and off for years. I'm an addict and so are you.
Best show to educate the public on drugs and clearing the demonized atmosphere surrounding the word drugs
I recommend everyone to watch a film called "pleasure unwoven". it's a great medical film explaining how alcohol and drugs work in the brain. Talks about the lymbic system, midbrain, GABA, ETC... And best part it's not boring! 😀
@@jessejames9149 as a med school student im excited to watch that.. thanks for the recommendation
Have a good trip on Netflix is great too
YES
I like this "host," he makes me want to pierce my left ear, get a tracksuit, bottle of cider and top it all off with a Burberry hat on some random corner of a dimly lit estate in Rochdale surrounded by the soothing sounds of roaring citroens.
Oddly specific comment lol
Clapped out Citroen Saxo
No drug dealer I know dresses like that lol
@@naysaynetwork5271 oooh
@@gladtobeattheexit7385 I don't think so- not unless he had hyoid bone augmentation.
Meanwhile in the county that I grew up & live in in TX, they tried to give a guy who had gone to the same school that I had attended 99 years for one batch of pot brownies.
Edit: this didn’t take place at school, this took place at his dad’s apartment when he was 19. According to the story I’ve heard, the fire department was evacuating the complex due to an unrelated small kitchen fire. They knocked on his door, & they smelled weed when he opened it, so that gave probable cause for police to come & bust the door down.
After I believe 8 months in county jail, his case became a national outcry & received the attention of some higher tier lawyers who came in & somehow got him out of county jail. He then fled to California where the weed community welcomed him with open arms, and he’s likely never coming back to TX.
They gotta have been damn good then
I'm sure they were delicious, but that's a very long time!
Non violent drug crime. There are murderers that receive 20 years.
Ridiculous!
I'm in dallas, they probably were going off the fact it was at "School", and distribution
It would be the biggest blow to organized crime ever!
"one two three four, we can end the drug war"
What a powerful message.
not sure if sarcasm
so deep
@@idek3881 hes not wrong
@@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132 he is tho
very wrong
The problem with all of the legalization talk is you’re looking at the situation as a problem that needs to be solved, when the government sees it as a feature rather than a bug. The war on drugs helps the government and law enforcement more than any other single policy in the history of the United States. Ruining the lives of people with drug problems, or just casual drug users, funds the police and a large portion of the government. They need to keep those prisons full to keep their pockets full, and nothing fills prisons like the war on drugs. Turning huge swaths of the population into criminals with the stroke of a pen made it so that prisons are a booming industry, and then you factor in all the fines and fees associated with arrests, probation, drug diversion, etc. you see that this isn’t a problem in the eyes of the government, it’s a major revenue stream.
If we legalized drugs we would have to seriously rethink law enforcement as well, and as we have seen recently that’s something that the government is absolutely unwilling to do right now.
Big Facts!!!💯..."Unfortunately"
Not only that but it disrupts poor communities, and the American government dislike no one more than the poor
@@theomaiklem3413 no they love the poor, that’s where they get the folks to fill their prisons and who funds the police force with the myriad fees associated with arrest, court, probation/parole, drug diversion programs, etc. They absolutely adore the poor, so much they do everything possible to ensure the poor remain poor, because they’re the easiest group to pick on.
@@brettc6132 Sad but true 😞
They could put taxes drugs.
"1234 we can end the drug war" I've been waiting a long time to hear that
Here's a story all about why drugs should be legalised ruclips.net/video/lrZOSwLK-ds/видео.html
When ever I think about this issue the only way to “solve” the problem is legalization, we should inform people on how dangerous this drugs are but at the same time if some chose to use them ( they obviously do) at least they get them from a safe environment and not fueling criminal organizations
We already do this and it doesn't work. People know damn well what the drugs do, not one person in this world grew up never seeing a crack head. Drugs are not a disease they are a choice with consequences, any one saying they can't get off them it's a disease it's that it's this are just bullshiting it's them they don't want help. The people that want help get help and stay off. The ones that are in and out of rehab are just being pushed to go but really they want to be left alone to get high.
@@ghettogrower3499 hun hate to say this, but you're terribly incorrect. read up on scholarly articles about the changes that happen to a individuals brain when substance abuse is present. if you even wanna try to say it's a choice, that's your opinion. what about all these children being born addicted with proven & observable brain changes that make them predisposed to a life of substance abuse?? maybe a little more empathy & medical evaluation/assistance could be the solution to lowering addiction rates; obviously what we're doing now isn't working.
Who do you think is going to manufacture these drugs? A way bigger, more powerful cartel. Pfizer + Government is a partnership from hell.
@@michaelhutchings8599 come on now, comparing pharmaceutical companies to drug cartels is a bit of a stretch
@@karimbelba5597 as a pharm. tech trainee I can say that doctors are sooo careless & I see so many control 2's sold everyday..
It's hard to see our patients prescribed to so many dangerous drugs, but doctors just do whatever they want IG 🙆♀️0🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️
Ya can’t kill drugs, it’s like a hydra always respawning heads whenever they get chopped off.
Many people are too stupid to understand.
Well said
So let's give up and allow everyone to get as high as possible instead of attacking addiction and overdoses we embrace it! Shut up junkie
@@Cbd_7ohm You sound stupid af advocating drug addiction. Just because the war is massively unsuccessful we're supposed to embrace drug addiction instead of fighting against it? Drugs are drugs because they are substances people enjoy themselves with, they aren't just substances you can put in your body because "it's your right". And more importantly, they are substances you enjoy that literally kill you if you keep enjoying it. So hell no, attack addiction instead of welcoming it.
@@wusbussin You're stupid. Attacking addiction doesn't work. That doesn't even make sense.
Nothing will change. Here in Canada it's much cheaper to get your marijuana off your local dealer or through the internet. The government stores are expensive and the quality is notoriously low.
Finally a government monopolistic program that doesn't impact the free market
Fr? I saw some good stuff from 4 to 12 dollars a gram online
@@irrelevant3464 “4 dollars a gram” and “good stuff” should not be in the same sentence
@@ansharyan710 It is better than 10 dollar a g street stuff.
Same thing in Colorado #makeweedillegal again I can’t stand the prices these dispensary’s throw at us
This should have way more than half a million views!
I’m a recovering heroin addict and all my charges are stemmed from my addiction I’ve done over 3 years. I’d love to see some type of resolution. I live in Akron Ohio and I’m pretty sure we are the 2nd state for overdoses. I love seeing a video like this. Locking me up just makes me a better criminal when I come out
Cleveland here. Ive done alot to help raise awareness about harm reduction. I try to explain to people the importance of safe injection sights, how legalizing and regulating drugs helps lower crime rate and addiction rates and lowers the stigma. All some people here is 'letting druggies have access to their fix' and think it will make things wore, even though I present them with facts and studies that show the complete opposite. I'm like 'how it that *war on drugs* goin for ya'? People can be so ignorant.
@@jef9635 yea man the people who don’t want the education about it or are very ignorant to it and look like at us like what u said about just wanting the fix. There is 100% proof harm reduction works. 9/10 too people who aren’t addicts have still been effected by an addict(s) in some way and to not want the education sickens me fr I went thru hell and back to get where I am now
Or pissed at the world because lets face it the only person you hurt is yourself.
@@jef9635 Its a life time of pure propaganda. Its really not there fault they need to be educated insted of being propagandized.
Drug use is trash. As a former addict, tell me how to stop drug use and addiction not how to make drugs legal. That’s fu ck all in the battle
There will probably be a lot less crime legalizing drugs
Imagine geekin out talking to a Pharmacist to get more coke😂 I'm ALL for it!
@Ab T 🤨🤨🤨 🤡
I rather be around gun owners than a bunch of junkies
@@spaceoutmisfit1738 you are surrounded by a bunch of junkies, that's why there are drugs... People are always going to use.
@Ab T Seriously what was the point of that? What made you feel the need to comment that and how do you think that changed the world for the better?
...or, in a legal drugs setting, even getting prescription drugs without prescription: you sign a waiver in which you declare that you take full responsability for what you'll do with them... Hand me ten oxys plus three or four xanax, doc, please. Than you move to the proper hemp/smart shop shop and buy a couple of ganja spliffs, last stop to the sueprmarket for buying a couple of beers: i'll do it in days, not in a single night, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT TEN OXYS AND FOUR XANAX ALL AT ONCE CAN KILL ME! SELF - RESPOSABILITY!!! On the same level, if you buy alcohol, you receive an instruction paper on how to safely drink, same for tobacco products and coffe/caffeinated beverages, you firm a waiver where you take responsability for your behaviour, and then you go on your way! Ketamine in England and Salvia Divinorum in Italy in the early 2000's were legal, BTW. Some fucked their bladder up, which is sad enough, some had a good time of self knowledge and universe exploring. With salvia, some freaked the hell out, some discovered parallel universes. With them being illegal ,the situation remains the same, or gets worse. WAR ON PROHIBITION!!! REGULAMENTATION AND LEGALIZATION RIGHT NOW!!!
This may be the most sense ive ever heard in a video. Prohibition literally is funnelimg billions of dollars to the people they are trying to stop. Legalize. Regulate. Tax. Fund treatment and rehabilitation when and to whomever possible.
I was a heroin addict a long time ago and the only thing that helped was injectable methadone I was addicted to the rush of it rushing into my brain . It takes the criminal element out of it the stealing, scoring ect I was so stable I ran a successful business for 9 years .
then suddenly the government was saying NO its too expensive yet its more expensive now with crime ect oral methadone just don't work aswel ..I lost everything.... I have now been clean 13 years this summer ...
Yes know a few ppl who where on injectable meth. Let's not 4get the infamous smack ciggies from the chemist or the diamorphine (heroin) tablets ppl used 2 get from UK pharmacies
@@linzianna stick at it bro ... life's too short
If I was rich I would shoot for the rush forever.......omg the hydro pill rush, ,I'm on methadone now it sucks
Can I ask what country you are from and when this was? I have never heard of injectable methadone! So interesting. I can say that methadone probably saved my life, and it has been an invaluable tool in my recovery. 15 years in recovery, even longer than that off of heroin. It's absolutely possible, for anyone who is still struggling.
Was 20 years ago though and they was trying to come it down then . Especially after the death of Amy whinehouse
Seeing the addicts in the UK when it was somewhat legal to do heroine compared to the US really makes me think this could potentially work
it would definitely work better than the current system
How old are you? Wasn't the UK in the 1920s???
@@ilovedogs2642 how old are you? The UK is the United Kingdom and consists of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
@@camillapalmer82 what the hell are you on about... He said when it was somewhat legal to do heroin which hasn't been since the 20s and the way he said it made it sound like he'd visibly seen the addicts 100 years ago. As if you tried to explain what the UK was...
@@ilovedogs2642 did you not watch the video? They talked about this and that is what he is referring to. The British system was in place into the 60s where anyone who needed it could get a prescription for heroin and they had a fraction of the users and diseases and safety issues as the US during that time.
I've thought this was the way to go for over 30 years but not many will listen to the reasoning. My uncle is a missionary in Portugal (a very conservative man) and even he admits the benefits he's seen since decriminalization in 2001.
All studies coming out of Portugal are so promising. Rehabilitation for abusers, not making them criminals, because they have an addiction health issue. It’s not a choice.
There is a good TEDx talk about this and they go over Portugal 💪🏻❤️
@@KimSkid2k What about people that are occasionally using softer drugs like psychedelics or mdma and are never addicted, manage to live healthy and productive life?
But in the US if you get caught with anything on you your still going to jail, it's still criminalized they are just SAYING that it's not criminalized but it still is, at least it is in Wisconsin where I live. People are still being arrested for overdoses. A friend of mine had a seizure after doing some " supposed heroin" it wasn't an overdose it was a seizure but her boyfriend thought she was overdosing and gave her narcan and called 911. A detective came with the EMTs and apparently the detective was searching her pockets while she was still having a seizure and even looked inside her bra but her boyfriend took the drugs off her before they got there. And the boyfriend tripped out on the detective when he pulled her open. And then he asked him where's the needle she used and he said I got rid of it already and the detective was pissed and said that was evidence. All the detective cared about was trying to find a way to get her charged criminally but he didn't have anything. Now this is a very smart girl so even though she had to let them take her to the ER she knew that the ER couldn't make her stay so they could do a blood drug test on her for her to be charged with internal possession. So as soon as the doctor came in she said I'm fine and I don't need to be here give me my discharge papers and they did. By the time she was walking out the door her boyfriend had called a friend for a ride and was walking up to the hospital doors. Then the detective pulled in and jumped out of his car and said "hey where do you think your going? And she said "back home you dick"!!!! Lol 😂🤣 and he asked her did they do a blood test?" She said no I refused treatment and I left" apparently this detective was so pissed off that she knew her rights and he didn't have anything to charge her with and this was only like 3 years ago now. So trust and believe that they are still trying to criminalize any kind of drug use even going as far as to go to the hospital to find out what was all in her system so that they could charge her with internal possession. So even though they are saying their not they still are 😡🤬.
Legalisation will also not only reduce harm for users, but also for all the people in countries like mexico, colombia and brazil! hundreds of thousands of people die at the hands of the cartels, both people involved and people who had no involvement. Legalisation would also reduce insane amounts of corruption in countries where cartels have a heavy influence!
5:21 just like a drug dealer can sell pot and heroin or cocaine, or both, or more, a doctor can push treatment. and if your dealer is trying to get you off of drugs, instead of on them, and trying to get you functional, instead of letting you beg, you and society as a whole are probably in a better position to thrive.
Also I think few addicts want to be addicts.
So the fact that help is available with no fear of jail is good
@@conradkorbol agreed
I've sold for awhile and when people buy too much, I start to let them know that they should chill out or maybe flat out stop. I let them know what's in it and what it's doing to them and alot of addicts just dont care, they just want to feel numb. Im happy to see Alot of them have stopped but I agree that legalizing it would decrease users. People wouldn't hide it as much and people would deal with it like you deal with Alcoholics. (never meth, crack, or heroin) Selling someone one of those is the same as killing them
@@PunisherFord what a horrible argument to make. This is youtube so I won't focus on statistics; but if you are bored, delve into the dramatic rise of lover disease, and more specifically that which is a result of alcohol abuse..
I'm all for the first amendment, but peelike you should have an asterisk when providing "data".
@@PunisherFord it is a difficult and subtle issue, one that can be better dealt with in the light of day than in the darkness of an alley. i typed another comment and deleted it because of fear of misunderstanding, it is that much of a mess. hell, we can even go to the violence that dealers deal with and in, what recourse do they have if someone robs them? this issue just bounces back and forth with those who try to stand above saying "just don't do it" while taking vicodin or some crap like that to relax. it is a giant mess, and the only solution is sunlight.
I would love to be able to buy pure heroin or MDMA instead of worrying about a possible deadly cutting agent. I wouldn't have to test my stash anymore.
I accidentally bought fake MDMA once and it was hell. Thankfully I was okay but for 48 hours I was just a mess and couldn't stop vomiting.
I don't understand how anyone would be willing to sell fake/laced drugs but I guess profit comes before anything else for some people.
@@KKISCRAZYFUL did you ever find out what you actually bought and took?
@@mitchellbailey4906 I don't really know but someone else who took it said they thought it was something called "meow". But we never got it tested.
@@KKISCRAZYFUL ah meow, it's 4-mmc drug that's been getting more popular lately
Here in Germany you cant even test your drugs.
Unfortunately the world isn’t ready to hear this
Yes it is. Weed will be federally legalised by the dems this year, mark my words.
Maybe look around the world and don't be so myopic
We hardly have legal CBD in France...
Red Bull was still prohibited 20 years ago.
Thermo-industrial civilization will collapse before we get legal weed.
@@verzeda So glad Biden won. Bernie would've been a comforting sitting president, but Biden isn't that bad actually
@@verzeda No it won't. Biden will not allow this to happen. He has said this multiple times. The most that dinosaur is willing to do is to decriminalize it federally.
You jump straight into the old idea of "drug pushers" at 4:15. I've been around the block more than once and i've never-ever met a drug pusher.
I’m all for it, but I can image waiting 10 hours just to get into pharmacy
Lol.
I doubt it people dont care about drugs when they got work and Bill's to pay, oregon has low unemployment this would affect only poor communities in the south
@@waflletoast11 you assume too much. Silicon Valley is known for its psychedelic use(micro dosing) in the tech industry.
@@jjackson4727 exactly.
Lol yes going be a long line
I want to try ecstasy, why do I have to risk my life to obtain it
Try 🍄s instead🤣 Most ecstasy will be cut with methamphetamine. Street drugs are usually cut. Real prescription drugs are pure but people sell fakes as well. If you want to experiment, be safe and responsible.
Stick to the plant homies though 🌳 and 🍄s
Three very important words: substance test kit.
@@tylerstrippin9630 I'm only 21, but in all my years being around drugs I've never seen a user or a dealer use a substance test kit. They completely should! But I feel like its safer to just stick to plant homies 🌳🍄
Buy a Testkit, test you’re drugs. MDMA is the best drug out of all of them. If you’re in the Eu then you’re MDMA isn’t cut most likely
@@JJ-me4yu you obviously are partying with complete fucking idiots.... by the age of 16 I had seen more tester kits then I could count.......... there 75$ online dude........
Had many discussions with my parents on the subject, and this verbalises so well why drug harm can and should be reduced by legalisation. Thanks!
Here's a story all about why drugs should be decriminalised ruclips.net/video/lrZOSwLK-ds/видео.html
Not really great to completely legalize it, I know so many people who fall for temptations, now your telling me you want kids to share cocaine instead of cigs/alcohol at a young age... If its legalized it would have to be extremely limited and reviewed depending on how strong/dangerous the drug is. Crystal Meth is not Marijuana for example.
In the USA drug dealers already file taxes sometimes. You can say your money came from "other sources" and then pay taxes which makes the taxman happy.
End the war on drugs and end the war on consciousness!
Roe. V wade ..." Her body"
That's exactly what it is, a war against consciousness.
I’d buy a little mdma after a stressful week just kick back listen to music and feel blissful.
Vice finally has some really good people talking about topics they really know about love to see it
I wouldn't wish addiction on my worst enemy.
I wouldn't wish sobriety on my worst enemy
@@hastyhillfarmand4x480Can I be your enemy? 🤪
This is crucial especially now in the time of TikTok where microdosing etc is being romanticised
tiktok is were absolute stupidity is romantisized.....its crack for the low attention span idiots of the world
My only hangup on the sale of these drugs for everyone is ive listened to a lot of people say things like if someone offered me heroin id take it even after years of sobreity. They no longer put themselves in situations where they see people who use or go to areas that you can easily get it. What do they do when they could easily get it off the market? There's no natural high on earth thats comparable to these drugs. Its hard for me to get on board with it because of that reason.
Idk what to say about someone offering you drugs, but as for buying them a system could be put in place where you inform the pharmacies of your past addiction and ask them to permanently blacklist you from buying certain drugs. I do agree with you that it’s a dangerous thing for recovering addicts, but I am sure that there is a viable approach that minimizes harm and promotes education and healthy use. Also congratulations on your sobriety!
@@joshlentz7468 Perhaps that would be a good solution, and it was a hypothetical. Thank you but i've never been addicted to any substance other than my vape haha.
Most normies would have no idea what kind of lifestyle they were getting into and couldn’t handle it
The War on Drugs was never a war on drugs. It was always a war on black men.
...and Mexicans... and hippies.. not just black men there’s races that are discriminated against other than black people btw
And poor whites
As well as the poor, disabled, and women, and its obscene. We need to call it what it is. Systemic Genocide, and Population Control, and State Sponsored Racism/Eugenics.
There has to be a better way.
The crisis in regards to black men cannot be ignored or overstated, but it is NOT just a war on black men. Its a war on all of us, and mostly between the capitalists and the rest of us
@Ab T John Ehrlichman, one of Nixon's aides, has outright said that Nixon's launch of the drug war was a way to crack down on his primary opposition, Black people and the "antiwar left" (Hippies). The drug war has always targeted minorities, because they're disproportionately pushed toward drug dealing and drug use by their circumstances. That's just the reality of it.
Let's stop blaming everyone for people's poor choices whether they be black white Mexican whatever. They choose the life. If you don't sell drugs you don't get busted for it. I know tons of people who will strip and prostitute but I never have nor will I. No one can take away your free choice. If "blacks " decide to commit crime then "blacks" get busted for it. Smh
Such a great video!! Very well done, well presented and I couldn't agree more with the message. The War on Drugs is a complete failure. Drugs need to be regulated and controlled. We also shouldn't judge addicts as having some kind of moral failure. They are people that need help and compassion.
Here's a story all about why drugs should be decriminalised ruclips.net/video/lrZOSwLK-ds/видео.html
They did fail at some point or in some way in life if they are "addicts"
Being a drug addict shouldn't be taken lightly, drug addicts do not have such a bad reputation out of no where.
Drugs are already regulated and controlled, and those same regulated, controlled drugs have fueled the opioid crisis in the US, that has left hundreds of thousands dead.
As an addict (Heroin) for over 25 years i was saved by my country having a very good Methadone program. I will say that yes i swapped one drug for another but i also swapped lifestyles as well. I had already been to jail by the time i was 25 & was a three times a day user of home made heroin but very pure heroin (in NZ until recently it was a hard place to be an addict we made Diamorphine from scratch which would kill most street users because of strength & OD's were very common) once getting on Methadone & stopping intravenous usage life became exceptionally better i got work new friends but as an addict i regret now i am in serious pain i am being denied pain management because of my past but i would say a lot of people are addicted to needles & the ritual of injecting once that has gone life gets easier.
Stay strong Man.....Let all Bad things go away......I'm on methadone too 11years.....Get support and never ever mix (methadone)with meth.....
Good luck to you and stay Strong
@@Matbai7881 Indeed Bro the joke's on me for enjoying life i guess but I'm in a really great place as far as medical issues go public health is exactly that here i dread watching pieces on RUclips about places where there is virtually no Social Welfare backup for health scares me to hell circumstance & accidents of birth aside i am good. Respect Bro
I can relate to you karl... not 25 years, but 15 for sure... got tired of it or all the bullshit that comes with it and got off 4 years ago. Life is better without but I can't say I don't often miss it.
Idk, I don't think methadone works. Never seen someone quit completely with it. I'm sure examples exist, but for everyone you show me I'll show you a hundred just dosing on top of using. Quitting is the hardest decision they will ever make and methadone is false hope and a daily disappointment to your cravings. It's the hope of relief followed by disappointment.
@@filthyan1mal588 It's not everyone's panacea for jumping off & having hope helps but i agree with you a little but not about all, as we all have baggage when looking at making such a decision & this baggage can sometimes be just to heavy.
That’s great and all but I live in Canada and weed is legal and I still by off the black market. It’s cheaper and they deliver to your door. I can’t see the black market ever going away
The regulated market is still in its infancy. You’ve had a fair few teething problems, not least adequate supply and cost. These things will iron out eventually. It will likely get to the point where the black market won’t be able to compete. Even if that day never comes, at least you have the option. That option is an even greater necessity for drugs like MDMA and Heroin.
I was disappointed when I went to Vancouver and didn't see a single dispensary. Where I live in California I can order from one of several Cannabis dispensaries that deliver. The only people who use the black market are teenagers.
The black market will never go away but, the makers of this video are socialists and they don't understand economics. Still, they want the state to be involved. State involvement is precisely what created this mess from the very beginning! They need to stop worrying about what everyone else is doing.
Where in Canada do you live?
@@iowasenator SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!
Vice wants to point out that there is no winning the war on drugs, but they aren't even trying to win the war on addiction either.
I really hope in my lifetime a legal drug market is established. The human cost of prohibition is unacceptable
Cartels would be cruel to innocent civilians in México, if you're gonna legalized at leasts give us some time to kill all the scum
Not all drugs are equal and some are too harmful to be regulated and legalized by the government at all.
How exactly do you legalize Fentanyl, Carfentanil and heroin, when very little of a dose is fatal?? If you're going to limit doses, then you aren't changing anything, as dealers will fill that void. The only solution is to destroy the drug cartels with military airstrikes. I'm the only one saying the truth that no one wants to hear.
@@douche8980 did u watch the video? tell me what drugs are too harmful bc its most likely they are dangerous bc of cuts or contaminants, and not the drug itself.
@@douche8980 adults can make their own choices if they have no mental disabilities and not causing harm to society
Weed isn’t the gateway drug, it’s the dealer himself and what he sells.*No matter who their “boss” is or what’s going on in their life*
Alcohol and cigarettes are true gateway drugs. Every addict has done alcohol or nicotine first.
From my experience, cigs are the gateway drug, cause if your can take a puff without coughing it, you cant hit any drugs that are inhaled. When people dont get high on weed anymore or get the nic hit or dont get drunk on a few glasses, they tend to look for new ones to get that same buzz
That's so true! I know a guy who went to buy some weed from a sketchy dealer since his normal guy was out and they had coke and the rest is history. Just stick to weed yall
I think it’s the scheduling. Weed is a schedule 1 drug. Teens try that, realize it’s not bad, and then think everything is a lie. People just need to be honest and specific about the short term and long term effects of every substance. Most people don’t even know which drugs dilate your pupils and which ones constrict them
'He' sells? What's with the sexism? my dealer is a woman.
Can't wait to try some of these 'over the counter drugs" lmao
Opium grows out of the ground and is legal to grow for the most part in the USA
Grab your self some dextromethorphan... In the medicine isle.. I think normies call it "cough syrup".
I remember as a kid growing up, the DARE presentations, at school and the boys and girls club. The adults I grew up around provided clear info on the effects of illegal drugs, and of the before and after of people addicted. Honestly, scary stuff. Being around informative, honest adults really influenced what is most important to me- my health. This video really puts it out there too. Everyone deserves to have good health. Health is wealth.
DARE was a joke. At least when the presentation was given at my school they went all in on All Drugs Are Bad Yes We Mean Everything-- when I told the person doing the presentation I was on drugs to regulate my seizure disorder they got really flustered and you could see them start to visibly sweat that this ten year old just threw a massive wrench in their big "uplifting" talk. I thought this had to have been an isolated incident until I started to meet other people my age on the internet who said the same things.
DARE was a joke they only caused harm its about control and money and getting off having power
This needs to get out to more people man.. personally I got a single heroin charge at 23 and while driving.. “stupid decision” and I now have 2 felony’s been on parole for 5 years and went to jail for two months plus had to do rehab. I’ve been clean for all five years thank the lord but it’s absolutely ruined my life.
Just like all the stupid decisions that led to DUIs for alcohol. Actions have consequences amd they suck. I don't think that should be a felony, however, it did force you into rehab and has kept you clean for 5 years. We need criminalization for that very reason, we just need to change laws so that people who do like you did and learn from their bad choices, don't have a record that follows them forever
You guys should read ‘chasing the scream’ excellent book about addiction and the war on drugs and how different countries are dealing with it all.
As an opioid addict, the only thing scary about taking drugs to me is the gamble you have to take off street dealers. I can literally die from my next attempt to get high, or from the withdrawal chasing me like satan.
Wish you the best for the future 👍
Goodluck mate probably the worst addiction to have out of all drugs
Stay strong
Thank you VICE
Its soooo frustrating that we are just so dense and stubborn (when I say "we", I mean the us in general and the big fish who make the decisions) that we havent at least TRIED this! I mean yeah we are on our way I guess with oregon or whatever, but OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY saying "hey, dont do that!" Doesnt always or even usually. Work. Anyone whose ever had a 2 year old or a teen knows that. So if we know that the next best thing from absolute abstinence (which is impossible) is making it safER...giving people some self respect and dignity back...making people feel safe about asking for help, without fear of their jobs or kids being taken...just being real and open with kids and tell them the truth about drugs, and not lying just to scare them, but rather exploring what it actually does to your body and mind. If that alternative is by default safer than what we have now...jail, the same circle round and round, institutions..why not try it? Why cant we change our collective perspective on junkies❤, with compassion and love rather than kicking them when they're down? How can that make anything WORSE than it already is?! The fundamentals of how we deal with it are outdated and proven ineffective. Access to mental health services, clean gear (needles, cookers, tie offs, sterile water, etc.) and narcan. Trying to prevent and/or at least process through traumas. Having safe using places with people to monitor you. Fighting with something, wars about things, rarely get much accomplished except for one to completely take over the other. You're more likely to get through to someone when you come alongside them and really listen to what they need. But when people are suffering, with pain, whether it be past, present, or fear of the future...mental, physical, or emotional...there will always be a desire to escape from that in the easiest and quickest way. Instead of D.A.R.E., teach kids some fucking real world COPING SKILLS for some REAL WORLD MODERN PROBLEMS!
6:07 It's not 0 overdoses, it's 0 overdose deaths - due to presence of others and nolaxane or similar counters
That’s literally what he said
“There have been 0 recorded overdose deaths…”
"There's a war on drugs but they keep my mind at peace"
- NAV
Until Your overdosing on the floor.
@@Kingshushthe1st interesting how u jumped from "drugs" to the extreme "generic miserable heroin OD on the floor" type thing
much respect for the nav line
@@cube.9816 Have you not seen a what happens to crackheads😂Man Shutup
@@brandym258 back at ya
2:46
"We don't want MDMA-brands sponsoring festivals and nightclubs"
MDMA is here to stay but festivals and nightclubs are gone for good
Because of the flu.
This is the best video I’ve seen in the topic
ive been saying this for so many years already...
Vice still doesn't know the war on drugs was never meant to be won, but to gain money.
@@BalboaBaggins
You guys are fucking idiots. Vice has covered legalization on drugs for decades now.
@@BalboaBaggins exacly...
@Ab T whys that?
@Ab T with all due respect; do you know what a run-on sentence is?
here's a video without nudity, violence or even swearing that is about the importance of education instead of prohibition, especially toward young people.. behind an age gate that expects you to give up your privacy. google really needs to die.
Especially since google already knows your age from your google account...
@@moonwatch7963 nope.. never ever told google my age.. and probably never will.
On point,imagine giving these shitheds your bank account info to verify yourself lmao :DDDD
@@riverdale7648 What do you think they're gonna do? Steal my $80?
I wish this episode was longer than 11 minutes
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
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I AGREE. I'm single but would like to sex once in a while without going through the trouble of having a girlfriend, or getting a disease.
The people in power are not willing to hear this truth. We should be allowed to make well informed decisions on how we want to live our life.
And advocate addiction too and cause the most drug destruction ever cause why not right
@@wusbussin are you naturally this dense or does it come through with some effort?
@@sheadoherty7434 Right cause for some reason allowing Americans who are already leading in overdoses to harm themselves legally is the thoughtful solution
Definately on board with harm reduction as someone who has been on &off drugs my whole life I know for a fact that if we had policies based on harm reduction my family and friends & myself would have had completely different lives and less shameful results for future decision making and lifestyle choices
Here's a story all about why drugs should be decriminalised ruclips.net/video/lrZOSwLK-ds/видео.html
Think about how many lives could be saved and how less money would have to go to an unending war. I'm no expert, but I can imagine that, as a result to legalization, the prices of (now illegal) drugs will plumit, and more money can be directed towards better goals, like more affordable housing.
Surely first there will be a period of many people becoming curious and become addicted from trying drugs. But much of that "wanting to try" is also because it is prohibited, it wont be such a 'cool' thing if it is legal and in their younger years, only the 'cool guys' use it. People just need to be informed about what they are taking in, and (most of) the consequences will be for themselves.
Long term I imagine, to name a few:
- more money for other things, which will become more problematic if we dont act now.
- less need for i.e. large scale expensive agressive operations.
- less need for imprisonment, which leads to less (expensive) prisons.
- less people need to work for big drug lords, more over all happyness across the world.
- less deaths, not just because it becomes less popular, but also because there wont be as much accidents as a result.
How I think it should be regulated, is mainly throughout pharmacies and declaration on passports that people use certain drugs. People who currently work in the drug business can seek jobs in places where drug control might be extra important, so they wont be without a job.
In short: there should be a while new reshuffle on how people see drugs. Because as it is right now it is just a waste of money, resources and time.
Damn, this video changed my mind!
Much respect for being an open minded individual
Much hate for having been such a brain washed ignorant!
Awesome! Half the battle is educating the public on policy. Never taken an illicit drug in my life, but completely on board with total legalisation and decriminalisation
Education is everything
I agree the war on drugs has failed young people, but from a personal perspective i don’t think we need protection from “the war on drugs” I think we need protection from ourselves. If i was better educated when i started Highschool and honesty just told the truth about how drugs work, I would probably not be where i currently am.
@Martha Cohen haven’t been sober a day in about 3 years and I’m 18
By not at least decrimanizing weed on a federal level in US, they've only been able to make money through state revenue sharing and income taxes. It feels too me it's either something nefarious keeping drugs illegal, especially weed, or just pure incompetence and lack of foresight.
Say it with me people: *We’d like to thank drugs, for winning the war on drugs.*
Good one!!
We'd like to thank drugs, for kicking the holy hell out of the war on drugs.
The war on drugs and terror are two wars that the US will never win with its current mindset
And get as many people high and ruin as many lives as possible if we legalize thanks drugs!!
I am currently reading Ioan Grillo’s new book “Blood, Gun, Money”. It is about the iron river of guns going from the USA and south across the border. Very interesting and easy to read.
War on drugs is killing more than what the drugs would kill by overdose in many areas! Maybe this might be the solution. We have bars and hotels serving tea, and coffee, to alcohol and weed, but it doesn't mean we go there if we don't need or want it. It's upto the person.🥱 Great video and great topic.👍
Also it basically probihition era
Here's a story all about why drugs should be legalised ruclips.net/video/lrZOSwLK-ds/видео.html
I’m 37 now and 21 years a heroin addict. I need a better way then long term methadone prescription clearly that doesn’t work. Also like the Norwegian lady said I don’t want to be clean and sober life is way too hard without drugs. I don’t know sadly I just wana get high and fall asleep forever coz it’s all too much
I hope u get clean
@@baljeettheplug2978 thanks mate
Support is what a lot of users need, its hard for them to get it because of society's tendency to treat them like aliens.
Lol white issues💊💉😵
*Every citizen of every country should be given a dosage of Pentobarbital or similar drug needed to sleep in and never wake up again, somewhere stored safely.* It would save people all sorts of trauma over not having housing, food, or even clean drinking water. It would decrease unemployment, poverty, homelessness, slums, malnutrition, crime, ect. & Reduce the burden on homeless shelters, food banks, public hospitals, ect. ~
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Liquid Pentobarbital is commonly used by owners to euthanize pets. When given to humans, the drug can give them a painless death in under one hour. In the Netherlands, it is part of the standard protocol for physician-assisted suicide for self-administration by the patient.
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Pentobarbital is also used by mouth for physician-assisted death in Switzerland
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Having the assurance of a relatively clean, fast, painless way out any time that I want, would put me more on ease by a lot. I want the freedom to have that 'way out'.
@@JD-jz5rr People need to stop having children, or they should have to take classes before having kids.
@@glennbrown3426 Everyone needs to stop having children. *Refraining from reproducing would end 100% of human suffering permanently* The daily pains we all experience; too tired to wake up in the morning, headaches, thirst, urge to urinate, urge to empty our bowels , the weather (too cold , too hot , humid , windy , rain ) , tiredness, . On top of this , are the major sufferings , losing loved ones , major physical illnesses ( including the illnesses that will lead to death in old age) . Add to this , the potential harms , physical illness ( there are more than hundred diseases ) , mental illness, relationship problems , crime ( violence , theft ) , financial problems , job loss , unemployment, poverty, hunger, malnutrition, accidents ( *accidents can happen very easily* ) , climate change, rising sea levels, natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, drought, food shortages, clean drinking water shortages, air pollution, ect. Life is mostly filled with negatives.
Even *rich (millionaire), tall(6’0), good looking, blue/green eyed men* like Leonardo DiCaprio, Grant Gustin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jared Leto, did not have any children. ~ *Even BILLIONAIRES like Oprah Winfrey and Jack Dorsey did not have any children!*
@@JD-jz5rr yeah but you’d miss the positives and why not experience what life has to offer. We’re all gonna die at some point so why not just ride it out.
If we legalize drugs how will our politicians make their money?? No more income from the prison/military industrial complex!
They'll make more money by removing the stigma and increasing the amount of users
God bless you. you are
Right
We need more of this!
Alcohol is well-regulated (if perhaps a bit too strictly) in Norway. You can only buy wine and spirits at the governmental wine monopoloy, but beer under 4.7% at supermarkets. Commercials for alcohol and tobaco are completely illegal.
My favorite VICE series at the moment.
One of the questions that I have regarding increased access is the potential introduction to novel drug users. It’s important to note that many (if not all) of the drugs discussed within this short documentary are deemed clinically addictive. Enabling physicians and pharmacies to facilitate these drug transactions does not in any way hinder the addictive capacity of these drugs. I am also a bit wary regarding the idea of selling cocaine, MDMA, and other stimulants as mere over the counter transactions. I hypothesis that many inquisitive individuals may seek these drugs if the barriers to access becomes so minimal. Novel users must traverse a hostile environment to obtain these drugs, and there remains suspicion of the quality of these drugs. To provide an anecdotal example: I am an individual who has always been fascinated by psychedelic, and I fear that if the barrier to access becomes so low, that I might impulsively purchase these drugs if they were offered and branded at a pharmacy. Just my thoughts, would love to hear anyone’s opinion.
Maps2020 is making sure mdma is legal for ptsd treatment in 2022-2023 and mushrooms after that. FDA phase 3 trials are active
The right way according to my research is mix of Sweden’s alcohol system systembolaget and Norway Denmark Switzerland Portugal Holland are showing the right rehabilitation options that work best.
Tracking of purchases and help offered if abuse is suspected is the currently best model. Black Market goes away like alcohol and tobacco black Market is non existent(only in regulated countries like Saudi Arabia where purchase of whisky is like being a kilo of coke in any eu country
Those kids or teens if experimenting with drugs are going to go out and find the drug no matter it’s legality. And they are dying because of this. That’s the point. Legality has no influence on if someone wants to take a drug or not
This series is great, perfect to share with people that haven't really thought about legalizing drugs.
My idea is I think we could legalize cocaine but not the harder things like heroin or meth
@@EmmaDeFazio5938 I'd disagree, the leading cause of death right now in American for 18-45 year olds is Fentanyl overdose
Most of those people are dying from fentanyl contaminated heroin, if there's any heroin in it at all.
People are also dying from fentanyl in cocaine and meth.
The main reason for legalizing these drugs is for harm reduction, you aim to keep people from dying or getting diseases, and offer them help so maybe they don't completely ruin their lives or end up dead.
In my opinion none of them should be allowed to be advertised, there should be a 21 year old age restriction, aside from special cases if prescribed by a doctor, and they'd be under very thorough regulations to ensure the products are clean and of a known potency.
At first there might be an increase in drug use, but all the other examples in the world show that the drug use actually decreases from the amount there was during prohibition, plus thousands of people lives could be saved, children, parents, siblings.
Also, think of all the tax dollars that could be made to spend on rebuilding infrastructure, giving opportunities to neighborhoods that were most negatively affected by the drug war, there's so much positive that could come out of it.
People are going to do drugs, regardless of their legal status. We need to accept that, and focus on harm reduction.
@@Toddis Huh okay
Decriminalization of drugs has been an utter disaster with crime rates surging nationally. Gee, who saw that coming? All crime is linked directly to drugs.
Huh? Only portland decriminalized drugs not the whole country and fyi their drug usage rate stayed the exact same.