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2016 guys, make this video again in 2025 in the Netherlands. New times are here with called "weed experiment". Big growers are allowed to do business on large scale now.
@@elijahthesage8510 When it comes to cannabis, most of the world still isn't even where the US was 10 years ago. Stuff like this is absolutely culturally relevant still. Like Germany just legalized. Last year the EU parliament held it's first session on the subject. Thailand. Etc etc.
I googled to find out what happened to Doede (the Netherlands grower): he was semi-successful in his appeal. They did find him guilty, but did not give out any punishment whatsoever because of his motives for growing.
Punishment, he lost all of his hard work years work mother plants etc. In the Netherlands this is how many of our weed strains have been killed of by police taking seed banks and mother plants. Old school strains are gone for good.
His was the most compelling part of the story. California put me through 18 months of hell for cultivation in 1991. They’ve never apologized nor offered to return my $10k in fines and court fees. Not to mention punitive damages for threatening to lock me up for 3 years, throwing me in a concrete box overnight and forcing me to piss in a tube for 8 months at the risk of immediate arrest. (The dude with the clipboard actually had handcuffs.) Started me off on a lifelong despising of government. I was only 19. Today I’m 52 and government can kiss my --
RIP Doede de Jong, A great loss for the Dutch weed community, For me as Dutch homegrower he is a great example on how you should do what you love and like.
First time I went to D.C my buddy gave me the number for an "art dealer". Dude rolls up and sells me a credit card sized piece of "art" that was just a solid red square on a business card that just happened to cost $100, as a gift for buying his beautiful artwork he gave me a bunch of weed, super friendly place.
Unfortunately without regulation you have no idea what’s in that weed. Synthetic chemicals to boost profits? Not everyone wants more expensive legal tested weed BUT it should be available for those who want access to clean safe weed.
@@MrBobbo18people like you are ruining it for real smokers. what comes from your average dealer is insanely more safe than what comes from a dispo. Look at Cali and all the actual pesticides they put in their plant. If the gov says it’s ok is it really what’s best?
As someone who suffers with extreme severe anxiety I can totally relate to her. I would stop eating for days at a time as a punishment. I worry a lot about my life, everyone around me and pleasing everyone. It's absolutely crippling, so glad she got the help she needed, lovely young lady it's so sad that society has 1 in 3 people suffering mental health issues. I hope everyone seeks help
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about how mushrooms and psychedelics treats anxiety, but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, Doctor Greg Mushrooms he is a great man of God who has the great insight on psychedelic and mushroom. He will guide you on how to use mushrooms to get good trip.
i don’t usually leave comments. and i know these weediquette videos are old but they are new to me. i just want to say how much i enjoy how fantastic of an interviewer Krishna is. i hope in the near future Vice can give us some new Weediquette content! but either way, i appreciate the time and energy the Vice team puts in.
This is the VICE style I fell in love with almost a decade ago! This is raw, talented journalism, amazing editing and storytelling, and most of all, taking risks in conflict areas to tell a powerful story. Keep up the amazing work, VICE! 👏👏👏
Nice as that may sound, it's still not a full solution. I hope, but i doubt, this will lead to eventual full legalisation. Not that this will stop me in the meantime, but i would appreciate it being legal for me to grow at home.
"if we regulated everything organized crime wouldn't just go away." We don't have any gang members shooting at each other over alcohol anymore for a reason, sir.
No guys , if all drugs gets decriminalised the only thing they would achive is people consuming more. The black market will rise since the prices will be much lower and people won't afraid to deal drugs or carry them because no one will care
@squibbelsmcjohnson Sure - but the prevalence of that occurring is so minimal, it's not even comparable to how it was during prohibition. I live in the south and had family that were moonshiners. Prohibition was a bootlegger's dream. Profit margins were way higher and so was the desire for homemade hooch.
@@oulewappeur76yes, unfortunately OP is correct!! It’s actually in the video description. Was almost certain I’d seen that opening scene before. 2016, LEEESSSSS GOoooo!
I was stationed in Germany during the entire 1980s. I was a Tank commander in the 1st of the 1st Cavalry Regiment. I visited Amsterdam a couple of times in a rented high powered BMW. The Autobahn is sick!!! Traveling at speeds about 120 mph! When you're a 23 year old American driving a luxury high horsepower automobile, heading towards a country famous for selling pot right in a coffee shop that's connected with a bar or nightclub, life is fabulous!! And the border guards were shutdown due to the Berlin Wall destruction. I was present at that incredible event back in 1989.
The border NL/Germany wasn't shut down until the Schengen agreement took effect, in 1995. Nothing to do with the fall of the wall, that was the old inner German border, nowhere near the Netherlands. I was stationed in the British Army in Germany 1991-93 and you always had to stop at the border then. However once in 1992 I walked through a residential street straddling the border, in an Aachen suburb, the street bypassed the border cabin on the main road. There were other little backroads where there wasn't a permanent checkpoint too but there were Zoll (customs) patrols there.
Just imagine. What you describe was everyday life for me. As a young German living near the border, that was my normal way of getting weed. Now it's no longer necessary because weed is legal in Germany
and whats left for the next generation but an economy so broken they'll never know international vacation or renting a car other than the lease they can barely afford.
I try telling my boomer parents the same thing but it's *pull yourself together*..yet they were able to buy a house by the age of 24, on a single wage, have three kids and several holidays a year. My dad still thinks you can get a 5% mortgage after 6 months of employment. They sold out our generation, so they could live in luxury. @@shawnndixon5254
started smoking since my teenage. Got addicted to cocaine. Also suffered severe depression and mental illness. It's just amazing how psilocybin mushrooms treatment actually saved my life. 3 years clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms
they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here. and mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on this planet i wish people would all realize. they could solve a lot of problems, more than just mental treatments, environmental clean up; the possibilities are endless with fungus 0:19
You know you're on the brink of bankruptcy when you finally listen to the people and start reposting all the old good og content back before vice took a turn into left field and fell off.
The world knows who the boss is and dont want anything to do with them.Whats his name,,the evil Ozzy guy that owns all the news papers...the one supporting genocide.Yeah him.Evil string pullers.
Another huge issue is cable TV is dying as a whole its pretty much like what happen with landlines/house phones. Give it another 10 years prolly less and nobody will being paying for cable everything will be streamed.
I was born and raised in Belgium, the country next to the Netherlands, and worked with Dutch coffeeshops as a supplier (illegally). The whole "gedoogd" system they've got going doesn't do anything but invite criminality into a business that could otherwise be fully taxed and legislated. One of the guys I worked with had a grenade thrown into his coffeeshop because he wouldn't bend under the will of criminal gangs trying to muscle in. Legalise ALL drugs, let the government do what they love and profit off it, and GET PEOPLE THE HELP THEY FUCKING NEED. Nobody would be strung out on H/coke if they had a good quality of life.
Yes you can solve almost all the problems caused by heroin by simply giving addicts free heroin. Just make it a prescription only drug like Oxy and anyone addicted doesn't have to cause problems for everyone else.
It's all big corporations now! They gave out lottery rounds for Micro license in Maryland in April but you had to literally give in and give up your business plans, budget, background checks for your business partners and be qualified under their requirements which is a lot. It makes you want to try but they application and requirements turn you off if you're truly starting off from nothing.
Still turned into big Corporations running the industry. They gave away micro license for the fortunate but left that process to lottery picks and it required a certain portfolio. I tried to apply in Maryland and I'm still standing on the outside trying to get in! Funding is like selling your soul because it's only for those who have the transparency with business plans and gives the state all your intentions, I got as far as the application and couldn't submit because I didn't have the money to lose or complexity to submit.
As soon as he started to speak, I thought, there's no way this guy doesn't speak English like Everyone else did previously. He gets pissed and Spoke Great English then goes straight back to the "language barrier" technique. Clown
Min 37 the guy got down..wow.. preach it boi..one if not the best speech ive heard in my life so elegant yet straight to the point cold and so respectful..
because he can express him self better and he uses social engineering to dodge the questions. He is using a high vocabulary to intimidate the guy who is interviewing but his engles is not good enough for that.
Better than nothing, believe me, I live in a country in which is still illegal and it's a nightmare, the weed is poor quality and very expensive and people can get in trouble for smoking, legalization Will be a dream and paying taxes on it would be right exactly how you pay on other things
Lets be honest, weed would not be legal in most of the places it is, if the local and state governments didn't tax it. For decades that has been the pitch to lawmakers, "legalize weed and tax it like alcohol and the state will have more money to treat addiction to hard drugs and tthe blackmarket for weed will shrivel up". We were saying this in the 70s and it's taken this long to achieve it. Maybe in the future things will loosen up more. But it would be good to look at the conservative views around legalization and vote accordingly.
The sincerity of the man who owns the hydroponics store and says “at the end of the day, this promotion is so I can make money.” I admire that a lot! Well done and hope your business booms.
I thought it was funny that the host is like oh isn’t this such a great scene of humans helping each other and the dude shut that shitte down like nah I don’t want to be giving away anything but this ends up being a marketing expense instead of something I could be charging $30-40 bucks per pack of seeds. I do appreciate the honesty when he could’ve just leaned into what the interviewer is saying like it’s some altruistic peace and love thing.
Considering this is so old how about tack on an update or follow up, confused of the purpose of Vice anymore, is it just the greatest hits of old news?
Im smoking a joint right now and watching this amazing episode here at the south of Thailand. Where it cannabis law will soon change again in a few months. Crazy times we are living in right now.
this reminds me of the first time visting amsterdam as a teenager, walking by cops in the street smoking joints and the police not even taking notice as they pass is a shock to the system, especially after having so much taken from me by the law back home, really drives how how ridiculous weed being illegal is
You don't want to sleep with a grow tent in your room trust me 1 it's loud 2 it's hot 3 it fuks with your sleep especially in the veg state. I'll never do that again 😂😂😂
Mate I read this comment and saw that no one had replied! Well, let me be the first to say...I agree.after 4 weeks I was DONE! The noise and the temperature even with ventilation.....my sleep was awful! Never again!
@@MrBobbo18the consumer can always take the time to meet and establish relationships with growers. If you want good quality, clean products, there are other options aside from just paying the government to "help".
@@MrBobbo18 a system built on trust between local people will always get you better quality, organic, unsprayed flower. Knowing the guy who grows it and buying it from him is better than buying it from a corporation that has no personal liability if you die smoking their products. Regulation are meant to keep buds safe to smoke, yet the current market in california has hundreds of banned chemicals being found in massive quantities in their on the shelf "legal" products. Licenses only mean that a few companies can afford to grow. and when they reap the benefits of monopoly then they can simply pay off the fines for the damages theyve caused. Look at johnson and johnson and other large companies that have hurt the population in the past and all they had to do was pay a fine to the govt. which is no punishment at all for huge business. The only way to get organic products is to either grow them yourself organically, or to be the client of a good organic grower that doesnt use shortcuts, pesticides, or any hormones to thicken things up.
@@MrBobbo18synthetic fertilizer doesn't instantly make a bad product. Just like much of the food we eat is grown using synthetic fertilizer. While I prefer going organic whenever possibly in most cases the plant doesn't know the difference. Hydroponic growing is popular everywhere and it's almost always using synthetic.
I live in Texas. My friend was parked with his girlfriend, but they were NOT smoking. They were eating their fast food supper at night with the windows rolled down. They had weed in the car and out of sight, but it was NOT in the dashboard, so NO search warrant required. A cop pulled up and got into their business. The cop asked, "Do you have any substances or illegal drugs on you?" My friend answered, "Yes." He was SCARED TO LIE TO A COP. The cop immediately ARRESTED them both and they went to JAIL for the night. 🐖🐷🐽🚨🪴🚬His family hired a good defense lawyer and he got off for a 1st time offense. Now he's learned to vape 💨 at home. No more going out with it. 🙅🏻♂️ #LegalizeInTexas ✌🏻☮️
@@anony-mousex tell me you smoke trash without telling me, I don't live in Amsterdam but near and either way dutch weed is always better than than English crap. 'cali" weed lol bros paying extra for homegrown weed from some dirty roadman, we have a higher standard here because coffee shops need to keep customers coming or they won't be in business 😂
@@Sid-gj8xd you can find them 50/50 of the time, if you type coffeeshop into Google maps haha. But generally you wouldn't have to look for one reeeeallly... You just walk one direction for 10 minutes, and you'll find one no doubt!
And nearly all 300+ of them are extortionists. Full price for average weed and €4 for can of coke. Nowhere to get decent food and dog sized rats at night… sorry but Amsterdam is far from beautiful. Maybe in the late 80s and 90s
I am Dutch, often visit Amsterdam, and occasionally smoke a joint myself. But honestly, compared to US laws, our laws are actually even weirder. Weed is illegal here, believe it or not! But the point is that the (coffeeshop) sale is legal, the use is legal, but possession is actually illegal. Even if you only have a gram, the police will take it but the point is that it's "gedoogd" which means tolerated. So, they will take it from you and it's still illegal to have it on you, but if it's less than 5 grams you won't get in trouble, no fine, no jailtime and no charges.
@@jenniferrose2360 natural outdoor flower is very light. the indoor sticky weed has so much thc on it that it gets dense. also the chinese growers in the USA use PGR hormones that make the buds denser. and also other nasty things. illegal weed in the us is 99% grown by chinese gangs that dont gaf about your health. im a former dealer and no longer smoke because I know how much mold and mildew is inside the weed everyone smokes.
@@khalid969 From what i read online, he got a guilty verdict but no penalty imposed, so he kept his house, he got cancer not long after though and soon died
i got bipolar and i cant get it on prescription so its not easy to get.. you cant grow your own medicine which is stupid its a plant. Weed is the only thing that helps me get through each day and i know its the same for 1000s of people
America is wild. Legalizing consumption of a product but not the trading of it. More money on enforcement instead of taxing the stuff. Absolutely unhinged.
Weed should have Never been Banned in the First Place. How many times do you hear someone Killing their Family after Smoking a joint but 99% of all Domestic Violence, drunk driving deaths happens because of Liquor
After 10 years weed is still not legalized in the Netherlands. Even though basically everbody except strict religious groups agree that legalizing weed is bound to happen someday
THE INTERESTING FACT IS THAT IF IT CAN´T BE SOLD, THEN THEY ELIMINATED DRUG DEALING SINCE IT CAN ONLY BE GIFTED OR GROWN, SO NO DRUG DEALER GETS PROFIT FROM IT, BUT THE CREATIVE ARTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS OR SCIENTISTS CAN GET INSPIRED IN A FRIENDLY AND SOCIABLE KIND OF WAY...
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2016 guys, make this video again in 2025 in the Netherlands.
New times are here with called "weed experiment". Big growers are allowed to do business on large scale now.
👏
2:28 2:28
Government still controlling the market for their benefits
you guys need to do a video on german weed laws
This is nearly 10 years old, please vice bring back Weediquette
its less than 8years old kiddo,please quit m4stubation. u will be less delusional
facts, we need more exposure of what's going on in todays culture instead of harping on the 2010s
@@elijahthesage8510 When it comes to cannabis, most of the world still isn't even where the US was 10 years ago. Stuff like this is absolutely culturally relevant still. Like Germany just legalized. Last year the EU parliament held it's first session on the subject. Thailand. Etc etc.
Back to the original videos About weed 😂🎉
why they keep re uploading old vids? thought this was new
I googled to find out what happened to Doede (the Netherlands grower): he was semi-successful in his appeal. They did find him guilty, but did not give out any punishment whatsoever because of his motives for growing.
thanks for saving me the time :)
Punishment, he lost all of his hard work years work mother plants etc. In the Netherlands this is how many of our weed strains have been killed of by police taking seed banks and mother plants. Old school strains are gone for good.
His was the most compelling part of the story. California put me through 18 months of hell for cultivation in 1991. They’ve never apologized nor offered to return my $10k in fines and court fees. Not to mention punitive damages for threatening to lock me up for 3 years, throwing me in a concrete box overnight and forcing me to piss in a tube for 8 months at the risk of immediate arrest. (The dude with the clipboard actually had handcuffs.) Started me off on a lifelong despising of government. I was only 19. Today I’m 52 and government can kiss my --
RIP Doede de Jong, A great loss for the Dutch weed community, For me as Dutch homegrower he is a great example on how you should do what you love and like.
Doede, May Angels bless you wherever you are!
Thank you for your years of service.
I am a benefactor of your work.
♥️☮️♥️
First time I went to D.C my buddy gave me the number for an "art dealer". Dude rolls up and sells me a credit card sized piece of "art" that was just a solid red square on a business card that just happened to cost $100, as a gift for buying his beautiful artwork he gave me a bunch of weed, super friendly place.
Unfortunately without regulation you have no idea what’s in that weed. Synthetic chemicals to boost profits? Not everyone wants more expensive legal tested weed BUT it should be available for those who want access to clean safe weed.
@@MrBobbo18if its that big of a concern. Grow it yourself. Im sure you have a bunch of excuses on why you can't though.
@@MrBobbo18people like you are ruining it for real smokers. what comes from your average dealer is insanely more safe than what comes from a dispo. Look at Cali and all the actual pesticides they put in their plant. If the gov says it’s ok is it really what’s best?
So uh @zachf6508, I'm down here in GA, but say I came up to D.C., u think u could point me in the direction of some art? Lol
@@JerriWest-fo8gj this video is 10 years old. They have Dispo's now.
As someone who suffers with extreme severe anxiety I can totally relate to her. I would stop eating for days at a time as a punishment. I worry a lot about my life, everyone around me and pleasing everyone. It's absolutely crippling, so glad she got the help she needed, lovely young lady it's so sad that society has 1 in 3 people suffering mental health issues. I hope everyone seeks help
People need to realise that people with anxiety disorders have oversensitised nerves, it's not a simple case of manning up and getting over it.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about how mushrooms and psychedelics treats anxiety, but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, Doctor Greg Mushrooms he is a great man of God who has the great insight on psychedelic and mushroom. He will guide you on how to use mushrooms to get good trip.
Please, how do I reach doctor Greg?
He’s on the internet
i don’t usually leave comments. and i know these weediquette videos are old but they are new to me. i just want to say how much i enjoy how fantastic of an interviewer Krishna is. i hope in the near future Vice can give us some new Weediquette content! but either way, i appreciate the time and energy the Vice team puts in.
sameee
Go away vice
Update: Doede De Jong was eventually acquitted of all charges in 2018. Unfortunately he died in 2022.
damn, thank you for the update
What a fucking legend may he smoke in peace
Thanks for that update .I was about to do a search because this film is from 2016 or so .
I'm so glad because I kn😢w how he feels about the family home
Rest in power!
This is the VICE style I fell in love with almost a decade ago! This is raw, talented journalism, amazing editing and storytelling, and most of all, taking risks in conflict areas to tell a powerful story. Keep up the amazing work, VICE! 👏👏👏
it aired in 2016
O.K
@@JnthnCkSO Vice died in the year 2017
This is a re upload
Update on the situation in the Netherlands, the government is now experimenting with legal growers who can supply the coffee shops
there had legal suppliers growing cannabis 10yrs ago before this was even filmed #propaganda
@@BP-iz2lt you mean bedrocan?
New government experiment is a restrictive overreaching sham of a plan
taking money away from ppl like doude and giving it to big corps and mostly profitting themselfs
Nice as that may sound, it's still not a full solution.
I hope, but i doubt, this will lead to eventual full legalisation.
Not that this will stop me in the meantime, but i would appreciate it being legal for me to grow at home.
"I just want you to really realize I'm only doing this for the money", I love the honesty haha
"if we regulated everything organized crime wouldn't just go away."
We don't have any gang members shooting at each other over alcohol anymore for a reason, sir.
No guys , if all drugs gets decriminalised the only thing they would achive is people consuming more. The black market will rise since the prices will be much lower and people won't afraid to deal drugs or carry them because no one will care
@squibbelsmcjohnson Sure - but the prevalence of that occurring is so minimal, it's not even comparable to how it was during prohibition. I live in the south and had family that were moonshiners. Prohibition was a bootlegger's dream. Profit margins were way higher and so was the desire for homemade hooch.
What a pure politician that guy was…
@@budrobrother digusting. I used to know many weed growers here in the netherlands and they are like the chillest of all so called “criminals” lol
We could just legalize it and let the market self regulate. How many people died from black market cannabis over the last century or so?
"This episode first aired in 2016"
Oh did it?
@@oulewappeur76yes, unfortunately OP is correct!!
It’s actually in the video description.
Was almost certain I’d seen that opening scene before.
2016, LEEESSSSS GOoooo!
@@MisterBadmanyou're not on Reddit stfu with "op"
Hahaha. I noticed when the Dutch guy in court mentioned that 5 states in The US have legalised medical use.
Poor from Vice, this.
@@BobVance529 agreed
I was stationed in Germany during the entire 1980s. I was a Tank commander in the 1st of the 1st Cavalry Regiment.
I visited Amsterdam a couple of times in a rented high powered BMW. The Autobahn is sick!!! Traveling at speeds about 120 mph! When you're a 23 year old American driving a luxury high horsepower automobile, heading towards a country famous for selling pot right in a coffee shop that's connected with a bar or nightclub, life is fabulous!! And the border guards were shutdown due to the Berlin Wall destruction. I was present at that incredible event back in 1989.
The border NL/Germany wasn't shut down until the Schengen agreement took effect, in 1995. Nothing to do with the fall of the wall, that was the old inner German border, nowhere near the Netherlands. I was stationed in the British Army in Germany 1991-93 and you always had to stop at the border then. However once in 1992 I walked through a residential street straddling the border, in an Aachen suburb, the street bypassed the border cabin on the main road. There were other little backroads where there wasn't a permanent checkpoint too but there were Zoll (customs) patrols there.
Just imagine. What you describe was everyday life for me. As a young German living near the border, that was my normal way of getting weed. Now it's no longer necessary because weed is legal in Germany
and whats left for the next generation but an economy so broken they'll never know international vacation or renting a car other than the lease they can barely afford.
that sounds absolutely awesome haha
I try telling my boomer parents the same thing but it's *pull yourself together*..yet they were able to buy a house by the age of 24, on a single wage, have three kids and several holidays a year. My dad still thinks you can get a 5% mortgage after 6 months of employment.
They sold out our generation, so they could live in luxury.
@@shawnndixon5254
Ok, his speech towards the end literally made me cry! Beautiful words!!
started smoking since my teenage. Got addicted to cocaine. Also suffered severe depression and mental illness. It's just amazing how psilocybin mushrooms treatment actually saved my life. 3 years clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms
they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here. and mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on this planet i wish people would all realize. they could solve a lot of problems, more than just mental treatments, environmental clean up; the possibilities are endless with fungus 0:19
I've been looking to try shrooms for depression, just very difficult to get a
reliable source here in Germany. Really need!
Hey! Yes very sure of Dr.johnsonshroom. a single dose of shrooms saved me from Alcohol addiction. 6 years clean. no cravings.☆
Psychedelics made me quit a lot of bad habits and gave me a more positive outlook on life and the appreciation for other people
Is he on insta?☆
You know you're on the brink of bankruptcy when you finally listen to the people and start reposting all the old good og content back before vice took a turn into left field and fell off.
Yup
The world knows who the boss is and dont want anything to do with them.Whats his name,,the evil Ozzy guy that owns all the news papers...the one supporting genocide.Yeah him.Evil string pullers.
True
Exactly why I am even watching this video. They used to be cool before they went woke
Another huge issue is cable TV is dying as a whole its pretty much like what happen with landlines/house phones. Give it another 10 years prolly less and nobody will being paying for cable everything will be streamed.
I was born and raised in Belgium, the country next to the Netherlands, and worked with Dutch coffeeshops as a supplier (illegally). The whole "gedoogd" system they've got going doesn't do anything but invite criminality into a business that could otherwise be fully taxed and legislated. One of the guys I worked with had a grenade thrown into his coffeeshop because he wouldn't bend under the will of criminal gangs trying to muscle in. Legalise ALL drugs, let the government do what they love and profit off it, and GET PEOPLE THE HELP THEY FUCKING NEED. Nobody would be strung out on H/coke if they had a good quality of life.
preach this
I'm Dutch and fully agree. They really got the worst of both worlds with this system.
Yes you can solve almost all the problems caused by heroin by simply giving addicts free heroin. Just make it a prescription only drug like Oxy and anyone addicted doesn't have to cause problems for everyone else.
@@demolazerthat's not how you sort out drug addiction mate
@@demolazer Truly. In fact they can hold down a job for the first time in their life and pay taxes that benefit the rest of us.
Tears in my eyes when Doede read his statement. RIP Doede 😢
He seemed to have lived a great life.
So much has changed in DC, Maryland and Virginia. Need an updated episode 2024
It's all big corporations now! They gave out lottery rounds for Micro license in Maryland in April but you had to literally give in and give up your business plans, budget, background checks for your business partners and be qualified under their requirements which is a lot. It makes you want to try but they application and requirements turn you off if you're truly starting off from nothing.
Still turned into big Corporations running the industry. They gave away micro license for the fortunate but left that process to lottery picks and it required a certain portfolio. I tried to apply in Maryland and I'm still standing on the outside trying to get in! Funding is like selling your soul because it's only for those who have the transparency with business plans and gives the state all your intentions, I got as far as the application and couldn't submit because I didn't have the money to lose or complexity to submit.
1:10 Literally just a cop car behind him while he's holding 2 Oz. Love it! 😂
I don’t know why I love weed documentaries so much
that dutch politician is the problem
No the European.
The guy in red bandana is the problem... 🛑 Because only 🟦 allowed , Latino limousine from company will drive there..
All politicians are the problem
Corrupt, paid by organised crime for sure.
As soon as he started to speak, I thought, there's no way this guy doesn't speak English like Everyone else did previously. He gets pissed and Spoke Great English then goes straight back to the "language barrier" technique. Clown
This will go down in history, like when some bureaucrats decided to ban a plant...
This is a ten year old video
@@blooddumpster3427 21 minutes old video 💀
@@blooddumpster3427 I know, young man.
I just wanted to emphasise the senselessness of these morons in "banning" a plant.
@cassbrowne4754 this aired in 2016 on ViceTV, in the description
The author of the above comment smoke rosebuds on his day off , lol :>P
Min 37 the guy got down..wow.. preach it boi..one if not the best speech ive heard in my life so elegant yet straight to the point cold and so respectful..
Holding 2 ounces in front of a cop on public would be a crazy experience 😂😂😂
Seller “here’s an ounce”
Buyer “thank you for the gift can I buy that shoe string for 200$”
Seller “yes”
Successful deal!
This comment is very toaster😎
Dutch official at the Hague seemed clueless and also kept switching languages??
cause he knows his ass is out lol
because he can express him self better and he uses social engineering to dodge the questions. He is using a high vocabulary to intimidate the guy who is interviewing but his engles is not good enough for that.
He was an absolute clown, didn't make any sense and kept repeating the same bullshit. I've never even smoked weed, and his excuse was hilariously bad.
That's the Hague for you
Yeah bro weed smokers are so smart, they are right about everything because weed has expanded their conciousness.
Growing your own is the only true legalization of cannabis. The sell in taxation of cannabis is not "legalization" it is "corporatization"
Better than nothing, believe me, I live in a country in which is still illegal and it's a nightmare, the weed is poor quality and very expensive and people can get in trouble for smoking, legalization Will be a dream and paying taxes on it would be right exactly how you pay on other things
Lets be honest, weed would not be legal in most of the places it is, if the local and state governments didn't tax it. For decades that has been the pitch to lawmakers, "legalize weed and tax it like alcohol and the state will have more money to treat addiction to hard drugs and tthe blackmarket for weed will shrivel up".
We were saying this in the 70s and it's taken this long to achieve it.
Maybe in the future things will loosen up more.
But it would be good to look at the conservative views around legalization and vote accordingly.
truth
@@jerrylong381 its the same people who if they could, they would have your vegetable garden illegalized because they cant tax it.
The time to complain about everything being taxed came about 100 years before you were even born.
My country legalized weed on april 1st and I am currently growing 3 plants. Can't wait for harvest!
which country are you from?
@@mysticcity312 Germany
@@mysticcity312 that's germany
@@mysticcity312probably Germany
@@mysticcity312 sorry for the late reply but yes I'm from Germany
7:05 probably the most honest business owner I’ve ever seen
You know it’s good when this guy is in the documentary 😊
Thank you for this documentary, i am dutch and i have learned allot of things from this about my country i never knew before.
That was some dead bush weed in the start of the video. Imagine getting arrested for that
We get it dude. You're cool. You get better. We get it dude. Only the coolest people get the best weed.
@@magickmarcklike your girl said "it's not that deep"
@@magickmarck 😅sounds like ur salty cant lie he is right those buds look dead esactly what i thought
I was thinking the same thing, I mean cmon people, its too easy to get thca.
@@icon-emerald9517my 13 yr old nephew also smokes reefer
I'm watching this in Washington DC smoking a joint of hurricane gelato in my apartment. I can see the Capital dome from here. Time has flown 😎 by.
letsgoo that strain sounds olympian! cheers mate
Let me guess u close by the union Station I wrk dwn that way with the railroad
SW waterfront
3:18 “hell no” walks away 😂
the person who integrated the THC molecule in the transition of 1:20 deserves a raise
The sincerity of the man who owns the hydroponics store and says “at the end of the day, this promotion is so I can make money.” I admire that a lot! Well done and hope your business booms.
I thought it was funny that the host is like oh isn’t this such a great scene of humans helping each other and the dude shut that shitte down like nah I don’t want to be giving away anything but this ends up being a marketing expense instead of something I could be charging $30-40 bucks per pack of seeds. I do appreciate the honesty when he could’ve just leaned into what the interviewer is saying like it’s some altruistic peace and love thing.
RIP to Doede de Jong. The Grower in this video past away in 2022
Considering this is so old how about tack on an update or follow up, confused of the purpose of Vice anymore, is it just the greatest hits of old news?
They've been has beens for 5-8 years.
Vice went bankrupt. People claimed to love them , but nobody would purchase a subscription from them and RUclips demonetized them .
They are out of money so they can’t afford digital ink.
A update regarding the policy on weed here in the Netherlands, the government right now is doing tests for regulated weed.
Just trying to make you tube money from old video
Im smoking a joint right now and watching this amazing episode here at the south of Thailand. Where it cannabis law will soon change again in a few months. Crazy times we are living in right now.
The boss is just asking for a goddamn gift frequently 😭🤣🤣
this reminds me of the first time visting amsterdam as a teenager, walking by cops in the street smoking joints and the police not even taking notice as they pass is a shock to the system, especially after having so much taken from me by the law back home, really drives how how ridiculous weed being illegal is
40:32 that scene made me realize this video was definitely shot pre-covid
Bulldog Cafe in 1980:Amsterdam was a trip!!!
32:00 it is not even an interview😂 they are just saying the same thing over and over😂😂😂
I am so toaster😎
I am so toaster😎
Lady so high she ashed on her hand 😂 'imma just hold onto this'
14:20 when he says anybody and everybody thats a fact and ngl he talks like my dealer ngl 😂😂😂😂
As a final send off , vice could do a doc about how an interesting news service bankrupts itself...
😆👌
Rip doede❤ ive been at his house.talked to him and his wife. What a ❤ set of people was that
33:55 im Dutch and this guy is the exact reason nothing in this country changes. Complacent af.
Someone get Doede De Jong a nobel peace medal! One of the greatest people that has ever lived! Thank You Doede 😍
I love how informative these videos are
Growing your own is one of the best thing in the world.
I smoke some blue dream and I couldn’t feel my ear, nose, or face.😂😂😂😂😂
LOL he eventually revealed he can speak English. You can tell he was getting irritated. 33:20
7:00 I'd shop with this dude just because he's thee most honest business owner I've seen.
this man really finessed vice into paying him to travel around and smoke weed , best job ever
You don't want to sleep with a grow tent in your room trust me 1 it's loud 2 it's hot 3 it fuks with your sleep especially in the veg state. I'll never do that again 😂😂😂
Mate I read this comment and saw that no one had replied! Well, let me be the first to say...I agree.after 4 weeks I was DONE!
The noise and the temperature even with ventilation.....my sleep was awful!
Never again!
I don't understand why cannabis is illegal when alcohol is legal.
Prejudice and racism
Taxes
Bruh the Grieg piano concerto + remix had me rolling 🤣🔥
bro's hands shaking with the weed was too real haha
That was deffo Tyler The Creator being the drug dealer in the hotel room 😂
“Alleged that the pipes were for marijuana”
Well I’m not gonna hit a bowl of tobacco off that volcano machine.
You could put pinestraw in it if you wanted. Thats your biz. Not the cops
Correction... It's not freedom... It's licence...
Bingo
Licenses are a path to safe tested products. Unregulated markets will allow possible mold covered synthetically fertilized buds.
@@MrBobbo18the consumer can always take the time to meet and establish relationships with growers. If you want good quality, clean products, there are other options aside from just paying the government to "help".
@@MrBobbo18 a system built on trust between local people will always get you better quality, organic, unsprayed flower. Knowing the guy who grows it and buying it from him is better than buying it from a corporation that has no personal liability if you die smoking their products. Regulation are meant to keep buds safe to smoke, yet the current market in california has hundreds of banned chemicals being found in massive quantities in their on the shelf "legal" products. Licenses only mean that a few companies can afford to grow. and when they reap the benefits of monopoly then they can simply pay off the fines for the damages theyve caused. Look at johnson and johnson and other large companies that have hurt the population in the past and all they had to do was pay a fine to the govt. which is no punishment at all for huge business. The only way to get organic products is to either grow them yourself organically, or to be the client of a good organic grower that doesnt use shortcuts, pesticides, or any hormones to thicken things up.
@@MrBobbo18synthetic fertilizer doesn't instantly make a bad product. Just like much of the food we eat is grown using synthetic fertilizer. While I prefer going organic whenever possibly in most cases the plant doesn't know the difference. Hydroponic growing is popular everywhere and it's almost always using synthetic.
Crazy what goes on behind the scenes
All these years I just assumed it was all legal over there
Thanks for the update it opened my eyes
props to the team (or guy) making the animations, they're really good !
I live in Texas. My friend was parked with his girlfriend, but they were NOT smoking. They were eating their fast food supper at night with the windows rolled down. They had weed in the car and out of sight, but it was NOT in the dashboard, so NO search warrant required. A cop pulled up and got into their business. The cop asked, "Do you have any substances or illegal drugs on you?" My friend answered, "Yes." He was SCARED TO LIE TO A COP. The cop immediately ARRESTED them both and they went to JAIL for the night. 🐖🐷🐽🚨🪴🚬His family hired a good defense lawyer and he got off for a 1st time offense. Now he's learned to vape 💨 at home. No more going out with it. 🙅🏻♂️ #LegalizeInTexas ✌🏻☮️
Breathe air, you don't need to vape
@@max3eeyTell that to your friend in your first video
@@bruhstandler what are you talking about
@@max3eeyu have a vid of someone smoking but telling someone not to smoke
@@Jaysonstarnes-mi8be what are you even talking about
17:28 lmfao they hit my boy with the 'dutch special' aka the DookieRuntz aka the TrashbagOG
Tell me hou have never been to Amsterdam Whit Out telling me Like the Weed in Amsterdam is very Strong in Amsterdam even White widow ist very Strong
@@TtttGggg-ql8wv I smoke cali and BC bud from the UK bro - dutch weed is mostly trash, ive been more than once
@@anony-mousex cali 😅 you mean the Fake Weed whit Liquid
@@anony-mousex tell me you smoke trash without telling me, I don't live in Amsterdam but near and either way dutch weed is always better than than English crap. 'cali" weed lol bros paying extra for homegrown weed from some dirty roadman, we have a higher standard here because coffee shops need to keep customers coming or they won't be in business 😂
@@bannedfromutube2371 Ok dude but ive been to Amsterdam and 80% of the dutch menu is absolute garbage
fun fact, there is about 300+ coffeeshops in the all of ( our beautiful city ) Amsterdam!
Can you find the coffee shops on maps or is it just by word of mouth?
@@Sid-gj8xd you can find them 50/50 of the time, if you type coffeeshop into Google maps haha.
But generally you wouldn't have to look for one reeeeallly... You just walk one direction for 10 minutes, and you'll find one no doubt!
And nearly all 300+ of them are extortionists. Full price for average weed and €4 for can of coke. Nowhere to get decent food and dog sized rats at night… sorry but Amsterdam is far from beautiful. Maybe in the late 80s and 90s
@@rastaman53541980 April cold weather and good hashish!
Best video about the weed system and stoners vs government problem of our generation . 10/10 thanks again vice
I am Dutch, often visit Amsterdam, and occasionally smoke a joint myself. But honestly, compared to US laws, our laws are actually even weirder. Weed is illegal here, believe it or not! But the point is that the (coffeeshop) sale is legal, the use is legal, but possession is actually illegal. Even if you only have a gram, the police will take it but the point is that it's "gedoogd" which means tolerated. So, they will take it from you and it's still illegal to have it on you, but if it's less than 5 grams you won't get in trouble, no fine, no jailtime and no charges.
I once did a weed tour where we smoked around DC visiting all the historic spots. We were sparking in front of the cop in front of the White House.
they have much bigger concerns in DC lol, funny how crime ridden our nations capital is...
Them half ounce bags looked massive. Looked like 4 ounces
I was thinking that, must be light flower. The star Dawg in the UK is so dense and I’m bad at maths so maybe that’s it 😂😅
It's Hemp budds
@@jenniferrose2360 uk weed is compressed. but those bags still looked very big
@@jenniferrose2360 natural outdoor flower is very light. the indoor sticky weed has so much thc on it that it gets dense. also the chinese growers in the USA use PGR hormones that make the buds denser. and also other nasty things. illegal weed in the us is 99% grown by chinese gangs that dont gaf about your health. im a former dealer and no longer smoke because I know how much mold and mildew is inside the weed everyone smokes.
RIP Doede. I do hope youve found peace
What happened to him? What was the court's ruling?
@@khalid969 From what i read online, he got a guilty verdict but no penalty imposed, so he kept his house, he got cancer not long after though and soon died
@@khalid969 Message got deleted lol maybe you can see what i wrote in the notification tab
So, nothing about the trial project legalising sales in the two Dutch cities Breda and Tilburg. Any updates?
I live in Utrecht, we stand with marijuana #Viva_Freedom
Farmer never die 🐌🌱🪺🦉
@@Immortalwarrior1991 🐎🍇🍍🥭🍎🍓🍒🫐🍅🧀🥔🧄🫘🌾🌿🐐
Jesus I hate to double comment.....
But why does all the weed look absolutely positively terrible terrible
Yeah, definitely not the best examples of Dutch bud, it all looked awful.
I wish they would legalize it in the uk.. literally most people like to smoke weed but wont admit it in fear of the police..
It is legally prescribed now bro, legal since 2018🙏🏻
Not supposed to smoke it like but it is legal if prescribed by a specialist
i got bipolar and i cant get it on prescription so its not easy to get.. you cant grow your own medicine which is stupid its a plant. Weed is the only thing that helps me get through each day and i know its the same for 1000s of people
This man leveling up in the Highest way possible🎄
Dude as a dutch citizen you nailed it with your debate with the dutch politician!!!!!!!!!!!!! That guy had noting to say anymore!
America is wild. Legalizing consumption of a product but not the trading of it. More money on enforcement instead of taxing the stuff. Absolutely unhinged.
Legalizing anything with stipulations isn't really legalizing anything, is it?
It's legal or it's not. Period.
Weed should have Never been Banned in the First Place. How many times do you hear someone Killing their Family after Smoking a joint but 99% of all Domestic Violence, drunk driving deaths happens because of Liquor
R.I.P DOEDE
Bro 1: hey can i have you weed?
Bro 2: no worry fam, there you go.
Bro 2: hey man, can i borrow some money.
Bro 1: say no more pal.
whether recreational stores operate or not, people get it easier than they can get their groceries, it is pretty ridiculous not to regulate it.
Vice used to be cool, USED TO BE...
Why
We’re not in high school anymore
After 10 years weed is still not legalized in the Netherlands. Even though basically everbody except strict religious groups agree that legalizing weed is bound to happen someday
Well played Vice and Weediquette!
Excellent documentary. Doede de Jong is a real hero.
Will dislike and not watch videos without original airtime in the titles.
It's in the description.
i have so much respect for the man in court and i would love to show all love and support between the smoking comunity
10 years later we finally have the first legal grown weed sold in shops
“Can I have some of your weed” 💀😂
Theres no smoking or exchanging Cannabic clubs
But you can have a membership club right?
Sounds like drinking in Salt Lake City on the weekend?
peace nd love all the way from bristol uk x
''We throw it on the ehh... compostbult'' Got to love Doede :D
Hij verstond het wel. ✌🏻
THE INTERESTING FACT IS THAT IF IT CAN´T BE SOLD, THEN THEY ELIMINATED DRUG DEALING SINCE IT CAN ONLY BE GIFTED OR GROWN, SO NO DRUG DEALER GETS PROFIT FROM IT, BUT THE CREATIVE ARTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS OR SCIENTISTS CAN GET INSPIRED IN A FRIENDLY AND SOCIABLE KIND OF WAY...
I like that Idea of legalization not commercialization very idealistic!!! Economically unreal !!! 😅😅😅
Old school vice i love it keep m coming
This a reminder video and next one's about how it is nowdays? That's be class
R.I.P. Doede De Jong 🙏 Peace & Thank you!