Hunting for Drugs in the Australian Bush

The Australian bush is full of drugs, you just have to know where to look. We went foraging for naturally-occurring substances in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
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[@VICE]

Sometimes you just gotta know where to look. WATCH NEXT: Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS8lWqDaK-Botk

[@MacksmusPrime]

i want this guy to teach us about his life and stuufs in AU

[@karstenvonfjellheim5321]

Is this all, 6mins? Or just a taste of a full episode?

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

@@appropriatelyspartan2800 fuck! thats a terrible thingto say! Gawd!! absolutley NOT appropriate !!asshole!!

[@fabianvalentine2366]

Yu know this guy gets fucked up!

[@JonathanSanchez-xi2wz]

Max Gannon so

[@TechnicallyVerified]

Keep searching and you'll find Sassy and Lez

[@espenviorini3782]

Technic, still stuck on tumor island mate

[@YeshMCx]

Whatryatalkinabeet

[@Splashtosis]

Trippa snippa

[@sebbyh9764]

Huhuhuh fkn druggo

[@clazzo8849]

Wadiyatalknbeet

[@smokeymkpots6894]

This guy has deff been eating these drugs, his face is priceless.. 😂😂

[@jesuschristislordoflordsan427]

could be the total opposite, a person that doesnt do drugs but sells them. a lot! and btw, did you notice the statue of Phan? in sweden the word FAN(pronounced phan) means Satan!

[@endfm]

@@jesuschristislordoflordsan427 and sells them ahahha jesus christ.

[@Max0800]

Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings yes i saw

[@tezy0193]

of course he eats them (literally xD) man has giant san pedro's in his frontyard, they look tasty :D

[@stronghold500]

Gods gift✊✊🏽✊🏿

[@Jonmeagher89]

Thank you Australian Willy Wonka for giving us a tour of your factory!

[@raditya192]

I buy psychedelics from @Chris_shroomstore1 on Instagram , he’s a legit plug and he’s got great shrooms,dmt,lsd,chocolate bars

[@brodygardner1655]

🤣🤣

[@BonesTheCat]

Thanks. The Australian government will ban the bush now.

[@sadfghjkllkjhgfdsfg]

They already tried about a decade ago - then it turned out the plants on out coat of arms were all psychoactive ... so they decided against it

[@travisaurand7550]

BonesTheCat exactly

[@willm687]

if the aussie military knew about it in the 70's it would be banned by now but no one cares cause the gov are all cocked cunts anyway

[@asidAttack]

I thought the bush was banned at the end of the 80s?😂

[@davidcasciato7513]

@@sadfghjkllkjhgfdsfg didnt teach me that at school

[@legit1237]

"this is a useful source of DMT... and of course, the sheep still keep eating it." lmfao

[@ianblackburn2645]

legit rabai mdma butterflys and stoned sheep this Forrest seems cool

[@ronpaulrevered]

The sheep actually die from the dmt and their brains turn blue.

[@ronpaulrevered]

Not bullshit. Look it up. I love Deems

[@nateone6632]

Drugs AreBad yeah but you don't have a sheeps stomach do you??? Obviously sheep don't have the same enzymes as we do or the same livers THAT'S WHY THEY ONLY TEST HUMAN DRUGS ON ANIMALS WITH SIMILAR MECHANISM OF DIGESTION/CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL IN LIVER/ENZYMES

[@KRTRWZRD]

RonPaul Revered DMT is non toxic. Whatyou are talking about is gramin a different substance found in these grases which is toxic to sheep but not humans.

[@tkrebbs2368]

This guy leads a wonderfully hallucinogenic life. 1. He has a continuous smile. 2. He almost giggles continuously as he is speaking 3. He totally rocks that leather Crocodile Dundee hat at a jaunty angle and 4. He loves these plants, these plants love him, they're very special plants! :)

[@ianblackburn2645]

"mdma butterflys" stoner camera women shouts happily

[@OldManPaxusYT]

not sure i like your 'stoner camera woman' description... Stoner, implies something bad......

[@Kuckerkarlson]

@@OldManPaxusYT not in my book

[@adamibrahim7567]

butterflies is issue

[@sadhbhdelahunt]

Can't you just grow them in your backyard and stop stomping in the forest.

[@raditya192]

@@OldManPaxusYT I buy psychedelics from @Chris_shroomstore1 on Instagram , he’s a legit plug and he’s got great shrooms,dmt,lsd,chocolate bars

[@declanwhite]

dude's so cooked

[@brendan6619]

I like him

[@BibleStorm]

So cooked ay. Reckon he's tripping or rolling? I'd say tripping

[@XXHattoriHanzoXX]

Definitely micro-dosed psychedelics

[@elizabethhu351]

Dude's cooked out of his tree 😏

[@nateone6632]

Declan White nah dude he's intelligent as shit let's see you even on script give us that much info?? Thought so

[@shaggythisisntweed486]

I was waiting for hamilton to come out of the trees just tripping on shrooms

[@thomasrainbow]

He was there you just couldn't see him.

[@rozay817]

Lmao 😂

[@goartist]

maybe he took more than suitable for camera

[@DR-mp4gv]

🤣

[@reeffeeder]

The Australian was actually Hamilton, but fully transformed into his Australian alter ego.

[@UGHITSJOE]

This is shot beautifully

[@OMR4444]

Oh yeah, because you're in Vice spectrum..

[@Kage-jk4pj]

@@jakemate7583 he is a person and can be anywhere on youtube just like you.

[@no1headbandcharlie160]

Nah we just live in the best place on the globe,. same area codes :)

[@tjwoosta]

There's something quirky about this guy that makes me like him, he just seems genuine I guess.

[@Minecraftdemon99]

tjwoosta he is just a well educated cooker pretty rare most the time you just get cookers

[@RockSolitude]

He's tripping this entire video lmfao.

[@stavmiguel1125]

He knows things you do not. That is why your sub-conscious submits to his message. Don't get lost.

[@user-bp5py6bh3g]

+Stav Miguel r/iamverysmart, keep trying bud.

[@megglesy]

Michael Bock (presenter) is a wonderful guy and SO clever!!!

[@followthelight69]

Now I wish I paid more attention in chemistry class.

[@jasonclegg1999]

were holding super computers you have eveything we need just cant be looking on the surface of the web

[@raditya192]

@@mauiwowie8284 Shrooms got great benefits, I made an order from Chris_shroomstore1 on iG. my whole life feels new again. depression and anxiety got nothing on me.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

Where I live people usually forage for drugs in the projects

[@PimpinWitch]

😂😂

[@ianblackburn2645]

Lol

[@Crazy-su4kg]

Pfff..u spilled my drinks

[@Drhumbolt]

Yeah the great white rock tree is famous around here

[@dustinreeher2538]

Justin B Seriously that shit is hilariously.

[@The123dannyd]

Some of the faces he pulled once he'd finished talking make me think he's had a few too many of these natural drugs.

[@Lewyphotography]

Ranny Dobinson spot on! Cunts fried as

[@budrick2003]

I was thinking the same thing......he just had a blank stare....lol

[@eugenejefferson1838]

Ranny Dobinson 3:20 is my fav

[@thomasrainbow]

It's say it's probably the opposite of "blank".

[@kathrynhardie9697]

He's probably smiling cuz of all the money he's gonna make

[@watfordman]

I would love to trip out and have deep conversations with this guy. He seems cool.

[@watfordman]

wolf Larsen 😂😂

[@vkwhosdat6610]

You on every documentary 😂

[@sophied4031]

Me too 😌

[@Trpmanne]

Same especially on mushrooms

[@raditya192]

@@Trpmanne Shrooms got great benefits, I made an order from Chris_shroomstore1 on iG. my whole life feels new again. depression and anxiety got nothing on me.

[@TallowTheQuoll]

It concerns me that as a born and bred Australian I didn't know our country was home to an array of plants and animals that can get you high comparable to South America. I'm assuming our government has done a fairly good job of making sure the average Australian isn't aware of these things. Cheers for informing us 😂

[@mogwaijizm872]

relax everything is illegal here

[@benburch]

lol none of the stuff in this video will get you high until you properly extract it and process it. More time and effort than what its worth (which is why nobody cares they are growing there)

[@Minecraftdemon99]

We are an island that tries the most to keep drugs out so where do you think we get our drugs from. They are normally from here

[@The.Drunk-Koala]

I bet the care to cancer is in the Aussie bush.

[@zhukie]

And once you tried to extract it *then* it would be deemed illegal by the govt

[@josephmccaffrey9811]

This guy never came down from an acid trip on sat 4 august 1978.

[@AguaFluorida]

4 august 1978 was a Friday.

[@danefelix-green2087]

oddly specific

[@davidomahony5499]

Fish and chips

[@abepeterson]

This dude was that insane stoner in high school that also got a 4.0 😂

[@imyouyoureme1533]

5:09 that glisten in his eyes, with the smiles, along with the scanning of the room is .. definitely me on LSD or mushrooms.

[@simzocker]

man taking a hike through the woods with this guy must be the experience of a lifetime

[@Lenny101]

they say "dont do drugs" but look at this guy. he is happy AF and looks healthy.

[@kassalablueberry9035]

Could do with a good eye cream!!!

[@RobinCawthorne]

I adore Michael for the research and passion he has on this particular topic. Or at least that of the psychoactive realm.

[@blakebuckland8484]

I am the Lorax, I speak to the trees. The trees speak in Aussie Stoner

[@Jay-hv5hf]

Thanks for capturing the scenery around here in a really artistic way, great video

[@bonusgonus429]

"A high school degree in chemistry."

[@etzubeatzu2688]

Clyde Densmore Why did you put this in quotation marks?

[@mogwaijizm872]

cus you don't get a degree from high school,, you get one from university,,so its funny cus it doesn't make sense,,get it?

[@samh1022]

This struck me as odd also; I'm fairly certain he meant 'did chemistry from years 10 -12'.

[@skalmaa]

Depends on where u live. You get grades in both high school, senior high school and university in Sweden. U start getting grades from year 7. There is other countries outside of the US.

[@tripmunk9881]

You dont even need a degree. Basic organic chemistry and passion is all it takes.

[@MarcRitzMD]

I love that guy but he's struggling not to outright show he's a psychonaut

[@zhukie]

oh I don't think he's trying too hard really lol

[@ryanlove8242]

Cuz you would never be able to tell just from looking at the guy? Lmfao!

[@muybruno]

Most cooked man cave ever

[@NN-DMT]

Really cool video, Michael seems like an awesome guy

[@glassjaw624]

You'll see me licking every tree on my street from here on out.

[@vivioneo.5747]

glassjaw624 😂😂😂😂

[@vivioneo.5747]

And why not its free😂😂

[@Minecraftdemon99]

Vivione Oldehaver the why not is there are shit loads of disease that grow that way

[@LeatherCladVegan]

Don't you mean 'every window'?

[@PaawnHuuub]

Has no one else seriously noticed this guy is also definitely tripping while doing this interview loool??? His facial expressions, gaps to think between words, etcetcetc lool

[@orngfuzz]

nicolas serrao lmao, he can't stop grinning while he talks

[@Postaldude__]

@@orngfuzz LMAOOO i get that too

[@naturelove4448]

Just Brilliant! Love this guy and his creative outpouring of awe driven knowledge!!! Always knew Australia was a wonderful, abundant and magical country!!! 😊✌🌿🌵🍄

[@laraluluanahera2031]

I love the way he says it at 0:04 like he's so proud of it

[@lukeyoung6262]

What a legend, and for him to be local makes it even better. I'm going for a bush walk, peace.

[@SuperHoneyOil]

Back in the day I used to make MDA, you could order safrole oil in the make your own root beer kits. All plants are arguably psychoactive, as DMT is a building block of life. The interesting question is not what, but why do plants create psychoactive chemicals endogenously.

[@mogwaijizm872]

answer is simple,, for other animals to get high on,, why else? lol if our polititions and mil,itary leaders got stoned weekly and did lsd once a month,, I really don't see us having any more wars lol just like in in ali g when the UN gets stoned and declares world peace lol

[@zhukie]

to protect against pest species eating them, usually

[@foxtailedcritter]

Thanks mate for the doco, cheers from Queensland.

[@TIGERGUTS]

Proper champion. I love the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges for their wonderful offerings!

[@PimpinWitch]

Love this! But shhh don’t tell the world our junkie secrets 😂

[@joshembler6263]

you know this man candy flips on the daily when hes done cooking up his molly and acid. look at that face bruh.

[@adambuller4562]

I grew up in the dandenong ranges, beautiful place and great magic mushies too

[@davidjonesthanksto7262]

Very intresting, thank you for your knowledge.

[@erictheboringone5292]

I was mind blown years ago when I found out where mdma actually came from. Nature is a wonderful thing.

[@deniboo4458]

Would love to see him teach me all different types of mushrooms in the mushroom season

[@timhenrysnaturalwildworld]

Awesome doco needs to be longer!

[@alanabartlett2266]

Dandenong ranges so beautiful! Toot toot puffin Billie

[@fighm]

This man needs to reproduce. Someone has to take on his knowledge

[@FlingflingTv]

Australia got everything!

[@Minecraftdemon99]

FLING FLING except a democracy

[@NelsonMuntz1]

Except you gorgeous 😁

[@willm687]

except airsoft

[@Xstreamaudio]

Except guns!....:(

[@willm687]

Xstreamaudio we got plenty of those

[@sherylhokianga3]

Wow! That Was An Eye Opener 4 Me!!!

[@robertpatterson8437]

Dude looks like he’s about to break out laughing everytime he speaks 😂 I love it

[@CuriosityCulture]

I knew there was a reason why I love trees!

[@BRAVENEWORDERFILMS]

Harshil Patel I give your joke 4/10...

[@jorispelder8333]

hey mate

[@CuriosityCulture]

Sup dude!

[@SeazBreeze]

burn em

[@ex0duzz]

Harshil Patel you mean other than converting carbon dioxide and providing oxygen and keeping humans and every animal and life form alive? Lol. And also apart from weed/trees as well?

[@KivoiEdits]

I gotta go out to the bush more 😂

[@Jay-hv5hf]

I didn’t know you guys visited here! That’s absolutely crazy haha, I stare at mount dandenong every day. Wild

[@blackcorp0001]

Fascinating...so much to learn about our natural environment

[@ingineous]

4:19 my god...that flute solo

[@taylorkirkpatrick5409]

what's this type of music PLEASE I've been looking for so long

[@unfilteredfungi]

I would appreciate when you would show us more of what the peoples in your documentaries talk about. And when i see that the documentary is just 7 minutes long i think, there is way more material that you can put into the documentary when you fly over to the australian jungle and talk to a guy who collects and grows psychoactive plants. But still thanks for this peace of work :)

[@AneTorine96]

Wow, that guy have a huge collection of interesting books. Would be really cool to get a full list of his whole collection.

[@chueffer]

What an interesting character you are kind sir. Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge. Keep on keeping on. See you at Mardigrass I hope 😊

[@RichReflectionz]

Lmao I live in the Dandenongs and it's the first I've heard, this is gonna be fun, seeing so many people go to the kokoda trail now....

[@Itsnotchewy]

I love how they put episodes for no reason. Just to link in playlist lol. No closure, no follow through. Fucking content makers right here

[@Tanoaproductionsfiji]

He seems to smile when he speaks as if he has some big secret that should be obvious and he’s just waiting to burst into laughter! 🤣

[@crownroyal2155]

2 hour drive tomorrow to get there 4 months to get back . Victoria isn't going to be shitty this winter!!! Thank you VICE

[@eleoptera]

Whoever did the camerework, as well as the visual and sound editing, all deserve an oscar.

[@scrubby2116]

I’m Aussie and now i’m showing this to my mates, can’t wait for the next camping trip 😂

[@no1headbandcharlie160]

What the phuk is "Aussie" we just live here dickhead :)

[@scrubby2116]

@@no1headbandcharlie160 are you brain dead

[@mariamatthews546]

Tuning in from Titahi Bay massive info your a Legend chur

[@Alienblaster50]

what a precious guy

[@anthonyramirez3591]

He looks like he was on shrooms the whole time !

[@lash4572]

this dude is Chopper reed,if he were a hippy.

[@okaro5490]

Wish this was longer !! Very interesting

[@mikemcleod4996]

what a cool guy down to earth guy, great little video

[@mrveryodd]

Blessings to you sir 😆 Thats why we call it the lucky country .

[@willyj451]

This definitely looks like the guy you'd find sniffing leaves in the bushes

[@maggie4194]

when I live a 15 minute drive from this forest, had no idea!

[@nicoeeek.7181]

Super interesting! Amaaazing book collection! Can only imagine how cool the contents of the man cave are!

[@kiff4free554]

Holly shit! I just learned from this video that the cactus my wife had me transplant 10 years ago is a San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi), i must have 40 or more of them now, all over 10 foot long each! I just liked the one we had but he was dying, so i transplanted his little new born branches (as many of them)... And right next to them there is a huge Angel's trumpet plant (Scopolamine, Hyoscine). And i thought god had me far away from drugs!

[@skalmaa]

Just make sure u stay away from the scoplamine. Thats one crazy ass substance that will guaranteed give u a bad time.

[@_hootjohnson]

“I have a love for these plants, I appreciate these plants, they are special plants” Wow this dude really likes plants...

[@Ratchetftw]

music on point, nicely done vice

[@jalalibari6493]

Love your work keep it up

[@npc0458]

>starts to lick trees to get high

[@shonkysidewayssam6134]

Hit the Acacia phlebophylla down your way ;-) Where I live near Byron, we have 3+ types of phenylpropanoid bearing plants (Olivers Sassafras etc.), an Ibogaine type alkaloid containing plant and a Hodgkinsonia species who’s Northern QLD brother is being studied for its opioid effect. Not to mention the two varieties of Tryptamine bearing fungi in the warmer season. There is so much out here to be learnt if the passion and know how is there... :-)

[@flavourcloud]

what's the species of the ibogaine type and the hodgkinsonia?

[@Mildmanneredmachinis]

Hit the endangered plants? maybe go and collect seeds instead. there's plenty other tryptamine Acacias to work with that aren't threatened.

[@kingchief4038]

This guy is an absolute character :)

[@zenstateofmind9907]

This was a really good one vice

[@ismiiazizul9917]

Mad Hatter

[@watjejanssen7535]

and no cannabis in his garden ? or hidden i presume lol

[@trexeater101]

wrong time of year he probably just harvested

[@stoner4life765]

I’m chasing some any in taz yoooooooo inneed meee some smokoooooo

[@charlieharper395]

I like this Dude,he seems nice and Chill.

[@enlazadordemundos1177]

mother earth..infinite wisdom.. peace.,love.,family

[@greatdiosghosties2762]

I want to be this guy's friend.

[@BradGryphonn]

Now this has me wanting to go bush again to live a shaman life. Black Wattle branch tips are good source of DMT. But I know a spot where GTs are growing on a footpath during the season in a new outer suburb. Might have to dry some.

[@stefandwoodham]

Brad Griffin learn to spell first

[@choomp2636]

455 stage-1 What did he spell wrong?

[@thomasventon1699]

Brad Griffin are you sure u can get DMT from black wattle i though it didn't have a high enough alk %

[@WhitechocolateHOTHOT]

455 must be on drugs

[@BradGryphonn]

Thomas, the amount you get isn't overly huge, no. If you harvested efficiently, you could make enough for an experience. There are other wattles that contain more. However, those grasses would produce way more (insert chosen drug here) in terms of weight. I learned a lot from this video, but it leaves enough out to inspire us to research more.

[@NonBinary_Star]

why is this only ~7min long?! THIS SHOULD BE 1hr! ♡

[@wingnut6472]

Such a trippy dude,I like him a lot.

[@Gorrash]

I live in Brazil, i wish i had the knowledge he has, i would be a king here. lmao

[@jaymak1307]

If you watch this without sound, it's about a bloke who's about 3 days deep in the sesh - currently in the adventurous phase, happily beaming.

[@BySkylerH]

if we are not free to choose what we can and cannot put in our own bodies we cannot consider ourselves free in any way. amazing video vice

[@lucyloose2841]

Thankfully there are people like you on this planet and off it sometimes by the looks of it )))

[@I_gotchu24]

Anyone know any spots near Perth for shrooms? Just asking so I can avoid them

[@sassmate6850]

The First Dovahkiin Balingup is the magic mushroom capital of Australia!

[@danny_oh]

Man in the Yellow Hat x Psychedelics

[@jonnyjonny2926]

There are dozens of precursor chemicals and compounds to be found from both exotic and native plants, but synthesising these chems in to usable products is much much harder. You can also get safrol oil from camphor laurels, growing in most Australian cities but what are you going to do with it?

[@OverDose-kx7kx]

Very nice collection

[@kistonfilms]

How could i go into this field of study because i feel like a modern day shaman as it is now

[@paradoxflip]

There are a few different fields of study within the umbrella of drug research. The study of the effects of drugs on the mind is psychopharmacology and the effect on the physical mechanisms of the brain is neuropsychopharmacology. Ethnobotony is the study of naturally occuring compounds found in plants traditionally used for medicinal and religious purposes.

[@PantsB4Squares]

More mushrooms. Heroic doses multiple times a week. Do what Terrence McKenna did. Finish his work, decode the Elves language!

[@otum337]

start with finding out what the word shaman means

[@BLAZEDGODD]

Try those tide pods I hear they will freshen up your mind

[@holdmybeer]

Join the mormon church :D

[@davidsmithsmith5679]

he looks so tweaked out lol

[@KristiContemplates]

The sheep keep eating the stagger grass. I almost choked to death from laughter (have worked with sheep, and I'm not surprised nor judge them for it)

[@ryanlove8242]

@Kristi Ford now we know why they always look so stoned.