Infiltrating Europe’s Most Dangerous Drugs Gangs | News on Drugs

Neil Woods spent 14 years as an undercover detective infiltrating some of the most dangerous drugs gangs in Europe.
His operations put his own life in constant danger, and led to the arrests of countless dealers, gangsters and drug users.
Over this time, Neil came to realise just how contradictory and self-defeating our drug policy truly is. Most of all, he realised how damaging this policy is for the police themselves.
In a stunning reversal, he quit the police and now campaigns with Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) to end the War on Drugs altogether.
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[@alexanderorr2528]

Huge respect to this detective for speaking out about how horribly we've failed the people with the war on drugs, so much unnecessary suffering.

[@fahhcue850]

It’s extremely refreshing to see someone in law enforcement that can really see the big picture here. It’s the only time I can recall agreeing with a detective before.

[@smeggyhead1]

It's not full picture. There will always be drug crime so long as all drugs are not given out for FREE and as much as the users want. If drugs are not given out for free (and as much as users want), they WILL commit crime in order to pay for it. Merely legalizing drugs, even ALL drugs, will do nothing. Be careful what you wish for!

[@fahhcue850]

@@smeggyhead1 I don’t disagree! But it will greatly reduce it. A fair amount of users just want to use and be left alone and not take too many chances on going to jail and having to withdraw over some dumb 💩. Functional attic’s who can hold down jobs and control themselves. This I know because I’ve been one of them for decades. But your absolutely right tho. The more hardcore users that go balls out, all day everyday.. Those ones will continue on the same path. In either case it’d be a step in the rite direction I think. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@danxdanger]

@@smeggyhead1 Of course you will never get rid of ALL crime committed to pay for drugs, just like you will never get rid of all crime committed to pay for anything like, say, groceries for example. However, if you had laws that made the cost of groceries be artificially inflated to incredibly high rates then the associated crime being done to pay for them would be very high. Then if you repealed all of the laws that artificially inflate grocery prices, then the rates of crime being committed to pay for them would also fall drastically. So it's absolutely, blatantly false nonsense that legalizing drugs wouldn't lower the crime rate when it comes to crime associated with drugs and their artificially high costs and that is just ONE aspect of crime rates when it comes to prohibition. You also have the violent crime associated with different groups fighting over territory. You have the fact that people get sent to jail for nonviolent, victimless drug crime and then come out with criminal records that make it more difficult for them to get a job, rent a place to live, etc. so they turn to illegal ways to make money to live. You also force nonviolent drug offenders into jails and prisons with actual criminals who committed property crimes and violent crimes and they then make those connections and learn how different things work and come out with the knowledge to commit those crimes and the contacts needed to do so. When alcohol prohibition was going on in the US, there was a large increase in crime especially violent crime which did not continue when we ended it. If it was the alcohol itself that was causing all of those high rates of crime, not the PROHIBITION of alcohol that did, then crime rates wouldn't have changed. Prohibition is harmful to both people who use drugs and to society as a whole in EVERY way.

[@smeggyhead1]

@@danxdanger There is a difference between groceries and drugs: groceries don't rot the mind and cause people to do crazy and deadly things; the same cannot be said for drugs. This is where your analogy, in my opinion, doesn't follow. As for prohibition: it did drastically reduce violent domestic crime, it got men off constantly drinking hard spirits. While I agree alcohol is worse than say cannabis, it is absolutely not as bad as the likes of meth. Drug users 'chase the dragon' - go on to stronger substances.

[@constantinedeboudox]

@@smeggyhead1 With legalization drugs would be a lot more affordable, of course, we can't avoid all crimes as it is part of being in human society, but police could focus on solving real crimes instead of filling jails (criminal universities) with people they found carrying flower in their pocket. Let's not pretend we don't know what the CIA did in South America and why there was a war in Afghanistan, someone has a fat financial interest in continuing the war on drugs and keeping the prices high. Cartels are just pawns in the much larger game of chess.

[@shaylacour8973]

This needs to be shown over and over. So much truth. Thank you to the people at VICE!!!!!

[@lazeppelini123]

Over and over? One time is enough for me, thank you.

[@lo2740]

legalisation is as absurd as war on drugs, none is going to solve any criminality issue, how do i know? several countries have legalized soft and hard drugs, some since a long time, with no impact whatsoever on criminality.

[@shaylacour8973]

@@lo2740 hard to stay positive lately. Don't let it get to you.

[@EvilTaco]

@@lo2740 what countries have legalised illicit drugs and haven't seen any positive consequences?

[@carldacosta3184]

Good stuff, very rarely people have the courage to say these inconvenient truths. Bravo.

[@emmett3067]

"Police never reduce the size of that market, they only change the shape of it." Many people want drugs, treating it as a criminal offence makes it incredibly lucrative to sell drugs. The industrial complex loves drugs being illegal, as do many in Police - they get to play with cool equipment, weapons and vehicles.

[@jaymanier7286]

@@lazeppelini123 Its bad on all sides really. Legalization of all drugs and treatment for people that want help is the only way.

[@mothp1lls307]

@@lazeppelini123 "those who use drugs think they are gangsters and are dangerous." That is the most ridiculous statement I have ever read. people who use do not think that. people who are fucking loosers think they are gangsters, there's nothing wrong with fun in moderation

[@abceckswhyzee7169]

@@mothp1lls307 That "fun" is still harmful. But hey, if you wanna harm your body, go at it, but don't act like "moderation" is still good, however. Edit: Not saying drugs should be banned. Alcohol is legalized, and the "fun" it brings is still harmful to the body. I agree moderation is best for *addicts* but I'd never recommend drugs or alcohol to anyone. Even in said moderation.

[@egilsrensen7822]

Indeed. I started smoking cannabis about 10 years ago. Now in the more recent years most of the ''cannabis'' i can find where i live is synthetic cannabis.. Which is very harmful, and its very hard to spot the synthetic stuff because they use bad crop and mix it with synthetic cannabinoids. Which is far stronger than the normal stuff, and it can be as addictive as heroin.. As of now i've stopped smoking because i don't want to risk it, might have a puff if i'm in Denmark, or Nederlands where it is legal in some places. I really wish they would legalize, atleast cannabis in my country.

[@lillexus5589]

Demoralization of a society, that is. Mamy people want many of things, doesn't mean everything should be legal nor freely available.

[@nuklearpuppy]

The police have lost the war on drugs. Simple as that

[@DaveSCameron]

SPREAD THE WORD *

[@mrunique4871]

Whilst also controling it , if you know you know .

[@leejohnson3270]

I'll just say this, over 70% of my home town does illegal drugs, what do you think would happen if you arrested everyone in my home town that did drugs? (that's a low estimate BTW)

[@cypherlock01]

The police are conspirators in a war they knew they’d lose due to the billionaires running the show

[@MA-gv3wg]

Zombie apocalypse for drugs. Watch them all go through withdrawals 🧟 when we go into a recession and they aren’t handed money to buy it everyday.

[@nancyfahey7518]

keep spreading the word. My attitude,at first, was negative. I would say it was rediculace and not even listen. I'm listening now. It makes sense.

[@JenkemJohannes69]

🎶 C U M 🎶

[@miiju86]

For once one that seems to really get it. "Real" addicts are absolutely self-medicating, trying to function as long as possible, to not bother, to survive. It should be treated as for what it truly is - it's a concern of mostly mental (as well as also physical/pain) health. Criminalizing, socially ostracizing and to kick them even more down will never help....

[@mohnmann]

Great comment, i wish everybody understood that. I started doing Heroin 14 years ago and im on a stable dose for years already and have to buy Methadone from the black market. I tried to get help quite a few times, but it seemed since i was functional no one really cared. No one around me knows about my problems. I also have depression and suicidal thoughts since my childhood which are the reason i started doing drugs in the first place. All in all it is help yourself or go to prison/die, if that doesn't change addicts don't even have a reason to get away from drugs to try and reintegrate into a society that doesn't want them anyways.

[@olakusnierz5281]

Very interesting and insightful interview that really opened my eyes on the depth of the problem. Thank you!

[@atmosrepair]

It's a relief to hear someone speaking about these dynamics! It was getting quite lonely, and you know I even learned some new information.

[@jwolfgang6034]

This guy is so right. And I've been saying the same thing for years. A regulated supply of drugs would give users a better, safer, and cheaper supply of drugs. It'd changed addicts lives for the better. And with the money saved from less people going to jail and the money made from addicts buying their drugs from a regulated source, it could be used on better rehabs

[@PullingWrenches]

are there teenagers drinking alcohol on twitch streams now? it would be the same situation essentially lol I remember when I was 17 it was easer to get coke than alcohol, so I could honestly see with legalization and regulation it being harder to get both the coke and the alcohol for kids in future.... a bump before a round of cs wasnt so bad hahah

[@PullingWrenches]

@Strong-arm Dagerm did you even watch this video or just come on here to make an ignorant comment? looks like the latter to me.

[@3dp_edc]

idk about cheaper, but i agree with the rest. look at weed when it is legalized prices sky rocket cause politicians need to line their pockets.

[@sps6]

You got it wrong boss...only right way is kill drug peddlers

[@joshua7233]

​@Strong-arm Dagerm What? He's right. It has literally been proven in countries where drugs have been decriminalised that addiction levels drop drastically.

[@H-Lambda-]

Thank you Neil for all your hard work, your book is fantastic too.

[@TransformDrugPolicyFoundation]

Great work, as always, from Neil Woods 👏 A legally regulated market is how we will actually get drugs under control.

[@raulcalvo4230]

How would you have a legal regulated market of heroin? It is impossible to have a regulated market of substances that creates an enormous dependency on the clients. Dealers will always have the power to manipulate the junkies and it could spread easily. Is just a free ticket to all kind of abuses

[@TransformDrugPolicyFoundation]

​@@raulcalvo4230 Thank you for asking. There is actually something called 'heroin assisted treatment' which involves the provision of medical-grade heroin (also called diamorphine) to registered patients as part of a treatment programme. This is happening in multiple countries across the world including Switzerland (since the 90s), UK, Canada, Germany (& others). It has excellent evidence backing it and allows for extremely marginalised people to have their lives stabilised. A legally regulated market would allow for this to happen on a larger scale. I really recommend going to our website page about this to learn more about how it works and see videos. If you search ‘heroin’ on our website then you will find all of the resources.

[@raulcalvo4230]

@@TransformDrugPolicyFoundation that is not similar to a regulated market. That is a health assisted treatment payed buy the contributors.

[@TransformDrugPolicyFoundation]

@@raulcalvo4230 We believe that a legally regulated drug market should use a system of licensing based on an assessment of risk. This system would establish different levels of restriction - ranging from very lightly-regulated sale in shops to supply by prescription only. We advocate for the legal regulation of heroin to be medicalised because of its risks. We absolutely need to be taking a public health approach to drugs rather than a criminal one. Were you able to look through our resources that give extra detail on this?

[@antokent]

​@@raulcalvo4230 This requires a lot of effort and research. However, nothing we could possibly do, could be worse than the status quo. Physically addictive drugs like heroin, shouldnt be sold in stores, they should instead be given away for FREE to registered heroin addicts. As much as they need, whenever they need it. No matter how bad that sounds, its way better than leaving destitute people to rob handbags from grannies and give the money to violent dangerous criminals

[@ChairmanIlyaas]

I love those interview pieces, nice job vice.

[@floodwater9013]

This video seemed like a preview on what’s coming later on in the program… I was constantly waiting for it to start 😂

[@LorenaTheWitch]

Thank you so much for the work you do Vice

[@mbk526]

Amazing piece that touches a tough topic. Pity it didn't cover also the incentives that are in place for the status quo and that entrench further this police vs. the community. Policing as it is needs to be redesigned and requires a hard look from within and remind themselves that they are civilians, not an extension of the armed forces.

[@xdmztryvsvedine2773]

When I think about this issue, it reminds me of how healthcare in places around the world needs to be changed drastically. Specifically the “great” country, USA. So many aspects of our society needs a deep cleaning from within.

[@NuttyNeil76]

Absolutely

[@tvathome562]

Exactly they ended prohibition, what did they learn that makes the war on drugs not only sustainable but profitable?

[@lc9072]

They are not civilians tho. They can't be treated like civilians because they have special powers in order to maintain public safety and along with social worker like training, they have fighting an familiar style training to end threats to the public and apprehend criminals. The "neighborhood watch" style of policing only leads to corruption. Policing needs federal oversight and enormous chains of command. Small "community" based groups are prone to too much bias etc

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

…more like an extension of Dunkin Donuts.

[@krillin5582]

A cop with some common sense.

[@ICCARDOr]

one of the best interviews ive ever seen on this topic

[@fredmeyers4076]

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[@fredmeyers4076]

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[@treyshawnee]

Fantastic Interview ! Thank you vice.

[@HenkjanDeKaasboer]

This man, Neil Woods, has an amazing interview on Ladbible TV (the yt channel) and a solid tedx talk as cherry on top. 7/7 would recommend watching both

[@ryongoodson3900]

Really enjoyed this one. It was just data and opinions that we have heard before, but juxtaposed against the opinion of the opposition, and that happens to compliment those same data and opinions, it really helps you to understand it in a way that is not only clear but feels more legitimate.

[@silentisgold1376]

Pharmaceutical companies

[@ImZeroDayz]

This was fooking Brilliant mate.

[@wandahargrove6889]

Insightful man, insightful interview. Great job VICE!

[@mathewpitman3314]

This guy is so on point he make so much sense people should be listening

[@danielcpt3819]

That's a thoroughly insightful mind. Brilliant journalism.

[@tone7247]

Legalize everything. Your body your life your choice. Two generations later you'll see less drug addicts.

[@queersnowflake]

Wow amazing interview

[@boristheblade_bg]

what happen' to the audio after the 6min?

[@dwealers]

the most intelligent Cop i´ve ever seen in a Video !

[@illersasquatch]

Amen to that

[@thecolorhero1078]

Great piece.

[@spendz_stax]

From someone who has been thru the drug life this dude is spot on

[@PosterJoe518]

This is an amazing piece...the truth hurts but it IS THE TRUTH. Very well said... I only hope the right people around the world listen......

[@m1ndk1ller]

Great journalism, thank you.

[@shaneoloughlin2538]

Excellent analysis and insights...

[@jbmp1390]

At least he finally understood what he was a part of and realized that it was wrong and caused a lot of damage. He knows he harmed a lot of people and he wants to atone for that and hopefully change these systems in the future. He wanted to help people through policing but what he's doing now is far more helpful than anything he did in uniform. Respect to this man for what he's trying to do, and all the other soldiers fighting the injustice of the War on Drugs.

[@gulabjamun173]

Wow that was amazing! One day we will get there and I hope sooner than later! My body my choice. It's never too late to change your stance on drug use.

[@Crosshatch1212]

Never having bro .too many high paying jobs going down u tube

[@evilmunk1]

Love this guy, seen him in a bunch of stuff, always clear cut and explains great

[@maryannperez7297]

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[@aimeenichole33]

VICE has been doing some great journalism lately between the Louisville cases and this one... Keep it up!!!

[@Crosshatch1212]

Look where we are now because off drug busts .chemicals that you wouldn’t want to give to you’re dog .yet people still take them .it’s absurd that in 2022 this is going on .

[@TheSkunkyMonk]

Misuse of Drugs act, brought into affect because 8 rich dudes died of cocaine use in one year really does need disbanding, the world was much better when we could get most our substances in the field or at the local chemists... But far to much involved and that is the real reason they don't want it legal, it would become dirt cheap and they'd miss out on all that easy cash, crime would drop and society would be a happier place. Yeah we'd have a few deaths of people taking it to far, but we have that now anyway. If the police really wanted the publics support they would go back to being constables and only enforcing common law...

[@EthansTv]

This guys proof there’s reasonable people out there. Ex undercover who was able to understand the errors in his govs ways. Hope we can start a change soon, still so many incarcerated people for drug pos

[@zdan3426]

Most definitely the best vid on this topic so far.

[@tpeterson9140]

Great interview. Got me hooked from start.

To paraphrase Katya Zamolochikova: Drug abuse is not a crime, it’s an public health issue.

[@Roybhoy888]

Portugal is a perfect example of de criminalizing drugs..it absolutely works.

[@bigchungussippindrank]

Amazing piece

[@MrSkankaDank]

Bloody brilliant piece

[@jamesbent2584]

This man.is absolutely correct. The massive spike in violent crime is a direct result of the war on drugs. Are drugs bad yes they are but making them illegal has increased the harm that is dun by the drugs

[@patriciamanroe6371]

I agree with this video. We need more community services. More methadone treatment and make it more accessible.

[@Eetrius]

dang the music vs voice volume sometimes is a little harsh but i do enjoy the videos you guys release

[@Whosetheworst]

Love the inspirational music at the end.

[@baptistamercado1380]

I wasn’t expecting the 2.5min of echoing audio ( 5:44 - 8:14 ).

[@the_local_bigamist]

Everybody who wants to understand the reality of the "war on drugs" needs to listen to Neil Woods. He gets it from the policing angle but also the community and individual angles and just how destructive this irrational war is.

[@carebear1731]

WOW this video was mind blowing, so powerful, so educational thank you so, so much again WOW 👌

[@MrGetthefuckup]

Brilliant interview, what a great guy

[@DaveSCameron]

@LEAP and @UKLEAP End this lost War or we'll simply see more casualties amongst us all and pay far more too!

[@scottcarlass8887]

I love love LOVE this! The more videos that come out exposing the War on Drugs for the absolute failure and extreme harm it has done to all of society, the better. It's just too bad that that the most ignorant, worst kind of people run the world.

[@contractorwolf]

wow, this was really eye opening

[@1337RZN]

it's just amazing how good this documentaries from VICE is!

[@maryannperez7297]

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[@maryannperez7297]

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[@kailasnath]

Truth told with courage! Hats off to your good journalism 👏

[@moezzi8451]

It shows tremendous courage to do such a thing. Putting yourself at risk to serve the people. Hero!

[@26OP011]

he wasnt serving the people he was serving idiotic government policy ,prohibition causes a lot more harm than the drugs ever do or did

[@tristanhodler8206]

Don’t be naive lmao

[@matronofsquirrels]

Obviously didn't watch the video, just promoting their own channel

[@moezzi8451]

@@matronofsquirrels I did watch the video, and I have quite a lot of respect for a cop who tries his best (even though we may differ in opinion). I live in a country where 30% of the police officers are in a gang, supporting the ""business in that way. I am not saying that government policy is good, nor do I support the choices made by the police chief. I do respect the people who have become cops to serve a purpose.

[@moezzi8451]

@@26OP011 don't fully agree. Prohibition with the right measures can actually have an effect. But a retarded policy will indeed never succeed

[@drgunsmith4099]

This man makes more sense than I have ever heard.

[@chrissre7935]

Great material. Got me thinking and brought new points about those subject to my attention. Good to see that Europe still has a lot of well spoken hignly inteligent people. Im Glad i had the chance to be born in Europe.

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

I would use this as good material for a British version of breaking bad.🤯🧠

[@marostrifezza899]

From minute five, i think, you use this effect on voices to make deep them sound more suspenseful, but it only makes it more difficult to understand the dialogs. My first languaje is spanish, and i have a very good english, but as soon as the sound effect starts i tend to want to stop the video and go some other channel because it is very hard to understand what they are saying.

[@BradySharrett]

Well said. Totally agree. End the war. Regulate the market to empower those most exploited. I rarely comment but I just had too x

[@257796]

The video should have been thumbnailed: interviewing one undercover cop with too much face time from unknown vice guy

[@khanyikuzwayo]

I like how Neil Woods said that drugs are a normal human behaviour which is true. Everyone in their entire lives has done some form of drugs; it’s as normal as sex everything in life. We should decriminalise drugs!

[@LandonShipman-iDzynes]

Neil Woods! Thank you, I was trying to find his name...

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

In a desire to respect your comment and it's desires as much as possible, I'm gonna do some drugs after finishing this reply. I was about to do them anyway (taking a dab of hash oil), because it's that time of night, but now I'm especially motivated. This is a part of my normal routine behavior every night (and generally every day also). I consumed a bunch of other drugs as well throughout the day, including caffeine, several drugs related to caffeine, and a number of different steroids, stimulants, and a neuromodulator, many of which were psychoactive, and I see it as no different whether they were prescribed by my doctor, my druggist (the old name for a pharmacist when prescriptions were written on paper so you could find them on the shelf at the store, not so they could be dispensed from a lockup), or my dealer/dispenser. If they recommend it for whatever ails me, I'm gonna try it out, and I've been on the dispensing end as well many times, mostly hosting cannabis bars at local music events for partygoers to sample different strains in single use quantities, at a markup of course. These days it's all vapor for health and safety reasons, and hits are cheaper than ever as a result (vaping is more efficient, especially vaping extracts). What used to last me a few days can now last me a couple of weeks, I get higher from that same supply, and my lungs don't hate me for it. Legalization has literally changed my life for the better and I'm fucking here for it

[@InkheartKnox]

question incase you might know, where does the government purchase its heroin or cocaine to supply? We can't exactly start buying from the taliban or cartels. And we can't start producing fentanyl because the taxes increase crack prices too highly for example. So ive always supported legalization but i don't understand the next step no one ever talks about where we supply crystal meth from.

[@khanyikuzwayo]

@@InkheartKnox I won’t lie, I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it. They probably have the contacts already. A country knows what’s going on in their country, they just decide that some fights are worth fighting than others.

[@InkheartKnox]

@@khanyikuzwayo Yeah like I just always focussed on legalising but now the conversation is progressing im now confused for the next step. And furthering the convo lets say we give the green light for all drugs and we officially import drugs. That allows an easy access point for drugs to enter europe for example if we are talking about UK. This wont be accepted by neighbours, or if we buy off for example the taliban we are then arming them against their neighbour's. 🤔

[@TTstone616]

This is all very true! I dont think a lot of non-druggie type people AND people involved as well, really understand how it all works and why the "war on drugs" is a miserable, failed endeavor.

[@somewhatsomething4882]

No it's working perfectly. Social control. Eugenics. Stifling human healing and evolution. Getting most of the population dependent on legal DRUGS... And running a profitable business amongst all that. Seems to me it's all playing out well... ☠️☠️🐣

[@arturpires532]

I've been a heroin addict for 20 years and I've been championing this idea for a long time.

[@fionnbelieveable]

Vice, you should do a piece on the Kinihan Cartel from Ireland.

[@TheNotablePath]

Decriminalizing drugs is bad for police business $$$$ for police budgets.

[@bhuwanawasthi5487]

This person is speaking his heart and mind. LISTEN TO HIM!!! LEGALIZE DRUGS!! GIVE THEM ONLY TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT OR REQUIRE IT WITH COLLECTED USER INFORMATION!! THE WAR ON DRUGS WILL BE OVER!!!

[@mattiemclean9882]

You live in a dream world if you think anything will be done about this. Ive been an addict for 25 years and know all the ins and outs and ups and downs. Things simply will not change. Could you imagine Liz Truss saying she will make life better for drug addicts? 🤣🤣🤣

[@drgunsmith4099]

Best Vice interview ever.

[@caseyHunter]

Drugs and scams will never be stopped no matter which country we live in .

[@PushyPawn]

The "war on drugs" was never 'winnable'. It can't be won today nor next decade. The only thing that works is decriminalisation, legalisation, regulation, taxation and harm minimisation. Treating drug addiction as a health issue that it is and providing addicts with support in the form of rehab or maintenance therapy, eliminates the demand from the black market and the problems that come with it.

[@michaelsmith9858]

So true

[@abceckswhyzee7169]

What do you mean by "taxation"? Charging a high tax on legal drugs? Or just taxing those drugs in general.

[@PushyPawn]

​@@abceckswhyzee7169 Regulating and taxing the sale of previously *illegal* drugs. For which you would need a script from your Dr. (or however it works in your country) Btw, legal drugs are already regulated and taxed.

[@abceckswhyzee7169]

@@PushyPawn Ok thanks for the info! I had no idea legalized drugs were regulated 👍

[@grafgummiente1583]

I love how they treat Europe as one country, everything is Great Britain for them. You can’t compare drug gangs from those countries while acting like everywhere it’s the same.

[@paragonmarcoux7170]

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[@paragonmarcoux7170]

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[@TennisGvy]

You're never going to solve the drug problem by looking at the supply side, e.g. dealers, cartels, etc. We should look at the demand side

[@craigpetties1476]

The Snow Fall series and the Freeway Ricky Ross Story is the truth.

[@DMWBN3]

Seen Neil a couple of years back on the Shaun Atwood podcast. I enjoyed his stories, compared to the usual big shots, or want to be gangsters, talking the same old chuff about fights & all the "bad things they done" Then all of a sudden they doing their own podcast and it's the same old faces interviewing eachother. Giving eachother a pat on the back.

[@MrNathan32smith]

Some of them are as real as they come 💯💯✌️

[@andrzejcelinski1]

We need more law enforcement to take the LEAP.....let's end the war on drugs together

[@TheProsirius]

respect for this Detective. true that, exactly on point

[@iyeetsecurity922]

Drugs are expensive. So I joined a gang just to get the employee discount card.

[@mymy1646]

Great video on this topic and I actually agree with the majority of what was said. However one of the criticisms I have seen about Marijuana dispensaries for example is that the price can often be (because its taxed I'm guessing and those taxes are used to help support certain kinds of social programmes aswell as just for government revenue) quite high and so people will still end up buying it from street dealers because they're offering a lower price. Now with weed that's not a big deal because out of all the illegal drugs, that is likely the least damaging to society outside of people who have a predisposition to developing drug induced schizophrenia or something. However if you applied that to Heroin, crack, etc, it means that even if you legalised it, if the legal price for that product was quite high, a street dealer could still undercut the regulated sellers, and so the problem with violent drug dealers would still be there surely?

[@roberthill3145]

The short answer is there will always be criminals. People willing to break the law for a profit. Difference is, with a regulated market, the dealers have an enormously reduced customer base leading to reduced profits

[@Bettinasisrg]

Actually the price is lower because they're all competing against each other. It's not 1970s prices but its cheaper than the 90s!

[@CaptainBuggyTheClown]

legalize and regulate

[@stephenwilson9480]

And who's going to pay for it all genius???

[@CarbideShrapnel]

@@stephenwilson9480 why the dig at the end of the question trying to invalidate the sentiment?

[@CryptoRoast_0]

@@stephenwilson9480 pay for what? Other countries have legalised and redirected funds from prosecution to harm reduction and rehabilitation. It works. After Portugal decriminalised use and deaths more than halved..

[@26OP011]

@@stephenwilson9480 who pays for prohibition ? any idea how much is wasted on the fruitless task .........Genius

[@stephenwilson9480]

@@26OP011 So you just want everyone to be free to do drugs and commit crimes to get them drug's to be left to do what they want in society.Stop being silly

[@fedesartorio]

Lol did the recorder run out of battery at 5:45? But a very interesting story nonetheless!

[@amartyaroy3754]

I love how uc and narco cops have completely understood the fact that the war on drugs is a losing battle.

[@tvathome562]

Policing needs to be seperate from drugs, if people start getting killed addicts who are usually the dealers u meet on the street would talk but they have to be on guard or face time for dealing (possibley targeted as a grass aswell) It feels like a good old divide n conquer tactics the upper echelons of society use to keep their power & influence by keeping the rest of us distracted by fighting against each other.

[@derekbowbrick6233]

When they start to arrest , some, any, one, rich person call me. The criminals sit in the ivory towers, and the rest is just a smoke and mirror show to keep the public happy.

[@cds8718]

Excellent as always Vice. But I couldn’t help thinking: shouldn’t he (the British cop) be disguising his identity??

[@omiethamsia9009]

i think cause he quit a while ago it doesn’t matter

[@jacobcarson3997]

When I saw the passenger reach into the center console and hand drugs to the driver I was confused, but then I realized that was a British drug deal

[@paragonmarcoux7170]

trippy_psyche1

[@paragonmarcoux7170]

They're on Instagram .....

[@cannoobin]

i did drugs 20 years ago. knowing there illegal never stops anyone. people will do them no matter what. with them being illegal will keep people going to bad people with money and making them rich.

[@DaveSCameron]

SPREAD THE WORD *

[@KumarPawar4]

So, stop policing the drugs but start policing the guns?

[@jareersmoker1721]

2:40 they probably wouldn’t have even believed him if he try to tell then seriously they’d be like ways lol

[@hitzoneproductions7858]

Why did the sound change?

[@calledfenrir]

Please no background music the content is extremely good already.

[@9ninrninr947]

Not enough nodding. 2/10.

[@ieattofu68]

I would not have showed my face...I would have at least worn a bag over my head if I was a member of the drug squad being interviewed.

[@brambigdeli5021]

I wish more people in the drug enforcement agency or American policing authorities could hear this man speak he’s very knowledgeable obviously has 20 years of experience and he sees firsthand as a lot of these guys do that the work they’re doing does not help and I’ve never heard this aspect which is very eye-opening and it makes a lot of sense I just never thought of it that the analogy of the burglar or the car thief but with the drug market it only causes people to be more violent more crazy