The Media Lies About Drugs | The War on Drugs

The media has a drug problem, we need to stage an intervention. From 'face-eating cannibals on monkey dust' to people on bath salts 'ripping out their scrotum' to 'crack babies', newspapers keep making up drug stories.
Over the past century, large sections of the press have acted as campaigners for the War on Drugs, hyping up drug-scare stories and peddling false narratives.
From the ‘crack babies’ hysteria that shook America in the 1980’s to the ‘weed is a gateway drug’ theory, media outlets use shock tactics to sell papers. Reports of ‘zombies’ with ‘superhuman strength’ high on ‘monkey dust’ are not only wildly inaccurate, but they dehumanise some of society’s most vulnerable people.
In this episode of The War On Drugs, we debunk some of the media’s biggest drug myths.
In War On Drugs, we examine the social implications of prohibition worldwide. Any attempt to shut down the trade in drugs such as heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine or weed invariably sets off a chain of events that just makes things worse, leaving a trail of death, illness, violence, slavery, addiction, crime and inequality across the globe.
Everyone loses - except, in a weird kind of way, the drugs themselves.
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[@claudiogomes7917]

*smokes a j* Me: not enough kick let me try black tar heroin.

[@phillupurwaterbottle8307]

*The only logical next step*

[@Ketannabis]

Thats how it goes for me usually

[@kinderboeken55]

I started on fentanyl and worked down to a j

[@detail1090]

😭😭🤣🤣🤣 like who the hell would ever say or think that. Well this weed isn't strong enough so let's see if I can really turn it up and go get some dope!!!😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@brookelynnkeele6841]

@@kinderboeken55 fentanyl is nasty drug. They gave it to me in the hospital and felt nauseas af, on another time they gave me ketamine and I felt like I was falling down into a abyss. I'm a weed girl

[@amircc7297]

I started with milk and now I do 0.40 liters of coffee everyday

[@murraydyeronemillionyearsa3637]

know what you mean, i gotta have my sweet fix every single morning

[@manderson7341]

Dude that’s perfect!

[@Monkriss]

@@murraydyeronemillionyearsa3637 "Yeah I can't wake up properly without my morning dose of drugs... I mean caffeine"

[@iminsideyourwalls9432]

I once overdosed on skittles

[@potatoface4698]

I'll pray for you poor little caffiend (caffeine + fiend) k I'll show me self out...

[@Blank-km4qr]

The real gateway is the friends we made along the way

[@billg708]

TRUTH

[@herropreaseherro7870]

Lmao I appreciate the meme

[@nickd3157]

My addiction started at an early age, i began brushing my teeth, and before you know it i was flossing and using mouthwash. Now my teeth are little more than nubs.

[@tigerlilly3727]

hi nick! thank you for sharing. my name is mike oxlong, and I'm a mouthwash addict. i use bout a bottle a day. "everybody does it" is what I used to tell myself. and "if its so bad, why is it even legal" i used to buy the supermarket stuff, but it got too expensive, and the clerks started to not wanna sell to me anymore.. i saw on a forum that you can make your own with dish soap, peppermint oil and bleach, so I started doing that. the lower cost meant I could make as much as I wanted, so I was on it ALL the time. even at work. ofcourse I got caught, because customers would complain that the building stank like a swimming pool, and that one of the staff (me) was literally foaming at the mouth. so I got fired and had all the time in the world to stay at home and M-wash. i didn't even get out of bed. not even to empty my spit bucket. but soon I couldn't taste anything, so I started shooting it - rectally. i hope that by reaching out I can find the strength to get help. its no way to live - and its a hard way to die.

[@Unknown4935]

yea extassy will do that too

[@aceartdepot6198]

@@Unknown4935 hey you leave ecstasy out of this shits amazing lol jk only did it once it wasn’t for me I did have a great time though ngl

[@tabarnacus5629]

Marijuana won't convince you to try cocaine but a friend could, your social network is the gateway.

[@roycedanicas9918]

Yeah that's right

[@mollenmoleman]

facts

[@NoName-de1fn]

@@gabemendoza1052 I believe this to be true. But I don't think the gate-way drug theory is a good argument against legalizing cannabis, because there is the same issue with alcohol. Cannabis has a lot of effects and we still don't understand the plant fully - there are definitely risks as well as pros.

[@DingDongDaddyFromDumas]

The idea of weed not cutting it is extremely silly. Weed is only one type of high, other drugs have other things to offer. I use every drug (rarely) but smoke weed every night. I don't use other drugs because weed isn't good enough, I use other drugs because it's fucking stupid to only ever use one of them 😂 There are so many unique experiences. That would be like saying people eat a variety of foods because cheerios aren't good enough. It's arbitrary. I could just as easily say someone smokes weed because coke doesn't cut it anymore. They're not comparable

[@toxicosam]

exactly. the''crossover'' theory that apparently could come from the dealer trying to sell you harder drug is stupid.

[@adamroberts8728]

The truth here hits like a brick wall to the face. Mental health has been demonized and mostly ignored for the entire existence of man kind.

[@bannanamae253]

Agreed, when the crack epandemic occurred, black individuals visited doctors for help, but had the police called on them to arrest them. When I was younger I never understood the obsession with church. But after heard more of these stories. I understand.

[@chainsawbarbarian]

You have received zero truth from this video

[@aidanc9838]

@Adam Roberts I mean that's an easy general statement to make. I think what you say has validity, totally, but I don't think it's always been as bad as it is currently. While we might have more means of helping or seeming to deal with them today, we've also vastly increased our institutional capacities to deal with folks who struggle with mental illness, but not ALWAYS FOR THE BETTER. I think folks in the past who had mental illness could have still been included in society to a much larger degree than in the past few centuries, but we've increasingly developed our ability to remove them, if not even hide them. In some older or ancient societies, what we might consider crazy people today could have been famous poets, philosophers, in some cases even being seen as prophetic. Nowadays, those same people and others are thrown in prison, locked up in mental institutions, receive special education or treatment their entire lives, treated as a biological and medical anomaly who needs therapy rather than a human who needs treatment/help, are proscribed pharmaceutical drugs from ages as early as 8 than literally affected brain development, and even having documented certain illnesses in the US can have you barred from countless job positions, I think the way you and I might think of mental illness are relatively new ideas of mental health that have really only come into play in the past couple of hundred years, but epitomized in our pharmaceutical oriented world that we now live in. So yes, mental illness is demonized, and on one hand benefited from being ignored for a long time as people were still seen as people, rather than the biologized-medicalized-imperfect-anomaly. I don't say this to lambast you, but I do think that there are a lot of serious issues with the way we frame and treat mental health today, which I don't think you disagree with haha. I mostly wanted to help explore this myth that things have developed in this vein of "positive progress" throughout time and will continually improve, with my concern that if there aren't serious steps taken to address our cultural stigma of normal and uncommon mental behavior, it will only grow like a real disease.

[@almaz.8802]

True

[@BubbleBoy112]

the term is MENTAL ILLNESS

[@casualwatcher5029]

Can i just say that I'm really happy that Vice is BACK! Like cmon guys dont u miss this kind of Vice??

[@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS]

I miss getting high on weed and jumping out of windows, but yeah I missed Vice too I suppose, lol.

[@brucelee4996]

Where did it go?

[@Matt-ci3wi]

💯💯💯👍🏽👏🏽🤙🏽

[@badger297]

I like this guy. He just presents the facts in a practical manner. This was well done.

[@PropheticShadeZ]

He's alright, and as other commenters have sorta hit on, we don't really have decent information on any of the risks or what makes drug use dangerous, like the weed psychosis stuff is shown to be incredibly rare, but does get worse when you make the weed stronger and is linked to one of the active ingredients. This distrust is obscuring people from using these things responsibly

[@chickenfarmer209]

@Rancie Hannah saying that premature babies were caused by poverty, instability, and criminalization IS bias. Crack babies were misdiagnosed fetal alcohol syndrome babies. Rick people have preemies too. Also comparing milk or brushing your teeth to the use of marijuana is insane. The concept is quite simple unless you try to use framing devices to mislead watchers like this guy. Marijuana definitely was a gateway drug along with the information from the DARE program. I chose to not say no but if I hadn't liked marijuana I probably wouldn't have ended up selling my ass on polk street for crack money. Just sayin.

[@Ipo024]

People who criticize the war on drugs but happily use drugs themselves are the biggest hypocrites to walk the planet. Ever thought why there's a war? Will you deny the endless harm to the user and his/her environment? Will you deny the dead children which are a direct cause of drug use in developed nations? It's known that drug users don't give a rats ass about dead women and children but please, atleast admit it.

[@karencarpenter5845]

@@Ipo024 the war on drugs has created a,war on drugs. Dea instead on stopping the flow making pain med scarce have driven millions of normal pain patient veterans and also addicts to the streets If all medication and drugs were sold over the counter. We would finally have less deaths from addicts, cpp veterans and medical need.

[@supremecai5857]

@Kins w u t. Maybe its cuz im drunk and back on alcohol but im also stoned af and am confused by your statement. So you’re for weed? This was a bad video? Sorry xD

[@jeffyu4972]

I started with Marijuana. Now, I'm on diet coke.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338]

How are you still alive?

[@weareheretochange7361]

There is a lot of uneducated filipino who watch this deny of this evidence

[@sosenstream5602]

How You can drink that chemical taste? They told You, sugar is bad for You... So, honey as well. Me: 1200 gram real Honey per week. My medical records are perfect. I am not buiyng any drinks. Homemade ice tea with Ginger Lemon Honey. We need protein carbo fat and sugar as well. Have a good day!

[@bartomalatesta5652]

@@sosenstream5602 good for you. Everyone cares.

[@user-wp5fe8ec6l]

That Diet Coke is rough stuff, mang. Aspartame is nasty.

[@meredithwhite272]

"We'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the War on Drugs". lol I love that quote. Harm reduction > prohibition.

[@billg708]

I was joking with a co-worker saying how bad I wanted to make a T-shirt saying "JUST SAY NO TO JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS" LMAO

[@leonpierce2347]

"well don't start a war with something you can't shoot!....oh, wait..."

[@Personalapocalypse77.]

When I'm medicated on cannabis, which is pretty much always, the very last thing I want is heroin.

[@bujfvjg7222]

even hospital-grade heroin(diamorphine) whilst in hospital isn't amazing, I mean it's great for dampening certain kinds of pain but I can't imagine how anyone who isn't in constant pain- to want to feel like that. I've had to be given so much as one point, it was prety much an OD and I puked all over the 2 doctors and 3 nurses that were treating me! Even Codeine makes me feel the same as I did that time I needed Morphine/Diamorphine.

[@thisguy8106]

I have said this forever. Whenever I was a kid and did some different drug, it was because my "hook up" didn't have weed.. but had other things.. Easy access to weed would've prevented me from using most other ones.

[@jannevaatainen]

For me and many others the "hook up" was the liquor store. Didn't have weed, so we drank alcohol, a much more dangerous drug.

[@thisguy8106]

@@jannevaatainen yup... I've known so many people that were the exact same.

[@pellicercrew9905]

The only thing weed leads to for me is ice-cream.

[@M_A_R_Z_O_L_L_A]

We gotta get you some help buddy.

[@theromanceofwax]

yeah lots of snacks

[@pellicercrew9905]

Yea i know bro ice cream cones are so good stoned

[@ramzy4458]

lmao soooo true I just started again after a break and ive been eating a whole half gallon a day

[@pjhudson5344]

stop ! you might heal yourself! Mitch McConnell golden machete of justice! Got this award from the sheriffs office.

[@davethomas543]

Trauma is the only gateway we need to be focusing on.

[@renee7528]

This! Yes!

[@renee7528]

I wanna scream from the roof tops “See/Love the person first and then support them in the behaviors that they have developed from trauma!”

[@liamo221]

This^^

[@renee7528]

@Modernops Ops thank you 💛💛💛

[@tmmmmmtx8933]

YESSSS!!!!

[@Stevedoodlez94]

It’s so important for people to talk and learn. The drug conversation can be so scary especially for young people to take part in. It makes it difficult to get information or help. We need more friends talking to friends, neighbors talking with neighbors, parents talking with kids. Not just stating a perspective, but being open minded and checking out other perspectives.

[@thagodwecreate5179]

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs...or was it...eh..nevermind

[@bigfootsdecendant594]

“Dont do drugs, smoke weed. And a little bit of heroin. But not too much.” Fitz 2021

[@bujfvjg7222]

Cocaine is a hell'ova drug... - Rick James

[@Unknown4935]

r u kidding me?

[@Tazza81]

I've done Coke, it wasn't good. It was a gate way to Mountain Dew

[@JosephKulik2016]

Marijuana was originally a "gateway drug" but it had nothing to do with marijuana. Before the Hippie thing in the 1960's, the only place most people knew to get weed was from a drug dealer standing in the shadows of a street corner. These Mafia related dealers sold not only weed but heroin too. Weed was a gateway drug then because the dealer usually encouraged you to try heroin because it would hook you and make you come back more often than just weed. Growing up in New England in the 1950's, I even heard about dealers lacing weed with some type of opiate derivative so that just smoking weed would make you hooked first on opiates, then the straight heroin. But all this relates to WHO Was Selling Weed and not about weed itself. After the drug scene opened up in the mid-1960's, weed was everywhere and no one went to Mafia dealers on the corner to buy weed anymore. ... [e-mail]

[@pedropedrohan102]

@@JosephKulik2016 ok

[@fallingiguanas6326]

Lol the mountain due is stronger then over-cut dope. If it's not 90+ don't waste your money.

[@fallingiguanas6326]

@Alli de No lol never heard of them.

[@callumduke7771]

“We would like to congratulate drugs,for winning the war on drugs”😂😂😂

[@stefandanielsen4683]

copy comment

[@callumduke7771]

@@stefandanielsen4683 didnt see it,and so what we are watching the same video you fool😂

[@whiteking4895]

sadly it wont ever end.

[@weareheretochange7361]

There is a lot of uneducated filipino who watch this deny of this evidence

[@MaoMoney]

@@weareheretochange7361 what are you talking about bro why are you posting this all over can you explain the point you're trying to make?

[@DukesMusic84]

This is journalism at its best, absolutely fearless. Keep up the quality content Vice!

[@kateparadis9215]

I got an ad for a dispensary while watching this......I love being Canadian! 🇨🇦

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

"Most teenagers start off with marijuana. Then they decide to see if heroin has any kick.... It does" BRUH! This dude from 1951 made me drop my dry herb vaporizer from laughter!

[@liammccool1517]

Aye bruh what device you got? I got the Crafty+

[@PuTTYMySSH]

@@liammccool1517 lol hydrology9 here

[@UnexpectedVisitor24]

Solo 2 here :D

[@stevenross5859]

Just bloody mull up ! I haven’t got all night!!

[@weareheretochange7361]

There is a lot of uneducated filipino who watch this deny of this evidence

[@whitey6314]

Straight from weed to heroin, damn the ppl in the 70's were hard

[@zerosuger2262]

Its still the same and its gone be worst thas fasho

[@yadada609]

Fact of life even today, 70s aint never went anywerr homey

[@travismailsa1]

haha apparently so. Like back in Vietnam

[@nda6228]

@Stephen Turnbach what have people in 2000-2020 developed? Innovations? 70’s was arguably the last decade of greatness, before everyone demoralised and became lazy dependants and bums

[@travismailsa1]

@Stephen Turnbach Not the drug quality, I want to live in the 70s :)

[@syazmanlyman]

Thomas Shelby making a video essay on the war on drugs is just what i needed

[@Cognitive__Dissonance]

That’s my favorite show 💯

[@NitishKumar-jm7ec]

He's got the same eyes

[@zackbryson8935]

This gives "Got Milk" such a different meaning now..

[@GZas]

"she starts with Marijuana and then checks if heroin has any kick"... Well, that escalated quickly EDIT: and yet another comment written on the crapper turns into a thread of heated existential discussion XD

[@iHawkXJ]

iT dOEs

[@contambrah]

I started with random green pouch, now I do jenkem almost daily

[@unitedstatesirie7431]

Medical researchers have found out that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

[@yungcashman434]

@@unitedstatesirie7431 well i’m fucked

[@BacyBass]

exactly what i was thinking, lol... like damn

[@HealthyHeadz]

I smoked weed and the only thing it made me wanna do was smoke more weed

[@imrakim_]

5 years strong and never thought of nothing else just got better weed

[@HealthyHeadz]

@@imrakim_ facts!

[@ucopiedyibo1959]

And listen to some DOOM

[@HealthyHeadz]

@@ucopiedyibo1959 Right!!!

[@pabloharris7371]

@hahaimabitch1 ROLL UP MY BOY

[@johnnymcblaze]

"The media lies about drugs" This segment brought to you by the media.

[@Ipo024]

Full of lies, bias and the familiar convenience of leaving out important facts. This video is just a propaganda piece from the other side of the spectrum. It's poorly done too.

[@KingKunta_]

@@Ipo024 lol but you watched it

[@misomar7193]

@@Ipo024 If you cant live with the fact that everything has bias, leave planet earth. Just face reality

[@Ipo024]

@@misomar7193 I see you like to be sold bs and half truths.

[@misomar7193]

@@Ipo024 so do you. everything is propaganda to you people. your comment is propaganda

[@hackz1up88]

This was one of you’re best videos explaining about war on drugs, the media has always played a big part in this

[@browniegames865]

I remember thinking weed would do all this bad stuff to me. And when it didnt i thought well i guess they lie about the other stuff too. Not a good thing for a kid to think.

[@covodex516]

And this is, essentially, how I ended up addicted to opioids. I made this exact experience in my teenage years, realizing weed definitely isn't as harmful as I had been tought, and wondered what else I got lied to about. It made drugs as a whole seem less dangerous, and it made me distrust anything someone not taking drugs was telling me about them. In the end, I of course had to realize that at least some of the things the media says about drugs are at least partly correct. Of course I made a lot of bad experiences, of course I got into very dangerous situations and of course it changed my life for the worse until I decided to stop and do a rehab. Still, this is a very good example why lying to kids and teens can't ever be proper drug prevention. If the point you're trying to make is correct, you won't have to lie about it. And if it isn't correct, why are you trying to make that point then?

[@heqtor7547]

@@covodex516 also because of the demonization of drugs there is no proper education. So kids don't recognize the bad things that come with say regular marijuana consuming like addiction, temporary "slower" brain activity etc.

[@thc7865]

Im high af watching these

[@erlend6338]

Yes exactly why it is actually a gateway is cause u hear all the bad stuff about it, try it and it’s good with no side effects u start doing others too

[@the1ndonly595]

@@erlend6338 except other drugs actually do harm you horribly and addiction in harder drugs is a lot owrse

[@ricbradley5323]

Wow. The first 15 seconds freaked me out. I was literally smoking weed and looking out my window when that lady jumped out of hers. Lol! 😤

[@inspectorpouzo]

I defenestrate myself every time I eat hemp. It's really frustrating especially when doing it multi storey buildings.

[@donmeyers2631]

Dont jump!

[@harloh9681]

How you see her jump if you were looking out the window 🤔

[@ricbradley5323]

@@harloh9681 looking back and forth from video to outside.... ever done two things at once?

[@harloh9681]

Ric Bradley still 🤔🧐...

[@buffalowings89RnR]

I was an attic for 10 years, now I'm a basement.....

[@gs1913]

Really well researched series, keep it up Vice

[@KushalChachan]

"We'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs"

[@yo2cent]

🍾

[@Pllayer064]

@Black Illuminati stfu

[@Maintainingabadtrip]

Nice.

[@KushalChachan]

@@Pllayer064 lmao

[@mtizirawaylernyika7653]

His as

[@williamenglish8847]

I tried weed for the first time in '74, I still smoke today. I have earned my PhD, managed to retire at 60 years old.

[@pjhudson5344]

Whats obvious to some of us, is the fact you own your meatbag, government does not. Its a free person ONLY unalienable entity, birthday suit.

[@cloudandsurf]

Is your PhD in English, Mr.English?

[@pjhudson5344]

@No Body eat it don't smoke it.

[@kurtschloesser3116]

This series has been excellent, thank you for putting the truth out there

[@-the_psychosaurus-rexxx-4017]

Thank you Vice for your support! Somewhere deep inside me, I knew crack was good.

[@g2theartist]

The government put these drugs in our neighborhoods and they wonder why the drug war is still ongoing 🤨

[@amandap9332]

@Alli de theres a documentary about the water on Netflix. Something like 95% of ALL HUMANS have that chemical in them.

[@dpear6773]

No one made people do drugs. Quit thinking like a pothead.

[@g2theartist]

@@dpear6773 did I say that tho?

[@dpear6773]

@@g2theartist pretty much

[@StillBeTrippin]

Is no war bro they circulate everything they catch you w

[@Cartier.romero]

This is basically a summary of a show on Netflix called Crack : cocaine , corruption, and conspiracy

[@bannanamae253]

I watched it! Great documentary.

[@a1bells501]

Yh I watched it a couple days ago

[@Skatenlove24]

Vice got jealous me thinks

[@dw9524]

Bruhh!!!!! I saw that too!!!!! I was thinking why it was so similar.🤣

[@Misanthrop39]

@@dw9524 If it`s documenting the truth, why would you expect it to be different? Haha

[@alexdu3257]

These videos are amazing thank you!

[@Lokomart]

I never thought I’d hear such a compelling argument in favor of bath salts! Great job!

[@serioussmoke1123]

"If you go to your dealer to buy weed they may well try to sell you MDMA , Cocaine or Ketamine" God damn i need to find a better dealer! : )

[@claytonshirey]

Yeah fr,I got like 10 weed plugs on snap and only one of them is selling coke and the rest only sell weed and like puffs,beer and maybe the occasional pill.

[@weareheretochange7361]

There is a lot of uneducated filipino who watch this deny of this evidence

[@Clumrat]

Research chems

[@lbgod7757]

White House market is the only legit market up right now. You need to learn PGP. Not hard at all. Look it up.

[@pjhudson5344]

Ya because there is a ice cream truck with all those flavors in pop town, popin popski.

[@CheckTheStatz]

Cigarettes and alcohol are usually the first things young people experience with so they are gateway drugs

[@anerat]

sugar...

[@CheckTheStatz]

When a young person grabs a cigarette from your parents ashtray and inhale it that things mixed with stuff a lil more toxic then "sugar" it's not all about addictive property of the substance because yes like we all know sugar is addictive just like going on youtube and commenting sugar can be addictive 😂

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

@@jaouad_h how isnt it? sugar impacts dopamine/serotonin receptors doesnt it? if it didnt ppl wouldn't experience the withdrawal symptoms

[@Andrewtateaivideos]

Agree, no ones died from cannabis but they have done from over drinking & smoking tobacco

[@elmaleko1990]

Reefer madness is the kind of movie i love watching high.

[@officialTonestepa]

An excellent watch. Good to see an objective, well informed point of view for a change. Thanks for this

[@CoinsAndCapsaicin]

Weed is safer than alcohol. You can't change my mind on that point. It just is.

[@nataliem7011]

Yep, literally it should be legalised everywhere, I'm in the uk and I don't reckon it will be legalised anytime soon, its frustrating.

[@MelchizedekKohen]

weed is a medicine alcohol is a poison go figure how the government works weed wont be legal here (uk) until the government make sure they make all the profit just like in Canada if you're in the uk you can apply for a canacard to prove you use weed for a medical condition it stops you from being prosecuted ✌

[@creepyendy]

in Germany you can buy beer at the age of 16 but weed is illegal people justify that by saying that beer is deeply in our culture yeah and thats why the oldest cannabis seeds were found in Germany

[@davethomas543]

@@MelchizedekKohen They are not making all the profit here in Canada. In fact pretty much all LPs are operating at huge losses if they haven't already gone under. Their weed sucks and is way over priced , but some people sure made a ton off of duping people to invest. It has been a fail corporate takeover , nothing more then greenrush Enron.

[@iamcage187]

Dont meed to change your mind its been scientifically proven to be over 100 percent more dangerous. Hell caffiene is a much more dangerous drugs than marijuana

[@Kid_Ikaris]

I started with weed and it ruined my life and now I use prescribed hard drugs and am a functioning member of society.

[@timsahkelebek5901]

Would you elaborate your story?

[@darkdream575]

Same here. There was a huge downward spiral over the 2 years that I smoked weed. I suddenly needed to smoke every day, eventually multiple times a day, it was a terribly expensive addiction. When I would run out I would start to have panic attacks and major withdrawl until I was diagnosed with drug induced bipolar 2 disorder after trying to kick weed completely. Ended up in a psychiatric ward. Two years later to this very date I'm still on hard drugs to maintain a good mental. Weed can help some people but ultimately if you rely on in every day, it does more harm than good imo. No hate against it, just my experience

[@darkdream575]

Noone should ever need to rely on a drug, it becomes a habit that's hard to kick. At the same time they can be very useful, weed included.

[@timsahkelebek5901]

@@darkdream575 Thank you for sharing your experience. Hope you find peace in your journey.

[@Kid_Ikaris]

@@darkdream575 truth. The moment you rely on it (legit medications aside of course) is the moment you should check in with yourself.

[@jjazziiboo]

Such a great piece; thank you for sharing.

[@albertosanchezsoto3770]

Gracias, Carnales. Quite interesting reports, educational.

[@hunterG60k]

Alcohol was my gateway drug. Without it I would have been too afraid to try anything other than weed. I knew drugs weren't as dangerous as the media made out but I knew there was still a risk involved. When I was drunk I didn't care and was curious.

[@dazedandconfucioused992]

I did not like cocaine sober, but when drunk it was the best. Cocaine and I had to part ways though...

[@kevinogilvie7082]

Alcohol is the gateway to drugs , crime , everything

[@Luke-yi1vz]

Shrooms and weed the best way to go

[@juulianft]

This completely describes what happened to me

[@nda6228]

Coke lost its meaning today 95% of coke users are some broke boys hiding in club toilets sniffing their last savings away, sad but they’ll learn the hard way 😂😂😂 in my eyes it’s always been a ‘celebration’ drug, not a ‘struggle’ drug

[@wyattgoodale2403]

Ah yes...every stoner loves a good vintage anti weed ad

[@tb8651]

Thank You for these videos. Keep up the good work.

[@rachelwxo5623]

This channel is literally just amazing man !! Love how great n detailed their videos on everything are😊! Ohh and gotta love jamie Clifton, such a great guy at explaining everything in these videos! ✌💓x

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

Love the JVC PVM monitors, really matches the 80/90s feel well.

[@Lysergiik]

If yall got any extras can I please buy them? Haha

[@luisgandara9633]

90s

[@jasonjackson329]

Lol well talking like that. Sounds you like are into the same type work as me.

[@abz817]

for realz

[@emilyguerrero3908]

I never seen anyone kill themselves over weed just only keep eating or laugh a lot and fall asleep.

[@dinoflagella4185]

My friend became addicted to marijuana after one injection. Marijuana... not even once.

[@emilyguerrero3908]

@@dinoflagella4185 wow no kidding that's too bad am so lucky that I didn't do any drugs or drink at all. Thank god for not being a follower. Just because everyone was doing it. I'm glad that people told me that I was no fun.😊

[@sataniksomethingblahblah6350]

@@emilyguerrero3908 marijuana injection...

[@virtual-adam]

@@sataniksomethingblahblah6350 :D

[@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289]

@@sataniksomethingblahblah6350 my thoughts exactly.

[@NZKiwi87]

I appreciate the information in this video, thank you. I didn’t realise the full extent of the lies I have been told.

[@CC-te5zf]

Great journalism!

[@ProjectCarTV]

I smoke the Devil's Lettuce.

[@schoolaccount9028]

?

[@The__Nation]

@@schoolaccount9028 weed

[@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289]

@@The__Nation lol. Funny cuz I thought everyone knew that.

[@raxso3044]

@@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289 u would think

[@naliny121]

W2S reference?

[@tylero8595]

The sad thing is fentanyl. That should be enough to avoid drugs. They really do kill now. I miss the 90s.

[@martinflintholm5564]

Could be solved by legalizing. Government controlled. Untampered. Fent is not a thing in a lot of countries outside of the US.

[@SpaceRanger187]

They make to much money and have deals with the cartel is why it's not legal.

[@user-wp5fe8ec6l]

Killed my mate

[@EX7RUD1CON]

Fentanyl is bad yes but let’s not pretend that hard drugs didn’t kill before, you could still overdose, have heart attacks or any of the other problems prolonged hard drug use causes, that’s how my aunt passed away.

[@EX7RUD1CON]

@@SpaceRanger187 not even just the cartel, pretty sure China and North Korea are producing and importing it

[@gglen2141]

This would be a good lesson for students learning to sift through the media bullshit for truth. A skill that is becoming more and more important.

[@BottomShelfLive]

Are you telling me the media would tell me something that isn’t true?! Inconceivable!!

[@nolanpahmahmie4896]

“ I think I wanna try me some of that.. monkey dust!” -Dewey Cox

[@abz817]

noice

[@desertlizard4723]

No dewey you don't want any of that, it's too powerful and makes you feel great.

[@fullywaved2859]

Stay off that mate, I'm from stoke it's horrible stuff

[@IvyWolk]

best movie ever

[@ericcarrillo1294]

I don’t want no hangover.

[@kylepetkovas1914]

the reality of this video is too much! congratulations for the updated material 👏👏👏

[@albertosanchezsoto3770]

Gracias, Carnales. Quite interesting reports, educational

[@RS-or1kd]

Great video!

[@KaasIsLekker]

*The media lies about everything these days😂*

[@dan3092]

But it isn't funny

[@skull3374]

@@dan3092 it depends what you see.

[@KamiTenchi]

@@skull3374 Beyond what you see.

[@skull3374]

@@KamiTenchi i see worst. Sadly it wont go away

[@jblps]

@@skull3374 I'm blind and this is hilarious

[@janej6184]

Never trust the words coming out of the mouths of the people who live by selling those words

[@boaztennekes355]

wouldn't that include this video then?

[@zagrosqazy3798]

@@boaztennekes355 well kindaa not that much

[@bbbildhuu]

Never say never- jesus

[@johnchristopher3032]

Might as well burn all the books, then./s

[@lonelywanderer3558]

@@boaztennekes355 everything you do in life can be characterized as a sale. We are social and don’t live in cocoons (before Covid anyway).

[@RoroCruz]

I just subscribed because of this episode great thinking 🤔

[@davidroberts4248]

Trauma is the gateway to drugs.

[@fort6564]

I remember that whole "Flakka Epidemic" thing. I was hella young and I was terrified that there would be a zombie epidemic where people would kill & eat eachother...

[@pjhudson5344]

They never had to put drug on the "illegal list" wonder why, it looked like fun...Common sense can regulate consumption rules.

[@AUSTIN-ss2zd]

Get an education News: 1 guy eats homeless mans face on flakka drug, so 6.9 billion people will all die from him.

[@fort6564]

@@AUSTIN-ss2zd Since you cant read let me quote from my comment: “I was hella young” “zombie epidemic” also, im in “college” right now and I want to study software engineering Both your arguments/points are idiotic and false

[@fort6564]

@@pjhudson5344 Your comment doesnt make sense to me. Rephrase it please.

[@fort6564]

@@AUSTIN-ss2zd Also getting an education doesnt necessarily mean you’re smarter than anyone. That would imply that people who didn’t get education or dumber than people who did, which is weird because some of most known and successful billionaires never got an education. And in America its quite literally a scam.

[@christirowland858]

I grew up during the Regan Administration. ('Just say no'.) ALL that 🐂💩 NEVER made me NOT wanna do drugs. The media WAS & ALWAYS has been full of 🐂💩!!

[@christirowland858]

@Nilly Sigger EXACTLY!!

[@andrewbryton2936]

1:13 one of the biggest understatement's I've ever heard and yet I found it hilarious 🤷🏼‍♂️😅

[@jj72610]

The irony of Vice calling other media liars

[@chonkchow]

Vice last week: don’t believe anti media conspiracies Vice today: the media is lying to you

[@greetonsmith6350]

🤷 go to jail for weed possession then. don't you want the war on drugs to end?

[@kingjoe3rd]

@@greetonsmith6350 that is whataboutism.

[@lukestarling6810]

Well said @Sammy

[@jarletto]

They can't decide if they're part of the mainstream or counter cultural.

[@BonShula]

Implying this is about the same subject. And not the fact that Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill because of the media lying to them. Cope.

[@daveyboy8907]

Its not that weed makes you go to harder drugs it the people that you hang out with smoking weed may also have harder drugs..

[@Cbd_7ohm]

THC and Cbd actually blocks the locomotor sensitization and dependence of cocaine and meth and lowers the dose of opiates used while increasing euphoric effects(thc) and pain relief(thc and Cbd).

[@calebchandler8151]

because it's illegal...

[@docmacyou]

It also crosses a boundary. Drinking and smoking are legal. In order to smoke pot you (up until recently) had to decide to break the law. Then 2 things happen. First, you are already breaking the law, so there is no longer a line to cross in trying other illegal drugs. Second, you realize most of the thinhs you've been told about drugs is bullshit, so what about the other drugs they say bad things about? When you lie about drugs to prevent use by scaring people, it backfires when people realize you are lying.

[@heathlaurent1669]

Great reporting .... Education and Honesty

[@kingofkingz8125]

Great video bro

[@briangonzalez9828]

I love how they criminalize all this drugs while in the US doctors are prescribing antidepressants and pain meds like tic tacs to everyone, there are commercials all day long promoting all sort off "legal drugs" o well the hypocrisy

[@justanordinaryaccount9910]

You clearly have no idea how antidepressants work, they aren't "happy pills" and won't do any significant change in mood in healthy person.

[@prttyktty11]

@@justanordinaryaccount9910 actually, if a healthy person is forced to take an antidepressant...it likely will then MAKE them depressed. Its A FACT. How is that considered better AND deemed okay? Thats whats happening nowadays, pushing people in pain or who has ADD or anxiety into taking an antidepressant instead of a controlled substance which are all pretty much being banned for all no matter what and giving psych meds as an alternative claiming they have "LESS" bad side effects. Its NOT true AND IS ALSO LIES!!! Who ever is delegating these "Theories" and rules on prescribing meds to the world IS delusional and actually CAUSING more harm than good. And WHY IS alcohol and toxic cigarettes legal and not considered gateway drugs BUT marijuana grown in nature IS, making it still NOT legal most places?? There ARE way more tragic things coming from alcohol particularly than EVER from weed!! Drunk people DO lots of horrible things...AND what does a person who smokes some weed likely do? Sit on their couch, order some pizza, watch some TV and mind their own business. This world IS backwards. Sadly, I know exactly WHY that is too.

[@prttyktty11]

Brian Gonzalez...I don't know where you live, but as of the war on drugs NOW and all these new rules for Drs have changed...pretty much NO ONE is prescribed pain meds "like tic tacs" anymore. The only way anyone gets pain meds now is if they have been going to same Dr for years and are lucky enough not to have been given some lame excuse as to why they must suddenly need to be stopped for good or even lowered in quantity. The new rules seems to be...one bad seed ruins it for everyone. And now the whole world MUST be babysat and all our choices are dictated FOR US. I can guarantee suicide rates are the highest they have EVER been right now and its NOT all because of covid related depression either. I thought the whole purpose on the war on drugs was to try and lessen the deaths caused by drugs? And thats what the whole problem was..too many people dying. I think someone needs to check their facts and statistics because I can guarantee the war on drugs IS actually backfiring on who ever was intelligent enough to choose the way to "FIX" things regarding ALL that. Too many cooks in the kitchen who believe their way is the only way and the right way. And totally ignoring the BIG picture. Such a shame the HUGE amount of people suffering in silence and NO ONE even cares. Haven't we all been noticing how grumpy and rude and depressed the whole world has become? Because I sure have. 😟

[@justanordinaryaccount9910]

@@prttyktty11 erhhm not really. You would've been on large doses of SSRIs (which are the antidepressants' class most used in conditions other than depression) to have that kind of adverse effects. Needless to say doses prescribed in those cases are on the lower end of spectrum. Also you are mixing antidepressants and neuroleptics ("psych drugs") which are totally different substances.

[@prttyktty11]

@@justanordinaryaccount9910 SO you are saying SSRI's ARE NOT used in depression but other issues?? REALLY DUDE. Where have you been when SSRI's first came out?? Thats what SSRI's ARE MADE FOR....depression! HELLO just like I was saying...delusional. Its not until recently or last few years they are now pushing SSRI's for everthing else. WHY?? To have a reason to no longer prescribe any controlled substances. And instead push psych med garbage that causes how many other worse problems...including SUICIDE!! WAKE UP and get your info correct. PLEASE...you look dumb. 😕👎

[@waspyshihtzu6958]

My first drug was mdma then ketamine then coke 😂 wasn't until I was around 20 when I started smoking weed after a good 3-4 years of party drugs goddamn mdma was the gateway 😂😂😂

[@tyvongreyeyes632]

I remember my health teacher in 8th grade spending literally a week saying that marijuana was a gateway drug while talking about information that happened to be nothing but propaganda or just misinformation propagated by the war on drugs.

[@caitlynelizabeth6677]

I remember my sophomore year, I got in trouble for saying pot isn't a gateway drug. It's a medicine that leads to the refrigerator lmao I didnt smoke pot until I was 18. I just had a brain lmfaooooooo

[@purplegill10]

I had a friend who was a junkie for years. Without exposure to his story, how he grew up, and his mental health at the time, I would have absolutely just seen him as inhuman rather than my friend who after years of abuse and poverty turned to something that at least gave him a bit of happiness. He's an example of the "gateway drug" population but it absolutely wasn't because weed made him want more. It was out of his desperation where his self-medicating failed him. Thankfully he's clean now, but what saved him wasn't the friends ostracizing him or his lack of ability to source his drugs since he still had enough money to get it, what saved him was getting him therapy, a safe home, and friends who were there to encourage him rather than shame him.

[@partiallyhuman]

Ahh crack babys Reminds me of that episode in South park where cartmen starts crack baby basketball

[@imrakim_]

😭😭😭😭

[@VagueMemory]

I've been involved in a Crack Baby Basketball Fantasy League ever since then. I put together a dream team and am currently working on several prospects from Hollywood couples.

[@partiallyhuman]

@@VagueMemory lucky

[@k_xxo]

🤣

[@ericluchinski]

The line that went something like the war on drugs is essentially the gateway drug is the nail everyone keeps missing. Spot on.

[@KRIS-gv1iz]

I smoke a blunt and start to hate the fact that I even smoked. When Im high I feel hyper self awareness and notice everything I put into my body

[@christianterrill3503]

Love this series, these are topics and ideas I have been reading about for nearly a decade and it's amazing to see it slowly turning around to full legalization of all drugs, finally ending the drugs war.

[@PigRipperLAW]

Sending this video everywhere! Thank you! End the drug war! Legalize it

[@gennadiybennett8039]

Y'all have taught me so much about drugs! Thank you.

[@giuseppeconsoli3398]

Feels like we got our children learning a lot more in schools than they might. Seriously, those topics has to be part of every education's system program.

[@cfzcfz]

My guy dripping with the Ralph Lauren X Palace 😈🥶🥶🥶

[@JoePlatt1]

He’s worn supreme in these videos too

[@grindcoreninja6527]

It's just a polo, don't understand what's so great about it.

[@stendobands8088]

😂😂😂

[@BlindSnipingPro]

@@grindcoreninja6527 normie spotted

[@rubenzumaya8416]

That vice bag hitting 💪

[@jamesbruti8310]

I feel like the gateway thing is more about experiencing the opportunity to not be sober, and learning you like it earlier than an age where you know self control

[@stonerhistory8742]

Now its cops "overdosing" off of just touching fentanyl...LOL

[@stevensmith3752]

Well presented, good job on the guy who spoke during this video.

[@brettferencz4586]

Pot is a gateway drug but not in the sense of wanting harder drugs, but it introduces you to the people who use and sell hard drugs. They have focused too much on the drug itself and not the people using/selling them.

[@TokeE420]

I tried coke before I smoked weed and had alcohol poisoning before trying either. We can say alcohol introduces you to downers since it’s works on GABA just like most downers and uppers cause people like to be stimulated while smashed but I don’t understand how a cannabinoid could be to blame for people trying drugs.

[@Jayden-df7go]

Weed definitely made me interested in trying other drugs

[@lauracornwell9129]

I met my heroin connection, in rehab. How's that for safe company?

[@2001lextalionis]

Alcohol is a gateway drug that introduces you to people who use and sell ...

[@johnarg5327]

@@2001lextalionis wtf u talking about 99% of alchol users havent tried no illegal dtug

[@orionmcnebula]

Should make a new series "The media lies:___" each episode about a specific social/political topics media have lied about..

[@nikkix1087]

They lie enough they won't make anything

[@shinnith]

I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A BONG TOKE WHEN THIS VID STARTED IT WAS SO HARD NOT TO LAUGH

[@deeb3272]

This mini-series is so addictive!

[@covodex516]

Hey Jamie, dunno if you're going to read this but in case you do, I wanted to tell you that you're one of the very few VICE reporters I really enjoy and like. You're keeping it plain and simple, fact based, without exaggerating. You're all about the topic and aren't trying to make the video about yourself, like many other VICE reporters sadly do. Keep doing what you do!

[@My2cents.]

One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates 🚩

[@imaanilm]

Well narrated.👍

[@globalworks6184]

The sun news paper lying oh that's a big shock 😂😂😂