Inside Europe’s Cannabis Capital
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Although buying and consuming marijuana inside Catalonia’s cannabis clubs is legal, police say these associations are now being used as fronts by drug mafias, transforming this part of Spain into the centre of Europe’s illicit cannabis trade.
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Vice are tou lie and lie about europe? West and usa is only responsibility with situation on the world
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ECC = 3333 All staged footage and scripted actors. All Cannabis should be legal. Proof of all CLAIMS Required.
Just wait until they find out what happens if they increase the pH, just like they do with tobacco.
cool man, iwant to go to spain..
there's no way for a country in the EU to legalize cannabis and the production not flowing to the others. legalization needs to happens in the entire union
I think it's more of a case of if one country legalizes it then the others will be forced into legalizing too
@Kapillar Piero The EU is more than that. But yes, legalization needs to happen in individual countries.
@@SomePotato If one member of the EU legalises then others will follow shortly after.
@@imtired9444 Fingers crossed, as Luxembourg intends to legalize soon.
@@SomePotato ikr ^^. But they said it might take another 2 years as it has no priority to the govt.
Congratulations to drugs for winning the War on Drugs!
Remember drugs! Don't do school, stay kids!
Good always wins ;-)
I said no to drugs but they didn't listen.
How original
Stop keeping spamming with quotes.
imagine making a harmless plant that kills nobody illegal.
Harmless? Kills nobody? Hhmmm
@@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor you cant overdose on weed
@ilikethenumber7934 nobody said you can bro
@@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor I SMOKE FOR 10 YEARS DAILY WITHOUT DAYS OFF I FEEL GREAT. I WILL SMOKE TILL I DIE LIKE BOB MARLEY
@@UFOLUD420 we salute 🫡 you
There were spider mites on the weed in the one basement grow you can see the web on the bud. The whole crop is probably compromised. Hopefully it’s not being sold like that.
"hopefully its not beeing sold like that" ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
lost a crop to mites last year...sad
Im glad somebody else commented this. it looked like it had been infested for months.
And this is why the EU needs to work on legalising cannabis across the union.
*legalizing all drugs
How would that stop the gangs? They take over legitimate businesses, in this case its cannabis.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 Negative, legit business here in the U.S. has overwhelmed the cartels. Here in the Pacific Northwest, criminal organizations have moved off of weed and leaned into illegal substances.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 Not likely. They don't control the alcohol business or tobacco business either.
@@SomePotato An excellent point, the old gangs in the 20s used to dominate alchohol, where are they now?
"Inside Europe's Cannabis Capital" I thought this video was gonna be about The Netherlands lmao
me too lmao
Me too
Same lo, amsterdam!
I spent some years living in Barcelona. Believe me, Cannabis and Cannabis use is ubiquitous there. I can't speak for Amsterdam, but calling Barcelona 'Europe's Cannabis Capital' is no surprise.
I guess they should call it "Inside Europe's Illegal Cannabis Capital", although In Amsterdam too its not fully legal, Coffee shops are just allowed to sell it but not produce it or buy it. Although I guess that's a little similar to Barcelona too
When I first moved to Colorado I was excited to get into the industry, I came prepared. I had a thousand or so seeds comprised of 4 strains that my friend and I developed in Florida during the early 2000’s. I’m talking stabilised feminised seed stock thats consistency with little deviation in phenotype and always female. It took years of work and spreadsheets but it was all worth it. I made it to the promised land I just need to fill out some forms have my small facility inspected and we’re good. Not so fast. Unfortunately for me I arrived in Denver 1 year before they changed all the laws, laws that clearly are beneficial to large corporate growers and dispensaries. People who can reach in and pull a million bux out of their pocket and not blink twice. This decision by the state to create an overly complicated system that suddenly excluded anyone with any felony record for drugs, and I’m talking simple possession. They now required that all product from seed/clone to dried product had to be tracked from seed/clone to finished product, software that could track that sort of metrics didn’t even exist. They required not only cameras but the Controllers and hard drive backup has to be in a secured room that must be inspected by the police department. Even the security room has to have a camera both inside and outside the room. Needles to say, I had to shutter my new operation 2 months after I finally got all my inspections and paperwork approved under the old system. What all this has done is hurt small owners and worse yet it’s destroying the plant it’s self. Commercial retailers/growers in Colorado are hands down the worst I’ve ever seen when it comes to strain selection. You go into the shoppes and there’s strains that you never heard of, never heard of them because they are convinced that then need to always be offering a new fresh product that no one else had. They do this by “pollen dusting”, one strain to another and coming up with a clever/ironic name. They don’t stabilise the seed stock nope just cross this with this make seeds the. Use those seeds that haven’t been stabilised to make this “new strain” worse yet they mix those together and before ya know it the genetics begins to fail not to mention do this enough and you have 30 types of product to sell that all looked taste and provides roughly the same high. Denver has gone from having couture Bougie bud growers that supplied dispensaries with premium strains that with nothing but the best nutrients harvested when the tricombe were either amber or milky and then cured for 6 months or longer for a full smooth rich taste. To what we have now, over priced commercially grown bud with questionable genetics that are usually never flushed fully, and cured poorly. Since profits are lower quality has suffered, and I fear on a long enough time line Those amazing strains war have eventually been crossed over again and again until it’s just one homogenous strain with only subtle differences but ever shoppe is going to have their own name for it. Which about sums up pot in Colorado, it’s more about the hype and image then the actual product and unique properties that it holds. Colorado image over substance
So that’s what happened to all of the weed from the early 2000s?! I try to tell people the quality of weed got worst after legalization but up here in Mass most people have no idea what good quality weed is. They call bad weed over here KUSH, and it gets on my damn nerves. Real Kush is some of the best weed you will ever smoke, I used to get it around 2011 and a 20 bag will stink your whole house up. Sour Diesel is gone now and all the real purple strains are gone. Now it’s all about who has the coolest bags lol and who can get the stuff the rappers are smoking. All of this Gelato, Cookies and other crap is all garbage. Gets you high for about a hr and that’s it, the real strains from the early 2000s would have you on your ass for like 8 hrs. It sucks man i just want some throwback OG Kush, sour D, Haze, Bubba Kush, Purple haze, Grandaddy Purp. I don’t think I’ll ever see these strains again but I guess i was lucky to smoke these strains before it became extinct. The last time i smoke real Sour D my boy got it through the mail from Colorado. I kept begging him to get more but it didn’t happen. I’m actually thinking about quitting, it’s just a waste of money now. I don’t enjoy the weed now, I’m just hooked on the process of smoking.
Fellow Coloradon here, Magic Mushrooms are the way to go, Decriminalize November and I'm looking for a reliable partner, contact me.
More importantly, than all of this crap you wrote…. Is native folks who were born in Colorado don’t want all you people who flooded into our state to be here. Please take your dumb marijuana seeds back to florida or wherever, and next time maybe work in legalizing things in your own state instead of flood our state by the millions and ruin the cost of living and pollute our state. Bye 👋 please get out of Denver, sounds like you have some dumb problems with it anyway about marijuana or some trivial thing, idk.
@@cvgodd1432 they call it kush? Man thats fucked Up. Nothing better than a homegrown kushblunt while chilln on a meadow under the Stars. Why are they doin my lovely kush so bad?
Atleast we got to try em I geuss bro .the only positive thing I can think 😔
Here in Netherlands we have had the perfect example in the last decades of what not to do. What they should do is: Make marihuana legal, get a permit system for growing and selling with a strict background check. Make sure to do a health check of the products (so you don't get them spraying chemicals to weigh it down) and also check that it's only sold to locals (eg. with proof they live in Spain to be shown at the door) and you prevent all the drugs tourism. Here it's really bad too; three-quarter of people in line are Belgian or German citizens. We momentarily had a check for residency here. Initially every day some dude would ask me to buy for him as he was a foreigner, but after few months this really dried up. As coffeeshops can't legally buy it here, but do need a fixed supplier to keep their business running, they have to go to organized crime. Relying on small home-growers is just too fluctuating when running a business. The solution is not to fully legalize it, but to legalize it under conditions. It'd be better for the consumer, the law enforcement and the government (taxes to cover the permit systems' cost).
Years ago a Dutch guy told me that if they stopped cannabis tourism then the sea would flood the country because there would not be enough money to maintain the dams. Or hugely raising the taxes would be an alternative.
@@Gen1987SeZ So untrue. Yes, the majority of marihuana goes to foreigners. But as it's allowed, not legal, the govt can not raise taxes on it. Except for the savings on police, our country doesn't make a cent from it. Just the rich coffeeshop owners and the organized gangs growing it.
@@0783155 cannabis tourism is not just weed money but travel, accommodation, restaurants, museums and everything connected to tourism. Tourists who would never came to your country if there were no coffeeshops. He told me how much was the estimate at that time it was huge but I don't remember the number anymore.
@@0783155 I think it did change since I spoke to that guy 20 years ago because if I think about that at the time in US there was still illegal so at that time from entire world people were coming to Netherlands just because of coffeeshops. The border towns you mention I feel it must be very annoying having there foreigners who just come to buy weed and don't contribute anything to your economy.
@@Gen1987SeZ I live in one and it's killing the positive outlook of most people on the legality of marihuana here. Usually they show up in flashy cars with loud music, pissing off the whole neighborhood. And not one, but like 40-50 cars at a time. As a Dutchie we know and recognize we should behave normally or the coffeeshop risks getting protests and might need to close. Thus killing the nice thing we like to go to. You will rarely find problems around a coffeeshop. Except if it's a "tourist shop"...
Imagine cops wasting their time dealing with a photosynthesis plant that’s been around since the beginning of time
The problem is that Organized Crime is using marijuana as a front to fund their operations.
Well the problem is it IS legalized there and being taken over by mafia...
Don't imagine they do
If the government just made it legal they could profit and spend police time on real crime
@@mistahshade who exactly is "Organized Crime"?
Amsterdam punching the air rn
LMAOOOOO
Barcelona is more than twice as big, so maybe its not so surprising.
When I was stationed in West Germany in the 1970s a tour of Amsterdam was required.
Isn't it still within a legal grey area in Amsterdam?
@@CigsInABlanket yes
It's scary how a plant, capable of alleviating pain, mental struggle, provide serenity and peace of mind, yet is criminalised worse than hard substances. I've been a daily cannabis user for many years now, from smoking to applying creams and lotions and consuming oils
Because there is huge profit no one really wants it legal. Judiciary, police, prisons, it provides huge jobs & funds. On the other you have the mafia (Freemasons) who make huge profits from it. The Freemasons control the drugs trade, if it is business then they control it
Come to ketama and you will smoke the best hash you ever tasted
@@user-qs6dp6uj9r ohhh, i have tried hashish from Morocco many many times and it always beats the rest. I would personally love to visit morocko in the future and try some hash thats localy grown
@@user-qs6dp6uj9r Tanger hash is crazy
ooh yuk that bud 4:28 had spider mite webs. That is just lazy growing, you always fend of mites with chemical sprays during vegetative stage or use predatory mites or lady bugs during early flowering. Dope... after 2-3 weeks flowering is a no-no to have fully forming webs. Gross
If it's legal to smoke a joint and sell and grow just make everything about it legal, no matter the location and the quantity
Exactly
Be smart, tax it and profit, like Canada.
It’s not about the weed. It’s about organized crime, violence, and illegal guns. Like that guy said these organizations threaten people and kill if they don’t back down so they can profit. The cop even said this.
@@markmiranda9461 Sounds like an unofficial government.
Lol looks like the gun laws ain't really working for criminals
Cannabis helped me get off Heroin and Alcohol.
i do all three, i wouldn't change nothing....i¡m a grown up person
Do you still do Cannabis?
@@avelplayz4734 yes , it's my main thing, but once a month i do a gram of good heroin, never twice in a row, never two days in a row, that is a must , if you like H.. and alcohol to tell you the truth, i drink a couple beers here and there, but i rather have a good joint....cheers from Spain
Congrats bro
Stay high
4:26min Spider Mites -> RIP Crop
Its crazy to me how any violence has ever spawned from a substance so tame in terms of negative/positive affects.
It's the money.
4:28 the best shot to show spider mites camping on the buds😂😂 great documentary! Loved it!
i noticed mites too, also at the end
I was about to sayyy
Saw this and came to the comments to see if someone noticed.
Cola covered holmes
Yeah, obviously no ipm.
VICE always finds an opportunity to cover Weed as often as they can 😂😂
One of the owners of vice is a heroin addict
One of the owners of vice is a weed addict
Why not the days here ur cigarettes are the new weed they just want it @ll and the robots who take them down will be soon working for that same Industry probation!
@Viper vibe sounds like a scarry cat 2 me ! Or a Security of the world ? Gives there contact - ur miserable go eat a Donut - nobody scared lol
@Viper vibe No you are lying. They have no obligation to reveal their sources to anyone.
You had to end with a "spider mite" webbed flower. Are you trying to tell us something? lol
So true.. when u walk down the streets of Barca AS SOON AS THE SUN SETS... and you call literally smell the whiff of piff... nuts.
"Tell God weed is illegal", Bob Marley.
True
if he stops making it I will stop smoking it bro, he is the source the main plug
@@pendenwangchuk2247 I call my stuff Jesus lettuce not devils lettuce😹
@@pendenwangchuk2247 the main Plug 😂😂😂😂😂
Nature doesnt ask for permissions
VICE insulting Amsterdam
A Turtle approves of Amsterdam for the seaweed 👍
The problem for me with smoking weed, is cost. because it costs so much, here in the UK it's common practise to smoke with tobacco and no filter. tobacco fucks your arteries and respiratory system, far more than just weed does. in a sense, weed could and in my opinion, should be legalised in the UK, and people can then get rid of the tobacco and i'd wager you'll see less smoking deaths because of it. having said that, I've quit both, because weed makes you lazy and I need savings.
Gotta love the spiderweb at 4:26 on the flower... :)
I was wondering what's Europe's Cannabis Capital, as cannabis is everywhere in the EU
cannabis is everywhere around the world lol, its a fucking plant.
@@ptt619 😂😂😂😂
Amsterdam
Idk if its still albania but to my knowledge they are the biggest producers of cannabis in Europe, even Amsterdam has albanian weed
@@eustab.anas-mann9510 this is Spain
And as always, full legalization in all of Europe would stop this in an instant.
You have remember. Govermants are doing what is the best for them, not for the people. Pharmacy industry have a huuge impact on politics. They are making huuge money on all of these stupid and toxic pills. Full legalization is almost impossible (at least right now).
Sadly, almost no one wants to hear it. Yet it's so important to never stop fighting for rational and humane substance policies. I'm thankful for everyone who doesn't give up on this fight.
@@martinparidon9056 The recent partial legalization in Germany has shown me how far we are from achieving this. Conservatives literally said that legalization would increase the black market, or pretended like there was no black market, and constantly brought it back to children, even though legalization is only for adults. They don't even debate with facts, everything they say is complete non sense. How are you supposed with people who reject the facts??
@@gclip9883 Yeah that's a very good question. Tell me when you have an answer 😊 Cause I don't
If only governments got smart enough to properly open an industry and collect taxes.
‘Cannabis is also being grown legally in the UK for another medicine, Epidiolex. It's currently being reviewed for the treatment of two rare forms of uncontrollable epilepsy, by medicine agencies in both the US and Europe. But it's not yet available. The specially bred type of cannabis plant used to make it is grown in a glasshouse in Wissington, Norfolk, by British Sugar - which also grows virtually all of the sugar beet in the UK. British Sugar - whose managing director is Paul Kenward - has an exclusive deal with pharmaceutical company GW, which makes Epidiolex. Mr Kenward is married to drugs minister Victoria Atkins. She was accused of "hypocrisy on a grand scale" over her husband's involvement in a legal cannabis farm. She declared the interest in Parliament when she was appointed in 2017 and excused herself from speaking for the government on cannabis.’ - BBC, May 23, 2018
Haha that's my club CERTIFIED, shoutout to Ryan!
"120 grams, basicly nothing"😂
I was like 😲.. bro
It's little over 4oz, it is basically nothing....
@@johnmcrosin1746 a little under, 28 grams an oz x 4 = 112. But yeah, a QP is basically nothing
@@OmarBC420 So 120g is less than 112g......??????
@@nenad8148 god damn
Just make weed legal and cripple the drug lord smh
That’s not gonna help Vice news or the police though.
That is correct
Its not that simple, there will always be a black market
@@gunnermurphy6632 it is to a degree. Yes, there will always be a black market present, but if you allow the legal, regulated sale of weed you will effectively take away the monopoly on cannabis distribution from black market dealers. This is what’s happening in the US. As weed is illegal in Iowa, we often get it imported from legal suppliers in other states like Colorado. Weed is less and less likely to be sourced from Mexican cartels or other crime organizations, because Harry homeowner can hop in his car and drive 9 hours to Denver and bring back ounces of weed himself. If the entire country legalized weed, the cartels would be completely weeded out of the weed market. That’s one of the main reasons they have primarily opted to dealing opioids and human trafficking. The legal weed market in the US stifled their ability to compete with their shitty ditch weed. The same thing happened to 1930’s mafia families who had staked their enterprises on prohibition. Once alcohol was legal they had to find new markets and lost out on one of ( if not the most) profitable sources of illegal income. Ending the prohibition of weed would most definitely hurt organized crime syndicates who rely heavily on being the only source of what ever contraband they sell.
@@gunnermurphy6632 Yeah, your shitty weed dealer selling second hand on a discount. Decriminalization does miles of work. Things have gotten a lot better in my state where cannabis is legalized. Just because it's not a perfect solution doesn't mean an overwhelmingly good policy isn't worth it.
I was in barca last month and can confirm their weed is fucking amazing as a Dutch guy from Amsterdam. Not all was good, but a lot was good quality
damn that one plant at 4:27 covered in mites..... ouchy
Vice never disappoints on its weed documentaries
Blatant nonsense at 1:47. Cannabis didn't originate in the Americas, let alone be brought back by Columbus to Europe. Cannabis originated between Central Asia and upper South Asia. The word _Kanab_ itself is an Iranic word, and parts of Eastern Europe already had exposure to cannabis for over a millennia before Columbus. The plant was likely first introduced to Western Europe during the Muslim rule of Iberia, but it gained popularity across Western Europe in the 1800s after Napolean invaded Egypt in 1798 and his soldiers brought back Hashish.
@@poppinc8145 pretty sure people smoked weed alot earlier and i mean alot even in europe probably before christ birth.
@Catstar-ph6oj m.kzhead.info/sun/ea98c72cbXOOhZs/bejne.html
"In many other countries getting caught would incur a prison sentence" Canada has entered the chat
LbP
I’m from 🇬🇧 police raided my grow at 4 am this morning only had 6 plants they took the plants and fucked off had half a box of bud under my sink aswell never searched
@@smokeysmoked1231 how u ended up in their crosshair? do u know?
@@cheesygerit2299 neighbourhood watch ... haters we don’t bother no one in our grove
@@persistentapparartionkitty5830 Exactly...this is how Trump has played the game for over 40 years
4:27 homie really needs to take care of his spider mite problem and get some ipm going lmao
4:27 Ey dawg, you better do something about that spider mite problem 😬
I believe cannabis is a herb with some great medical benefits! As someone living with chronic pain, here in the USA they would prefer to prescribe opiates, but cannabis works almost as well without all the bad side effects! Thankfully more states are legalizing it, and I think everywhere should too!
As some one with Nurological conditions I use it insteed of prescription. In New Zealand I now have it legally prescribed
@@jjjjj2220 Sadly here in USA, insurance companies would prefer to pay Big Pharmaceutical Companies for chemicals instead of allowing us to use natural products!
Yes, but until then many people will still be addicted to pharmaceutical opioids. Sick people have to suffer and lives are destroyed. Too many people who have no connection to this plant simply don't understand that legalization is not about fun.
it may not have the same bad side effects, but it has plenty to its name too. it basically fucks your brain right up. also, dont even think about smoking it in a liquid form( cartridges, e liquid, etc) cuz it's just gonna stay in ur lung until u have to go to the hospital and have them drain ur lungs with a plastic tube lol
Tobacco is really relaxing and helps to slow down, decreases anxiety and every day stress of modern life
Legalise every drug everywhere and make it legit buissiness. Tax it, regulate it. Sell pure products and take The income away from The criminals.
Exactly. And punish criminals for doing illegal stuff.
I cant tell if you are being serious or joking and I cant believe your comment got 9 likes that's concerning lol
@@kieran8564 I think they are serious. So am I. People will always get it and grow it no matter how illegal it is. So the obvious solution is to control and regulate it just like alcohole.
@@kieran8564 We're all serious
@@kieran8564 Look at how Portugal dealt with their heroin epidemic. Legalize everything and put the profits into education, rehabilitation, safety measures, etc. Much better than paying for people to be locked up.
I remember watching a documentary about a Balkan country called Albania and it is said one of the cities in Albania was the number one point of cannabis being farmed and exported in all of the EU (at that time being)
10:55 the spider mite webbing over that flower!! 🤮
So much enthusiasm in cracking down on someone growing a plant is just a BIG loophole in the global justice system!. They should instead go after bigger crimes such as Human Trafficking and scammers!
It IS legal to grow, buy and sell in Spain
You haven't watched the video it seems
The amount of energy wasted for the so called “war on drugs”. Just legalize it! Hi from Canada, btw.
they still gain profit from the court of Law, its the prime resources making machine...its not a "war" at all...
you didnt get the video organised crime is attacking the shops and local growers to stop competition. it happens in the netherlands too shop keepers get harassed intimidated by the mafia that tries to monopolize its grip on the weed market. legalizing isnt the solution to end the war on drugs and the drug is winning atm
@@yungwallzy dude, its not even a drug at all...and i also know that the shops in netherlands are selling low strength herbs crap...how old are you boy?..
@@jackvern its not a drug not strong stuff lmao your braincells are devolving mate
@@yungwallzy I did, the state is still involved and this is another form of the so called war. Legalization and regulation is the key to end this. Ask yourself how many liquor stores are targeted by organized crime? Ask yourself what would happen if the legal supply of cannabis was higher in these markets. Oh wait, maybe don’t ask but look at Canada and the likes.
The best part is how they said Colombus' sails were made from hemp, and then theorized he was the first to bring it to europe. lolololol
A lot of people stood to loose a significant income, especially in Morocco... That show doesn't stop for nothing. In Denmark we have Christiania, a small city within the capital Copenhagen, where selling and smoking have been going on for many decades
I'm sure that's good weed in Spain but man those plants look skanky. Where I live in northern Calif the plants are full of big green leaves and the colas are a foot long. That's grown in natural sunlight. The plants pick up on the sun's vibes and create a superior high. I'm 70 years old so I've been smoking cannabis for about 55 years and it's hard to believe that people are still being busted for cannabis. It's legal in Calif now from all the work that we did with NORML. The whole world needs to benefit from either ingesting or smoking cannabis. It would be a much more peaceful world, no doubt.
For sure John! If everyone smoked there would be no wars and we'd be taking care of nature a whole lot better. Maybe in the future things will be different, we can only hope
That zoom in with the bud covered in cob webs they show twice, so gross
@@g0tBlunt When I was at sea we came across a mass about a mile wide, full of six-pack forms of plastic and other debris. This was a thousand miles from anything.
You guys in cali are spoilt
They're showing the black market like us in the USA had many years ago. When you legalize and tax and regulate this gs with drugs just go easier and less violent for sure. Come on EU, get it together!!
I have a dream that one day weed will be legal worldwide and that one day when I hop on an airplane I have an option of ordering edibles for my long flight
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Yes Pothead. To America thou shalt go. Don’t forget some food for he munchies
You could just fully legalize it and you wouldn't be having this issue. It's amazing how when something is no longer a crime, a crime is no longer committed when it's done, and it's out of the hands of criminal organizations.
Please french version or subtitle french version thanks you very much 🙏🙏👌
Does anyone understand that throwing a person in prison, stealing his money and his stuff all based on a weed is not rational and those who do that are the real criminals?
Yes, and they don't care.. All they see is a bag of $$$ walking by, just like in the US where it is still illegal
@@thelambdafunction its legal in many states friend.
@@bcxaz Not all of them
@@bcxaz He meant the states where it isn't
spain is fucking awesome, especially catalonia region/barcelona, i really want to go the cities look so cozy and fun. also some of these weed plants have a clear spider mite problem just fyi growers
Them spider mites around 4:27 was horrible lol
That plant @ the 4:28 mark was covered with spider mites!! There’s that many on it that they have started to web on top of the bud, and they are saying the weed is top class, lol
Keep the world green y’all, stay blazin and show love 🙏
I like the dude saying he packs his stuff the best without smell doesnt even use vacuum sealed bags lmao it's just ziplock. Nice try dude but no. It's very hard to do even with vac seals
I was just about to say that. Lol us good home growers know our stuff.
I wonder if the grower is from southern Spain, he has that little slang/lisp unless I'm mistaken ❤️
French here, i'm being delivered at home... I never go out when on cannabis. And stop smokling when i have to drive, unless emergency. Which happened only once. I don't feel personally bound by laws when it comes to cannabis. Because, as in most families in the world, i've witness of dramas that alcohol brought... I've had an uncle who destroyed himself, and people around him, including a stranger. A poor lady, who just drove on the road he used that day. She didn't survive. Penalize alcohol, and i'll stop smoking... Because even with all its traffic, cannabis is still cleaner than alcohol will ever be.
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Growing some mango kush right now legally god bless America
Nice how much plants?
Still illegal in "American".
Some of it.
@@asam9498 Right but your entire government and prime minister is corrupt and owned by china
@@hydrogamer471 right but if US leaves nato russia and China are invading y’all ass
3:50 - That cop's watch makes me doubt whether or not he's on the take.
I love Barca. took my wife here as a surprise for the 30th bday and we had such a good time. I remember going into one of these weed places- the front was full of Eastern European looking dudes with large dogs ( and it felt a bit sketchy) and when we went into the bar it was just men and women smoking, playing fifa and having a few drinks. Out the back was the weed shop and I picked up an 8th of weed.
Really enjoying these documentaries Vice, thanks for stopping being political biased and just posting good stuff
They never did that, you just need to pull your head out of your ass more often and stop calling things "politically biased" when they don't align with your personal views. Fucks sake.
Dude, this is political bias too, specifically against cannabis. Also, they mainly asked police, not cannabis experts nor consumers.
What VICE are you watching ?
@@jordinav2688 Exactly. So clearly a CIA entity.
@@TheJudgeofLevelstm How to start... I'm from and live in Barcelona, also cannabis user. The voices missing here (for sure I miss more): - 0 cannabis users interviewed here - 0 club users interviewed here - 0 drug workers experts interviewed here - 0 doctors interviewed here - 0 psychiatrist interviewed here - 0 political authorities interviewed here Also, they view the issue as a criminal problem, while the criminal problem is due to public health problem. The main thing is not the clubs nor the criminal organization, the main thing is regulation. If you regulate, you first stop the criminal organizations or at least put them more barriers, and second, you have more tools to manage the public health issue, as now, in Catalonia we have more potent weed than in the Netherlands due to the lack of regulation where we could establish the minimum and maximum of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids. Of course, we have lots of things regarding the cannabis clubs in Catalonia, but this video just looks at the issue in a one way (police way) and making the content more attractive to watch, not as a documentary that informs about a complex reality.
Spain should provide startup financing to farmers to meet domestic demand, and impose tighter regulation on associations, such as KYC and AML checks. You can “legalize” cannabis, but if the flow of legal legitimate funds and resources to this lucrative business remain illegal, or are too restrictive, then organized crime will always be the industry’s “white knight”.
spain doesnt provide anything for enterpreneurs lol, in any field
Farmers can get financing on their own 😂; you just need not to go to prison for doing that
That would be as rare as chicken teeth here.
give it away free makes it worthless then problem solved plant it everywhere
I literally thought the title said cannibals i was like ''oh god''.
same
It just needs to be fully legalised but tightly regulated. What you have here is too murky a distinction. Don't have the clubs produce their own weed, create a separate industry for production which is regulated heavily. More like the Colorado model. It won't solve all the problems but a lot of the issues in this vid seem somehow (largely) avoidable.
They just need to legalize marijuana / hemp / pot. And it needs to be legalized internationally. This is just ridiculous
4:27 this grow room has spider mites 🤮🤮🤮 don’t smoke his cannabis
Good eye. It was webbed up
Any weed not from America is reggie.
@@Cbd_7ohm not true. Have you been to Jamaica? I have❤️💚🖤
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I had amazing times at the cannibis clubs in Barcelona. We also got raided by undercover cops because you're not allowed to buy alcohol past 10pm, luckily that night we didn't lol.
Like everything, the best way to end these gangs is to legalize it. Give power back to small businesses. And put the violence aside. The problems appear when you can sell it, but not grow it. When legalization is partial, or theres ilegalization, but there is demand, these kinds of situations develop.
Did you watch the documentary? It is legal there, and no legalizing it does not solve the problem instantly. For instance in Mexico, now the cartels are trying to control de avocado businesses. Fuckedup gang members will make money from everything, no matter if it is legal or illegal.
The other countries should also make it legal. And the blackmarket for it would nearly vanish. Allow every person to decide if they want to eat/inhale a herb, swallow pills, rat poison or whatever. They are adults and have the right to. But of course driving under the influence would still be a crime, just like with alcohol or any other drug that alters your awareness.
its not legal in spain tho, only in these clubs,. if u are in the street its ilegal
I agree, that other countries should make it legal. But the black market wouldn't just vanish, just as the market for illegal cigarettes and booze hasn't vanished.
@@Orcawhale1 Yes, they'll move to provide cheaper knockoff product with a higher risk for collateral harm. But it would certainly take an enormous chunk of big organizations dirty money. I think all plants marked as "drugs" should be legal at least. If it naturally exists in nature then leave it alone. Processed stuff could be legal but with sanitary controls and labels clearly displaying the side effects. And you make your decision. A lot of addicts spiral down hard because of how society shuns addiction, so they get removed from all their social groups and are perfect prey for someone who only wants to squeeze them dry for as long as they can.
@@Orcawhale1 those exist because of greedy governments not willing to back down on taxes and make it impossible to be smoking, drinking on a regular basis. Of course it's not a good thing for a person to do to themselves but governments try to extort these people behind the lie of protecting them, no government should be protecting it's people from themselves when they're adults.
This is what I've been saying
the bud at the end has spider mites----top shelf??
4:28, the pour soul who had to smoke this. Never seen a bud in spider webs like this :D
I'm from barcelona and didnt know that the statue of colombus had weed in it!! LOL
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“We had a group of armed gentlemen come in and inflict some physical violence...” Gasp! Not the gentlemen?!
you guys should make a video about the beduwin clans in israel and how they grow the weed in tunels in the desert. i can help u do it
As someone who lives in Andalusia Spain let me say because of the really warm climate much more is grown here and distributed threw out europe
So, on the one hand, Columbus’s sails were made from hemp AND he was also “the first” to smuggle the plant back to Europe. Doesn’t add up. The Columbus trip did see tobacco going to Europe for the first time.
Cannabis has been used in Europe for thousands of years. It has been used in Jewish temples ritually during ancient times.
I am Watching this after smoking a joint. Wow enjoying. Anyone else???
It's legal in my Country, I even made a video of buying some in a store. It kills me to see it made into such a bad thing...
So glad my state of Illinois legalized recreational in 2019 and medicinal use in like 2016 or something. Even federally in the US a lot of progress has been made. Very odd to see such stuff going on in the EU.
I'd already be in jail if they didn't haha
stats show that the same people use it and other people that dont dont use it.
based on that title i would've definitely guessed Amsterdam
God bless Canada! I grow as a hobby, but the legal weed is so good and CHEAP there is no reason to go to the black market.
Ya seeing this stupidity makes me laugh
It makes me so mad Only rich canadians and americans are able to smoke weed without calling them criminals Fucking disgusting
God bless the regulated system in Holland, but it's still lacking.
@@fersanchez2967 meh, legal weed is cheap, don't know what your talking about. Grow your own, quit whining!
@@fersanchez2967 Mexico just went legal too, like a month ago, also a few countries long before.
respect to this man aslong as its actually natural grown respect g brodie js hustling
why they compare pot whit coke and heroín? the problem in that countries its not the drugs , it its the goverments and the laws in there.... they should compare alcohol , or benzos w that kind of drugs....but they dont...
Legal or not, grow your own. Don't let doubts or fear hold you back. This is the season to start planting outside!
THIS IS COMEDY GOLD
That's a felony and in North Carolina they got helicopters that use thermal imaging to catch growers.
Damn they need to get those mites under control! Webs all over those flowers!
There is a reason people in Germany buy bulk from Spain for 3-4 €/gram. And then resell it after lacing with sprays and chemicals for 6-7 (bulk prices) €/gram.. Black market HAS TO BE STOPPED! legalisation has to happen NOW!
Damn, if those gangs spent more time on their pest management practices, and less time thugging people, they might make an honest profit. Those spider mites at 4:29 are out of control!
Seriously, the fact that weed growing is associated with thuggery in general is now a thing of the past in California, but apparently not in Spain.
@@TheBucketSkilllol nice joke. Cartels still run a lot of illegal grows in cali
the weed at 4.27 covered in spider mite anyways looool
I was expecting Amsterdam
I grew in a closet in 1978. Now I have a great hydro tent with LED. Since it became legal in California I've also been growing in my backyard. The neighbors actually like the smell but I keep getting ripped off.
I'm trying to grow my first plant and I saw the mars hydro led and tent kit and wanna go for it.
That's funny last take over this small dispensary here no biggie 😄
make some documet about czechia. Its wild here nowadays
this is not coming to the US lol. We're good.
It already is
If you make it legal it wont, if it was fully legal they wouldnt need to have a black market. This is what happens when you start attacking growers
As a grower for over 15 years. Its been here.
@@rafaelayala5599 no they won't
@@meretricioussimp7759 its happen where itz legal . We need better laws for .Every store in the us smould have some sort or security system. Liqour store have it so shoulv weed stores
Legalize it. Problem solved.
also in netherland is the same, a lot of mafia is over the coffeshops
In netherlamds there is no violence
Last plant shown on the clip was most definitely filled with spider mites
4:27 too
Am I the only one watching this high AF?
Same haha 😂
Dopehead.
as a Catalan, I knew we had it bad here, but never knew it was this bad
I've been living in barcelona ll my life and as a club member I have to say it's unavoidable for clubs to buy weed to "criminal" organisations. The law states that it's legal to consume in those clubs (as a private property) but its not legal to grow (not such quantuty) it or even to carry the product in-out of the club. There is a legal vaccum that forces clubs to buy weed from other sources, if not, it would be impossible for them to cover the demand. So, why barcelona allow so many clubs that, if they had to work the legal way, wouldn't work? Take your conclusions but I think it's very clear....
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