The race to riches for Australia’s new marijuana moguls | Four Corners

An investigation into Australia’s booming medical marijuana industry reveals major players are optimistic about the legalisation of recreational cannabis in Australia.

Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-23/why-marijuana-might-soon-be-legal-in-australia/9681628

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50 Comments

  1. beth 9891 on October 26, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Gross. Watch as this becomes the next big corporate thing. Big sugar, big tobacco, Big alcohol, the list just goes on…..



  2. Solveig Sokcanic on October 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Marijuana is a great relaxer, reduces pain , but NOT A MIRACLE DRUG !!!
    It should be legal , but same as alchohol, not to be used while driving or working !
    INDUSTRIAL HEMP is a great plant when used with lime & water for building materials as it becomes a NON-COMBUSTIBLE product , great for bushfire prone areas. It can be used to replace cotton & can be used to make ecofriendly insulation bats & as a biofuel !!!!



  3. Tristan Miller on October 26, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    good stock advice, currently low prices on Australian cannabis growers, all it takes is a big politcal movement and regulation change and the prices will skyrocket



  4. Wendy Ferguson on October 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    WHAT ABOUT PHENOLS THAT BREAK DOWN BRAIN TISSUE???????????????? what about other brain damage dagga cause????????????????????????? STUPID FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!LETS SEE THE DOCUMENTED PROOF THAT DAGGA IS NOT HARMFUL TO PEOPLE??? DO YOU HAVE PROOF THAT IT DOES NOT HARM PEOPLE???????????lets see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DO YOU SMOKE IT AND DO YOU FAMILY SMOKE IT!!!!!!!!!



  5. Wendy Ferguson on October 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    only now doing clinical trials YET YOU ARE FEEDING IT TO HUMANS ALREADY, HOW CAN ANYONE TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY, IT HAS NO THERAPEUTIC VALUE WHATSOEVER, YOU SOUND JUST LIKE THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO FOUNDED TOBACCO IT IS POISON DO NOT TAKE IT OR USE IT EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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  7. AnnRay5050 on October 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    Yeh, WOW! It’s the white man’s industries now to riches that has put so many black people in prison, called CRIME. Now is the WHITE man’s race to RICHES? Only God can judge the wicked. Wipe out their hypocrisy with drought and mass flooding, Almighty God!



  8. Peter Goettler on October 26, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    Cannabis Confidence,Thxs.



  9. John Allen on October 26, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    For all my Aussie brothers and sisters, may I recommend Humboldt Home Grown for your pleasure. I lived in Northern California’s Humboldt County for many years and it is right smack in the middle of the Redwoods, the largest trees in the world. There is something about the climate and atmosphere here on the Pacific Ocean. Quite often there is fog at night and in the morning, too. The farmers here grow some of the best marijuana in the world. So if you have the opportunity to try some you should. It is estimated that Northern California’s Emerald Triangle supplies about half of the marijuana now consumed in the USA.



  10. lekkki1 on October 26, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    Neville Schoenmaker? Really? Why not the people who created all the strains Neville toyed with to create his genetics? The California old boys. "King of Cannabis" seems to be a moniker he created for himself, and as this documentary shows, he’s a BS artist and a con man.
    Anyhow, great documentary. Hope Aussieland steps it up and creates a safe space for their sick patients quickly.



  11. 60misty on October 26, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    marijuana should be legal it has so many medicinal properties and personal use should not be a crime nor should we have to pay companies for it when we could grow our own



  12. Don on October 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    Humboldt County weed is Dakine!



  13. Gulitz T on October 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    I have one question to the Australian Government: How harmful is marijuana compared to alcohol and cigarettes? if you can answer its more harmful than those then i agree with the class 1 classification. But all i see it actually has more benefits than the two main things you guys are selling



  14. Blind Bob on October 26, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    so basically rappers & black culture used to promote drugs to the general public…….

    Talk about making two bad turns in the dark……..



  15. Foto 360 on October 26, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Lucky bastard! I have no interest in the money but put me on that river bank with a rod and something to cook the buggers and i’ll be a happy camper!



  16. Clay Holle on October 26, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    can you pour that mosquito infected water out



  17. Mezza on October 26, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    We bought shares at 76cents yehhhhhhhhh $$$$$$$$$$



  18. Go Pro K UK on October 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    Why should someone profit from a plant that can be grown by anyone anywhere / these people want it to remain illegal so they can profit / 😎



  19. Arron Connell on October 26, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    We all need to come together us weed people that is and just make it happen what the government gonna arrest everyone no chance!!!



  20. Mal Moran on October 26, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Wow Smyths eyes tell he lies !



  21. BlackShampoo on October 26, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    You’d think with that cash he can get the bird bath cleaned



  22. Barry Thomas on October 26, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    Marijuana is still a class 1 drug in NSW …The govt would prefer that you stick to Cigarettes and Alcohol.



  23. Fala Koala on October 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    normal australians will not participate. except buying shares in companies the gov and their freinds own.



  24. Andy M on October 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    As usual, they see interest in it, refine it, apply legislation to control it, then use it against you to control you. Sounds like the internet right? Screw them, I prefer black market genetics peer to peer. Its how the little guy has always done it.



  25. C Croft on October 26, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    So I don’t understand how seeds plants are illegal yet these people with hoards of seed banks are selling these seeds for millions and being permitted to do it? Seems like some people can be reaming the law and not be prosecuted and others go to jail……some are having a party making huge bucks ……….



  26. Damian dePrada on October 26, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    pity the poor cant afford it, we are not told what it’s been grown in so WE CAN CHOOSE to use government/big pharma cannabis or stick to the blackmarket. my Dr wont fill out the paperwork as she hasn’t been taut anything about the Endocannabinoid system & seems to not want to even though she has seen me cut my opioid addiction from fentanyl patch’s & oxycodone& endone every day for 12 year’s down to 1 targin a week through blackmarket cannabis. We should be aloud to GROW & USE AS WE SEE FIT NOT HAVE SOME COMPANY MAKE SQUILLION’S OUT OF US…



  27. BigBollocks on October 26, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    If you are making that money, you don’t brag about it.



  28. karthik puvvula on October 26, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Decriminalise it and encourage local growers.. legalisation is for corporations to make money.. why do you need to spend millions for a plant that grows for free.. Canada is way ahead..



  29. CheesyChicken4LiFe on October 26, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Typical, let big business players get their hands in first.



  30. Feck on October 26, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    I have major issues with anxiety and medication just doesn’t seem to work for me. I just wish that some day soon the government would pull their head in and allow this amazing plant to be legal rather than criminalising it.



  31. Brendon Phillips on October 26, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    CRIMINAL release the cannabis prisoners
    Jesus of Nazareth is The LORD



  32. I pee in my sink I'm afraid to come out my room on October 26, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    give a job ,with a vent



  33. Benson Hedges on October 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    The government made starting a farm cost over 500 thousand dollars so only a wealthy few could start a farm, marijuana monopoly just like everything else



  34. Tom B. on October 26, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    It’s going to require laws that support crony capitalism because the shyt is as easy to grow as tomatoes…. decriminalizing move on you money grubbers



  35. FZR 1K on October 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    noooo why would you cut it down too early lmao



  36. C Croft on October 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    So if you have money and contacts you can farm cannabis



  37. Lyal Minchinton on October 26, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Wake up Australia , we need to regulate it correctly so those in need of pain relief etc, can get Fast access, to cheap, high quality cannibus.
    The current wait time is ridiculous (8-12 months). Not to mention the price( 1200$-1800$ a month). Come on Australia 🇦🇺 step up!!



  38. Wendy Ferguson on October 26, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    cultivating utter poison, LETS SEE PROOF THAT IT IS SAFE FOR CONSUMPTION????? where are your clinical TRIALS OPEN THEM UP TO THE PUBLIC??????????? FOOL!PLEASE TELL THE PUBLIC WHAT THIS SO CALLED "MEDICINIAL"" cannabis is, THERE IS ONLY ONE CANNABIS NOTHING MORE SO DONE GIVE THIS BULL CRAP!



  39. Chopper Royalty on October 26, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Why cant the average maori/kiwi start a small crop in the bush ? Oh thats right they would rather we kick down this rich guys door and tale his then prophet of us by locking us up. Rich get richer and the poor dont get a fuckn thing



  40. stonefish bob on October 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Taking a gift from nature and turning it into money. SHAME ON YOU.



  41. Sanjaya Timilsina on October 26, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    Legalize it. This is what state authority can do to a simple beneficial crop.
    BTW, I have seen my grandpa smoke marijuana each day when I was a child in hills of my country, Nepal.
    He was damn hard working man. I dont know why be people think that everybody would just keep on being stoned if marijuana was legalized.



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  43. Solveig Sokcanic on October 26, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    IT CAN NOT CURE CANCER !!!!!! IT SHOULD BE LEGAL , but not used when driving or working & as with everything, used in moderation !!!!! Even excessive amounts of water at one time will kill you !!!! It’s a great plant but they shouldn’t lie about what it can do & excess has side effects!



  44. Who's Scott Green on October 26, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    Also the canadian government controls their maple syrup.



  45. Carmen Nooner on October 26, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    Neville is now the King of the Con! And he’s laughing all the way to the airport.



  46. Who's Scott Green on October 26, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    yeah, let me just export some shwag to california from australia, said noone ever.



  47. Rayce Robertson on October 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    This is so embarrassing 😂 our pollies are so out of touch. They forget where it came from and that clean cooperate image won’t reach it’s full potential and won’t survive. Talk to the people at MAPs while your there gov about legalising pychadellics for our vets with PTSD. Helped me.



  48. skate n destroy on October 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    The Christian lobby groups STILL HOLD POWER and are making sure this plant stays illegal because it is against their BELIEFS



  49. Aesthetics4U Subliminals on October 26, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    It’s medical use is harmless and it’s recreational use is safe and may do minor harm that’s all but it’s way safer than the prescription drugs that people use and safer than alcohol and cigarettes and safer than all other illegal drugs



  50. James Bryerton on October 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Its not a new wonder drug. Its a plant that has been growing for centuries. Governments just need to be control freaks. sell thier drugs and push alcohol for the ignorant public