Hunting For A Rare Congolese Weed Strain With “The Kings of Cannabis” | VICE on HBO
Hunting For A Rare Congolese Weed Strain With “The Kings of Cannabis” | VICE on HBO
Over the past 20 years, Franco Loja and Arjan Roskam, known as the “Kings of Cannabis,” have made millions of dollars scouring the world for unique strains of weed to breed and then sell.
Now, they’ve turned their sights on Equatorial Africa, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as their next gold mine — and a way to revolutionize the cannabis industry.
“Equatorial Africa is one the best preserved because of the wars, the lack of infrastructure, political unrest. All these situations created isolation there,” Loja explained. “So that’s where we’re going.”
Loja and Roskam built their global powerhouse on inbred strains of cannabis called “landraces” that they’ve collected from all over the world — Argentina, Australia, and Brazil, just to name a few spots. Without these strains, the duo’s various breeding enterprises, Amsterdam coffeeshops, and even distribution centers wouldn’t exist.
VICE News met up with the “Kings of Cannabis” for a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to hunt for one of the rarest species of Cannabis yet, the original Congolese landrace.
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man one of those fellas was like Indiana jones of ganja
Cheap bastard 50 bucks should have gave him 500 to 1,000 bucks each chief.
🍃v tjbetterintime
C’mon give ’em some bread, don’t be cheap!
I ain’t buying ur weed if u be like that
I think Ethiopia has good weed
no need for seeds, kids. google tissue culture….
that’s what they get for not paying the villagers
I like Franco but Arjan is a total colonizer. I hope this documentary is seen by more people so they can preserve their own seeds instead of having this company profit.
KARMA FOR RIPPING PEOPLE OFF AND GETTING RICH OFF THEM…………………….
I think he didn’t die from malaria, I think the government killed him, maybe poisoned!! I think there is marijuana strains never seen before, possible medicines and more!
I like his honesty
These guys are worth millions and they couldn’t give the village more than. $100 wtf big business killing the lil guy
IM BILL DIPPERLY IM BILL DIPPERLY!
this is like the real life congo 1995
These Guys are Legends, from the ground breaking work that led to hugely popular strains of today, (White Widow, Etc.) to their ground breaking YouTube documentaries on Cannabis from all over the world! Hamilton has to add some political overtones in the end cause a few misguided locals got upset and cause its Vice lol! The Strain Hunters Represented the best parts of the Cannabis Industry and were accomplished activists in their own right, starting an organization that helped poor cannabis farmers in places they visited, even building houses for some!
50 bucks? He so proud too, "buy some goats and stuff for the whole village".
what a bunch of a-holes.
I have smoked congo weed in Canada a few months ago
Looks like weed can kill all you wanna do is fucking get high and then want more again again
12:05 you just used them god bless you
I don’t like he says “real field” some of them
We’re just baby fields. Rude.
Evil doesn’t prevail
So Marijuana migration started from modern day Nepal?
8% thc is high!? LMAOOOOO FOH
Yo buddy buddy oo
They built their empire by ripping off locals… They took advantage of locals who didn’t know any better and that’s fucking sad… And I bet old boy thought about it too as he took his last breathes.
*Franco Loja dies*
A small price to pay for salvation.
how do they know thats congo landrace tho? maybe someone dropped other seeds there years ago?
The story of Africa🤦🏾♂️ constantly selling itself.
It’s so funny seeing hamilton with these guys the difference is hilarious. He is so out his element.
I hate the guy wit the shades
wow the ending is fucking crazy. rip
Visit Nepal too for cannabis it’ll be worth enough
How every saw how he was being carried by a small boy in Africa across the quick sand
Nobody:
A Kid in Africa : I have enough food at home I have strength
All of this for a drop of weed..
how many peoples interested in Cannabis
Whoaaaa was not expecting the very end
lil uzi is from the Congo?
Rest In Paradise
Ha😂looks like the ancestors didn’t want the skinny greedy guy to make his money after all… 💀lmao
His life was taken because he is greedy making medicine for the west but not Africans why not set up a lab in Congo?
Buy your weed from Dicehacker1 on telegram is 💯✅ legit .I got my weed yesterday at my door step, chat him up if you wanna buy weed .be is a trustworthy person and is 💯 ✅ legal .
Wonder what the finishing product is
When I hold one of these seeds in my hand I don’t see seed in my hand I will see thousands of people getting high and business happening, fortune made and medicine created 👏👏
Didn’t know lil uzi vert was in this 3:23…
They put a curse on him I feel like I heard black magic is a big thing down there ( just an opinion though)
Congratulations Arjan Roscam🎈
VICE News met up with the “Kings of Cannabis” for a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to hunt for one of the rarest species of Cannabis yet, the original Congolese landrace.
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Dam the vice dude out there in just a white t shirt with all thoes mosquitoes
Did these guys really bring THCV to america because thcv is available now to buy? Super cool