Inside a Secret Weed Farm Hidden in Plain Sight | High Society
Inside a Secret Weed Farm Hidden in Plain Sight | High Society
While weed laws are becoming more progressive in many states across the US, cannabis cultivation can still get you some serious prison time in the UK.
Most smokers have no idea where their buds come from, but the higher demand and continued criminalisation of weed in the UK has engendered a black-market supply chain of human deprivation: ‘Cannabis slaves’, often trafficked from Vietnam, are forced to tend to massive grows worth millions in street value – completely against their will.
For spliff connoisseurs who have been smoking their whole adult lives and hold down regular jobs and have families, picking up poor-quality hydroponic weed from dodgy dealers in blacked out cars or down dark alleyways has become less and less desirable. Guerrilla growers are an online community of cannabis cultivators in the UK who harvest their weed plants in the wild, hiding in plain sight sometimes on the side of motorways.
Growing certain strains of cannabis that can withstand the British climate, many have been supplying themselves and their friends with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of organic weed for almost a decade. It’s all grown outside in the sun, bypassing dealers and without being traced by the police.
Our drugs editor, Max Daly, linked us up with two guerrilla growers who were about to retire from the cultivation game, just as they were harvesting their last ever crop.
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I got out my pipe and stuffed it with pot
You better believe, it held a whole lot.
I whipped out a lighter and thumbed up a flame
Then sucked down that smoke which comforts my brain.
I tried alcohol; and smoked cigarettes
Though, they did nothing, but give me regrets.
My mom had arthritis and couldn’t walk around
When I rolled her a joint, she danced on the ground.
I thought I was losing my lovemaking knack
But, after I smoked some, to me it came back.
Soon I decided prices were high
So I searched for some ground I wouldn’t have to buy.
I bargained for seeds from smokers all around
Then, got in my truck and drove out of town.
I walked through the woods where the wild birds nest
And found me the meadow I thought was the best.
I dug up the ground and sowed all my seeds
Then said a small prayer for strong, healthy weeds.
I watered at night with a five-gallon pail
The mosquitoes went hungry for I wore a veil.
Seven months went by; I thought I would die
Till the Halloween moon was high in the sky.
At night I went out, in my camouflage suit
And used a corn knife to chop down the loot.
I hung it up to dry where it couldn’t be found.
Then came back and got it, when it had turned brown.
I trimmed off the buds, and stuffed them in bags
Called all my friends and passed out free drags.
In less than a week my crop was gone
But I flew to St. Thomas with a love hungry blonde!!
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If someone actually gets prison time for doing this thats actually dumb weed is literally safer than alcohol weed ain’t even bad at all
01:40 beautiful mask, exactly my color!
Imagine a police officer seing this be like 👁👄👁
Why do they carry the weed away in see through bags.
Bud rot, PM, wet trimming, car exhaust fumes.. Oh man..
That’s about $346 for an ounce in USD!
Propaganda
I’m sorry UK.
how does vice find these people not the police lol
"Have to be Discreet"!!!!!!….. … Lets go Viral on Vice!!!.. Nice way to get caught, n get ur stuff robbed
The more the government fights this plant, the more these huge crime syndicates exploit poor people from poor countries trying to support their families. How about, every time they catch someone growing, offer them a position in a legal medical cannabis cultivation project where they can put their skills to use in a legitimate way.
they’re doing gods work
Gorilla Glue #4 👍
Imagine you are in the middle of a car journey, you’re on the motorway and you need a piss, so you go between the trees to piss and you find litteral stoner heaven before your eyes. Idk about you but I would be taking as much as I could and driving off lol🤣
the goverment scared of this plant
god i’m happy I’m living in Canada
lmao fr just showed street signs 50 ft from the spot nice.
Made a song about THC in honor of past 4/20. Hope you’ll enjoy it 😊
These people are literally fighting a criminal market, get them a medal.
For a "guerrilla grower" his high vis attire shows exactly how real this episode is…
Ain’t no1 paying 500 for 2oz of outdoor bush
They’re so nice. They even cooked food and fed her.
Well, you could just move. I mean, I’m from Texas, obviously that ain’t gonna work out, so I moved to Oregon. Much better in the mountains over here.
These boys need to be careful he said it’d be hard to prove his plants were his. In california before it got legalized I’ve had a few homies who were guerilla growing while being watched, the feds put cameras up in the trees waited till harvest season and raided my homies field on the day they were gonna cut them down. Don’t ever forget the satellites are always watching ✌️
British people and Pot don’t mix . . Why they got the mask and 1990s gorilla gear? Over hyped
These guys are the black market- talking about not having to go to dealers- they are dealers.
How you can equate ‘higher demand and criminalisation of weed in the uk’ with people being forced to grow weed – its ridiculous. even if weed were legalised there would still be a black market growing pot …the difference being that those growers wouldnt be paying tax! its not rocket science. tuned out at the 1 min mark due to the stupidity of the presenters narrative!!!!
does anybody noticed that the girl looks really like maisie Williams 😅
organic but drenched in smog, genius!
the gentlemen in real life
they harvest too soon
You got to do, what you got to do👍💯❤️🌈🎉
The Narcos of South America. They supply my company (WEED.INC) with 70% of our stock
when VICE and other media companies interview criminals/dealers/etc. how do the criminals stay safe from police investigation? For example, can vice refuse to co-operate with police, and refuse them information, if the police should happen to ask for info about the criminals? Can they legally withhold the info? Can police legally not demand the info? How does it work?
There not doing anything wrong at least it’s safe !!!
Way better than the uk government way of funding criminals with a nature’s free seed and letting them contaminate it to death!!!!!!
it’s bad because its illegal. do bad guy rob innocent people just for a pack of cigarettes or a beer? 😂
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that dude’s growing like 25 x 1 pound tree’s at 6 different spots, thats like roughly 150lbs dope and they talk ’bout how bad dealers are trolol
That campfire breakfast though
Bro made Breakfast 😂😂
In malaysia we need do this!
They ran a train on her while they passed the blunt
I think that weed should be legal everywhere
In Canada everyone grows weed in their back yard
Way to blow up their spot by showing a bunch of drone footage. 😑
welp there goes the hideout those guys properly in jail because of vice sheeeeeeeesh!
10:15 strain of this plant???? BEUTIFULL plant
Weed must be legal all over the world 💚 💚