How Weed Laws Are Failing the UK | High Society

High Society is a new VICE documentary series about drugs in the UK.

Weed is the UK’s favourite illegal drug. An estimated half a million people use it for medicinal purposes, and many more just to get high. But while countries around the world move to decriminalise or even fully legalise smoking and growing weed – and in the face of British police de-prioritising the policing of cannabis – the UK’s government refuses to budge. When over 200,000 people signed a petition last year calling on Westminster to make the production, sale and use of weed legal, the government responded with a flat-out no.

In this episode of High Society we explore how that approach to the issue shapes the UK’s weed culture, meeting growers, medical users, politicians and a couple of thieves in Birmingham who have come up with a novel way to make money off the country’s cannabis trade.

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50 Comments

  1. cAnDllE wAxx on July 13, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    11:35 makes me so happy



  2. Terell Allen on July 13, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    ♥



  3. R Dc on July 13, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    Cannabis isn’t illegal because the government care about what potential negative health implications it may have. The legal sale of tobacco should confirm that notion. Cannabis is illegal because it erodes loyalty to dominator institutions. Furthermore to instigate the legalisation would take great courage from politicians. Most of whom would deem legalisation as political suicide



  4. Awhoo Thunder on July 13, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    You won’t be getting psychosis while smoking,
    it will get to you when you stop. 😆



  5. jaron cyr on July 13, 2021 at 8:41 pm

    i lost so much respect for vice for letting the term "cannabis psychosis" be used several times unabided, canada, us, european countries have no terminology even close because it doesnt exist, there is no such thing, fuckin jokers



  6. Stonerman15 on July 13, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    Vice look at old content and make better viedos.



  7. Toxic Modding on July 13, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    the most relaxed protest ;D



  8. Jim B on July 13, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    RIP Black the Ripper



  9. Mr Baltazar on July 13, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    That narrator out here acting like a fed



  10. stiLLa himself on July 13, 2021 at 8:47 pm

    good old vice 😢❤



  11. Josh Jones on July 13, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    Lol the old dudes been chillin with too many jamaicans ‘one love’



  12. Upwork Hiring on July 13, 2021 at 8:50 pm

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  13. Star Gorilla on July 13, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    Yes love ya local Brummie lad myself 💚💚💚



  14. Frank Jones on July 13, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    He went to a whole different topic when he was just asked "whats one negative of smoking?" Lol



  15. Aziz Farhat on July 13, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    Long live the king



  16. Frank Jones on July 13, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    Bbboooiiiii. Weed and my IBS. Omg. I feel him with his crohens



  17. Habib Rehman 71 on July 13, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    Its not like ramadan or christmas because i smoke weed



  18. Turk on July 13, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    We live in a Democracy right? when?

    Miriam Websters Definition of democracy
    1a: government by the people
    especially : rule of the majority
    b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
    ———–
    So where is this democracy I’m told we have?



  19. Brill Smith on July 13, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    3:05 my girl from the ends gets it



  20. Agbor ojong on July 13, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    (F..a..s..t.–.d..r..o..p.-.-.o..f..f]
    Ca…r.t..,..va…pe..🌿…..w…e…,,,e…d.🌿..ed…i…b…les….🌿….pi…l..ls.🌿..da…n…k.🌿…c….o…k..e,..L….S…D..
    Wickr……..banky420
    Kik…….bankyjons



  21. Tobias Luc on July 13, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    Imagine burning all this weed and getting passive high from it



  22. Jonathan Mascarenhas on July 13, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    ****hello****



  23. demolazer on July 13, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    Just finished rolling a spliff and this video came up on my feed. I feel like in London it’s essentially legal already. Smell it often, no one cares, whether they use it or not. Smoke up in 2021!



  24. Anton Stach on July 13, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    RIP black the ripper, Realist don out there!



  25. Terell Allen on July 13, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    ONE LOVE



  26. Local Council Jobsworth on July 13, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    Part-time Loft Space Gardener earns 3 times my annual income

    How is that possible, good on her😂



  27. Xx_thiccTighsEnjoyer_xX on July 13, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    Grandpa on top



  28. VanTheMan on July 13, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    Bro. I dont understand how STEROIDS is seen as less harmful than weed



  29. walters penn on July 13, 2021 at 9:15 pm

    ➡️B#u::y w•e~e•d*🌿v…a•pe*🌿c:a•rts🌿h~a•sh*🌿*edi.bles*da•nk*🌿sh-ro•oms*🌿co•ke* pi.lls🌿fastdelivery/shipping
    Dm👉wickr [ banky420 ]
    Dm👉kik [ bankyjons ]



  30. Flomber Heimann on July 13, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    What a waste of weed the police are burning, they should smoke it and maybe they will rape less women



  31. Mystic on July 13, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    Will everybody smoke weed if it is legal? -No!
    Is everybody drinking alcohol and smoke cigarettes because they are legal? -No!
    Will the pharmacy loose a lot of money when weed is legal? -Yes! There you have it, why it is still illegal.
    Greetings from germany 😊



  32. A Zhan on July 13, 2021 at 9:19 pm

    Apa jadi kalau ganja legal? Cer tengok video ni https://shrinke.me/dokEs



  33. Green Hat on July 13, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    Banning it just makes it harder to regulate. People still smoke weed legal or not.



  34. Mr Baltazar on July 13, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    We’re already trying to legalize mushrooms next in the west 🍄 🤩



  35. Agbor ojong on July 13, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    (F..a..s..t.–.d..r..o..p.-.-.o..f..f]
    Ca…r.t..,..va…pe..🌿…..w…e…,,,e…d.🌿..ed…i…b…les….🌿….pi…l..ls.🌿..da…n…k.🌿…c….o…k..e,..L….S…D..
    Wickr……..banky420
    Kik…….bankyjons



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  37. Hippie Soul on July 13, 2021 at 9:21 pm

    Wowoowow। LEGALIZE IT



  38. Aaron. on July 13, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    Who would allow them pussios in the corsa robbing them 🤣🤣🤣 smack em up



  39. Brill Smith on July 13, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    anyone in the UK? feel free to add me on wickr:Calicookiesuk1



  40. jaron cyr on July 13, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    i love britain but damn the uk is way behind on cannabis logic, cannabis psychosis? are you for fucking real? we have single states with a higher population than your entire country and us americans love our propaganda and we have a ton of practice fuckin things up over and over till we find a happy medium, how come all us yankees over here never heard of cannabis psychosis?, vice, gtfo with these retards, if your reporting on cannabis then have fuckin hamilton do it jesus



  41. prm on July 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    i can respect smoking in public to protest, but smoking in doors with cigarettes is not allowed as it is, second hand smoke is a real thing



  42. Frederik on July 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    True stoners don’t leave trash behind



  43. Jackarax Yt on July 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    I bet if you look at the alcohol and weed statistics that alcohol results are terrible



  44. kai Leigh on July 13, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    Not me watching this swifty 😂



  45. Ayden Chase on July 13, 2021 at 9:30 pm

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  46. Lamin Mbye-Prior on July 13, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    RIP Black the Ripper.



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    Pizdeos



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  49. Frank Jones on July 13, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    Yyyooo. They just burned so much money. And for what?!



  50. CHANTELLE ROSA on July 13, 2021 at 9:35 pm

    Legalise cannabis already