Hunting For A Rare Congolese Weed Strain With “The Kings of Cannabis” | VICE on HBO 

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this is boring af

were watching people jack off their own egos now? Wtf

That means you need to hear we don't feel the way you do about you lmao

4yrs later lol

They had to pay every Chief. It probably added up and I’m sure it wouldn’t have been a good idea to carry an extreme sum of money in DRC

That’s why he died because God don’t like ugly. It’s wicked to treat Africans that way let alone any human that way. Sooo a price for a life.

He died in Congo due to Malaria.

Lol of course Javi. $53+$53+$53+53+$53+$53+$53+$53+$53+$53 = The billions they would make in the U.S from 2 seeds 😂😂

Javier Figueroa yea it added it up but did it add up to a billion no

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That pissed me off lol

@angel cabrera-marotto using the word epitome while watching a video about weed-hunting

@@beny6126 good to have a big vocab no matter what your doing lol

No need to get his shoes all wet when the other guy was already barefoot

Yeah, its sad he died in such a Terrible way :(

@@Glitch-Gremlin how did he die

@@noone7884 malaria

The curse of Palo Moyombe for crossing the land.

I know man. Its sad to hear that he died. Crazy how those well off guys risked their azzes to go deep into dangerous areas. They couldve gave or sent the Africans some different quality seeds as well or paid them more tho

Listen privileged girl I know you like to seem like a social justice activist and what not I get it it’s cute and really corky but do you understand how much more problematic issues would sprout from them sending even a 100.000 to a village that helped them a war would legit break out between all villages who helped

Those Americans put a curse on him after they heard they arnt gunna get nothing out of the deal

Gamer13 😂🤣

The other guy is lucky it wasn't him. He dead a** greedy not to pay those villagers for taking the seeds had them fighting with their local police.

KidKrazz like you wouldn’t do the same

These people have my dream job....I'm literally crying right now.

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Facts

Seeds are not shit with out the soil🤔 the strian will only last but so long.

Lmao.. Only shady ones was the ones argueing in favor to abandon these guys incthe jungle..

Facts

u sure it was bud?

I used to get really high on a weed called diesel

@@YiBaLanPaisour diesel?

​@@YiBaLanPaisour diesal?

Yes, it's a pity that with these guys, they probably sourced it and then gave the locals some hybrid seeds in exchange... meaning if the locals crossed their plants with those dutch genetics, it could be gone already.

Well it can’t

Absolutely knowledge is power

I know, right...wtf?!

Joao Pa lol I forgot I watched this

That was a grown ass man

You didn't see what he made him do off camera...

He is an absolute soy boy, complete disrespect, like 99% of VICE´s reporters never understand why they hire these weaklings to send them in remote regions.

Pretty sure there's a full documentary on this

tstar2345 where?

Spartan 187 looks are not everything when it comes to weed. I have smoked some shitty looking weed and it’s gotten me higher then some of the best looking weed....

RIP Franco

@Spartan 187 You sound like you know nothing. These are OG seeds. Landrace strains. Straight from the earth, pure, god given. These are the strains that gave birth to every strain and hybrid you know about. Having some of these seeds is unique because they have their own thc, cbd, and thcv content. Which can then be mixed and maximized with any other strains.

Its just weed bro

@@DudeMan-xs3db it’s a death and yea it is just weed but that 1 thing brings so many people joy and happiness and money it’s amazing rip franco!

Thats funny I saw greed in his eyes

Weird i saw greed. as he gloated about making "millions" from taking someone elses seeds he paid 100$ for. in front of people who couldn't even make a living off of it. No wonder people were angry when they left. You need to re-read some people. Big time.

Good riddance.

They sold his soul

That's for sure! Lol

Why haven't yall realized that Congo money currency is way different than the other place in the world $53 is a lot of money that amount they paid that man was a lot of money in Congo currency you will be rich with that if u lived in congo

@@zellydarebel8044 its not a lot of money. It's shyt.

@@zellydarebel8044 FOH SMDH

Heart of darkness

So the other people involved living was what? You think malaria would have turned around and went the other way if he didn't take seeds? Get help

@@YaBoiShining yes, that's exactly what I think. You don't know malaria like I do. It takes what it wants from who it wants. You shoulda left the seeds for the people there. That way maybe 1 of them wouldn't have infected him on purpose with malaria. Stupid 🤣

It feels something like the spy kids where they take a valuable clock that the skeletons were holding and the whole skeleton kingdom came to attack them and then left them alone when they got their clock back. Something like this, if you take something that's pure and you violate it, it will violate you. Have respect for the congo seeds

@Chris The Weedologist lol like it's so easy to do the work these guys were doing. There's easier ways to make money

ikr some people in those mostly untouched areas are so nice.

Trash

You would like that. Bet you would have a problem if it was the other way around 🤬

@BabyGoat Aristes bruh what

@@BotAimAJ bruh what

culture shock

Soy has nothing to do with it, you big macho tough veal eater!!! Arggghhh. So manly!

Marcin Kiersnowski shutup nerd

And he won’t stop saying “journey” 🙄

go outside soyboy@@marcinkiersnowski5235

Ikr? Shit..

Malaria is caused by a mosquito bite, ya seen all those flying around the boat, it only takes one to transmit the disease. It basically kills all the red cells and keeps new red cells from being made so the body starves of oxygen because red cells carry the oxygen, he basically died from the inside out. It's rare in the USA, They say 20,000 cases a year, still rare considering how many people live in the US.

@@thesmokingrooster8791 damn

@@thesmokingrooster8791 yeah it's kinda fortunate that the rest of them on the trip didn't catch it too

For real plot twist had me fucked up

At least he knew they'd find it.

Went up in smoke

Yes that exploitation has been happening for centuries, which is why Africa is so impoverished til this day.

Yeah to hell with these guys

That's why one of them caught maleria and is no longer with the living. Instant karma 💯💪🏿

@DavidBlaise Hays Did you miss the part where he was trying to legalize it in Africa? or do you just love misery?.

Yeah i would be mad too. The scientists still have a lot of work and investment to make it a viable strain to the public tho. Cant imagine how expensive that facility is

Facts wtf

But, without the death part ofcourse

@Loki Leaves in your eyes. What if they thrive on holistic simplicity?

@Loki Leavesthe ones who take are the ones who have to be asked for such things. Shh and find yourself.

Loki Leaves Take your ignorance away and gain knowledge of the truth. You must not know of neocolonialism, or the fact that 500,000,000,000 is stolen from Africa each year by Europeans and even America. Ugh you really think China can develop itself like this and Africans can’t? Guns were the only thing that gained Europe power in the past. Running away from the plague to conquer.

KUSH why you want people to hate on him for you, that’s hateful and hopefully your kids turnout midget rastas and you can talk about them all day

Wasn't hating at all

@@philhancin3489 lol bro imagine your kids come out midget rastas like the guy said 🤣😂😂

@@philhancin3489 it's too late. The prophecy has been foretold

Looks like I'm having white rasta babies

Right like hes about to betray them and extort their resources for his own greed

Low-key 😂😂

He is, an evil scientist wanting to dominate the world through cannabis

He dead tho hahahahaha

THAT'S WHY WHEN HE WAS THERE HE DIED OF MALIRIA

lol its already been done.

Hey, he gave them 100 bucks

I know tf I was dying as well

That looked like a child too?? Wtf...

He got a piggy back ride..so what. The man offered to help him across..the African was getting paid more money than he'd ever made in his life to make the journey..is it bad because the guys black..stop infantilising black people.

@@wickedliquid1177 It's a show of how weak and embarrassing this "journalist" is. Like really? You're scared of a little puddle? He is the definition of beta lmao

Yes his daddy

lmfaooo imagine😩😩

I was looking for this comment.

well u have written for fun but i believe this might be the case. In Africa Voodo spells nd anestral power nd black magic is very powerful that can result in similar consequences.

Facts!

Dem thief’s! Set fire pon dem soul!

Fat chicken Small egg

All potheads know you got to hustle, roll with dat shiot

you think he should of payed more for a tin full of seeds? their market where these locals are making money is unaffected and 50$ is probably like a months wage there. if you think they deserve more than 50$ for a tin of what is essentially reggie seeds then you are crazy.

what are you talking about mate? People are paid for the value they provide. Just because the locals came to know the potential after the west came in doesnt mean they can make any money on their own. You are paid for only how much you contribute. Thats fair. These people do not have th infrastructure, the demand clients or the know how to leverage the business. Hell is not even their land to claim money, lot less demand it! sorry thats how capitalism works. They would have made deals with the country's government for sure! The ones that entered needn't pay squat to the locals and its the govt duty to provide them jobs, safety and other means to actually make it a viable business in Congo, benefitting even the locals. Thats how it works!

That’s what it’s worth

Capitalists will tell themselves all kinds of stories about how they’re helping the world.

Lmfao, if they gave him more money, he would have been killed for his money within a week. When the yearly income average is $750 USD, $50 for seeds is a good deal. Everyone bitching isn’t Congolese

Humans in general will tell themselves that. Unfortunate nature of the beast.

Buddy died while trying to make weed legal there but who cares right?

Allright, so lets supose you sell me this great weed and it came with some seeds. Lets pretend for a moment that i plant those seeds using my own money for equipment and they came up to be top A quality sativa plant wich i then sell and make tons of cash with it. That means i ow you money? All they bought was some seeds in a farm, and no one can ask you for more than 100 bucks for that. Like it or not, we live in a free world and the poor, the rich, we all deserve the same rights.

No coincidence at all. Hungry farmers will select plants that don't make them hungrier

No lmao they don't just magically stop hunger. It's biology that you need food to sustain your body. THCV is only appetite-suppressing, meaning they fight back the hunger caused by THC entering your body. They can't fight back lack of food.

Wow word

The irony is that you think it's a 3rd world country that has all the natural resources and precious metals and gems that the rest of the world is constantly stealing. Oil,diamonds, platinum gold and now marijuana

The irony is that you can trick your body into not being hungry but your body eating itself because of lack of food won’t go away because you arnt as hungry... you still need a certain limit of calories to survive

For real like I ain't getting dirty. Someone carry me across the mud !

dude that guy gave me the creeps man

harley cortez it was funny. What’s really the big deal? People on the internet will make assumptions and spread negative energy for absolutely 0 reason.

@@joshsan8450 yeah it's funny that in a impoverished country a black kid carried a completely able white guy on his back through mud. So funny, seeing their laughs really set the mood for me.

@@hc5707 Well when you put it like that....LMAO

George White af....

I feel like shit

Right

Right? I was like, oh, just a cool weed documentary, let me watch it, and now I feel personally attacked lol

I was kinda hilarious, though.

Watch Hamilton's Pharmacopeia on Hulu

Mike H what is the show about

@@joshjohnson9040 Hamilton (the white shirt/glasses Vice reporter in this video) travels around making mini documentaries on different drugs.

Mike H great show. So interesting

Factssssss they should

honestly it was lowkey kinda interested 💀

No, that's how EVERY market works.

@Ego Twistick Maybe there's some ground between $40 million and $50 that could be established? Because at the end they choose to operate at you KNOW it's a deliberate rip-off.

@@johnrocker2943 there's no guarantee that those seeds were worth anything. These guys risked their lives and no small amount of money on this trip on a crap shoot. The plants are still there in the Congo. The chiefs were paid. If you want to go on some charitable journey to enrich the people of the Congo, I don't see anything stopping you. So far, the cannabis kings have done infinitely more for than you.

@Ego Twistick How do you know what they would have done? And one cabbage will not produce the profits those seeds will; bad analogy.

@@tiananman Lol these are millionaires that paid $50... I'm sorry, but that's fucking laughable, as they take thousands of seeds and plants from a field the local villagers use.... then they turn around and make it THEIR product. You can defend them all you want (what's especially weird is that you mention what measly amount the millionaire "Kings of Cannabis" had to pay to get to a field..... to take advantage of a cultural artifact. And I say this as pro-capitalist---- but I'm not just gonna excuse these guys who are very clearly walking all over something that is seen as sacred for that culture, all for capital gain. " If you want to go on some charitable journey to enrich the people of the Congo, I don't see anything stopping you. " Yeah-- no one's making that argument.... that still doesn't excuse anything though lol.

Giaccomo Chiarella, Malaria

@Giaccomo Chiarella no

Giaccomo Chiarella bro honestly it’s not even funny he’s passed. He was an extremely successful entrepreneur with fantastic plans that would benefit the world and in return benefit his income too, which is realistic considering it’s a business industry. He passed from Malaria, but the dude is like the mastermind of ideas. He’s insanely passionate about finding new and the best strains for medicinal purposes and I have to give him mad props for building such an empire while he was still alive. Never laugh at the someone who passes man atleast out of respect. Most people would just send workers out that way if they catch something then oh well not my problem since your getting paid. These two were in it to win it man and their grind never stopped.

@Giaccomo Chiarella are you stupid? its in the video that he died

He died because of a fucking mosquito. Unfortunate.

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They give it to kids through charity you can donate it too. There’s a photo of a kid in Africa wearing a Cookie Monster shirt saying “me so hungry”

Probably looted some where🤣

Mission trips bring clothes for the people. No telling what ad you might see.

Word is he buys his tackle there as well but idk he looks like more of a Walmart type of guy 😂

Its not like the locals invented the plant, it was growing wildly thousands of years before them

I don't know if I would call 3 stoned idiots who sell weed buying weed from African guys economic colonialism. It isn't like there going there with guns to steal the resources

@@NextLineIsMine doesn’t matter. It’s their land, their cultivation be maintaining.

And you see what happened to franco..the gods don't like ugly!

Dude smiled and laughed “no”… dawg you already make millions would promising them 3% kill you?

Guys a prick, couldn't even build them a well or give them medical care or just something other than 50 dollars, I won't speak on a Deadman but his partner is also extremely greedy, so karma makes it full circle

^ That part

@@guitarpro248 This is literally every big business.. 100 US Dollars is a lot for them. It isnt their job to give them medical care or anything, they are fine on their own.

And the ending is Karma

@@greenfum8724 lol coming from the guy who probably has done nothing of any note in their life and never will

Not funny

get on this african real money. Bitcoin

RIP Franco 👊💨

Damn that sucks

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Yes it is

I’m sure now being able to plant weed is a testament on how unfair and cruel the world is. Kinda ironic that the video takes place in Congo, with poverty and disease staring straight at you face, a true sign of cruel and inequality in the world, and you devolve your thinking to weed, lol what a clown

@@JohnDoe-iw1mz hey, Dummy 🥴, that's what the ENTIRE video is about, since YOU haven't noticed. 🤣😂🤷

That part str8 bullchit

Yeah it is, but who tf actually actually cares,

Franco is the greedy one 🤦‍♂️ Dude is like a Disney villain, how are you this dull?

@@notthatguy4703 how is he a villain at all?

@@notthatguy4703 You realize he did quite a bit of humanitarian work in Africa right?

From the Strain Hunters: "t has been more than a year since we recorded this and over a year since we lost our dear Franco. We miss him so much. Since then we have donated over 500,000 dollars this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo for humanitarian projects and invested over 500,000 dollars in our medical trials for HIV, MALARIA, and Diarrhoea in DRC. The way they put arjan on the spot to answer that question at the end is taken completely out of context. We spent over a million in Congo, Franco died, and don't sell anything yet from Congo.... it has only cost us large sums of money and lots of sacrifice. Its not easy working in such a climate, we welcome anyone to come help us. We hope our sacrifice will lead to benefits both to the people of Congo, lead as an example for other struggling countries and to the future development of our organisation. At the end of the day, you need to conduct business and earn revenues, we can only make a difference with cash flow and we do need to fund our projects somehow. We reinvest more than any other cannabis company back into communities. Check the www.strainhuntersfoundation.com to read more about our medical cannabis and humanitarian projects in Congo and other countries. Unfortunately we lost our brother Franco to Malaria in Congo, he dedicated his life to this plant and he made the ultimate sacrifice. We will continue his legacy and make sure this magical plant will help Africa build up their economy and benefit from cannabis as a medicine. Cannabis has the power to help Africa develop, we welcome anyone to help contribute. Here's to Franco, we love you and miss you, see you in Paradise."

Definitely 💯💯

They most likely paid more than that for protection. And I'm sure they were required to pay for a UN convoy

harold lange lol do you think they make more than hundreds from anything else?

In the end of the video, he says that weed was still not legal in the Congo, but Franco was trying to attempt to legalize it. The people of Congo can't profit of what is not legal.

harold lange idk what you mean by “us”. Speak for yourself

Jose Bravo drug dealers have been profiting off of weed since it’s been illegal

Rs

If you do not know how to make money, just stfu

Yep this is called biopirating, stealing the treasures of other people

@@nerbyoso122 Some people don't want your money. After all, it didn't help Franco survive, and they certainly knew how to make money. ;)

@@19912010luis in this situation, the canabis is just the stuff these locals use to get high. And the guys in the video use its high percentage of THCV to create medicines that could save millions of lives from diabetes and other diseases. Also, you deserve to be paid back for all the hard work, all the sweat, tears and blood you put in.

true

When the lady shaved hair from his underarms.... she put that voodoo on that ass

@@ourtime2440 nah Congolese don’t practice voodoo they call that sum ancestry shi

That Chief didn't give him seeds.. he lied to get $100 actually. He said it was a mature field and it wasn't.

blursed comment

Africa has always been profitable Factor in colonization and African slave trade maybe it’ll put more into perspective

Essentially the same thing, getting taken advantage of by higher powers since the very beginning

The richest man in the world used to be from Africa, king Masa Musa. You don’t hear much from that as history books have been trying to erase it for hundreds of years.

Stupid.

Maybe one day they will get there shit together

That’s a cover for what he’s actually doing. He was trying to make it look good but it really is not.

Entitlement at it's finest

@@meleaayers237shady but can't say so, atleast now we do get the strain from another place too

​​@@lancilthereal711i'll translate what Franco really said for you: "we are exploiting Africa just like our european ancestors before us"

Otc_bethinator you’re acting like the tribes and villages owned the plants

BorEDark how didn’t they?? Lmao like honestly how ignorant can one person be.

@@kushandcars2429 they help the motherfucker get to the plants!

@@isaacmiller3157 $53 more than they had yesterday, $53 more than they will ever get for no work ever again

He’s not running a fucking charity at least he cared enough to give them something. Since he really didn’t have to give them shit.

Rèmy Strandberg 😂😂😂😂😂

im dead lmaooo

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lmaooooo

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hypothetical profit doesn't keep the fucking lights on,does it?

Strain hunters has raised over half a million dollars for developing roads, agriculture, and low-cost medicine in Congo, as well as homes in India, orphanages in Kenya, etc.

@@chris-cu2vi half a million dollars when the total profit they get from the plants goes billions

@@DailyStoicTrader The biggest cannabis companies in the world hardly break $100m in annual revenue, he probably meant the industry as a whole. And revenue doesn't include how much the company spends. Netflix makes over $10 billion in revenue, but spends much more than that on its shows that the company is billions in debt.

@@DailyStoicTrader they literally just took plants from that shithole, they don't have to give a single penny after compensating the tour guides and the chiefs for leading them in their land.

Yaa he probably gave him a joint n a buck for that work

Announcement mjññ

homie looked very sick during his travels. he kept getting paler and paler. I doubt he would have survived making it through the mud.

I know right. How can someone be so pathetic that they need another person to carry them across some shallow muddy water? It's not like he is feeble or handicapped.

Nothing wrong in needing help. That guy was terribly out of shape tho

Howard Heredia I wasn’t ready at all, man was a true hero

He looked like he was dying even in this video.

yeah served him right may u rot in hell badly too

I think noone was ready for it...

yea pretty terrible “that’s how the business works” *flashes to them all jumping off a yacht in costa rica*

Ehh a deal is a deal right.

I mean these villagers would have very little feasible chance of making the millions because it's not just about selling the seeds. The strainhunters have created a company, networked, put in the time and effort to grow these strains and breed them in a way that strengthens the genetics. The villagers agreed to show them these plants after being paid, and the strainhunters spent days endlessly hiking, struggling, risking their lives to find these seeds. The strainhunters didnt lie to them about their intentions, they were open about what they were seeking and why. They earned their millions before, during, and after the trip. I'll admit they could have done better understanding and explaining why they weren't in the wrong here, which tells me they didn't give it heavy enough initial thought. Would donating a portion of the bounty to the village/s be a nice thing to do? Absolutely. Are they obligated to in any way? No, I don't believe so.

but do you the villagers could make billions as well them. they cant even if they died trying. The villagers sold it, they paid whatever was needed. Villagers could have asked for thousands of dollars.

itsShowtime007 more than double profit good shit

i don't think they were trying they are just saying they doing what others did to make money. they haven't showed anything much remorse but for making money by finding these chemicals

Been Gone At least your woke, it’s called the “big brother” conspiracy, Facebook started it

damn, I hadn´t realized this shit, I´m exactly in the same situation wtf haha

We're doomed

They're always listening to that mic, I'm starting to know when something will be in my recommended based off of my conversations...

Same😂

$$$$

xxD

The Notorious Reh This vice channel is wack man

That's to avoid getting his mangina wet! 🤣

that is very gæ

Johnny Rebel 😂😂😂yes you did, I had to play that back like twice to make sure. Lit little fucker. I think I may blow a lil something in the air too, just for the homie 🤙✌️😚👌😚💨

SensiRippah420 he probably can literally fly when he’s high😂😂

Thats how you know the weed is good, it temporarily shrinks you to size of a midget

Johnny Rebel lol I was wondering why his head looked so big

Rastout

Losing brain cells looking at your comment 🤦‍♂️ praying for you bro 🙏😕

Don't bother Jerusalem is here in Africa so I'll be the one praying for you

That scrawny whinny little puke is not a man!!!

@family guy where is the middle east located? In Africa!

if you find oil in your backyard and show the government, are they gonna give you a share of the profits? No? Why not? You found it? You deserve it, don't you?

@@highonlife2323 yea but sence you have to pay property tax it technically is their land your just renting it to have your house on it if you think about it cause you miss tax payments they take your property

@@highonlife2323 u just proved why that's wrong

@@esmokebaby land of the free my friend

​@@isjdnlkaauuenmkcs6479 listen: to make oil usable in an engine, you have to refine it. there's a process. a long, calculated process which takes a lot of advanced technology, a lot of educated individuals, and a lot of money. the oil you find in the ground is not the same product you fill your car up with. same thing with these African people who just happen to have the weed. the seeds those europeans take are gonna create a whole new product, a whole new plant, modified by all the smart people and advanced equipment. in the end, its not gonna be the same product. and yet there's people acting like the tribes deserve a part in the profits. but what if they did? what if the tribes people are given a cut of the profits? what percentage should we give them? lets say 2% of all profits because they helped them find the weed. 2% of $1 billion is $20,000,000. What in gods name would the tribes people do with 20 million dollars? too much? okay, I'll lower the total profits to $10 million, and that's lowballing it. 2% of $10 million is $200,000 US. $200,000 US dollars = 399,400,000 Congolese Francs. The average yearly income a person makes in the DRC is a little over 1,500,000 Congolese Francs. I did the research. THATS A LOT OF MONEY...The tribes people would go crazy with that amount of money. they would endanger themselves. people would come to rob them. who knows. all in all, I think the exchange is quite fair.

redsn0w95 they aren’t trying to get killed fool

This how they steal from Africa n don't give BK shit to the continent

@@abijoespence335 they spent years of research pin pointing certain locations, the natives only walked them to the weed fields they didnt really deserve anything

Abijoe Spence you must not have read how they gave back 500,000 dollars to help medical trials for HIV and Malaria lol

Give them 1000 at least rich bastards

Right😂😂😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔

A curse because of his greed

Blackmagic

Right because Franco eventually passed from Malaria...