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It’s Colombia and yes they have to check for that stuff anyways because there is so much trafficking going on and the Colombian government is very strict on what enters and leaves the country, however most of the coke is passed through the ocean among other forms.

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I hate to be that person, but many Colombians hate it whenever people write it as "Columbia"! So, just a heads up.

@Messy In my language we call it Kolumbija. Accept it.

I mean, he wasn't called "Posh Pete" for no reason.

I know. He's the epitome of the 'nice neighbor', no one would ever suspect...👀

Drug trafficking is business. He’s a business man.

He did go to university

CA & OR have legalized weed. Has that stopped illegal grows and the use of basically slave labor trafficked from Central America? ANSWER...No.

@J B This is one of the biggest bs arguments out there. The reason that there still is a black market is that weed is not legalized federally. Therefore it is less risky to grow in states where it has been decriminalized or legalized, exporting into states with prohibiton. Simple as that. You wouldn't expect a legalization of cocaine in south america to kill off cartels as they can still export, do you?

In comparison, problem with prostitution is that the demand will always exceed the legal supply, so there would always be human trafficking. Problem with street drugs is the connection between drug use and social isolation that is independent of any law. See Bruce K. Alexander.

Why is he “called, posh Pete’s and the people who sell it at street level thugs? I see so many racially tinged comments about the street level distributors, but not with guys like this. Seems like a culture problem with people like Pete.

They'll never stop it

Of course there will still be an illegal market but it’s undeniably smaller than a legal one would be. There are cities across the US that have been absolutely swallowed by hard drugs with people openly using on the streets. It’s pretty clear that people just aren’t responsible enough to fully legalize drugs. Not only that but there’s little to no practical use for meth, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Legalizing won’t do much because people in Cali still rather buy weed in the streets because how much the taxes are. I agree with decriminalization, I feel it be more effective and if they do legalize then don’t tax it as much.

Ask someone who has done a long stretch if they feel the same way. More like a life changing experience. Probably less cruel to kill the criminal.

@Virvum Juggernaut that's crazy I don't think people serving longer makes it better that you only served 10 years I am 18 and I will probably do like 1 week in juvie in September time to move smarter

Go in with a degree in marijuana and come out with a PHD in cocaine.

Notice how he said countries with harsh punishments and death sentences are a big no no? Yeah, that's how we stop it forever.

@Citizen Kane People do drugs there too and it gets smuggled in. It's just that you need a larger operation (i.e. more bribe money) to make it work. He said his was small so he probably didn't have the resources. Harsh sentences just make the criminals think harder and be more creative.

​@Citizen Kane It's amazing how people like you receive all this good information and yet get all the wrong messages from it. Precisely the reason why we can't actually have positive change in this world.

He don't tell about legalizing, just about motivation behind. The thing you wrote in replied is not related well to what he wrote

what's the point of a statement like this? That's like saying most deaths are gravity related, if the gravity isn't there, the cause of death is gone.

It is kinda absurd model, bc but fair enough. The point in that ppl don't tend to do stuff that give them nothing. And the conclusion that "if ppl have one reason less than they stop doing the thing" Is untold. It isn't that clear, bc there are psychos that just love what they doing or effect of their actions and more but. So he just told clear point IMHO. Also if you'll remove gravity you'll for sure remove gravity related deaths, but it'll cause a lot nongravity related death, variation from something-atomic level (idk how particles less than 1/10^3 behave) to just flew away from planet falling apart while all air around you also spreading into space.-.

That like saying if the financial motivation for petroleum is gone then the motivation is gone but people need to drive their cars just like now days people need to get high and smashed. Just the way it is.

How do you know that? Do you believe what you just said for a minute? Who are you to say that? What do you do in this life? What is your place in this society to affirm such strong accusations?

@punishedexistence _"Umm, the government is not your friend. They don't care about you."_ Well, it depends on what state you live in, man. That's just your personal opinion. No personal projection, and don't make your case and your personal belief a generalization, please.

@NetTubeUser 🤓

Government make more in taxes and fines through cps etc for simple things like having a spliff.

Gentleman?! He’s a selfish bastard who was part of a murdering machine that ruined the lives of thousands of people (not just the drug addicts, but their families too). After his first arrest he should’ve used his time in prison to think about the reason he was arrested: his actions caused harm to other people, but he couldn’t care less. He continued his criminal life. He’s no gentleman and doesn’t deserve a stage, or people buying his books or seeing his movie or series! I hope no filmmaker helps him out with this! They should have kept him for life in that prison in Ecuador!

@tsmeman63 How much suffering does an individual need to have before you're content with the punishment? How much good does he need to offer after the punishment for you to be forgiving? If good intentions concluding the time served aren't enough and you structure your judgment in a way that is motivated simply by an empathetic nature, what's to come of those who do the same crime, get the same punishment but are to be better individuals than this gentlemen? Does that just not matter?

@BadaBoom its immaturity. hes not on that point in life where you realize that revenge doesnt bring you any satisfaction.

There is another way….

@Chris Baten 👀👂

@moii Jesus, He has set many people free from drug addiction. The church needs to step it up in the outreach.

@Chris Baten kinda sad that u think that would help ngl

@Enderguz Why do you think thats sad? also what does ngl mean?

Exactly

What do you mean "essentially" that's precisely what he was lol.

It's because drugs are still a business. Professionalism is important

Ahhh I was waiting for this comment. “Essentially” ?! Like no, that’s EXACTLY what he was - a hard core drug dealer, criminal, and thug. The reason why I was waiting for this comment is because I know people will watch and think about how clear he is in speaking and how plainly he presents himself which makes you think in some way that he is more respectable than other people. I think if he was a person of color and spoke with slang, you would think he was a thug. He does seem like he’s on a better path now though!

@Mary Why bring up the race card

transparency and education about the facts/process is always good and why anything being 'sold' to you will hide them at any cost lol

Doing or not doing? Confusing

@Wolf they said from doing.

I guess I would just ask how keeping them illegal is better. The thing is still happening, people are just having their lives ruined criminally over it right now, at least here in the US and I imagine it’s similar there in terms of drug laws and views

@David O Donovan I don’t deny that some addicts do that. But there’s also plenty of addicts who don’t. Look at alcoholics. There’s alcoholics who function and there’s those who don’t, but we don’t necessarily blame alcohol for that, we blame the person for making their decisions. I’d say we can apply the same attitude to drugs. Drunk driving is a massive issue and kills tons of people, but we have pretty light penalties on it compared to the penalties on drugs. Just another perspective, have you considered what point in someone’s life they have to be at to even begin doing heroin, much less escalate to IV use, and further to harming society. The majority of addicts aren’t doing violent crime, they’re just struggling, and I don’t think they need to be in prison for that. If an addict commits a violent crime that’s a totally different story, but I’d argue it’s not necessarily the drugs fault they do that, just like it’s not alcohols fault people drive drunk. With the stigma that currently exists around hard drugs, you have to already be at a very low point in life to take them, maybe exluding coke since it’s fairly accepted. But healthy well rounded people don’t shoot meth or heroin, or smoke crack, that’s an escalation. By the time you’ve picked up the addiction, that person is, 9/10 times, already what you would argue is a leech on society, the drugs aren’t necessarily what’s making them into that, it’s just the crowd that attracts. As for opiates, a lot of those addicts are people who were prescribed medicine and then yanked off of it when they became addicted with no rehabilitation. And I concede that is an example of well rounded people falling victim to drugs, but again I’d argue it’s not the drugs fault. Those drugs were over prescribed and there wasn’t enough info given to people on the risks. I’m not sure it’s fair to put people in prison because of actions they take to feed an addiction that was given to them legally. Especially if that action is just buying heroin to feed the addiction. I’m not saying we should give addicts free reign or not hold them accountable, but I don’t think the drug itself and possession of it should be illegal, or at least shouldn’t warrant prison time.

@Hugh jass I'm Irish. I know functional alcoholics. I blame both them and the alcohol for their actions. Heroine addicts will do anything to get high. If you think they aren't involved in violent crime, then you might be mixing up officially recorded violent crime, with overall crime. Lots of crimes don't get recorded, particularly if it's between criminals. This is the main reason why guns save way, way, way, more lies then they take. Because they are deterrent, and only a fraction of crimes they prevent by just showing a gun, are actually reported. But even those ones by themselves justify legal gun ownership like the USA's second Amendment, or over here, I think it was a 2008 Irish supreme court ruling, basically making it illegal for the police to stop you from buying almsot any gun if you had a clean criminal record, it wasn't a machine gun, and you already owned at least one gun legally. Which basically means that gun laws here in the Republic of Ireland are way freer then over in the USA, in a way.

What about the quality? All I hear is that it’s nothing like it used to be with the ether

Plus now you have to worry about it being cut with fentanol. Not worth it give me a few beers and I'm happy!

Congratulations on 20 years of sobriety, that's a huge milestone and I wish you all the best.

So no latex tents for you it is, eh mate? Try condoms

He nows his job dutys

Well spoken, I will definitely look into his book

Well it was his job so there you go.

Greed runs the world...therefore greed is the root of evil. Not money.

Call me whatever, but I thought he was an actor. Well explained anyway.

I'd imagine most if not all of the things he's talking about, governments already know about. This is more educative for us the citizens.

in some aspects it's better though

@Brad T troll

I don't feel bad for him at all. Of all people, He knew the risk involved with this kind of work. He made his choices. And I'm sure he's learned from them. But he doesn't deserve, and probably doesn't even care for my sympathy for him, if I had any. As for the prisons in Ecuador, yea, It shouldn't be that way, indeed.

But unfortunately as he very well says it, it does benefit to a lot of people/companies/ governments as is

You never thought of that?

Oliver North, if you remember the Iran Contra investigation... It was stated that he did indeed trade weapons for cocaine, the media kinda focused on everything else

in Canada that is why weed was being kept illegal for so long. Some people in the highest places of government were busted in a large distribution ring bust with thousands of kilograms of weed being moved regularly...

Cool, I really like Pete!

Yeah but he’s a snitch! He probably works with law enforcement now giving them information

posh pete delivers still to this day but in another way

@Anthony Cox You say that as if there's anything wrong with snitching on other criminals.

@Anthony Cox And you are just a civilian. Why tf would you even care if he works with law enforcement?

PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT

@greenrefrigerator ok yeah whatever but you saw my comment right?

Not doing drugs doesn’t mean you’re a chicken - it just means you can have fun in other ways and have a well developed sense of self preservation.

U.S. on the side of war that's *for* drugs, not against

Read the book , I m gonna get you. I can t remember the name of the author.

Thought so too! Super interesting as well to gain this perspective

The war on drugs is as well a way to sell more, in the Netherlands we still havent legalised weed, and 3 parties said: if we legalise cannabis we think the export wil increase 20-80%, we think 80%! While in a world where export is the whole industry and getting economical growth is so much wanted, it isnt a fair argument... And thus it stayed illegal, while i feel like someone literally handed those 3 parties a paper written what they had to say.. And its logical, pay 3 party leaders 1m each to save your yearly revenue of 50-500 million.... Sadly money buys you everything

Since pot is now legal in Canada, the price is half what it was 5 years ago. Its now more lucrative to grow tomatoes!

He also said he avoided countries that harshly sentenced or killed traffickers. Don’t ignore that part

Ummm nope.... In the history of time where there has been demand there has been supply and that has never been stopped or even close.

This guy was a nobody in the grand scheme of things though

@Dan Croitoru that's kinda cool tho- (pls take it as a joke)

I guess the "tax it heavily" point was just rhetoric because if it's taxed much, it'll be considerably cheaper to get it illegally.

@jumpinjohnnyruss 😭 bro fr

@Dodgy Todger you know nothing

@PaulieW portugal did it and it went fine

Way less than keeping it illegal

It really won't help that much. If you legalize it and impose heavy tax then the dealers would basically do what they do now and smuggle it so they can avoid taxes and sell them cheaper in the streets .And it will become more common and the more common it is , the more people would use ,and the next thing you know 7 people out of 10 in a community are drug addicts. I was raised in a community that's drug free, I'm not sure I'd be the same person today if I was raised somewhere else where a certain drug is so abundant because I'm sure I'd be easily influenced into drug use

@Crazy movie recaps you give points to ponder. :)

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God the rightousness of God is available through faith in Jesus Christ. there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. in Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgivness of sins according to the riches of His grace.

For those reasons, he's actually more or less exactly what I'd expect

He didnt look like that 15 yrs ago.

Its why the most valuable lesson in life is never judge a book by its cover. The least expected will be the one to blast your wig off

@big city they showed a picture of him when he was younger in the video

Or death penalty, as he said saud arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines are a "no no"

It's really hard to solve this problem, legalising physically addictive substances will cause an epidemic and lead to innocent people and communities facing violence. Not legalising them leads to gang violence and violence in foreign countries. It is not as simple as legalise and tax because lots of people cannot be trusted to be responsible with substances.

@Alex tell that to Amsterdam

All the cartels will end up doing is upping the ante on other illegal activities like human trafficking. What needs to happen is completely dismantle and eliminate the cartels by whatever means necessary. It would also help to provide financial security for these poor countries so the people involved have something to do. Though I suspect that won’t help much because criminals typically don’t follow rules of society but it would likely help to prevent future aspiring criminals.

@Nico Strappazon decriminalisation for users isn't the same as legalisation, so clearly they already know this.

It's a drug addict point of view. As a non addict, I don't agree : I don't think I would be strong enough to stop if I started - and I probably would have if it was legalised.

Im not gonna argue with u just my perspective all around the world things have got worse. This is why it has to change i have children myself now and its the last thing i want for them.

@xrayban2 you don't just take drugs and turn into an addict. If that was the case, everyone would be addicted to cigarettes or alcohol. The addiction really only effects a percentage who can't stop, like alcohol

I doubt it will help much. Here in Oregon and in other states that have legalized weed, there's still a thriving illegal market for it. Part of the reason is that they have imposed high taxes (as he suggested), so it's still cheaper on the street than from a legitimate retailer.

You would think... But they would tax it so much just like weed people will get it underground because it's cheaper.

Nobody ever points out that if people would just stop consuming these narcotics, they would go away. Make me angry when politicians dump on the poor countries blaming them for illegal drugs. All the while their own family and constituents are using! Rolling over and letting all drugs run rampant would be ugly, crime would be out of control. The legalization/taxation isn’t working from what hear either. Fighting the war is the only answer, giving up will be worse.

@MplsMarkpractically the one rule about illegal drugs is you can't just stop consuming them. Wherever there is people there will be drugs and with that there will be a market and with that people who will buy it. The idea that eventually everyone will decide to stop is way too idealistic and while im not saying personally all drugs should be legalized, its clear there will never be a victory in the war on drugs

It's worth noting that the reason they may cling to that reason is that it justifies their past and lets them live in a world (even if it's just imaginary) where they aren't the villains in their story. This is a strong psychological bias that everyone has. So yeah, they're lies but they're also lying to themselves not just us.

You should check out "The War on Drugs" by Vice. They upload a new episode every couple months, and echo a lot of what this guy is saying, but in more granular detail.

@SweetJohnnyCage - Narrated Guides & Walkthroughs Yeah I think I've watched some of those videos. Vice really makes interesting stuff

He probably has money stashed away

That really depends on what drugs you are dealing, where in the chain you are and for whom you are selling.

Yep because any addiction takes you out of the present moment and that moment is peace and gratitude… addiction has you think about the future or past which is anxiety not peace

What's the difference between politician, addict and dealer?

@Steve McQueen is King of Cool power

@z thanks i needed to hear that

Lol he was big time, if your dealer is low level he will be ok

Like he said, a death sentence for all trafficers and there are no more drugs

@C- 6:13 literally counts countries that have their way to be a NO-NO to go to with drugs

@BoxStudioExecutive yes because illegal alcohol is a massive issue since the end of prohibition of alcohol, therefore the same would be true for drugs... Oh wait that's not true at all

Exactly I’m surprised he survived

Is this not the way he is now.....?

i mean he did the crime so.

I was in there overnight and people somehow had hand guns and knives in there. They didn't even take my phone off me. The place stunk and the cells and toilets were never washed

You actually think a drug smuggler is a legend, there is something wrong with you for sure

^ Exactly ^

Basic truth.

This has been an argument for a long time. It has already been implimented in Portugal.

Please don't lie

Drugs won a long time ago

There will never be a drug-free society

sorry to hear bro, hope life was fair to you after all

Zero sympathy.

@GROVE4LIFE98 I'm not a great person, just a drug addict. Sober since 2008.