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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50 Comments

  1. Jay Dog on May 16, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    I wan know where there sellin an oz for 240 everyone Ik pays 160 for an o 😂



  2. Christian Salgado on May 16, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    Respect, 420 all day



  3. St3w4rt on May 16, 2022 at 4:13 pm

    Ummm anyone that lives anywhere near that section of road will definitely know where that is now. You showed it from so many angles haha



  4. RR Continued on May 16, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    Actually all staged and filmed on some Freemason Farmers land.



  5. noam yamin on May 16, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    If I was they reporter I would smoke with them



  6. Adrian Manz on May 16, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    Do homeless people not in the uk



  7. Orange Gold on May 16, 2022 at 4:17 pm

    if u wanna watch a scrapper who is a pothead watch Orange Gold/Copper Rush



  8. Nirwal gul shan on May 16, 2022 at 4:17 pm

    Weed can be found in haryana india anywhere roadsides near farm fields everywhere but no one cares No one uses that for getting high they and as normal grass and no one cares … I have seen weed normally many place never care about these even I knew what that stuff is.



  9. Ada on May 16, 2022 at 4:19 pm

    WhatsApp is Very collectible video, thanks to the blogger. I recommend you a good bong seller that may help you.



  10. Kyzer Wolf on May 16, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    In guerilla growers we trust 🙌🏾



  11. Paolo Caso on May 16, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    500 quid for 2 ounces!!!!!! I can get 3 pounds for that price or grow about 10 for that cost. ABSURDLY expensive



  12. José Juan Cerda Barraza on May 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    If there’s a thing like good "ditch weed" must be this



  13. artiom erikosian on May 16, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    ~~~~#thc … chanel🎨🎗



  14. Elias Loyola on May 16, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    Puff puff



  15. huh on May 16, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    Those drone shots are giving away the location



  16. THARG67 on May 16, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    Growing for effect and not just yield….nice



  17. RAWDOG👊🏻 on May 16, 2022 at 4:24 pm

    FREE THE WEED



  18. 7A FORce on May 16, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩



  19. CANNABIS CANNABIS on May 16, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    Thc



  20. Justin Snyder on May 16, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    Way to easy to see from the air.



  21. DAVID JOHNSTON on May 16, 2022 at 4:30 pm

    i wont touch it i dont do even this stuff i cant – i get real sick for weeks just to smell it
    but plant is nice pretty cool plant but i wont ever touch this stuff ever no way
    they say its the gateway drug for other things which is what it is



  22. barsha das on May 16, 2022 at 4:33 pm

    bro seriously i saw this plants in forest near my house lol… no cap



  23. Kitties and Colas on May 16, 2022 at 4:35 pm

    I like these guys.. I’ve gone to jail and I’d go again, nothing on earth would ever stop me from growing plants.. ❤💡🌱😽💨



  24. SarahJRandomNumbers on May 16, 2022 at 4:35 pm

    SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY! 😄



  25. Born To Be Great lol on May 16, 2022 at 4:37 pm

    Bro this sht couldn’t fly in America lmaoooo



  26. THANK U. VENDORBILLZ ON TELEGRAM on May 16, 2022 at 4:38 pm

    Wow Hey bro👆👆👆 (name above the arrow) this is Just a comment of ‘Thanks’. The (WEED) arrive on time and are great.



  27. Zalez Inc on May 16, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    + 3 million viewers now know about your grow lol



  28. Mark Pemberton on May 16, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    Walking down the highway just holding it in transparent plastic bags… Wat



  29. Hasbullah_with_AK47 on May 16, 2022 at 4:43 pm

    so vice just reveal their plant location???



  30. Papa Gregorio on May 16, 2022 at 4:44 pm

    God this reporter is sexy



  31. Pomidor 8721 on May 16, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Who know, what is kind of this dron?



  32. id on May 16, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Nice alternative to fishing.



  33. Leeca Him on May 16, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    The dnb soundtrack is a must lop



  34. omid mandegary on May 16, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    Unfortunately in middle eastern countries is the same even though it’s extremely widespread and loved among people you can get into serious trouble if you get caught. 😢😢😢 I hope for near future legalizing it



  35. Paul M on May 16, 2022 at 4:50 pm

    Anyone know what strains they use?



  36. Jack on May 16, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    2 oz of bush weed for 500? 😂



  37. Clair Rollings on May 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm

    I’ll call them’" little pharma"



  38. Elias Loyola on May 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm

    Ye



  39. E S on May 16, 2022 at 4:56 pm

    for cannabis not to be legal world wide is idiocy…..



  40. CrispR ChinaCatSunflower on May 16, 2022 at 4:56 pm

    I wonder if one of them are a stand up on cover up clean terrorism and antipsychotics use, we all know antipsychotics cause cancer and keeping people on them is money, law and cops everything ‘clean’ keeps their terrorism seeming ‘normal’ also its evil for the cannabis community which in reality not only cuts off the pain killer community but defiantly can cut off antipsychotics to bad some terrorist get paid to go after cannabis users so we always look like dumb non cognitive non coherent people which isn’t true. Antipsychotics cause cancer, terrorism can be clean, just like well thought out Hate Crimes. You can go to jail, and kill someone and have more rights. Help New Haven Yale and Northern Virginia so many agencies supporting this terrorism. Yale did have someone murdered and ripped apart (with a chain saw) and shoved into the wall. I worked with the kid whom mom was stabbed to death and dad blew his brains out after stabbing his dog, also my siblings best friend is that girl who got murdered at Jonathan law for saying no to a prom date. Sandy hook…..Yeah go CT? Yale is such clean terrorism. Idk who they take orders from but people should riot like in 2016 again.



  41. Dinii Design on May 16, 2022 at 4:56 pm

    WHY VICE SHOW THE LOCATION WITH THE DRONE?



  42. DAVID JOHNSTON on May 16, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    some body will find it – i would call the cops for sure i would call vice
    i know a lot of cops



  43. Paul Walker on May 16, 2022 at 4:59 pm

    Vice sucks.



  44. Formally Named on May 16, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    Stupid ads for a movie about making a movie smh sorry sob are completely out of ideas lol



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  46. simon on May 16, 2022 at 5:01 pm

    based



  47. Mensch Meier on May 16, 2022 at 5:02 pm


  48. Mike M on May 16, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    Difference is police don’t harrass people in the U.K or most any other country like they do in the U.S



  49. Luben BK on May 16, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    I pay 160 to 190£. I don’t know where they get their prices from 🤷🏻



  50. Logan Kirby on May 16, 2022 at 5:10 pm

    Planting in April is kind of nuts for me. Especially in UK you’ll get a hand full of nights with sub freezing temps through out the month. Must be some hearty plants