yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Meeting a Black-Market Marijuana Dealer | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller


2m read
·Nov 10, 2024

[Music] One of the big players in that world, someone I'm told moves more than a million dollars worth of product daily, has agreed to meet me. Well, kind of.

Okay, we ready? So I'm currently in an empty room and in front of a table with nine pounds of all sorts of different kinds of weed. George, I'm just explaining what's happening to the cameras because it feels really weird that it's just me here. So I'm just explaining.

George didn't want his actual voice recorded. George is actually out of view; he didn't feel comfortable being on camera, but he can hear me because of my mic. So we're using a voice changer that alters it while he speaks.

If I were a buyer, I would come in here; you'd have all these bags out here with the different samples. They'd look at it, smell it, possibly try it, smoke it. Some smoking butters really just, you know, based off the smell mainly. And then they place orders, is that it?

No. On the table is a variety of high-end exotic indoor and outdoor weed. Each pound bag costs between two thousand and four thousand dollars. What's the largest order you've ever received?

[Music] Just one order that size is worth around a million dollars. How much money is there to be paid in illegal weed?

Endless response. I should really be talking about this to someone like a camera. I decide not to push it. So, George, you operate just a black market business, or do you operate also a legal business, a license as well?

If you were to give me a general sense of how much money you make with your legal versus your illegal business, what would you say?

Well, technically, I haven't made profit off my legal business yet. Wow! They try to kill you with fewest taxes, regulations, groups who jump through inspections. They go ten times overboard than any other business. I wish for them to go through the same regulations.

So why operate a legal business if you're not even making money out of that?

For the love of it. Why do I recite the pain? Or what is this thing? I like to sing. I'm rolling with the punches now and just hanging in there so the big business doesn't just take all the original people out, you know?

You don't feel comfortable with even being in the same room. Why do you think there's so much, uh, fear and mistrust?

It's kind of ingrained in that culture. You can't really trust people, and that just comes with money and greed. And when people are greedy, bad things happen.

Do you carry a gun?

I, you really have no choice but to use it.

[Music]

More Articles

View All
Reasons To Stop Worrying (Break The Habit of Excessive Thinking)
The ability to plan for the future is a cornerstone of our civilization. The human race would never have flourished if we didn’t organize, arrange, design, prepare, and delay gratification for greater causes. Take, for example, this structure: the Kölner…
Helium 101 | National Geographic
[Narrator] Most people know helium as the lighter than air gas that fills our party balloons. But more importantly, it’s an irreplaceable element for science and industry. Helium was discovered in 1868 during a solar eclipse. Astronomers observed a yellow…
How to (quickly) make progress in life
Hey, what’s up person? Are you frustrated with your life? No? Are you, uh, tired of spinning your wheels and you keep on watching self-improvement videos trying to find that “aha” moment? The thing that gets you out of your rut? If that’s you, stop that! …
Spinning Black Holes
On November 22, 2014, a burst of x-rays was detected by ASASSN—that’s the All Sky Automated Survey for Super Novae. But this was no supernova. The signal came from the center of a galaxy around 290 million light-years away, and what we now believe happene…
Homeroom with Sal & Jonathan Haidt - Wednesday, July 1
Hi everyone! Welcome to our daily homeroom livestream. For those of you who are wondering what this is, this is something we started a few months ago. It’s really just a way to stay connected, have interesting conversations about education and other topic…
Safari Live - Day 35 | National Geographic
Big pigs of youngsters that would explain the very excited behavior between them. Wonderful, right? Well, it’s not just the warthogs and myself and a man who that are joining you this afternoon. Jamie and Craig are in the other car, and they are heading u…