In this VICE special we see then President of the United States, Barack Obama, make history as he becomes the first President to ever visit a federal prison. The visit itself occurred back in July 2015, and alongside Obama we see award-winning journalist and founder of VICE Shane Smith, as they both set out to investigate America's broken criminal justice system.America is notoriously known fo
Directed by Leo Regan and originally televised in 2001, 'Cold Turkey' tells the story of Lanre Fehintola a photojournalist who experimented with heroin whilst working on a book featuring drug addicts. 'Cold Turkey' tells the story of Lanre a year after Regan's original documentary 'Don't Get High on Your Own Supply' which followed Lanre after five years of addiction.Larne is plunged back into
f you liked Cocaine Cowboys, you’ll like this one too. True story of the cocaine queen who makes Tony Montana look like Mother Teresa. Set on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life is changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a m
Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug – and a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the recommended limits? Why does alcohol have such a powerful grip on us? How much of our relationship with this drug is written in our genes?What are the real dangers of our children drinking too young? Addiction expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a professional and per
Last June a young Tyrone women left Ireland looking for adventure. Twenty year old Michaella Mccollum had never been on a plane before she flew out to Ibiza, she was a promotions girl who told her family she was going to work as a dancer but after 5 weeks on the party island she disappeared. Michaella turned up 6000 miles away alongside a young Scottish women her family had never heard of before,
Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waregi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's.
Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic brew that originated from the South American rainforests. It is made from boiling the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, the Psychotria viridis shrub together, although a variety of other plants can be included in the mix depending on tradition. The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT (dimethyltryptamine), an extremely powerful psychedelic drug obtained from the vir
Since 2001 the United States has seen a drastic increase in opiate related overdose deaths, the figures themselves have quadrupled and in 2014 Massachusetts alone saw more than 1,250 deaths related to heroin overdoses. 85 percent of all crimes committed on Cape Cod are opiate related.Heroin: Cape Cod, USA takes us on a journey to Cape Cod itself and exposes the epidemic that is cu
He had the power and wealth of a king, he killed anyone that stood in his way of becoming the worlds most powerful drug lord, he terrorized the nation of Colombia and made an enemy of the most powerful nation on earth. Pablo Escobar and his drug cartel became bigger than his own government. Pablo Escobar became so big that he needed to die.