So what is the psychoactive substance? Is it the beetlenut once lime is added ? OR does Lime have a secret effect kept hidden from all ? What is it in the beetlenut that changes lime ? 🤔
@@ItsAaronRose You can't here either. His whole story is BS. The value of cocaine would never drop to that low even with massive amounts avaliable. It wouldn't take long for a group to emerge that exported what they had to a more favourable market.
I have been mulling which Pacific nation to go to for my fall vacation. The Marshall Islands moved up quite a few spots, despite the ridiculously expensive flights. 😂
So that helps explain why Majuro is now one of the biggest Super Yacht registries… Let’s hope that coke remains unattractive to the population, because if you look at the impact in Tonga, Samoa, Fiji it’s been horrendous. Once the “free coke” runs out, domestic meth takes hold.
@@korakys I’m very well aware of that, it was a stupid joke but less stupid than the 98% of previous comments which just said “I’ll be on the next flight”
@@korakys They must not be charging enough. It would seem like for a go-to Super yacht registration country, there'd be more something, maybe a cool school....
@@korakys it didn’t help that I said “Majuro” was the registry, not MI. Also, most charter super yachts choose Bikini as the Port to be registered at, because in the instagram pics that looks cool on the stern - despite being utterly tasteless and tone deaf beyond comprehension. Or I could have just used an emoji to indicate “joke”… Thanks for the polite engagement.
I’m just imagining all of the less than ethical would be entrepreneurs who will see your video and go rushing to the Marshals for a big export opportunity.😂
I didn't realize that channel was originally Chris'. The first video that I ever watched here was shortly after Evan had started the Rare Earth series.
@@RareEarthSeries I had literally no idea that you were Chris Hadfield's son. Channel is great regardless of its origins. Insightful, well written, thought provoking.
Same, and 100% agree. I've never seen any astronauts on this channel but enjoy it immensely nevertheless. I may have to go check out the back catalog.@@GarethStack
@@RareEarthSeriesNO WAY your chris the astronauts son!? Wow! Makes sense he would have an incredibly erudite and productive kid. That guy was a true inspiration, heck he likley inspired half a generation of elementary school kids to double up on science studies. Astronauts are rare these days and the few we have lack the charisma and desire to sell it to the public, hah il never forget that coke can thing he did but i suppose that was under not over. Hope hes still going strong!
When you started mentioning the ships, I realized I heard variations on this story before. São Miguel in the Azores went from an unassuming island in the Atlantics to a drug dealers shipping harbour after a shipwreck.
lol if you fly to Fiji or other destinations close to the Marshalls you can fly out from there at half the price . Just sayin I mean none of us would ever want to use illicit drugs, RIGHT ??? I know I would never do it .
I’m 6+ years sober now from an intense speedball addiction. one time back in the day I found a baggie of coke in an alley and I actually injected it. it seemed awesome at the time (free drugs - so lucky!) but I am def glad those dark days are behind me haha
Speedballs killed my uncle I was named after 😢 the drugs had me for 11 years too but now im 7 sober and think about it even more everyday. I can only imagine 22 year old me in a place where coke is so cheap you can spill 1/2g and not even care. I'd probably died a long time ago, just sayin.
The cheapest drug is calling up your parents and telling them that you love them. That will make all of you happy for free! Drug manufacturers don't actually want you to know this trick btw, its kind of a cheat, so shhh don't tell anyone
I'm no coke head, but a 'heart sized lump' or pure cocaine would have a street value of waaaaaaay more than $1000.......multiply that by 10......minimum! A gram in the UK starts at the equivalent of around $75 😅
over here in the US everything is cut with fent now... I've been out of that game for a decade now, but from what I've heard there's no real heroin anymore... its all fent... all the drugs are going synthetic... too easy for them to cook it up rather than wait on growing it and the supply lines that go along with that... world is going to shit, and the underworld is going with it.
Considering cigarettes can go for $70 a packet and a bottle of whiskey will cost up upwards of $60 here in the great bastion of freedom that is Australia, I would say that cocaine is a much more viable alternative. Weed certainly is. How insane is it that street drugs are cheaper than legal drugs. This is what happens when you have a huge island with a small population (relative to its size) with a two party system that make you choose (voting is compulsory here) between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
And that's $60 for a bottle of paint stripper. If you want something half decent it's well over $100. The Government excise (tax) comprises a fair bit of it, but hey, funding has to come from somewhere. Given how much of a load smoking and drinking related health problems put on the public health system it's probably fair to expect the people who smoke and drink the most to pay the most. I don't drink much at all (the last case of beer I bought lasted 10 months) and I don't smoke at all (well, not tobacco anyway) so I'm cool with paying a bit extra if I have to. It is pretty mad that illicit drugs, as expensive as they are, are cheaper than the legal ones. It will be interesting to see what happens when the respective governments finally wake up to themselves and legalise cannabis, that's definitely coming at some point, especially if we can restrain ourselves from voting in the backward conservatives again. Prescription weed is comparable to street weed now, believe it or not. Roughly $120 for 10 grams of 20% THC, freeze dried so it will keep for ages. Unsurprisingly the medical fraternity are campaigning heavily against legalisation, I can't imagine why, lol. They just switched from opioids to cannabis and they are addicted to the income stream. If prescription cannabis goes on the PBS it will be like $30 for 10 grams, no street dealer could ever compete with that. But of course the government will stuff it up, there's nothing surer.
@@woopimagpie I'm a member of the Legalise Cannabis Party. We're trying but they treat it like hard drugs which doesn't help anything. But hey, when did the government help anything...
I don't get it, what about coke would make you vomit for an hour? I consumed my fair share in my younger years and apart from gagging from a half gram drip coke never made me puke even once?
@@sunnyinvladivostokOr Colombia. I don't dabble but met people that did. A gram of pure Colombian was 25000 COP (~$5). I'm sure it'd be even cheaper if they weren't tourists.
The cans are supposed to be sunburn relief medication. You can find similar IRL which is legal and contains lidocaine. Lidocaine is a common adulterant in cut cocaine because of its numbing properties. In the story, the sunburn spray is alleged to have cocaine instead of lidocaine, which can be extracted by separating it from the oils by spraying it into a plastic bag and freezing it.
The chemical agents used to produce pure marching powder was internationally restricted in the 90s-00s .. its more more common to use another agent, which is alters the end product .. so if you expect the same experience from the 80s or 90s .. It's different.. disappointing so
@SwampyColorado420 i understand what you mean! And being a "responsible" user testing your stuff is expensive to purchase (fentynyl strips and then theres cuts tests that show things like the deworming stuff for animals) and uses product
All that shit you guys are mentioning is trash. Real coke (fishscale) has an ether smell to it. Used coke for 40yrs. Still drives me nuts and brings back to a time when I smell ether. Literally gets me all excited 😂 But I've been clean for 7 yrs now.
@@jamesjross unless you're one of those "prescription drugs are still drugs" people that entirely misses the point of the statement it's not a hard thing to not do..
@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 Grammar issue. Anyway, ofc he's excluding caffeine and regular stuff like painkillers and normal shit that is near impossible to avoid; use common sense. Saying 'I don't do drugs' probably means he doesn't drink alcohol or smoke weed like you junkies.
I wasn't expecting this video to still be about the Marshall Islands, based on the title, lol. I tried cocaine once. All it did was make me feel less tired and not get any sleep. I didn't feel "high" at all. It wasn't a bad experience, but it wasn't a really good experience either.
I provided about a dozen news articles in this video discussing this very issue. It's also a problem in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, and many (if not all) of the other island countries between Australia and South America. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/24/the-new-drug-highway-pacific-islands-at-centre-of-cocaine-trafficking-boom
That's the foundation of human society, cities, empires, trade routes... everything. You take stuff from where it's plentiful to where it's scarce, and trade for what's plentiful there, yet scarce where you came from, and then you make the return trip.
I really appreciate you showing us how life is in these islands in the middle of the Pacific, that most of us will probably never get to visit in person . Be safe out there .
Will say that the Patreon email has me worried that authorities will come knocking at my door at some point... 😅 "Rare Earth just shared: 'The Cheapest Cocaine on Earth'"
This and the Azores story are very interesting in that it's essentially collateral destruction. We think about how the drug trade impacts the countries that produce and consumer the drugs, but rarely about how even the countries in between can be effected.
Truth. I saw a documentary about what illegal drug manufacturers were doing to the environment in some communities in the EU. Toxic chemicals being dumped into groundwater or on farms.... Hopefully someone can figure out some ways to stop/slow this latest wave of drug use.
Hey man, I love your content. But this has recently come to mind. Why should I trust you as a journalist? As your topics grow more interesting, my desire for verifiable sources and legitimising past work expirience grows too. I hope you can respond to this. Peace out ❤
I'm not a journalist I make pretentious TH-cam videos, you trust me at your own risk like everything else you see on this platform That's what the end card says every episode
@@RareEarthSeriesOh. That's both disappointing and really respectable. 😂 But I do still hope you'd offer some more concrete, factual stuff with your videos. It adds to the value of it (for me). Thanks for your honesty and self awareness.
All of my videos are concrete, factual stuff. I make mistakes like anybody here or there but everything I say is always researchable if you take the time.
@@RareEarthSeries If you can say that your videos are concrete and factual (to a degree). Why don't you provide sources? Like you shouldn't be able to make that claim only if you do the research. So why not provide the proof while at it?
Because my experience doing so showed me it was meaningless except to the people who were trying to find a way to nitpick without actually doing any research, wasted a bunch of time, and made me look like I was trying to be a journalist instead of a pretentious TH-cam channel In my experience people who actually want to know more always do their own research, because that's the best way to actually learn new information If I knew I was concrete and factual why would I waste effort trying to prove it to strangers
Here in my hometown in Texas I worked with some Marshallese folks at a factory and they always were chewing the beatle nuts and spitting in the trash cans. I was offered a try and I was handed a leaf wrapped around a green nut. I already chew tobacco so I figured the beatle nut would be tame but I was wrong. I tried it and was buzzing pretty hard. The taste was okay. It just isn't for me 🙂
The more powdery, usually the more cut. Not always but If it has that blended look to it. Not a good sign. Typically, the further from the source the more beat up it is. I could be wrong this might be some fire, I just have my suspicions.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Ever listened to the podcast series “Cool Mules”? Some Canadians got into a world of hurt when they tried that- Aussie border security is apparently no joke!
I regret ever taking hard drugs. Smoking pot is a mistake but not on the level of harder drugs. The problem is you start abusing it. Drugs aren't the problem it's your baggage.
If it's compressed (like most bulk coke is) a "heart sized lump" would be a MASSIVE amount! Id guess multiple ounces. (TBH even a full compressed kilo brick is a bit smaller than many would imagine it to be. And that's about 35 ounces. lol) And yeah, you could easily pay $500 for a half ounce, even with an okay connect, in the US... Or at least that's what street prices were like last time i checked... which to be fair was like 10+ years ago lol... but oddly enough coke prices seem far more stable and fixed than the many many goods and services that have fallen victim to inflation and "shrinkflation" in recent years! In 2005 i could get grams of mid grade (that is, average purity) on the street for between 60-80... and i hear it's not all that different today... Funny how that works. Do you think you could go buy a Big Mac, ANYWHERE, for the same price you could get one in 2005?!? Hell, you can't even get a MCDOUBLE for the same price as '05... Hell, their "dollar menu" is barley even a dollar menu anymore... you used to be able to get an entire double cheeseburger for $1!!! But cocaine prices? Seemingly steady as a surgeon's hand... But that's weird... right? If dollars have less buying power, that means the cartels are just accepting thinner margins, no? 🤨 🤔
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So what is the psychoactive substance? Is it the beetlenut once lime is added ? OR does Lime have a secret effect kept hidden from all ? What is it in the beetlenut that changes lime ? 🤔
OR is it all just cutters for the coke
thats like $200 lol. or i was ripped the f*ck off. lol. $280
@@QIKUGAMES-QIKUbeetle Nut + Lime = zirda Pan in india. It cost around 60 cents
you never did say why the people who visit the island did so. Were you there just to make this video?
You singlehandedly increased tourism by 1000000% with this vid!
I know. It's another rock video in the making.
I think they would still prefer fly to Colombia, Peru etc. the mainlands of coca.
if you want to die @@Haplo-san
@@Haplo-sanyou cant get cocaine for 50 cents a gram in Colombia or Peru..
@@ItsAaronRose You can't here either. His whole story is BS. The value of cocaine would never drop to that low even with massive amounts avaliable. It wouldn't take long for a group to emerge that exported what they had to a more favourable market.
$200-300 per gram in Australia? That is cheap. It's closer to $400
Dang I get ounces for under 400
@@tterbogaming9749 damn that is crazy
I was referring to wholesale prices rather than street grams
How much are hotels there? How safe is it?
50cents a gram is insane. In Cartagena Columbia it's $5-$10 a gram or 2000-4000 a kg and that's pretty much where it's coming from.
I have been mulling which Pacific nation to go to for my fall vacation. The Marshall Islands moved up quite a few spots, despite the ridiculously expensive flights. 😂
This problem exists in virtually every Pacific island
I need more Australian friends.
Coke is not all that popular there, yet the streets remain littered with bags. Okaaaaay, lol
LOL the no alcohol sign
Quantity!
Great. Gotta scrub my browser history now.
In Penang is everywhere the beettlenut
Hahaha, I can see everyone now, after seeing this Video, making a Stop at this Island, before flying to Aus......
That's my next holiday destination, sorted...
"For sale: One small bag, never opened."
😔
😭 the REAL shortest saddest story ever written
7 words, doesn't count 😂
hey some people live their whole lives with sinus infections, and they have no desire to open that bag.
@@eewilson9835weak
@@eewilson9835bah.....grab some baking soda and Chore Boy. Rock n roll!😂
3$ for an 8 ball would have me in cardiac arrest
same. ive never been doing cocaine and thought "well ive had enough of that for now"
I don't believe you, lets go and you can prove it :)
Booking flight now
Hahahahhaha
Count me in
Instant first thought. I'm a bad person.
Mee to!
Lol.....
the irony of that village in the first shot with a "no alcohol" sign
shouldn't conflate the mind and body killing poison that is alcohol with extracts from the coca plant :)
well they have standards after all
Too expensive. Even the bar can't afford it.
It makes sense to me.
Alcohol is a downer, Coke is an upper.
Why would you want to fuck up your high?
@meisteremm wow you must be young. You do more coke so you can drink more alcohol so you can do more coke ect.. .
If this was sponsored by the Marshall Islands department of tourism they have nailed it
I predict an influx of tourists on the Marshall Islands very soon.
Heck, lure influencers with cheap cocaine and you get free pr and dump the powder, win-win 😂
Yeah most likely
“It’s worth nothing if you smoke it all!” - Walter White
Best line in the episode😂😂
100 percent true
I just found it here on the side of the road, officer
Most likely the only time the reply would be "ok, I believe you"
Flight booked... I always wanted to see the Marshall Islands.
So that helps explain why Majuro is now one of the biggest Super Yacht registries…
Let’s hope that coke remains unattractive to the population, because if you look at the impact in Tonga, Samoa, Fiji it’s been horrendous. Once the “free coke” runs out, domestic meth takes hold.
The Marshalls have been one of the half dozen or so major shipping registry states for a while. Nothing to do with cocaine.
@@korakys I’m very well aware of that, it was a stupid joke but less stupid than the 98% of previous comments which just said “I’ll be on the next flight”
@@korakys They must not be charging enough. It would seem like for a go-to Super yacht registration country, there'd be more something, maybe a cool school....
@@bernardkealey6449 cool, it can be hard to tell what are stupid jokes to be ignored and what might deserve a contextual comment.
@@korakys it didn’t help that I said “Majuro” was the registry, not MI. Also, most charter super yachts choose Bikini as the Port to be registered at, because in the instagram pics that looks cool on the stern - despite being utterly tasteless and tone deaf beyond comprehension.
Or I could have just used an emoji to indicate “joke”…
Thanks for the polite engagement.
Oh my god, that's disgusting! Where?
I need to know so I can avoid the place!
@@JaffjvI need to know for uhhh "research purposes" 😂
Let’s go now
😂😅😂
@@Jaffjv it's mildly radioactive on some of the islands and deadly radioactive on some and not radioactive on one or a few
I’m just imagining all of the less than ethical would be entrepreneurs who will see your video and go rushing to the Marshals for a big export opportunity.😂
These days if someone isn't already doing it you can almost be certain it's not worth the squeeze.
Exporting cocaine has never been the issue. It's the importing that's the difficult part.
Who's ethics
@@korakyshow difficult has it been for you?
I know this originally started as a space channel by one of the coolest astronauts but honestly his son is pretty engaging and informative too.
I didn't realize that channel was originally Chris'. The first video that I ever watched here was shortly after Evan had started the Rare Earth series.
It was technically started and ran by me I just made videos for him originally
@@RareEarthSeries I had literally no idea that you were Chris Hadfield's son. Channel is great regardless of its origins. Insightful, well written, thought provoking.
Same, and 100% agree. I've never seen any astronauts on this channel but enjoy it immensely nevertheless. I may have to go check out the back catalog.@@GarethStack
@@RareEarthSeriesNO WAY your chris the astronauts son!? Wow!
Makes sense he would have an incredibly erudite and productive kid. That guy was a true inspiration, heck he likley inspired half a generation of elementary school kids to double up on science studies. Astronauts are rare these days and the few we have lack the charisma and desire to sell it to the public, hah il never forget that coke can thing he did but i suppose that was under not over.
Hope hes still going strong!
Jesus just hearing the word cocaine still reminds me of it. A heart sized lump would be much much more than 1000$
Mientras que acá vale un kilo $1.200 dólares y sigue a la baja 😅
@@manlede😮 where is "here" !? Would like to go there real soon😅
I would not advise you to contact Andrew Jones 12 phoniex lane new Zealand
More like 10,000
Sounds like Mexico to me but idk. Coke can be pretty cheap in alot of South America too.
When you started mentioning the ships, I realized I heard variations on this story before. São Miguel in the Azores went from an unassuming island in the Atlantics to a drug dealers shipping harbour after a shipwreck.
heard them from this very channel maybe?
Now there is tv show on netflix about it but its wack i rather look for doc video about it
Definitely didn't just google flights to Marshall Islands, bit if I did they would have been $11,973
Holy crap. They must pay full price for their coke.
Not so cheap now is it?
Only $12K, eh?
You must be flying coach...
lol if you fly to Fiji or other destinations close to the Marshalls you can fly out from there at half the price . Just sayin I mean none of us would ever want to use illicit drugs, RIGHT ??? I know I would never do it .
Just book a flight to Cartagena, Colombia, you can get pure there for about $15 a gram.
I’m 6+ years sober now from an intense speedball addiction. one time back in the day I found a baggie of coke in an alley and I actually injected it. it seemed awesome at the time (free drugs - so lucky!) but I am def glad those dark days are behind me haha
Speedballs were my favourite too. I've been clean for nearly 8 now.
Glad I got out before fentanyl showed up
Oof.... having dated a very "colorful" guy, I'm very glad to hear about your sobriety. ✊🍀
Speedballs killed my uncle I was named after 😢 the drugs had me for 11 years too but now im 7 sober and think about it even more everyday. I can only imagine 22 year old me in a place where coke is so cheap you can spill 1/2g and not even care. I'd probably died a long time ago, just sayin.
Especially in THIS day and age- you'd NEVER want to inject what you find now!
@time2see192 Yup. Even if it smells like good ❄️ it could be laced with enough fetty to end you 10x over and you wouldn't know
Sounds like a great financial opportunity! Thanks for the business advice!
Don't do it! Lol but for real.
The cheapest drug is calling up your parents and telling them that you love them. That will make all of you happy for free!
Drug manufacturers don't actually want you to know this trick btw, its kind of a cheat, so shhh don't tell anyone
Wholesome
+1 for the Underrated wholesome comment
My parents were such enormous assholes, it woulda made me feel like a hypocrite.
Didnt get me high, bad advice
@@-_Nuke_- NICE.☘️
I'm no coke head, but a 'heart sized lump' or pure cocaine would have a street value of waaaaaaay more than $1000.......multiply that by 10......minimum! A gram in the UK starts at the equivalent of around $75 😅
300 a gram in Australia......according to a mate
Damn, like $20 - $ 80 in the us depending on who you know and how much spanish you know
$75 after its cut down to like 20% lol
over here in the US everything is cut with fent now...
I've been out of that game for a decade now, but from what I've heard there's no real heroin anymore... its all fent...
all the drugs are going synthetic... too easy for them to cook it up rather than wait on growing it and the supply lines that go along with that...
world is going to shit, and the underworld is going with it.
I'm assuming, say, a chicken heart's worth?
As an ex addict, 50 cent cocaine would absolutely have been my demise.
Considering cigarettes can go for $70 a packet and a bottle of whiskey will cost up upwards of $60 here in the great bastion of freedom that is Australia, I would say that cocaine is a much more viable alternative. Weed certainly is.
How insane is it that street drugs are cheaper than legal drugs.
This is what happens when you have a huge island with a small population (relative to its size) with a two party system that make you choose (voting is compulsory here) between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
And that's $60 for a bottle of paint stripper. If you want something half decent it's well over $100. The Government excise (tax) comprises a fair bit of it, but hey, funding has to come from somewhere.
Given how much of a load smoking and drinking related health problems put on the public health system it's probably fair to expect the people who smoke and drink the most to pay the most. I don't drink much at all (the last case of beer I bought lasted 10 months) and I don't smoke at all (well, not tobacco anyway) so I'm cool with paying a bit extra if I have to.
It is pretty mad that illicit drugs, as expensive as they are, are cheaper than the legal ones. It will be interesting to see what happens when the respective governments finally wake up to themselves and legalise cannabis, that's definitely coming at some point, especially if we can restrain ourselves from voting in the backward conservatives again. Prescription weed is comparable to street weed now, believe it or not. Roughly $120 for 10 grams of 20% THC, freeze dried so it will keep for ages. Unsurprisingly the medical fraternity are campaigning heavily against legalisation, I can't imagine why, lol. They just switched from opioids to cannabis and they are addicted to the income stream. If prescription cannabis goes on the PBS it will be like $30 for 10 grams, no street dealer could ever compete with that. But of course the government will stuff it up, there's nothing surer.
No wonder there are so many Aussie expats.
Guess that's why alot of ppl are on meth and heroin
@@tylerdouglas480 yeah pretty much true
@@woopimagpie I'm a member of the Legalise Cannabis Party. We're trying but they treat it like hard drugs which doesn't help anything. But hey, when did the government help anything...
I always love the end cards of these videos
Yeah I always pause and read them carefully. They are always chuckle-worthy.
It says that "the baggie contained lime" but don't ever take Evan's word for it.
I don't get it, what about coke would make you vomit for an hour? I consumed my fair share in my younger years and apart from gagging from a half gram drip coke never made me puke even once?
Coke is no where near the same as it used to be just in name only.
I think he means doing coke in 42C heat. Like doing coke in a sauna.
crappy coke full of fillers might make you vomit. I bet the stuff in this video isnt even cut yet.
When he said 42 degrees did you think it was cold there? 42C will make you vomit without coke.
@@ryanconnolly426 It was all the damb fillers that drove me to free-base back in the day...
Well shit, I guess I'm adding Marshall Islands to my bucket list
Heathrow to Majuro is £4700....2 days of travel.....Im on my way !!!!
You'll have to go real hard to make up the ticket haha
just go to peru or bolivia lol
@@sunnyinvladivostokOr Colombia. I don't dabble but met people that did. A gram of pure Colombian was 25000 COP (~$5). I'm sure it'd be even cheaper if they weren't tourists.
🎶 _You put the lime in the betel nut and chew them both together_ 🎶
Nuthin' like gettin' high to Todd Rundgren!
Now let me get this straight..
this reminds me of a plotline in a scanner darkly where one of the character claims to be able to extract cocaine from aerosol cans.
Much easier to extract it from the cargo holds of smugglers' ships!
The cans are supposed to be sunburn relief medication. You can find similar IRL which is legal and contains lidocaine. Lidocaine is a common adulterant in cut cocaine because of its numbing properties. In the story, the sunburn spray is alleged to have cocaine instead of lidocaine, which can be extracted by separating it from the oils by spraying it into a plastic bag and freezing it.
Oh yeah, I believe that was Robert Downey Jr.
Damb neat trick if he can pull it off.
Sure beats trying to properly dispose of my used tagging supplies...
I'm a cannabis guy but I like to go skiing now and then even though I haven't for years. I don't trust it to be pure enough anymore.
The chemical agents used to produce pure marching powder was internationally restricted in the 90s-00s .. its more more common to use another agent, which is alters the end product .. so if you expect the same experience from the 80s or 90s .. It's different.. disappointing so
lol bro u think ppl can't find illegal shit to make illegal shit ur crazy. @@DernRern
@SwampyColorado420 i understand what you mean! And being a "responsible" user testing your stuff is expensive to purchase (fentynyl strips and then theres cuts tests that show things like the deworming stuff for animals) and uses product
Ether either?
@@geoffhoutman1557 that's them
You are going to create a MASSIVE influx of tourism
It's probably pure af too there, not many middle-men, not many reasons to lace or dilute it.
flight to Majuro now tomorrow right now
Oh, shit, got so excited forgot to switch to regular google...
scoop me up on the way to the airport😂
You could just smell the bag, cocaine has a pretty distinct, strong smell reminiscent of gasoline.
TIL
More like acetone unless you're getting bunko
@@yolobathsalts emphasis on 'reminiscent'
Or acetone. Or ether. Or ammonia. Or diesel. So I've heard.
All that shit you guys are mentioning is trash.
Real coke (fishscale) has an ether smell to it.
Used coke for 40yrs.
Still drives me nuts and brings back to a time when I smell ether.
Literally gets me all excited 😂
But I've been clean for 7 yrs now.
i don't do drugs but info around it and its history can be very interesting.
That gets multiplied by a factor of 50 once you do drugs.
Just out of personal interest constitutes a ‘drug’ for you?
@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 I love the "i don't do drugs" people... Its very rare for this statement to hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.
@@jamesjross unless you're one of those "prescription drugs are still drugs" people that entirely misses the point of the statement it's not a hard thing to not do..
@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 Grammar issue.
Anyway, ofc he's excluding caffeine and regular stuff like painkillers and normal shit that is near impossible to avoid; use common sense. Saying 'I don't do drugs' probably means he doesn't drink alcohol or smoke weed like you junkies.
@@mushroomcrepes4780so crack is ok
"...This isn't a party island..."
Well i think you just turned it into one 🤪
I can honestly think of few worse or less appropriate places to be high on hard drugs than the Marshall islands, frankly
Man, if i wasnt 2 years clean, I'd be on a plane 5 minutes ago.
Bro I am 2 years clean and still trying to get a flight 😂
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"...and there are not many tourists on this island!"
This will probably change after this documentary ! 😁
I wasn't expecting this video to still be about the Marshall Islands, based on the title, lol. I tried cocaine once. All it did was make me feel less tired and not get any sleep. I didn't feel "high" at all. It wasn't a bad experience, but it wasn't a really good experience either.
Crack cocaine is MUCH better.
This seems questionable. I just emailed my brother who lives in the Marshall Islands, and I will post his reply soon.
He's gonna think you got arrested and are working for the feds. Lol
Suspect story.....likely BS
Interested to see what he says
I provided about a dozen news articles in this video discussing this very issue. It's also a problem in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, and many (if not all) of the other island countries between Australia and South America.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/24/the-new-drug-highway-pacific-islands-at-centre-of-cocaine-trafficking-boom
Comment to be notified of OP's brother's answer.
Damn, all of the flights are booked and the price is going up.
That's why it's so important to stay in the loop.
From outer space to cocaine, either way this channel will get you higher than you've ever gone before.
You'd think if they came all the way to the marshall islands they would have at least brought a testing kit.
Do you guys share the writing of the end card of your videos is are they done by Kata that does the editing?
I write the endcards, Kata offers input on the rare occasion
It's shows you the value of the product is not intrinsic to the product itself but rather where the product is located.
That's the foundation of human society, cities, empires, trade routes... everything. You take stuff from where it's plentiful to where it's scarce, and trade for what's plentiful there, yet scarce where you came from, and then you make the return trip.
@@GizzyDillespee The only differance is the value occurs from legality and not transportation.
It was 3USD a gram in Bolivia in the late 1990s. That's at the point of manufacture, crazy
I really appreciate you showing us how life is in these islands in the middle of the Pacific, that most of us will probably never get to visit in person . Be safe out there .
I have a feeling that this video is going to be on of the ones that a surprising amount of people visit after learning this lol.
Will say that the Patreon email has me worried that authorities will come knocking at my door at some point... 😅 "Rare Earth just shared: 'The Cheapest Cocaine on Earth'"
This and the Azores story are very interesting in that it's essentially collateral destruction. We think about how the drug trade impacts the countries that produce and consumer the drugs, but rarely about how even the countries in between can be effected.
That is why all drugs need to be legal for those over 18 years old
Truth. I saw a documentary about what illegal drug manufacturers were doing to the environment in some communities in the EU. Toxic chemicals being dumped into groundwater or on farms.... Hopefully someone can figure out some ways to stop/slow this latest wave of drug use.
Saw it, gonna watch it right away. I love your narration style.
Idunno, ive found bags of coke on the ground in places it's more expensive than gold
probably ₣€nt@n¥l
Hey man, I love your content. But this has recently come to mind.
Why should I trust you as a journalist? As your topics grow more interesting, my desire for verifiable sources and legitimising past work expirience grows too.
I hope you can respond to this. Peace out ❤
I'm not a journalist I make pretentious TH-cam videos, you trust me at your own risk like everything else you see on this platform
That's what the end card says every episode
@@RareEarthSeriesOh. That's both disappointing and really respectable. 😂
But I do still hope you'd offer some more concrete, factual stuff with your videos. It adds to the value of it (for me).
Thanks for your honesty and self awareness.
All of my videos are concrete, factual stuff. I make mistakes like anybody here or there but everything I say is always researchable if you take the time.
@@RareEarthSeries If you can say that your videos are concrete and factual (to a degree). Why don't you provide sources?
Like you shouldn't be able to make that claim only if you do the research. So why not provide the proof while at it?
Because my experience doing so showed me it was meaningless except to the people who were trying to find a way to nitpick without actually doing any research, wasted a bunch of time, and made me look like I was trying to be a journalist instead of a pretentious TH-cam channel
In my experience people who actually want to know more always do their own research, because that's the best way to actually learn new information
If I knew I was concrete and factual why would I waste effort trying to prove it to strangers
"Why did you go to Marshal Islands?"
"Rare Earth"
Well send me some bc heir in Sydney au its worth 250 to 300 thousand a kilo n $350 a gram 'thats the pure anyway.
Instructions unclear, accidentally bought boat ticket.
I love the end cards!
Who on earth thinks of mixing these random things to get high amh ridiculous
I miss my healthy relationship with coke😢
Shits been stepped on so many times it's barely a narcotic.
I am selling all my belongings and heading to the airport 🛫 😂
"A boring drug for deceptively boring people" one of the best definitions I ever herd.
I was expecting a video on the nuclear legacy - 70 years of Castle Bravo. I am in Majuro for that.
I need to not visit that place😂
Beetle Nut 🌰+ lime = Zarda Pan very common in India it costs 60 Cents.
Now American tourists will destroy this island :D
If you instantly opened the video you have a problem
Damn bro I’m glad I don’t live there😂
Here in my hometown in Texas I worked with some Marshallese folks at a factory and they always were chewing the beatle nuts and spitting in the trash cans. I was offered a try and I was handed a leaf wrapped around a green nut. I already chew tobacco so I figured the beatle nut would be tame but I was wrong. I tried it and was buzzing pretty hard. The taste was okay. It just isn't for me 🙂
Can smn pls tell me where is this place. Cuz i wanna go there to live if 1gr of coke is 0.50cent & i'll pay $1, 1gr &only for self use& abuse!
The more powdery, usually the more cut. Not always but If it has that blended look to it. Not a good sign. Typically, the further from the source the more beat up it is. I could be wrong this might be some fire, I just have my suspicions.
Could be hotplated but at .50 cents a bag ur right it's cut 😂😂
"you can't make a video that will be funny and make you pensive at the very same moment"
Evan: "hold my non-alcoholic beverage"
So many coke heads are planning trips now
Tourism 📈
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Learned something new today. Someone entrepreneurial should visit them from Australia, buy a bunch and resell in Australia making x200.
Ever listened to the podcast series “Cool Mules”? Some Canadians got into a world of hurt when they tried that- Aussie border security is apparently no joke!
Hey honey,wanna go to the Marshall Islands?
a variation of this, i.e. dried betelnuts / betel leaf(piper betel) and lime is enjoyed all over southern india. especially loved by grandmas.
Jesus lol thats ALOT of coke just washing up
As a former addict this was challenging to watch.
Happy to hear the former part
"I just found it on the side of the street" yeah. Me too. Best excuse I ever heard, will use it from now on.
I never understood the luxury marketing with coke, smells like gasoline and isn’t really that nice ( although it has its moments)
I regret ever taking hard drugs. Smoking pot is a mistake but not on the level of harder drugs. The problem is you start abusing it. Drugs aren't the problem it's your baggage.
If it's compressed (like most bulk coke is) a "heart sized lump" would be a MASSIVE amount!
Id guess multiple ounces.
(TBH even a full compressed kilo brick is a bit smaller than many would imagine it to be. And that's about 35 ounces. lol)
And yeah, you could easily pay $500 for a half ounce, even with an okay connect, in the US...
Or at least that's what street prices were like last time i checked... which to be fair was like 10+ years ago lol... but oddly enough coke prices seem far more stable and fixed than the many many goods and services that have fallen victim to inflation and "shrinkflation" in recent years!
In 2005 i could get grams of mid grade (that is, average purity) on the street for between 60-80... and i hear it's not all that different today...
Funny how that works.
Do you think you could go buy a Big Mac, ANYWHERE, for the same price you could get one in 2005?!?
Hell, you can't even get a MCDOUBLE for the same price as '05...
Hell, their "dollar menu" is barley even a dollar menu anymore... you used to be able to get an entire double cheeseburger for $1!!!
But cocaine prices?
Seemingly steady as a surgeon's hand...
But that's weird... right?
If dollars have less buying power, that means the cartels are just accepting thinner margins, no?
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I hate Coke, I just like the smell of it
And the coke head gold rush is on.
If it's so unpopular why are there bags of cocaine just laying around?