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Can Hemp Really Save the World?
Photo by Adrian Cable, from Wikimedia Commons In Manitoba, anti-drug units of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police now inspect massive hemp fields for legal compliance, instead of raiding them – all part...
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View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Errol Morris on His New Movie, 'The Unknown Known'
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week, Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Errol Morris to discuss his latest film, The Unknown Known, a portrait of one of the leading...
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The Most Evil Thing I Own
War trophies get a pretty bad rap. While there was a time not long ago when the president of the United States opened his mail with a Japanese soldier's arm bone and Japan itself was up to its nose in...
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Australia Is About to Grow Even More Opium Poppies
Tasmania currently grows about 50 percent of the world’s legal opium poppies. These produce the morphine for most modern analgesics, as well as thebaine for specialist drugs like buprenorphine and...
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'B-stylers' Are Japanese Teens Who Want to Be Black
Dutch photographer Desiré van den Berg has spent the past seven months travelling around Asia. She lives in Hong Kong at the moment but when she was in Tokyo, back in December 2013, she met Hina, a...
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Social Media Dipshits: Stop Treating Us Like Fuckwits
Attention social media managers: Stop calling yourselves "social media snipers", "digital Sinatras", "digital inventionists", "technology whisperers", "content kings", "brand activators", "brand...
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We Quit Working for Erdogan's Propaganda Mouthpiece
A protest for internet freedom in February. (Photo by Charles Emir Richards) "Journalists wanted for international news agency," read the Guardian job ad. As an editor in an industry where...
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An Expert's Guide to Brothel Etiquette
Since last September, notices have started to appear in the windows of Amsterdam’s brothels. They’re there to advise potential customers of what does and doesn't constitute appropriate behaviour once...
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Virgin Auctions and Emergency Circumcisions: My Life As an Undercover Journalist
This article was originally published by VICE Portugal in February 2013. Antonio Salas has lived a lot of lives. For a story on neo-Nazi football hooliganism, the Spanish investigative journalist...
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Has China's 'One-Child Policy' Bred a Generation of Dog Lovers?
People in Shanghai fucking love dogs, perhaps more than they love themselves. Walk down the street in China's biggest city and you might see heiresses' Chihuahuas getting facial scrubs, lawyers...
View ArticleVICE on HBO: VICE on HBO - Episode 8
Segment 1: Senegalese Laamb Wrestling The most popular sport in the West African country of Senegal isn't soccer—it's laamb, combining Greco-Roman wrestling moves with eclectic pre-fight rituals and...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: Getting High on HIV Medication - Full Length
In 1998, the antiretroviral drug efavirenz was approved for treatment of HIV infection. Though the drug was highly effective, patients soon began to report bizarre dreams, hallucinations and feelings...
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Canada Is Ramping Up Its Arms Trade
A New Zealand light armored vehicle, similar to the vehicles Canada will soon be exporting to Saudi Arabia. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Back in February the Canadian government proudly announced it...
View ArticleCorrespondent Confidential: A Bizarre Night in Thailand
Producer Carrie Ching traveled to Thailand in 2004 to interview expat Vietnam War veterans for a story about the upcoming Bush-Kerry presidential election. The story took her to the country's...
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Adrien Lacheré’s Gritty Photographs of French Thugs Are Amazing
French photographer Adrien Lacheré's photos of gun-wielding young French men and the neighbourhoods they live in mirror the real life attitude of the film La Haine. The two line up pretty well – not...
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Please Shut the Fuck Up About Game of Thrones
Some Game of Thrones cosplayers (Photo via Kyle Nishioka) Earlier this week, Games of Thrones – AKA the thing that people on the internet now love more than anything else in the whole world – returned...
View ArticleVICE on HBO: VICE on HBO - Episode 9
The first half of episode nine is about Chicago. Chicago has become a war zone. Well, not all of Chicago—half the city is doing great. From the Loop up the Magnificent Mile and into the Gold Coast,...
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My Life Was Saved When a Teacher Physically Subdued Her Student
Screencap from the trailer for The Substitute (1996), via IMDB There’s a story getting hyped up on local news in LA about a teacher kicking his student’s arse on Friday in Santa Monica. Apparently,...
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A Visit to Moscow's Brain Institute
On the 14th of April, 1930, the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide in his Moscow apartment. His closest friends, including the writer Yuri Olesha, rushed to the flat when they heard...
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