BAM guys welcome to another video and
don't do drugs kids because drugs are
bad and there's a reason I'm talking
about this is there been some serious
clamp down on drug taking in China very
recently so recently I was contacted by
a subscriber who has just made it back
to the UK and he was part of the big
drug bust up in Suzhou and the story
goes very simply him and his mates and
their whole sort of foreign circle have
been smoking weed for years now I've
been pseudo speeding you know totally
okay and blase and everyone kind of
thinks it's cool and that they've been
doing it and recently somebody got
busted and the cops went through their
phone and basically got all the contacts
out of his phone and they went and got
every single person and made them force
them to do a urine test and then after
the urine test found that the guy had
some marijuana in his system and from a
couple of weeks ago detained everyone
there's 20 plus of these guys detained
for three weeks two weeks in kind of
like a drug rehab type Detention Center
and then the third week in a proper
Detention Center and then immediately
deported after this this is just one of
many of these stories I've been hearing
recently and it's something I've been
saying from the get-go smoking weed and
taking drugs might be normal where
you're from you might have your reasons
you might say it's medicinal or it's
good for you or whatever and that's
totally fine it's entirely up to you to
believe what you want to believe problem
is China doesn't believe that and when
you're in China they are incredibly
harsh when it comes to drugs and this is
a hangover from the opium wars and you
have to understand that an entire
country was brought to its knees twice
because of drugs and so they are
seriously seriously hung up about it and
that's why you can get the death penalty
and foreigners have gotten the death
penalty for smuggling a certain amount
of drugs it's over a certain amount and
it's it's serious guys like not only
could you get the death penalty for
smuggling drugs if you're thinking about
being a mule don't do it
but just casually smoking weed which
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but just casually smoking weed which you
know to most of the Western world seems
like a very harmless thing to do and
it's kinda like a hobby and it's
legalized in a lot of places around the
world it's not in China so remember guys
when you come to China ditch that habit
like no joke this is not from a moral
standpoint or anything like that this is
from a standpoint of practicality if you
get caught and now they're raiding
especially foreign bars and foreign
restaurants and things like that all
over the country here in Shenzhen raids
happen you know on a weekly basis at the
moment and it's random and people don't
get any forewarning
and recently in Beijing they've been
doing it a lot too
and Shanghai as well just about
everywhere we're there there's a large
concentration of foreigners and they are
targeting foreigners don't make any
mistake about that so they go to the
foreign bars I'll show you some pictures
of what's been going on they go to the
foreign bars they force everyone to take
a urine test and if you come up with
drugs in your system right then and
there they basically arrest you detain
you and then deport you like my
subscriber didn't even have the option
to go and pick up his stuff he had to
organise for a roommate of his to like
pack all this stuff up for him and then
send it to him so guys stern warning if
you're coming to China if you're living
in China stay away from the drugs even
if some other local foreigners are like
oh it's fine we've been doing it for
years or it's cool do what you want type
thing remember that now especially right
now it's a very harsh climate and
they're going after drugs and they're
going after foreigners taking drugs look
after yourself guys drink all the booze
you want because yeah it's a drug but
it's illegal here and that's kind of
what I'm getting at see you next time
and you know the drill as always stay
awesome now that's not to say that China
doesn't have a big drug problem in fact
it does there are entire villages that
make
that have been shut down when I've been
in the rural parts of China and when
I've been working like when we had our
motorcycle shot the little village that
we were in because people have nothing
to do they literally sit around all day
you get tons of people that are actually
addicted to especially meth meth seems
to be the big thing going around in
China so I mean drugs do exist here but
believe you me when it comes down to
clamping down and when they get the
chance to clamp down on these guys they
clamp down hard and so you just don't
want to get caught up in all of that you
know because remember at the end of the
day as a foreigner you have absolutely
no rights in China and people can do
what they want and you can say what you
want and you can scream and shout about
your rights but nobody gives a damn so
that's why I'm making this video I'm not
trying to be moral and put forward any
kind of a moral standpoint on drugs
because personally I drink alcohol
because I want to get drunk
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all right I know people smoke weed in
order to get high I always give people
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medicinal this and that because ninety
percent of the people that are smoking
weed they're not smoking it for its
medicinal properties they smoking it to
get high so just be honest
if I was a weed smoker a STONER I
definitely be honest about it and I'll
be like I smoked weed to get high I
don't smoke weed because I got aching
joints or something like that nonsense
did they come up with
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alright guys enough digression sorry I
know it sounds like I'm making fun of
some you know people who smoke weed and
stuff I'm just poking fun and the reason
is I constantly get people even comment
saying like oh ok is so much worse than
marijuana you know it breaks up families
and all that and yeah I mean I'm not
gonna argue an alcoholic can be a very
very very destructive force but that's
not the point the whole reason I but I'm
even bringing this stuff up is because
it's that attitude that people bring
with them when they come here to China
this attitude that you know it's okay to
smoke weed because yeah it is okay to
smoke weed in your country but it's just
not in China the thing is that nobody's
gonna stand there and help you out when
you're caught in this situation and you
know there's actually something that's
even worse and this has happened to a
couple of people and that is they'll
smoke weed back home and then they'll
come to China on holiday like a couple
days later got to a bar and they're
drinking and they get caught up in one
of these raids and then they end up
testing positive and going to jail
because or getting detained and deported
because they smoked weed outside of
China so guys the whole point of this
video is kind of like a little PSA be
careful when dealing with this kind of
stuff in China and right now the
political climate the trade war that
kind of thing
China's looking for reasons to make you
know to push back and one of these
reasons is to kind of point fingers at
foreigners and say look how bad
foreigners are so that's why they're
going for this like overly aggressive
sort of clamp down and crackdown on
foreigners and trying to catch
foreigners out basically so you see it
all across the board visas are harder to
get these days you know they're trying
to make examples of people and you know
catching foreigners taking drugs is a
good way to make an example to show the
country look foreigners are bad they
come to our country and take drugs here
they break our laws so guys please bear
that in mind
be very careful China is a free and sort
of open place to chill out you know and
have a wonderful life you can drink all
you want you can you know I've been here
13 years I'm married to a local I've had
the time of my life and all these
adventures and all these crazy things
but there are a couple of things where
you just don't mess around in China and
one of them is drugs so bear that in
mind
I don't want this video to be a downer
or a bummer or anything like that but I
do care about you guys and any one of
you guys who want to come to China and
have fun move here visit here you know
have a vacation do a gap here whatever
just remember it's incredibly important
to stay away from drugs even something
as mild as marijuana all right so that's
it guys enough I don't think I need to
talk about this subject ever again I've
covered it so many times so that's it
I'll catch you in the next one and as
always thank you for watching thank you
for your support and steps
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