Panorama - Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia 1/3

[j0nnyism]

Yes it is a long way from your tacky bourgeois dinner parties in notting hill

[cupdrums]

kikane



[Therealnoel]

when my good friend went to South America they had 'relatively pure' (my friends words) coke and they paid ten quid for a gram! By the time it reaches your pockets here in U.K. it wouldve been cut normally about 3/4 times and you'll be lucky if its 40% pure. Thing is, most people think testing it on their gums to see if it numbs means its 'pure' it is more than likely cut with lidocaine or benzocaine to increase the numbing effect..

[nowyouarethechannel]

I was seeking this documentary that was shown in Caracol (colombian TV channel)

I am Colombian, proudly of being it - this video is worth of being watched because it attacks the fallacy of -- I AM NOT HURTING ANYONE -- that most of drug users / addicts have, and its the naked truth every bit of white dust consumed in England and other countries converts into many forms of DEATH in our lands - no need to damn, no need to argue, just to make sense in the neurons of more --civilized-- countries

[IPKUCALL911]

i wonder if cocaine is given out in Columbia

[UKcass1]

Beautiful country?pmsl, It's a filthy shithole!

[virtue08mofo]

supply and demand you fucking Illuminati whore cooperation.

[joefrench555]

i got cocaine running around my brain

[creds123]

I love cocaine

[gingafan12]

@creds123 and I love Alex x)

[UnitedEuropa]

I think this is one of the best ways to fight drug addiction. Just let the people see it for themselves.

[amalt37]

Political motives. Scenario #1. Government A doesn't like Government B. Government A encourages the creation of a cartel on Government B's soil. Government A provides the cartel with weapons and allows the cartel to smuggle drugs into Government A. The cartel gets powerful and becomes a threat to the stability of Government B. Government A can then influence Government B by offering conditional help in dismanteling the cartel. Government B does what Government A wants. Government A is happy.

[amalt37]

It's the government and the cartels who are pulling the triggers and it all starts with the government. It's even the government that provides/allows the cartels to have weapons. The government wants drugs to be illegal so: 1) They can manipulate the market for political motives, 2) Make money through taxes and direct/indirect control of the market and 3) So they can have a large police force at the ready should they need to control the people.

[ShortGrey1]

a million pound on cocaine and champagne ?? woooowwww!

60pounds a gram, 150 pounds a bottle of champagne in clubs, that means if each time he snorted coke he bought a bottle of champagne he took 4761 grams of cocaine and drank 4761 bottle of champagne !!

minimum

[wazlwazl]

@ShortGrey1 £50?

[ShortGrey1]

@wazlwazl he said it's worth £60 a gram. In France, almost pure cocaine is like 120euros a gram, but i don't really know I don't take some, my friends do though

[wazlwazl]

@ShortGrey1 i gus its more coz hes in london and im not. and damn 120 euros thats loads :/

[rocksinoo]

@ShortGrey1 He spent that much on cocaine and champagne, he didn't CONSUME it. When you're in a party and you're a rock star, I assume you pay everything to all the guests.

[ShortGrey1]

@rocksinoo not necessarily : when you're that famous you don't hang out with poor people, you assume they have enough money to buy thir own gear. if not, then they're your friends just for your money. i think what he meant was "I spent for my own consumption a million pounds in coke and champagne, and I don't even talk about what I sporadically bought to sustain other's habit"

[rocksinoo]

@ShortGrey1 Come on, you really thing the guys where like "ok so you owe £453,50, I only have a 500 bill so you give me change blablabla" like teenagers? Even I don't do that !

[Nightmonkey17]

This is why I just smoke home-grown American cannabis.

[nathalush]

56 billion? jes krist!

this rock star is quite stiff and quite unpleasant for this president ..

[nathalush]

56 billion? jes krist!



[horse69outside]

Kate Moss love the cock

[gts5001]

The US needs to get the hell out of colombia and legalize it. If it were legal and not worth more than gold people wouldn't be dying over it. I've been to Colombia it's a beautiful place and these issues didn't arise until the rest of the world made coke illegal and they will never go away until the US snaps and invades them just like afghanistan. I've been there too and it's such BS. If it doesn't cost $100/gram people wouldn't rob, burglerize, assualt, and kill over it

[mondayslaskar]

they should put this stuff in school dinners. Better acedemic results! COCAINE FTW!!!!

[r1ch1etheman]

This isn't putting me off cocaine, still love you alex

[sadistsannoyme]

''every ounce of cocaine that you snort is tainted in blood.'' i fucking WISH i had a full ounce of cocaine bud

[zestroker1]

wtf is this???, my country is not dangerous!!!, is just like being in anyother city or country in the world, just like in your neighborhood!!!, motherfucking consumers of shit!, mother fucking president, ex.president, motherfucking drugs!!, why don't ypu go watch something more about my country like beaches coffe and things like that, does it always have to be about drugs and violence,WE ARE MUCH MORE THAN THIS!

[YourTubeSpellChecker]

Is it me or does Alex James come across as a massive twat?

[iceravenVI]

@YourTubeSpellChecker he's got a very wry sense of humor that does make him come off as a bit of a twat yeah

[nathalush]

@YourTubeSpellChecker

toatally agree. Hes stiff and stuborn. Way too much coke - and now it is too late! people stop this shit! you do not have to take coke to be cool!!!

[secretagent109]

"COLOMBIA IS PASSION" VIDEO IN YOUR TUBE

[htavilap]

Wash your hair once in a while Alex.

[GanzLONDON]

The US has always a good excuse to send the MILITARY inside other countries.

Funny is that ONE OLD LADY can not get a nail clipper from Austria to the US, but some crazy Colombians can take TONS of COCAINE across the border with ease, every day !

Very amusing indeed !

Those colombians must be more clever than the CIA, KGB, NSA, MI-5, and the People's Front of Judea combined.

[rangers11000]

ha ha an ak47 is accurate at 1,500 feet? i think he sniffed some of that coke.

[LooshyXD]

Ah, the days when Alex's hair went all wrong.

[besosdeverano]

WHY DONT YOU GET BUSY WITH YOUR PAEDOPHILES IN YOUR COUNTRY DO SOMETHING TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN INSTEAD OF GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO DIRT THEM

[secretagent109]

ENGLAND IS A BIG CONSUMER OF COCAINE, AND OTHER LETHAL DRUGS, WHY DONT YOU SPEAK ABOUT THE BIG PROBLEMS IN ENGLAND WITH HUGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN CONSUMING DRUGS, THE INCREASE NUMBER OF PEADOPHILES LIVING IN YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR COUNTRY IS WELL KNOWN FOR THE GREAT NUMBER OF MENTAL PROBLEMS, ...YOU PIECE OF METAL .......GO BACK TO YOUR CAGE ROBOT OF THE SYSTEM, LONELY ZOMBIE.

[urbex2007]

@secretagent109 Agree with you and I live in the UK. One problem here is corrupt police. They control the drug scene in major cities, it has been proven in the past with officers convicted for such offences. Corruption is everywhere, drugs are not smuggled in to the UK, they are brought in through paying Customs and Police. There is no way they would get past searches!

[mikeverm]

@secretagent109

You will only die if you take to much. So in your case an aspirine is lethal as well because if you take 12 of them, it will be your last headache.

[BADUH9]

xD Blur and a Cocaine-Report??? Funny!

[blackflame03]

Russia is probably more dangerous for a journalist than Colombia.

[piig11]

WOnder if he did this totally for free then

[R0undAboutMidnight]

A cheeky line at a dinner part in Notting Hill? lol, posh southern druggie turned pretentious moralizing twat..

[renegadecossack1]

One Hit Wonder doing everything he can to hang onto his fleeting 15 minutes of fame...

[cohenst]

Alex can try to sort his hair out for himself during his dangerous adventure, but who's at home looking after his pigs, the Animal Liberation Front? A book about spending a million on champagne and coke. Isn't that something that you should be embarrassed to publicize? Maybe not if you're a pop music has been and you think you can make even more cash and publicity for yourself.

[Babania1]

how many people who take coke give a fuck where it comes from??? should be his question I think!

[stlk12]

@creds123 I'm not trying to be rude or anything but..it is your fault when you go out and buy that 1-2gms that's money fueling the war on drugs, but to be honest the United States is stupid for causing a war they will NEVER win it's about supply and demand once demand stops then supply stops then there's no money in that business and then cartels will be out of the business.

[wvb56]

i fuckin love cocaine i do i do i wont lie...... lagalize legalize

[beeklaan00]

jaja alex hair:P

[yacastell]

Este pais está bien jodido por la mala raza de criminales corruptos que goviernan la nación, y este documental es una porquería ...bueno si se le puede llamar documental...haaa por cierto me gusta la musica de esa gran banda...BLUR::

[TheFreeFlow]

yeah thumbsup to national geographic for spelling colombia wrong lol, big fail. Even national geographic is starting to get retarded and stupid... jesus whats the world coming to? a world full of stupidity... oh yeah ur gotta love it...

[Kullg4r]

Is this satire?

[OlgaMariaMaria]

well then, good job Alex James !

[Moerakski]

No one can stop the bizz man stop trying, aspecially that corrupt president

[R0undAboutMidnight]

If coke were legal then there obviously wouldn't be any violence.

[zoetrope1492]

If the English and North American people will leave the cocaine, Colombia could be get Peace!!!!

[R0undAboutMidnight]

@zoetrope1492 Right because it's all our fault. Well here's an idea dickhead, why don't Colombians stop growing it, and why don't your politicians stop being so corrupt? Easier to go after the addicts, aye?

[zoetrope1492]

@R0undAboutMidnight So?, I don't care, nothing gonna change the fact that you are JUNKIES!!!!!, Unfortunalety, my country is very poor, then the poor people have to produce cocaine in order to feed their families.

[zoetrope1492]

@R0undAboutMidnight You are sons of The Queen, you have a good level of life, if you get a job, you win enough money so as to pay your bills, your home and your dreams and feed your family, but if the poor people of my country get a normal job, they can't get enough money to life!!!! They have to struggle to eat food, there are lots of topics which you never going to know because your country is an empire like the states(US).

[zoetrope1492]

@R0undAboutMidnight Oh I'm sorry I forgot something, Finally to answer why our politics are corrupt? Because we are a mix of Spaniards+Nigers+NativeAmerica­ns+British+Germans,French ancesters, we are Colombians, and the problem is get together in a common road the most of them, because we are plenty different!!!

[R0undAboutMidnight]

@zoetrope1492 "Nigers"?  Pardon?

[ErGroser0]

@R0undAboutMidnight the most corrupts are gringos and europeans. 85% of the drugs profit goes outside colombia

[JoshMufc101]

a million on cocaine? as if, any one who spent 1million pounds of cocaine would be dead. a gram is like £50, so he's smoked 20,000grams of it? yeah sure.

[redeyeguy1976]

@JoshMufc101 i dont think he had it all to himself he spent a million on the cocaine life style partys ect, over the years i wonder just how many people got high for free off him... bet he had no end of friends in the late 90's

[core1976scotland]

Its not the drugs,Its the scumbags who sell & the ones who ban it.

[ErGroser0]

británicos drogones y/o alcohólicos

[MrTomc23]

sweedish women and cognac!!!!

[youlance29]

there is nothing better than a night of coke and colombian women!!!

[topsy420]

If it were legal, no producers would die, traffickers would not exist, and the only people getting hurt are the ones who are already using it illegally. Cocaine will never go away, time to regulate and legalize.

[CelestialJayx]

true then people can Really profit on it

[davidunico1]

yeah, then would be taxes for health and education and laws for it`s comerce. Consume inside the country would decrease, or at least it would be controled. But that won´t ever happen. More now that Uribe is leading the country. And tired of kissing Bush´s ass now he`s going into british bud licking. BIG SHAME.

[MaskOfGrief]

agreed.

prohibition doesn't work

[EkamSat1]

@topsy420 yes, you're right, that way humanity will legally evolve into a bunch of selfish, arrogant, noisy knowitalls with a tendency to think they are better than the rest & the only ones who really see the facts right, with the occasional heart attack from OD & more aggression in general.

[topsy420]

@EkamSat1 This is how I see it... We are legally able to purchase alcohol and it has all of the same side effects you just listed, and so what, it does't even matter. Nobody has the right to dictate how someone treats their OWN body. I could kill myself with liquor and fried cheese and nobody would even bat an eye, but bring one cocaine, one of those evil, untaxed drugs, and the shit hits the fan. I understand your point, but you must also agree our war on drugs has been a gruesome failure.

[EkamSat1]

@topsy420 trust me, cocaine really is evil, it changed me into someone i'm not & in a very different way than alcohol or any other drug could possibly do. I used to think the same, thinkin it was my choice to use it or not but it's a bit more complicated than that & after a while it changes you while you think it makes you think clearer but it's a bet with your mind you will sooner or later lose & there will be other ppl involved, very different from alcohol imho.

[sermantje]

not tempted my ass he cant take his eyes of it.

[rainbowspite222]

Alex James, god bless you for being such a crazy fuck.

[MrDayjones2]

I need to meet a Colombian any takers

[cdwordsworth26]

god he is a wanker, amazin amazain amazin , amazin that you're not dead you mop haired fuckwit.

[slamminhole69]

i hate these rich brats who do coke they don't even know where it comes from and at what cost? innocent people are tortured and killed just to make sure these spoiled brats get their precious cocaine to go along with their bmw's and true religion jeans

[SuperSayjinElite]

lol, you are so right...

[jeanhyves]

Is COLOMBIA no columbia stupid 2:27

[zeitok8]

Ouh the bassist of one of my favorite bands have a letter of the worst criminal of the country, also I interview with another bastard animal Francsico Santos, thanks to garbages as them the rural this population submitted to this way of life.

yes, i am from this conuntry that this suffering for garbages like uribe, thank you.

[9wolfy9]

Alex James is an example of the kind of vacuous wankers that came to prominence in the 90s. He makes a oh so sincere film about how evil the Cocaine trade is after admitting blowing 1000,000 on it! Did it not occur to you at some point during your extended binge that the drugs trade was evil and destroys peoples lives? do you really feel that making this video has somehow excused you?. You need to sell alot of cheese and donate all the proceeds to orphanages in South America to achieve that.

[colombianito444]

I`m colombian, I don`t understand nothing in this video, please, can U help me, I think alex is talking about the narcos and the cocaine but no more, please leave a messasge in spanish PLEASE.

[slamminhole69]

se dice: chupe mi pito, puto

[Hans001x]

Cokxxx

[DAILEYericCaryUSA]

This is an important message. Thanks for posting it.

[pfcsusczynski]

once again America doing something the English wont

[SnuffTheatre]

yeah like eating contests

[pfcsusczynski]

also we had to beat the nazi and the japs and the ussr MONTGOMERY FUCKED UP ARE ONLY CHANCE OF WINING THE WAR IN 44 AND STOPPING THE RUSSIANS BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU IRISH BABY KILLING PRICKS HAVE TO BE PRICKS AND THE ONLY GOOD ENGLISH MEN WAS CHURCH HILL

[SnuffTheatre]

your an idiot

ireland was nutral in that war because they were poor bastards and they were too scared to fight

england and scotland saved irish and welsh ass in that war we saved you just like we did poland you ungreatful fucks

and america would have lost in pearl harbour if it wasnt for great britain idiot

[pfcsusczynski]

do you do cocaine cause it seems you do cause your information is more distorted then barrack obamas health care plan ps you guys promised you would help poland but you didnt you declared war and ran away and its the same thing to day you let putin do what ever he wants and soon he will annex Belarus then invade the rest of eastern Europe and then you and America will be there to save your ass again

[HardBodyNyC]

Jackson Heights, QUeens and in general is the largest Colombian community outside of south america.

What do you think goes on? National products?

[pfcsusczynski]

yeah but its not as bad as bed stye and shit also fucking parts of Jamaica ave

[HardBodyNyC]

Jackson Heights is not bad really, but all the Colombians there are doing big BIG things.

Jamaica, Brownsville, Bedstuy, Southside, East New York etc... are low level street crime. All those guys from those neighborhoods wish they knew some big time Colombian.

[DeSmurfen125]

So does he still use drugs??!! I don't hope it not!! and Kate Nash?? WTF!!

<33 Alex!!

[cdwordsworth26]

ak 47 accurate at 1500ft what bullshit James.

[mickb2005]

charlies balls nowadays

[colombiadrian]

drogadictos hijueputas no saben lo que es la relaidad, y lo hemozo de este pais, y solo hablan mierdan, esa cabesa y esas latas no le dan para mas,, por que no ven lo hermozo de mi pais mentirosos de mierda,

[Descenter]

was annoyed to learn that alex james was the bass player of blur because i love blur and he is frankly a poncey idiot twat

[Jimbobmcsquarepants]

Well that was always his image. Read his autobiography, it's really excellent. Try it, it may change your mind

[shoegalsho]

7.50 he looks like Keanu in Saxondale!

[eza1]

i hate this guy who presents the show what a twat he has no charisma

[jarvizcocker]

oh shut up

[lorescro101]

The colombian president is a tgrafficant, good friend of Pablo Escobar and that is documented, he appears in the state department of the US as the narcotrafficant# n82, he is ending up with the traffic of guerrillas to finish his competitors

[carlostito96]

ummm ... I am Colombian, and despite all the talk of my country I am proud ... very interesting documentary, but this picture is that we are a minority compared to the beautiful things that my country!!!

[PARCERONY03]

all colombians have balls to birn in colombia

[DeanBufton]

Does anybody know the name of the song at 5.24?

[larrymcgeehee]

its "helicopter" by bloc party

[Fhawerkk]

Alex, you must have some major balls to fuckin' go there

[schranznatic]

PURA

[maddyarkle]

i love that guy, he presentrs eggheads. baha

[conceptual0theorist]

look at his eyes. that man is high. check at around 9 minutes. he is sparked

[billcharton]

Wow, great reasons to legalize it.

[truthspeaker969]

nahhh, can´t legalize it, need all the money for CIA & MI5 black programs / terror ops and the spreading of "democracy"

[mocha134]

comos e deleitan hablandod e colombia

[creds123]

i fucking love cocaine, its not my fault it is illegel and causing this shit.

[japangamers]

but it would be your fault because you are funding these people to kill others and get bigger.

[DavithRedway]

you bloody insensitive!

[Babania1]

@creds123 damn right!! my argument is look at all the shit and trouble alcohol causes, it kills far more people every year and causes far more families to break up than any illegal drug!!

[RedStarJunior]

@creds123 but u become a part of it in the moment u buy it, dumbass!

[bwilli93]

his hair says he might not suck a wanker, but he might hold it in his mouth till limp..

[skarmiglione]

francisco santos is one of the true most important narco.

[mrskaykins]

Fancy boasting about snorting £1 million on cocaine. What a twat. No wonder Alex looks old beyond his years now.

[sirgouldie72]

I've just spent a few months in colombia. Whilst the majority of Colombians don't touch cocaine i can't really condemn them for exporting it. There is vast poverty in colombia whilst the ruling classes who are all descended from Spain enjoy great wealth.They are also reaping millions of dollars off the US to combat the drugs trade.None of this money reaches the common man and as long as the Colombian Politicians are combatting the coke, they grow rich in dollars and US military hardwardware

[DavithRedway]

The great wealth in which we, Colombian Euro-descendants, live is due to the fact that we, different from the rest of Colombians, work with our minds. We use our intelligence to make money as any other Paisa (which are descended from Spain) would do. If the poor people of this nation wants to keep working without thinking, that's their problem.

[al3xt3hl0nly]

are you going to bow down to europeans and americans as well? you sound like a bitch to me.

[DavithRedway]

well, you certainly didn't understand what i said.

[DavithRedway]

My parents were born in Colombia, as well as me, so I'm Colombian, but my great great grandparents were Europeans, and I can actually see that in the mirror. I'm white and blond, even with red beard. You don't get to see that in an Amerindian or a black person. And What I'm saying is that our Paisa culture which descends from Europeans is the one with the richest people in Colombia, but just because with use our minds to get money.

[1337p5yc0]

As a Paisa and a Colombian, I find you as an insult, a disgrace and a vulgarity to my nation. Don't you ever dare call yourself Colombian again. You, sir, are a racist.

[DavithRedway]

Amen. And you sound like Uribe, jeje. Colombia is not a Nation, it's just a bunch of people who live in the same territory.

[divinejudge1]

better to take a look at who profits from "THE WAR ON DRUGS" America sold Colombia weapons, helicopters, herbicides, military training.

Those in politics/government profit from this more than any pusher, mule, or farmer.

[ajarnfrankie]

Absolutely the truth...

[ImportanceOfWhatever]

the real story isn't about the cocaine...it's about Alex's hair!

[aslongasitlasts]

Best comment on youtube so far. :)

[Charlie1821]

This is fucking nuts

[IRONMACHO1]

the reporter ist a boring bitch

[Charlie1821]

He's not a real reporter dumbass

[sebamed79]

the problem isn´t the cocaine by itself.

the reason for the murders oder pain in columbia, bolivia, peru ist that cocaine is illegal...

they spray the rainforest and poor farmers with chemicals...

cocaine should be legal and sale in pharmacys with enlightenment and to full-aged only...

but if you give this market in the hands of criminals they kill eachother...

better use the budget for the rehab of junkies and don´t use it for spraying chemicals in the forests...

sorry about my poor english..

[ajarnfrankie]

I agree...

[UNCLEGULZAR]

drugs dont exist

[softchicken88]

cacain lol british accents

[reneebelll]

but his good looks make up for it. ha

[Bac8ardi]

everybody is camoflache.. and he is ijn bride white!! yeah right!

[mjd775]

...Alex James` book "A bit of a Blur" is brilliant!!

[JerryBubbles]

Muy interesante.

[pared1986]

Thanks for posting it!! !

[gedandrews]

Thanx for postin, I'm gonna use this clip and show it to my ESL students.

If people could really see what lies beneath, they wouldn't find it half as funny.

Cocaine shouldn't be illegal, it simply shouldn't exist as we know it.

[wig196]

what am i doing here? good question...lmao

[jwillchad]

blur were so fucking cool!

[angelusgutmann]

Ahhhh! How I love media. They do know how to manipulate reality. Not even a magician would do such a great job... Anyway, hope mr. Alex James had a fun and exciting vacation trip to one of the Banana Republics. Wonder how many people is really going to stop doing drugs because of this. Well, at least I hope the broadcasting company got high rating...

[DisidenciaTricolor]

Not many. Things like these don't really stop the use. It's more a socio economic issue in Colombia than anything else. The government in Colombia doesn't seem to know this or care.

[bru16]

i use cocaine it gasnt made me want to stop

[Rorxz]

drugs are for wasters

[bru16]

lol

[numinaimages]

Ultimately the problem with drugs is because of the war on drugs. America is pretending to be a moral hand of law by policing all the countries of the world and forcing substances into an illegal, black market trade. The horrible death and chaos caused in Columbia, and other drug producing countries will never stop until we stop criminalizing it. This madness has to stop!

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[losarman]

It´s Colombia but otherwise well said

[Tuluz8]

Be carefull Alex James!!!

[darkazz969]

An attempt from the users, who are highly responsible of the problem, to understand what really lies beneath it.

While there are still consumers ready to pay for it, there will be sellers ready to kill for it making a whole country suffer the consequences. (Watch the 3 clips, it's really worth it, actually is you watch long enough you'll get the chance to see our dear president kick the english language, hehe)

[jimbonumber5]

hahaha ye bby