Neil Woods spent fourteen years undercover infiltrating the UK’s biggest drugs gangs. He penetrated dangerous organisations across the country, living alongside the most notorious gang members. Neil talks us through the split-second decisions that stopped his cover being blown, plus why he thinks drugs decriminalisation is how we solve climate change.
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Petition for Neil and “posh Pete” do have an interview together
Seriously, there would be people in bad states if all drugs were legalised
England can’t even legalise weed or seem to do anything right recently.
An absolutely riveting podcast. Huge respect for Neil! He has completely changed my view on the drug trade and I REALLY hope that our governments listen to this.
In Sweden, we've had an MP who died of a heroin overdose. To honour his memory, his party are now jumping on the war on drugs bandwagon, because they think that's going to win them more votes.
hahaaa pink champagne, the best whizz ive ever had.
dont matter if they are legalized we will still have idiots that create things like spice etc. its never ending.
Superb , thank you. Agrees with my thoughts exactly.
He’s right
as someone who has worked on a market stall in chesterfield I have and inkling as to the pub he's talking about, can probably still get what you want in there.
This guy either has no inkling of the top level paedophilia/satanic activity in the top echelons of the police, or he simply cannot talk about it.
How fascinating,what an articulate man, and so easy to listen to,and learn from. Thank you 🙂
There are two options for the illicit UK drugs market:
1. Legalise ALL drugs
OR
2. The filth know who the dealers are, as most of the top level filth are involved. So take out the top filth, AND the dealers. Zero tolerance of them all, and terminate with extreme prejudice using special forces.
However, if one chooses option 2, then what to do with the special forces who have (literally!) all the filth, on the FILTH!?
He’s a clown, most of his stories are lies.
Important conversation for sure
So much sense. The Govt should take this guy and make him the Drugs minister
Excellent interview. Good points on how the war on drugs has had enormous unintended consequences. Selling legalization to the politicians and the public will not be easy, to say the least. I am in agreement that classifying drugs as legal vs illegal regardless of their potential for harm is nuts. I live in British Columbia, Canada and we are still having people die daily from toxic drug supply. How about this: let out people doing time for possession and give those empty accommodations to the Sackler family. I don't know the best solution to this crisis, but I do know how we are going about it is not working.
No government is going to tell me what I can or cannot do with the money I work for. The main reason I go to work at all is to afford the drugs I use to deal with the state of the world I live in. Sure, I need things from time to time, so I could just work time to time. Instead I prefer to turn my brain off and float away, and that makes me a productive member of society
👆👆look up that handle, he ships swiftly, and he got shrooms, Dmt, lsd, mmda, psilocybin, chocolate bars, he's got a lot.. 🍄 💊🍄🍫💯🔌…..
This guy is a total amatuer and really made a fool of himself in this interview. "There is NO corruption anywhere in the police force apart from the drug scene? HAHA he has NO IDEA! Corruption in the Police is rampant amoungst LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE BRANCH and it goes all the way to the very top because thats where it STARTS! A dead fish rots from the head first, and so does the police force. Corruption has got nothing to do with drugs, corruption is ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE and the incentives for corruption are limitless, but it ranges from money, to pride, to power, all the way down to self satisfaction. The big one is obviously money tho. While there is money to be made therr will always be corruption at the highest levels. ALWAYS and drugs is only one tiny fraction of the issue its so much more widespread than drugs. This guy is either covering for his colleagues by giving them a good wrap and putting a lid on all of the other corruption, or he is just genuinely inexperienced and has no clue about authority or corruption.
We're in the worst of both worlds in the UK, it's easy to get drugs and they're completely unregulated, you're never going to hit a perfect solution though
I was watching a thing where the Italian mafia have taken over the ports and they're responsible for 90% of the coke in Europe, in many ways it's probably subsidising shipping full stop
Very disappointing to read through the comments like the content of what Neil just talked about doesn't matter as much as the quality. I think it's very representative of society's 'don't know don't want to know' attitude.
I think Neil is absolutely bang on the money and he's confirmed thoughts I've held for some time. Everyone is different. Some people cope in bad times, others don't. However a lot of those that don't, survive from the effects of drugs, because they numb the pain that cannot be taken away. I've always thought that the 'war on drugs' has no end to it, only a list of casualties, and that policing is what makes it dangerous. I've smoke weed to deal with my life problems and swear I would have taken my own life had cannabis not pulled me back from the edge of despair. I went to the doctors because I knew what I was doing was self medicating, but the happy pills they gave me caused staggering highs and unbelievable lows. Far far worse than I experienced smoking weed, yet even though this innocent plant saved my life, I'm a criminal for consuming it and need to be locked up. It just doesn't make sense. Regulating the industry will allow people to talk more openly and will be more inclined to ask for help if they didn't feel like they were exposing themselves as a criminal. Mental health is what it comes down to. Normal happy people don't need drugs, so when they get hooked, I think this should be recognised for what it is, a cry for help. That something bad has happened that needs addressing. Something that probably need dealing with more tactically than slapping a problem label on it and pushing of to a rehab clinic.
… and yes, alcohol is now and always has been a much greater problem than cannabis ever has, so because alcohol is legal, you only have a problem when its taken to excess, the effects of uninhibited rowdy lairynes are just the effects, get over it, but a sedate weed snorter needs to rot in jail. It's about time attitudes towards drugs grew the fuck up already.
I bet this guy has a SUPER loose bewtyhole
eye opener or what,governments take a big kick up the a.s and please do something
Agree
Jasper Carrot taking his police role seriously