Fear and Loading: Meet the NRA's Most Wanted Customer
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American women are buying more guns than ever before, mostly to protect themselves. Manisha Krishnan heads to Texas for the annual A Girl and a Gun conference where women are being trained to fend off sexual assaults and home invasions with firearms.
Peacekeepers Turned Perpetrators
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In 2016, VICE aired a two year investigation uncovering widespread allegations of sexual abuse and rape at the hands of UN peacekeepers by the very women and children they pledge to protect.
The Soccer Fans Who Literally Worship Diego Maradona
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In his home country of Argentina, Diego Maradona is widely considered the greatest soccer player to ever grace the sport. He is so beloved by his fans that in 1998 a group took their adoration for the athlete to the extreme and founded the Maradonian Church: a religion entirely devoted to worshipping the soccer star.
Dimebags vs. Dispensaries: Street Dealers to Multi-Million Dollar Weed Startups
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In 2016, VICE met business partners in Atlanta who had a dream of getting into the legal weed business, but couldn’t see a way to take their illegal grow off the streets.
In The Ring with Mexico's Ultra-Violent Wrestlers
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In the early 2000s, a Mexican professional wrestler named “Crazy Boy” took a trip to check out an extreme, violent offshoot of the sport that was blowing up in Japan. When he got back, he started working to introduce the world of “lucha libre” to a fighting style with a little more edge—where wrestlers use knives, chairs, fluorescent lightbulbs, and high-risk maneuvers to leave their opponents as bloodied as possible.
Snake Venom Superman Meets the Christian Snake Handler
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Steve Ludwin visits a church in West Virginia where the worship centres around handling deadly snakes, setting yourself on fire, drinking poison and refusing medical attention when things inevitably go wrong.
The Pioneers of Canada’s Illegal Cannabis Edibles Markets
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Come October, Canada will be the second country in the world to legalize weed. While inhaling dried cannabis will be legal, cannabis-infused edibles will remain illegal into 2019. Pop-up markets specializing in edibles are a new phenomenon sweeping Toronto and they are totally illegal.
Inside The Lab Fighting To Save Lives From Snake Venom
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Every year hundreds of thousands of people are dying from snakebites and there’s a global shortage of the one thing that could save them - anti-venom. While a single snakebite can turn most people into a corpse in less than 30 minutes, Steve Ludwin can survive due to 30 years of injecting snake venom.