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DeLekkersteNUGS16 wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 05:13 pm

WLow wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 05:05 pm Nobody never mention what strain they tried, it's just cali.
I tried many states weed like mimosa, gelato or even ghost train haze from rare dankness in colorado, it's
good weed but when you had numerous strains over decades you know that it's all hype.

Having a sealed bag labeled from a shop in the states and buying "Cali" from a coffeshop in amsterdam is a total different thing. If you really think that what the plug sell 35€ comes from us your just naive.

Nah I see reasoning behind your skepticism but I fully trust that 90%+ of what the Plug markets (for all their faults) Cali import is rightfully labeled as such, the crews they work directly with (Cali Connected) definitely are and they wouldn't put their name if affiliation with something that wasn't.

RoMoney wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 08:09 am This, I agree they are trying to do. As I said before, the old ceiling of 18/g for GSC in Barneys has been raised considerably with the Cali introduction. I'm just amazed at the amount of outraged people who have never actually tried the stuff.

Not_the_monk wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 05:50 pm for every reputable shop that might actually be selling genuine imported product (of which the Plug could be one, I really don't know and I'm certain the average CS customer won't have a clue), we all should know from long experience in the city that ten more shops will be laughing all the way to the bank as they just relabel their better usual product and sell it for double the price while ensuring their traditional, already-quite-expensive-enough strains are unappealing scraps, or even better for them, just not "in stock" at all.

Not_the_monk wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 05:50 pm

RoMoney wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 08:09 am This, I agree they are trying to do. As I said before, the old ceiling of 18/g for GSC in Barneys has been raised considerably with the Cali introduction. I'm just amazed at the amount of outraged people who have never actually tried the stuff.

Woot, we have common ground!

I remember a few years ago when Nel still worked @ Utopia them getting a little batch of some US import, iirc it was €16/g when the next most expensive thing on the menu was in the €13-€14 range, and that seemed a not-unreasonable markup both for how it smoked and what its origins apparently were. The sort of markup being sought now however, in increasing numbers of shops in the city on what seems like a daily basis, is pretty disturbing imho.

I'd happily bet that most of those offerings have absolutely not been imported from California, just considering the logistics and risk/reward of smuggling large quantities of flower into Holland from the US West Coast (as opposed to elsewhere in mainland Europe if not domestic grown) makes that seem unlikely; for every reputable shop that might actually be selling genuine imported product (of which the Plug could be one, I really don't know and I'm certain the average CS customer won't have a clue), we all should know from long experience in the city that ten more shops will be laughing all the way to the bank as they just relabel their better usual product and sell it for double the price while ensuring their traditional, already-quite-expensive-enough strains are unappealing scraps, or even better for them, just not "in stock" at all.

Ultimately it would all be about individual choice ofc, if someone wants to pay €30/g for weed that shouldn't be any of my business, but where it becomes so is if those choices start limiting or changing my own; at least in the Plug's case on my last visit it did kinda seem that's already happening and I don't really like that at all.

RoMoney wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 07:24 pm I defo accept (in fact human nature dictates) there will be some Coffeeshops trying to flog non-Cali as Cali, but to Nugs point, the stuff is quite distinctive.

I'm quite surprised though by the general lack of faith in the skills of the international drug cartels and Coffeeshops. They have literally been illegally importing drugs for years from all over the world, it's an integral part of their business model.

WLow wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 10:20 pm Swerve is the creator of purple chemdog that is going around amsterdam, he got busted for growing in 2013 because of his girlfriend, he's a weed warrior.

cali connection seeds made many new strains romoney smokes

AzLaker wrote: Tue 18th Sep 2018 05:32 pm It's probably been mentioned before, but all I want to do is sit in a nice coffeeshop (I don't care which one), smoke some good cannabis that taste good, burns clean, and doesn't cost me a sh*t load of money to enjoy it. Plenty of good ones left , you just have to look a little harder now I guess.

AzLaker

Kermit wrote: Wed 19th Sep 2018 12:32 am Swerve the haymaker Tahoe and black water, will never forget that shite. Has the king of Cali released a bobble head yet? Not a king until you have your own bobble head.

And why is he called swerve, coz the fucker swerves answering why my seeds have hermied and why it tastes like hay.