to bring space cake/s back home... possible?

[mafufero]

Good to hear you made it through safe and sound. I wonder if they check you as rigorously if you go to the UK from Amsterdam by bus or train.

[Marco]

...so how did I get on...hmm I'd say pretty normal. I was fully aware of the fact that I may be treated as someone attempting to smuggle illegal substances over the borders, but on the other hand however it feels a bit like a "grey area" of law although as Cisco pointed out "importing anything containing active ingredients of cannabis plant" is illegal. Well this is fact, but I think the key is to be aware and prepared for few typical and simple question and be as relaxed as possible, under circumstances, with answering them. So, I'm off and through usual check-in procedure...wait in a queue, take a jacket off, empty pockets, hand luggage onto conveyor for scanning, then myself through gate for full body scan. My two cakes, with all packaging and labelling taken off, went through in a lunchbox, in a backpack, looking like they actually could have been part of my lunch at some point of the day and just left over... No questions asked this time. And even if guards did become suspicious, do they have facilities at the airport to test it? Perhaps they do, I do not know this, but I've been prepared to take this chance. So, all is fine, and... I'm on my way home .
I guess my conclusion is, yes it is illegal, yes it is a bit of a risk, yes there could be some consequences, so one has to make an individual choice... I'm sorry I cannot be of any more help here.

@Marco
I admit I'm not a very frequent visitor here, but from just a few post I read recently, sensed you may actually have some anger management / deeper personal issues. Is it your usual attitude or just objective of some kind, to alienate as many people as you can?
I do not want to get involved into disrepute with you as there is certainly nothing positive nor constructive to come out of it, just I thought I'll have a little rant of my own . Personally, I think everyone lives their own life as they please...until they die, that is of course and if some decide to make it sad and miserable along the way...so be it. Again, the choice is yours.
Regards to all who indeed tried to be helpful by staying factual.

What are you talking about mate? I think it is you who are projecting, because there was absolutely no anger is my response to you. I said two things which are facts: 1. Dogs can smell it (just smell a space cake, can you smell the weed?), and 2) you will be importing drugs, which is your choice. How is that angry?

Many, many times people come here looking FOR THE ANSWER THEY WANT TO HEAR, not necessarily the truth. This is especially true when it comes to smuggling questions. Furthermore, no matter how many people can tell you 'they go away' with something, that means little to YOU. For example, someone asks about bringing weed on the train from Amsterdam to country X, and then 3 people answer: "I got away with it, go for it, no worries." This is absolutely dangerous advice, because these people obviously are not traveling with you. If the dogs board the train you are on, then you may be fucked.

Your success story here means absolutely nothing. You got away with it only because your bags were not sniffed by dogs and you were not questioned by the customer officials. Whether your story would have held is only conjecture on your part. However, if a drug dog sniffed you bag, it is almost certain you would have been identified.

I actually comment on these silly smuggling ideas to save people PAIN & SUFFERING. All the 'I got away with it' stories are pretty useless without hearing the other side, those who go caught. For some reason, people generally don't want to share those stories....

As for your psyco-babble, well first off, I did give you factual information. Please don't act like you got away with it due to some actions on your part. You beat the odds (of being hit by a sniffing dog) and nothing else.

Furthermore, I come here for entertainment, for occasional weed advice, and to share my experiences living here with others. In the last category, I think I do a pretty good job helping people whom I can. However, along the way I find it enjoyable to identify the idiots, posers and trolls along the way, not to mention knock the rose colored glasses that often are worn by certain Amsterdam tourists who think this city is heaven, or some kind of tolerant utopia.

[Uncle Ron]

Damn, Marco replied before I could...
crisp25, good to hear all went well.
I was going to reply to your comment about Marco. He probably "saw" my comment about the dogs. Wait for it...
If he had "read" my comment about proper preparation and packaging, might have been a different comment, perhaps not.
Something I do once in a while is to advise peeps to watch their hands and under no circumstance feed the stoners.
It's all good... perhaps if there comes a time with a similar circumstance, take it with a gram of lovely... I do...
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[Marco]

Damn, Marco replied before I could...
crisp25, good to hear all went well.
I was going to reply to your comment about Marco. He probably "saw" my comment about the dogs. Wait for it...
If he had "read" my comment about proper preparation and packaging, might have been a different comment, perhaps not.
Something I do once in a while is to advise peeps to watch their hands and under no circumstance feed the stoners.
It's all good... perhaps if there comes a time with a similar circumstance, take it with a gram of lovely... I do...
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Not sure I follow you Ron. From everything I have read and seen, there is almost no way to mask the smell from a trained dog. And if there is, I find it highly unlikely someone in their hotel room, having been touching and ingesting cannabis for a period of time in Amsterdam, will be successful. Even if (BIG IF), one was able to seal the smell of what they are smuggling, the rest of their clothes, bags, etc have been in Amsterdam, and have been touched massively by tainted hands. The dog could smell that part, they open your bags and find the lovely.

Or did i miss your point?

[Uncle Ron]

Damn, Marco replied before I could...
crisp25, good to hear all went well.
I was going to reply to your comment about Marco. He probably "saw" my comment about the dogs. Wait for it...
If he had "read" my comment about proper preparation and packaging, might have been a different comment, perhaps not.
Something I do once in a while is to advise peeps to watch their hands and under no circumstance feed the stoners.
It's all good... perhaps if there comes a time with a similar circumstance, take it with a gram of lovely... I do...
...

Not sure I follow you Ron. From everything I have read and seen, there is almost no way to mask the smell from a trained dog. And if there is, I find it highly unlikely someone in their hotel room, having been touching and ingesting cannabis for a period of time in Amsterdam, will be successful. Even if (BIG IF), one was able to seal the smell of what they are smuggling, the rest of their clothes, bags, etc have been in Amsterdam, and have been touched massively by tainted hands. The dog could smell that part, they open your bags and find the lovely.

Or did i miss your point?

You are spot on, Marco.
As I said, it's all about proper preparation and packaging.
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[crisp25]

@Marco.
I was not looking for an assurance of any kind, just simply few facts that would help me ascertain the level of risk I would be taking and make conscious decision. I like to consider myself a "thinking" human being...but to the point...if I have misunderstood the tone or attitude, then please accept my apologies. Perhaps I should have refrained from drawing subjective conclusions... I could explain myself as to why I said what I did, but I won't. I could also engage in argument and answer your reply, but I won't. Lesson learned.
What is more important is that yes, I have smuggled banned substance over the border, but at the same time I made it absolutely clear I do NOT advertise it as a "method to succeed", as there is none, and do NOT praise this kind of behaviour at all.
Cheers

[MellowStu]

Rather than bring space cake through customs, would it not be easier just to make some at home? I may be wrong but do most cakes not only have around 0.3/0.4g per slice/muffin? I wouldnt risk it for such a small amount, enjoy your imported goods!

[SmellyJK]

I always smuggle space cakes home. IN MAH BELLY

Standard procedure for me - on the afternoon of the last day, take what is remaining of my stash. grind it up, stick it in an envelope, give a kiss for good luck and post that baby home. Then an hour or so before I leave, buy a pre-roll (dont judge) and a space cake. The pre-roll is smoked accompanied by a final pint of beer, and the space cake is munched at the latest possible point before going through security.

In my opinion, it simply is not worth carry illegal drugs on your person when travelling across international borders. Imagine if you did get caught by some miserable oaf customs official having a bad day. The risk for me far outways the reward. Especially as I can get weed fairly easily at home. (I also regualrly make cakes with the stuff that comes out of my vaporiser). But each to their own, I 'spose.

[KeyMonCha]

I was always under the assumption that they would never use a sniffer dog on a flight from Amsterdam... At least in the UK. Speaking from personal experience only, if they'd used a dog on my last few flights near enough everyone on the plane back to Liverpool would have been pulled up. As for the cakes... Post em! Too much trouble for the mail to search those i think... Probably!

[stamford1601]

We brought a couple back via the Euro Tunnel in the car, could bear the thought of throwing them in the bin so decided to stash it in the suitcase with 2 small bags of weed... The Mrs was worried were going to be nabbed but we didnt stop once !! No questions asked, sailed through French Customs and once off the train at Folkstone, theres no customs to go through, straight out on the open road....... Would I do it again ? Hell yeah but only small stuff, I heard that anything below 7 ounces is only an on the spot fine by french customs of about 70 euros

[Marco]

We brought a couple back via the Euro Tunnel in the car, could bear the thought of throwing them in the bin so decided to stash it in the suitcase with 2 small bags of weed... The Mrs was worried were going to be nabbed but we didnt stop once !! No questions asked, sailed through French Customs and once off the train at Folkstone, theres no customs to go through, straight out on the open road....... Would I do it again ? Hell yeah but only small stuff, I heard that anything below 7 ounces is only an on the spot fine by french customs of about 70 euros

Anything near 7 ounces could get you jail time in France.

[Panog]

Anything near 1 gram can get you one night at the police station in France

[treetop]

Lol @ this thread. Has anyone posting in this thread ever been stopped and searched from a flight back from Amsterdam? I never have in well over 20 visits.

I was on this flight next to the most miserable shrew of a Dutch woman. She was twitchy. If my leg so much as brushed against hers (as people legs do when you are sitting next to on an 11 hour flight) she would pounce and shove them back over my side (even if they were already there).

1/2 way through the 11 hours I woke up hungry and ate the 2nd slice of paradox cake. The first had been consumed just before I went through security at Schipol.

The second half of the flight was the same. The woman would periodically wake me up, I'd enjoy mellowing out to the strong effects of the space cake for a while then drift off again. The woman seemed upset her waking me up had not angered me in any way. Although she did seem satisfied I'd at least awakened.

Imagine that situation without weed

[dconstrukt]

yes. i got searched several times.

of course having long hair... scruffy beard.... a hat on and looking like a pothead probly didn't help > LOL

[Uncle Ron]

Lol @ this thread. Has anyone posting in this thread ever been stopped and searched from a flight back from Amsterdam? I never have in well over 20 visits.

No, 4 x to DE and 2 x to US.
Marco has a very legitimate point though - dirty deeds done with dirty fingers (by dirty little stoners). That last bit was from me...
Apply that little nugget of wisdom (clean fingers) along with a suitable airtight container/wrapping, good luck...
Appearance is a significant consideration as well. Take a few space muffins and mix them up with lookalike store bought muffins.
Sometimes the easiest solution is to keep it simple by hiding it in plain sight. Food for thought, no pun intended...
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