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Apologies if there has already been a thread on this.

I was wondering wether or not you guys think that the weed in Amsterdam is better say in the last 10 years than ever before?

I was thinking it could be considering all the new hydroponic growing set ups and with a lot more information on strains and cross breeding plants etc, however I understand due to thc laws etc that maybe weed was stronger before.

Also I am only talking about weed in Amsterdam not any grown elsewhere

In my opinion I think the quality has declined slightly. Dont get me wrong the quality is still good but I fondly remember buying weed wasnt a gamble, you can easily find bad weed about now, hash even more so.

Anyone else remember Hgf Cheese around 2007?

I would say the weed has got stronger but certain strains have certainly dropped in standard. The biggest drop in standard in Amsterdam for me is certainly Amnesia Haze. The original is top drawer but whatever is being sold in most coffeeshops in Amsterdam is not the real thing. Shame really because it was my number 1 strain for years.

If anybody knows of a coffeeshop that sells old school Amnesia, please let me know

Yeah thats pretty much what I was thinking...I'm going over tomorrow with a mate for 4 days! I'm staying at voyagers and their Amnesia is supposed to be good, I'll test it and let you know Billybong

Weed is Weed,legalise the bugger and then you will find out what is what.Is rain wetter?,is the ground harder?is sugar sweeter? or the simple test,do not smoke any herb for a month,go to Amsterdam and roll a fat one and then decide,

A forum is for people to have discussions, if you have no intelligent input to add please keep stupid comments like the one above to yourself.

Saying weed is weed is like saying wine is wine, imho, or beer is beer. Certainly accurate yet vague.

Did it, get better through the years? Sure, in the same way that beer got better or cars for that matter.

It has certainly got a heck of a lot more expensive, which I guess colours my opinion on this quite a bit.

When I first started visiting Amsterdam a good 15+ years ago you mostly just came across the likes of Northern Lights, Jack Herer, White Widow, SuperSkunk, Blueberry etc, things you still find now but generally on the bottom of the menu not the top. My memory says those were better back then than they are now but I have no way of telling if that is true or not. For sure though they were much cheaper, even allowing for inflation and changes in exchange rates.

Then during the "haze craze" those strains all got demoted on menus by Amnesias and Super Silvers etc and they were different and new and great (but more pricey), however I have no idea how I would compare something like HGF's Blue Haze (god I loved that) in 2004 (ish) with Utopia's Champagne Haze (god I love that too) now.

Nowadays I'd have to say the top strains generally seem like they're better (certainly they are in comparison with many of the classics that are still sold), and I suppose THC % is greater, but then they are also a good 3x what the prices were in the late 90's.

I guess what I'm saying is I have no idea how to objectively answer this question without a cannabis time machine. Which would be boss

GREED

Thanks mate hope you are having a great time in Dam

ScottishStoner wrote:A forum is for people to have discussions, if you have no intelligent input to add please keep stupid comments like the one above to yourself.

Well said buddy

The majority of weed for sale in Amsterdam at the moment is shocking , you really need to weed out the gems (pun intended lol)

The hash has started to go the same way I feel (personally not bought much lately at all)

Since my first coffee shop experience in July 2004, I've noticed slight variations in quality, but only when I ventured beyond my usual spots.
I did notice a change in overall quality ( less than stellar ) beginning in the Fall of 2010, which if I recall (could be mistaken by a year) was around the time when prices increased significantly. Hmm, quality goes down, prices go up... corporate greed anyone? That last bit was not intended for the good folks who take care of us, it's for the growers and distributors. Note how I didn't refer to these people as farmers, cause farmers aren't greedy.
During the past 9 years, I've noticed under flushed or not flushed at all (must have been grown by those who don't believe in flushing, cause to flush means to save money by not having to feed them, now there's something to think about...), improperly dried, and improperly cured. Most of those experiences with poor quality weed were due to improper curing, the core of the bud still too moist. Difficult to keep lit, clumpy black ash (when smoking non-grind), total shit... However, I've been lucky not to have been exposed to shit weed that often, basically only during 4/20 and HTCC, go figure.
Weed now vs weed then... it's a tossed salad; today's bud could be perfect, return next week and it could be shit (less than stella... )
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Uncle Ron wrote:... improperly dried, and improperly cured. Most of those experiences with poor quality weed were due to improper curing, the core of the bud still too moist. Difficult to keep lit, clumpy black ash (when smoking non-grind), total shit...

This lends support to my strategy this time of asking the BT to suggest well cured stock, to be deployed in 11 days,

Hard to answer this. My first trip was in 2001. Back then I hardly scored any high quality weed at home, so almost everything blew me away totally. Took me a few visits before I could tell the difference between offered strains. I would say the overall quality was a bit better but most of the strong indicas (Kushes in particular) weren't available. I'm more into Haze so for me the "Haze craze" days were the best so far, beside the time when menus were still in Guilders - painful to think about it even. Prices indeed rose quickly after 2009/2010.