Just to remind you about this article we've been carrying since late last year from
Soft Secrets magazine

[www.ukcia.org]

Processed weed is now very common sadly.

Derek

Webteam UKCIA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2007 11:07AM by Derek.

I Fckin knew it !!!. I had some bud last night. passed lick n bite crunch test. but didnt have any smell what so ever. lamped up a spliff, and it didn't taste of anything either. it had all the symptoms of grit weed, i.e no smell, doesnt burn properly etc
i mentioned to my gf that this weed was very suspicious, and she replied, im just getting paranoid. which is understandable i suppose.
upon closer inspection of the burning joint, i found that when i was re-lighting the non burning side, it made a hissing sound, which is very unusual.
then lying in bed i was coughing quite a lot and mucus production was above normal.
This is now gone to scary new heights, and is now reaching government conspiracy level. the 8th i purchased was massive, so i dont really understand the method here, they aren't making much on extra weight from this stuff....

my tips are :

1, Don't buy weed that doesn't smell
2, ALWAYS I MEAN ALWAYS DO LICK N BITE TEST !
3, If there's a spliff of it already on the go from someone else, try a drag, if it doesn't taste, dont buy!
4, FUCKIN QUIT.
5, OR GROW YOUR OWN.

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1, Don't buy weed that doesn't smell
2, ALWAYS I MEAN ALWAYS DO LICK N BITE TEST !

1:- The stuff I have at the moment doesnt smell at all but it bites like fuck!
2:- Fucked if I'm putting lumps of glass in my mouth.

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bilz
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1, Don't buy weed that doesn't smell
2, ALWAYS I MEAN ALWAYS DO LICK N BITE TEST !

1:- The stuff I have at the moment doesnt smell at all but it bites like fuck!
2:- Fucked if I'm putting lumps of glass in my mouth.

it beats meetin your dealer on a street corner with a microscope :/

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2:- Fucked if I'm putting lumps of glass in my mouth.

It's not nice, butit's not that bad either.

All you have to do is to rub the bud with a wet fingure and then suck that fingure, you'll hear (and feel) the glass beads crunching when you try to bite your teeth together.

The only way to get rid of them is to wash your mouth out with lots of water though.

To be honest though there seems to be so much crap out there now I don't think it's safe to buy unless you know who grew it.

Derek

Webteam UKCIA

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it beats meetin your dealer on a street corner with a microscope :/

I use a X9 watchmakers eyeglass. Small, cheap, discrete and it's purpose is answerable to no one.

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bilz

it beats meetin your dealer on a street corner with a microscope :/

I use a X9 watchmakers eyeglass. Small, cheap, discrete and it's purpose is answerable to no one.

Is that good enough to see the contamination?

Derek

Webteam UKCIA

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Is that good enough to see the contamination?

Derek

X9 is pretty powerful. Can easily see a grain of sand clearly so I should think so.

Hey all.

Well, it's dire straits for weed in the South West still I'm told. Been in Beijing here in China for 2 weeks nearly now (you'll all be pleased to know that the corruption hasn't extended as far as here!I'm sat with a lovely joint in my hand as I pack to come home) and friends back home tell me that gritty shit is still bloody everywhere. It's been hovering around since October, I'd been away and had the most amazing green in Toronto, which was lovely after the bloody drought. Then, lo and behold, I come home, buy a half ounce and smoke this sandy gritty load of wank, and every eighth or q from a variety of dealers nearly had grit in it, even sticky bud has it in. Of course everyone's spouting on about 'Is it thc, is it not...' etc.
I must admit I'm not the most experienced of green smokers, (I used to smoke hash with an exbf, green seemed really hard to find in Lancaster!?)-about 8 months daily green usage now- and wasn't sure if it was THC or not in the early days. Even when we all agreed it was gritty, we figured it was just sand and couldn't really hurt you....yeh Chemistry never was my strong subject.......The crunch came, quite literally...*mouthful of keck anyone to grind on when u bite into the buds?* when a few weeks ago a friend told me what he'd read online and the next day i brought a q and it was so bad when you shook it it actually collected at the bottom of the bag, this ghastly mass of well, shite really. Pieces glittered and shone and were off whiteish in colour.
The thing that really narks me off the most however is how it's not just superficially done to enhance the appearance of the weed, it's literally throughout the entire bud, so surely it must be being added during the cultivation process? A friend said they'd done some research online about it and warned me not to smoke it and now, after learning that it's even in Germany, I thought I'd get off my ass and google and be bothered to read it all;
I'm here visiting my best friend who's German and all his friends back home have had it too it turns out.Scary eh. I just refuse to buy it if it's gritty now. I was having a break from smoking but figured bugger it, I'm on vacation and this may be the only good green I get in months anyhow!hehe.......

As far as health implications go I think the government's reaction or rather lack of reaction to this seemingly wide spread problem is pretty despicable.But then what else can one expect from Blair and his cronies. The guy's a total muppet and has ruined this country....and taxes us through the roof for the 'privilege' of being a British Citizen and lets all the shit in to spunge off all the rest of us. Pppphh. I'm moving to Canada because I hate what this country has become and don't want to bring my children up here when I have them.

I work in the Mental Health Services, (ohhh,would you look at that, there's another part of the Uk that's a mess due to Genius Gordon's Care Cuts...)and it was actually being brought up about this gritty weed on the substance misuse and detox wards before I left recently as staff chatted amongst themselves lol. As for the Cannabis and Psychosis debate etc, well, let's not start me off on my views on that one when I'm outside work for now lol.
Mostly all the dealers that I know are through my lovely albeit chav-tastic cousins, and all these guys are still buying and spouting shit about stuff being grade etc and it's only a bit of sand.....Yet my cousin tells me he saw one of his mates (a dealer) with 9 ounces seperated into 1 ounce bags and at the bottom of every bag was this pile of white-ish shiny crystally shit. He had to go down A & E the other week as he'd been caining it on this gritty shit and had had a really weird sore throat for days, he said it felt like it had been sliced at the back or something lodged there. Also, my uncle had a heart-attack last wkend, drink related etc and granted the man's an alcoholic, he is NOT a hard drug user, I know for a fact he would never do coke, he flipped out at his son for doing it and rants on at any of the lads doing it. He is vehmently anti-class a's, I can't stress that enough. He buys an eighth of weed a week and that's it. Anyway he had had 2 smokes that night using some severely contaminated ( my cousin tells me this shiny gritty shit collected in piles when he grinded it up by hand for him) weed. Anyhow, traces of cocaine turned up in his bloods and my mother informs me that my uncle had a fit nearly when the Consultant came and said 'Mr...bla bla bla I would advise you to stop smoking cocaine' (my uncle had told them he'd had a smoke that night and drink but that's it') at this news, he was apparantly visibly amazed and freaking out. Yes yes I hear you all say, it couldn't be in the weed, why would they put coke which is more expensive in weed....which is what I said....but I know my uncle like a favourite book and believe you me I'm far from naive about what people get up to and fib over but there is NO WAY he would ever ever EVER touch coke. So unless he'd been licking bank notes all evening I don't know what else to conclude guys.
Everything that almost every dealer it seems is getting is contaminated. With the risk of sounding paranoid, I think the big guys in this market are doing a double whammy on us; Think about it, lots of the gritty weed i've had has got you high albeit been horrible to smoke. The dealers are doing it to make weight and I seriously believe even some dealers are sprinkling it with very poor quality coke along with whatever else this gritty powdery stuff is to get people hooked on it; most big dealers are manipulative sneaky little money mad fuckers but they aint totally stupid. Let's not underestimate them; they know people are not enjoying this stuff and beginning to cease buying it so hey sprinkle some shit over a batch and let them think it's a good buzz from smoking it, a nice up buzz you get from certain strains etc and wallah people will keep on buying it cos there's nowt else around and they got a good buzz from it. ie.people are smoking and still feeling high and not dropping like flies so they think it's ok and keep buying this shit.
I'm a very self aware person and far from stupid, I know everyone is thinking 'Well he's a scummy alcie he probably did do coke the lying bastard' and that these are merely paranoid conspiracy theories but No, I don't think they should be dismissed so readily. He's so freaked out by it he's stopped smoking weed altogether. I'd even heard it banded around could be coke on it' etc months back now and I laughed myself and said don't be so fucking dozy, what kind of tit puts coke on weed....false economy, totally illogical etc and thought to myself 'stupid twats' but after hearing it all from my couisns and my mother who was there when the Consultant delivered his news, I'd seriously think again.......

I did manage to find some lovely grit free stuff before I toddled off recently but I'm clearly thick as I've somehow managed to delete the guys number off my phone:(. So, my best advice is;
Plan B; Grow your own, just enough for personal usage.
Plan C: Get yourselves a Canadian Other Half and get them to send you 'tokens of their affections' lol. The username was actually his suggestion. Says much eh; He doesn't smoke himself so hey, it must be love!lol.

In the meantime, roll on that Amsterdam trip in May!

Take care all, and stay well away from the shit going around, it's just not worth parting with your hard earned cash for for starters and secondly it is indeed a health risk I'm now convinced.
xx

me and my friends have noticed this sandy weed lately

in bath what are these money garbing dealers playing at????????

everyone start growing ya own!!!!!!!

Hi there - been avidly following this post.

Tonight a friend bought me a henry as a present. I did the usual tests - biting the nugs in half and licking my finger, but there was no grit in my mouth. However, when I was rolling up I noticed that it smelt very much like the shit thats been plaguing everyone for months. It has a very distinctive smell that once you've been ripped off, sticks in your mind - kind of dry and musty, not very fresh or "green". It also didn't have a very good high, which suggests its been shaken already.

I got worried and started chewing a big lump of bud. There were one or two bits of grit in it,so it seemed to confirm that this was Grit Weed II - the return.

This stuff seems to have even finer particles in it, and this makes it very hard to identify. Usually you can tell in seconds if its got grit in it, as the bud I had seen before was covered in the stuff. This however, passes the biting test unless you really chew each bud to check. At first I thought it might just be a few bits of dirt in the bud, but I'm absolutely certain this is the same stuff, but refined to slip past the increasing number of savvy users.

The fact that I couldn't immediately spot it is really worrying. The smaller particles obviously present a greater risk to us, and this would seem like decent enough bud to any novices/kids.

Anyway, I'm dying for a zoot and staring at the bag, but have no desire to smoke it. I'm not surprised at large scale dealers putting people at risk for profit - that is the nature of the game they play. However, I'm really disappointed at the cowardly users who are saying "its that or nothing dude". The answer is NOTHING then. If everyone keeps buying it then it will never go away, and there will never be anything better to replace it. The Dutch must think that we are fucking idiots to keep smoking this shit, and I personally would rather smoke nothing than this mockery of weed. Get some backbone people, stay strong and show them that it really is about CHOICE.

Thanks

(on a side note - does anyone know if it would be ok to make firewater with?)

fine words mate.
i aint touched shit since i posted about Grit weed II.


Also note, if it doesn't burn on the one side, listen out for a FIZZING sound when re-lighting.

I have had this grit shit 2 as well by the sound of it, burns with a snap crackle and pop, minimle buzz and smells strange
I wondered if it had something else in it, or if it was a new strain of brix

I sent an email on 5th Jan to my MP regarding the contamination and got a letter back from her last week, she said she'd pass it on to some other MP and i thought nothing of it, but today i got a letter from the House of Commons, from Adam Afriyie MP who says it's down to the government and he's going to write to Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health on my behalf. What she'll say i do not know but it's nice to think i'm not being completely ignored, eh?

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I sent an email on 5th Jan to my MP regarding the contamination and got a letter back from her last week, she said she'd pass it on to some other MP and i thought nothing of it, but today i got a letter from the House of Commons, from Adam Afriyie MP who says it's down to the government and he's going to write to Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health on my behalf. What she'll say i do not know but it's nice to think i'm not being completely ignored, eh?

Wow!

Well done indeed. Do let us know if anything comes of it.

xeman - what is this "brix" stuff? It's been mentioned before.

Derek

Webteam UKCIA

Wasup everybody,

Iv been smoking this grit shit every day for months until i read this thread a couple of weeks ago. I havnt smoked it since and im never gonna smoke it again. This thread could well of saved my lungs.

Iv been buyin o's of grit green off my 'secondary' dealer for months and tellin myself its clean, this stuff is no where near as bad as iv seen and heard about on this site. The sizes are still fat, has a bit of a fruity taste and it burns, its very convincing, but it crunches big time. (my 'primary' (safe) dealer hasn't had anything for ages, only a few damp bits here and there as he refuses to buy the grit shit even though he doesn't even smoke weed anymore. A PROPER DEALER.) but as soon as i saw this thread and realised that im not paranoid and there really is something on my sweeeeeeet buds I rung up my crappy dealer and told him that there is fuckin glass beads on the green he is selling me, he pretended he didnt have a clue what i was talking about and told me its still good compared to everything else going around. I told him bollocks, (in a polite way) im never buying it again, I didnt really want to do this cus everyone else has got wet shit and the people with the nice, clean bud aren't doing o's round here(SE), but i knew i had to say no for a while to try and force my dealer to stop selling the crap(im a pretty good customer) and for the sake of mine and my mates lungs. So there i was thinking.. shit, 20quid a time from now on, that sucks balls.
Next mornin he rings me up "Got sumink else for you mate, slightly damp and but no grit. 130squid. WoooHoooooooo. First o of non gritty green in ages. bit damp but still grinded. actually had a smell, nd a good smoke.

The point of that ramble was that when i told my geeza to stick it i thought it was going to be a long time until i next got an o of non-gritty bud. But next day he went and got some clean bud.
So all you people still buyin grit weed dont just moan at your dealers about it,(i tried that for about 3 months) tell them to stick that grit shit where the sun dont shine, that you are never ever buying grit bud again and that you are bite testing everything they offer you from now on, and i bet you'll be smokin a fruitilicious j sooner than you think.

I Got Bored of that damp shit in a couple of days so i very politely told him to stick that aswell and about a week ago the little spanish fruitcake came up with what can simply only be described as the BOOMTING! Ahem, but for a hefty 150, this wuvly bit of weed was the whole reason i signed up and started writing this, cus i need to ask a couple of questions, but then i kinda rolled a j, got distracted and wrote all that crap up there.

Anyways this bud passes all the lickin and bitin tests with flying colours, it looks beautiful(sorry ppl who dont have anythin) it smells beautiful and yes it tastes beautiful and a henry looks absolutely massive but when you hold it close to a bright light there are a few tiny sparkling bits on each j sized nug and when you break a bud up and hold close to the light i can see quite a few tiny tiny sparkling bits amongst the masses of thc, now i think i'v reached the pinnacle of my paranoia and am just bein a twat but could someone tell me if properly grown non contaminated skunk still sparkles under the light.

The other thing i wanted to ask all my brothers from different mothers here is how much is everyones dealers chargin for an o, I was wonderin what the average price is over the uk cus i have to pay 150 bloody quid for proper stuff (but it is proper), am i mad? or 130 for gritty or damp stuff. Is some lucky bugger still gettin proper stuff at 100-120?

Any feedback would be much appreciated especially about how much people are chargin on average for an o, are the days of 120 an o and 450 a half of proper stuff over. let me know ppl

Oh yeah about a week ago i bought an eighth of dry bud, no grit but something was up, no smell, the henry weighed up but was tiny and the buds didnt look developed and were all v small, i was absolutely convinced something had been done to it but i didnt know what, also it tasted like syrup when i eat a bit, plus it tasted disgusting when i smoked it, kind of factoryey and dusty,(i know its stupid) the buds were bone bone dry, but there were visible wet drops of something inside the buds when i broke them up.

Which means even if you do the lick and bite test you could still end up with some fucked up shit. Smell is always a good thing to go by, like some other dude said if it dont smell like weed, it aint weed. Soz if i havn't made much sense im completely baked, I fuckin should be for 150 notes.

Peace Out

And Dont Tell me to grow my own cus i cant :(

Just as a weird tangent, the petrol contamination is silicone....

[www.inthenews.co.uk]
Silicone found in petrol samples
Thursday, 01 Mar 2007 19:53
[Pumps are being tested by the TSI]

Pumps are being tested by the TSI

Investigators looking into the cause of the possible 'contamination' of unleaded petrol in certain areas of the UK have found traces of silicone in the affected cars.

Media sources have confirmed that the element's presence in the fuel of some cars that are experiencing problems could be a lead in the probe to find out exactly what the existing situation is.

According to reports, 'thousands' of motorists have experienced difficulties with their cars, some breaking down completely, because of alleged petrol 'contamination'.

Earlier in the day the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) said trading standards authorities in the south-east of England had received up to 100 reports from motorists complaining that their cars were not running properly.

This number is increasing by the hour although some critics have intimated that many cases could be unrelated to the fuel and are simply mechanical problems.

As a result it is unclear exactly how many people have been directly affected by the fuel 'contamination'.

It will take until the end of the week for fuel samples taken yesterday by the TSI to establish whether any contamination has taken place.

Samples of fuel from affected cars and others from the pumps where the petrol was drawn are under investigation.

Ian Hillier, TSI lead petroleum officer, said: "We can say… that the problem appears to be restricted to unleaded petrol and that motorists experiencing problems with their cars should take them to a garage.

"We would also advise them to keep their petrol receipts and ask the garage to take a sample of the fuel should they need to make a claim at a later date."

Supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons said their own initial tests did not reveal any irregularities.

"Having received a limited number of enquiries further tests were carried out. These found no contamination and confirmed our unleaded petrol met the required standards," a Morrisons spokesperson said.End of story

© 2007 www.InTheNews.co.uk .

Nothing is safe from contamination by the looks of things....

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xeman - what is this "brix" stuff? It's been mentioned before.

Derek

It is designed for this purpose, by money grabbers:

[www.greenfinger-hydroponics.co.uk]

LOL.. at least the sellers are honest! From their web page:-

'Brix Weight Increaser

This product is clearly aimed at cheats.'

but but but.... at least brix+ is harmless.....