Just looking for more info. It would seem I found a good guy... however he could have turned bad...

Looks compressed, import style, you know like the almost yellow hard buds, weighs good but looks small because it's compressed. Well I got some of this but it was covered in powder, on close inspection the powder looks green, very fine. Tasteless and smooth the powder doesn't seem like glass.

A pal smoked some and said he was incredibley intoxicated... like really really wasted. The next day his throat was bad.

It doesn't leave hard ash, the ash isn't greasey and it is a normal grey colour.

Anyway,mine's in the bin. The thing that worried me is that my experienced friend says 100% it's not right, not the right feeling or taste but my other pals are convinced it's fie, just very strong. Can anyone help me explain what's on it? I know it's their fault but it would b enice to know I've educated them as much as possible?

If I find my answer (I'll keep searchng) I'll come and edit the post here.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/30/2009 10:11PM by Salvo.

Ok, here's mostly everything I've heard...

Basically, most skunk is sprayed nowadays (with substances OTHER than the fertilizers used to keep the plant safe from insects and other shit like that).

It's mainly sprayed by the people growing it, and in other cases sprayed by the peopole that deal it in smaller amounts (so yes, the bud you're smoking may have been sprayed TWICE, once by the bulk sellers, and second, by the ones selling 8ths and 10s.

The 3 main things you notice and what we reffer to once we've bought it are:

1) The hard ash. The worst, you by this shit and you know as the skunk doesnt burn properly (depending on how much of the stuff is mixed in, whatever it might be), only the tobacco burns, leaving you with a spliff that looks like a bloody half-pipe. There's even a type of this skunk that has had less of the mixer and actually does burn properly,but he givaway is the harsh taste, the sound of the cherry burning each time you take a draw, and the colour of the ash.

How to tell if it's 'hard ash' before buying it? Rub a bud in your finger, it will leaver a smooth, oil type feeling in your fingers, also, looking at the bud and especioally the linger it leaves, kind of a metallic smell, stay away from this shit skunk.

Ok,

2) The DUST! Not as bad as above, but still unacceptable to me, I don't like a smoking anything contaminated. This is an easy one to spot compared to the hard ash, the buds are all dusty, just picking up a bud and putting it back down leaves too much residue on your finger for a the dealer to convince you it's THC or some cuntish bollocks like that. You can lick the budf too soetimes, as the dust hasn't been that badly sprayed on, the lick is always a good tester, as none of the high quality skunk I get leaves the dust on your tongue, now matter how dusty some buds look. so when i get a draw and the buds dont look as dusty as the high quality cheese i usually get, and still leaves all this dust on my taste bud, I know straight off its been sprayed. I heard dealers spray it with ANYTHING, from dry milk, to fucking MUD, yes mud, anything that people can blast theskunk with they'll do.

3) The sugar. This is such a simple way to test. Lick the bud, if you can taste any sort of sweetness, give back the draw. I'll tell you ths, no real chronic tate sweet, all the best skunmk I've smoked has never had a sweet taste to it, it just a has a dry tastless taste, so when you come across bud that tastes like sugar, its een contaminated, probably with water and sugar, the taste of the skunk whe smoked is juts a joke, tastes propa shit. also feels sticky when crumbling, and has an artificial colour to the bud, looking lighter and darkern some buds.

These are the 3 main things and in some bud, I can tell where they've mixed together all 3 of them or 2. It's these 3 things you should watch out for as this is what people are doing.

There is even another thing they mix it with which I can't even think what it could be, the skunk appears ok, but when you smoke it your nose stings and it irratates your throat after half a spliff, fuck knows what they are mixing it with here, but its very fuckin decieveing, even some cheese has been mixed with it, my mate picked up an ounce and the skunk smells sooooo nice, youd neve imagine it had something sprayed on it, but once you spark the spliff and smoke it, most experienced puffers with realize straight away. the bud itself looks unrealisticly crystally, with glittering bits all over the bud, and leaves not dust on your hand, ive got a bit now, an ive also got some proper dank cheese (which i KNOW hasnt been sprayed). I said to him that your cheese is sprayd and he doesnt agree, he keeps saying 'all skunk is sprayed' and i say 'yes, but yours has been sprayed with something APART fro the stuff most skunk is sprayed with whilst growing'. it like chattin to a brick wll.

I had to break it down to him and say look mate, Cheese is high quality skunk, which is why it costs more, and that fact that your cheese is irratating to smoke and doesnt taste that good, is a valid reason for saying its sprayed or blasted or whatever, ive never had cheese that's not enjoyable to smoke, and yours is, thats why its been contaminated, and i don't care wat you think about it mate.

so there you have it, even CHEESE is being contaminated, so watch what your buying and smoking.

Good luck people.

PS. I feel sorryfor the new skool smokers, cos they dont know much difference. most old skool blazers like me will know.

ok well i can tell u that this is defentley sand there is a lot of it about
you can tell cus its dry crisp but only somtimes iv had soft but that was sand u get real bad throt an chest bud usealy looks ok bit like high grad and others just look like standerd bud alot of pepole think it ok and it ant contam but it is dont buy it if u can you will feel that it is sandy but sumtimes the sand is manly in side the bud and only noticeable when used at the moment u v got 1 of 3 choses 1] smoke the sand or 2]smoke the glass or 3 grow your own opp3]much safer

I've been reading this post from the start... It is 2011 and we are STILL having the same problems, except maybe worse... I rememeber when a henry would buy you 3.5g, now £20 will get you around 2.2g if you are lucky. This is the least of the worries me and my friends are having. We have started realising that it is practically impossible to find any weed that has not been tampered with. I live close to London and i'm assuming that is where it is mostly coming from. Anyway, we all are 99% sure the weed we have been smoking for about hte last half a year has got crack cocaine or something very similar to it. Weed never used to be addictive for any of us, and the withdrawal simptons are definitely not those of Marijuana... Even the high makes us irritable, anxious etc. After having a crazy amount of weed in Amsterdam, the come down was non-existant, it was fine, life was still good. Luckily, for now, i have planted the seed and all is going very well. A word of advice for anyone out there thinking the same: grow your own, dealers are clearly putting highly addictive substances in to keep you hooked. Marjuana is naturally not addictive. Anybody else out there share the same thoughts/point of view?

Galway/West Ireland
Rarely we'd find weed that ISN'T contaminated. Strong trade links are being preserved with suppliers of good weed.
Public are RELATIVELY well-informed.
The tide is turning.

Personally, I can't tell a trichome from a bead of plastic for shit. I need some kind of experiment where one could differentiate them in his kitchen or perhaps "on the street".
Upon learning how to do this, I'll construct some kind of guide for others. Maybe also make a youtube video.

I believe it to be an extermination plan by the economic "elite", as we stoners and Shamans are the people they consider to be "The Useless Eaters"