For those who smoke pot regularly or semi regularly do you guys actually go to a "dealer"??

[Locut0s]

Just wondering from someone who has yet to try pot where do you guys usually end up aquiring it? I am NOT asking for advise on where to get it, that's not the point of this thread!!! Just wondering cause I know a lot of people buy from a friend of a friend of a friend etc etc... but eventually someone has to buy the stuff from a street dealer and knowing the skid row district in my city that's not where I would want to go. By the way I happen to live in one of the most Pot available cities in North America, Vancouver Canada, so you can see that I haven't ever tried the stuff. That's just one of the things that would improve immeasurably if it was legalized, knowing that you weren't helping to fund local organized crime, even if on a small scale.

[zabet]

1. Was in the

biz for years. Have 2 or 3, 20 year
plus connections, plus 1 hydro farmer
I can score from. Been a connoisseur for
32 years.

[Locut0s]

16. Interesting! Most aren't in your situation though.

[Bonobo]

19. Nice to meet you.

:loveya:

[lurky]

2. Vancouver? Don't they sell it in the supermarket there?

[Locut0s]

4. No, despite it's reputation it's still not legal here. We have a well known pot cafe downtown...

where people go to light up all the time and people smoke at home a lot put getting caught with a joint by the cops is still more than possible.

[uncle ray]

26. the only place i ever bought it off the street was in vancouver.

a few of us went there for new year's 2000, we went to blunt brothers as soon as we got into town, customers and employees there both told us to just go stroll the street and it'll come to us, we made a trip around a few blocks, had TONS of dealers trying to sell hard drugs, finally after talking to a few, we came across a hard drug dealer who had the green. we were damn nervous to be doing a drug transaction right on a busy tourist sidewalk, but everybody said it was cool. i'm sure things have changes quite a bit since then.

ironically enough, we went there to smoke vancouver bud, but we were so nervous and shy, that we had a hard time finding the right people to hang out with there, we ended up crossing back over the border two hours before midnight, because we had stashed a fat sack at a glassblowers house just a few miles on the american side of the border where we had stayed on the way up.

funny thing about crossing the border then, when we entered canada, we were detained for quite some time while they questioned us and searched our vehicle for...weed! who would be smuggling weed INTO canada from the US! we were really worried about the return to the US, partly because we were obviously a carload of stoners returning from amsterdam, but one of us had lost his wallet, ID, birth cert, everything while snowboarding. border guard never even asked for IDs, he just said "you americans?" and waved us through. gotta love that border security!

[Bonobo]

3. You're in Vancouver? Can you go to "Japadog" for me and tell me how it is!?

http://www.japadog.com/

[Locut0s]

5. Umm.. Hmm.. WTF is this? Japanese hot dog vendor I see what's so special about it?

[Bonobo]

6. They cover the hot dogs with Japanese ingredients.

This looks like daikon sprouts

daikon-oroshi, Yummm.

teriyaki mayo?

[Oilwellian]

8. ROFL

Are you having a case of the munchies? :D

[Bonobo]

10. That's a dumb question.

[Locut0s]

14. Hmm interesting I'll have to think about giving that a try!

[Bonobo]

15. I saw it introduced on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" show last nite.

Please try it and tell me how it was. Bourdain, a great chef, loved it.

He said Vancouver is the best fucking city. Is it?

[Locut0s]

17. Kinda hard to rate your own city, I'm a bit biased towards it having lived here most of my life...

and not having much to compare it to but yeah I'd have to say it's still an amazing city. Beautiful vistas, fantastic food to be had everywhere, lovely climate (except for the rain), liberal and open people for the most part. Good standard of living, universal health care (like everywhere else in Canada).

We are called the California of the north some times:







However there are downsides, property values are through the roof!!!!! $500K can't buy you a home in much of the city a million $s won't buy you anything fantastic. For those who have been here since before the retail boom it's great but I wouldn't want to try to break into the city at this point unless I had some substantial cash. I expect the retail bubble to burst at some point though, though we have been saying that for a long time. While it's a small city compared to many we are starting to feel the pains of urban sprawl as more and more people move in.

[MagickMuffin]

23. I got to visit Vancouver and V.I. back in 98

We flew into Vancouver during the wee morning hours. Watched the street action from our hotel window.

The next day after seeing the city in the daylight I knew that I WAS HOME.....

We left BC and visited a friend in Olympia WA, then we went to V.I.

We mostly traveled along Vancouver Island and island hop as we went. Salt Springs, Denmen, Quardra, Gabriola. What a blast we had while there. Everybody up there are so friendly. They especially liked us because we're from Texas and they LOVED our accents, the "Real Texas Draw" we're known for all over. We kept getting a lot of questions about "King of the Hill" and if Texans were really LIKE that. YES, some of us are, but not me though.

We were hoping to move there someday. I would still LOVE to live up there, but I don't suppose that will ever happen, unless you want to adopt us.:pals: It would be really cool to live in Port Townsend, WA. We stayed overnight there before we went to Victoria.

[Pastiche423]

7. I get mine from my caretaker

[MrSlayer]

9. Well yeah, how else would one aquire it?

I get it in small (oz) quantities from a guy who gets it in larger quantities and so on and so forth.

[Bonobo]

11. Well, I'm told it grows in the ground.

[orleans]

12. IBTL. n/t

[begin_within]

13. It's a weed

[Bonobo]

18. Since you're still open here, I'll tell you our REAL secret...

Go to a reggae bar and hang out. You'll find it.

[lutefisk]

20. I'm not your target demographic, but it grows all over the place...

...where I grew up. It was all along the side of the roads (rural), hence the term : ditch weed.

[Bonobo]

21. Can't smoke that crap.

Not even the right genetics.

[Locut0s]

22. Looks like your right, just found this article:

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6220

Haha lol.

[lutefisk]

24. Well, talk about a placebo effect.

I knew people who smoked that stuff... and their eyes got all red and they laughed at almost everything and were constantly asking for snacks. I don't have the heart to tell them, after all these years and all.

[Contrary1]

27. Thanks! I live in Indiana.

"According to DEA figures, Indiana led all 50 states in the volume of ditchweed eradicated, destroying more than 219 million plants..."

Suddenly, I feel a need to explore the great outdoors.

[Downtown Hound]

25. Basically you just gotta know the right people

You pretty much answered your own question in your post, except for one thing. Most people who smoke regularly don't buy their weed from a "street dealer." The whole street dealer thing is largely a myth when it comes to weed. That's not to say that there aren't any people that sell it on the street, but they're the exception, not the rule. And if someone is selling it on the street, they're usually selling it along with "other stuff." Mostly pot moves like this:

The grower sells the crop in bulk to those that have no qualms about transporting large quantities of the stuff. I've always been very nervous about doing that myself, so I'm grateful there are others to do it for me. It usually goes for about $2500 a pound for the good stuff. This is the equivalent of buying it wholesale.

Those who transport it then sell it off to other dealers who buy it by the pound or less. The smaller the quantity sold, the greater the profit margin. Usually it's sold to small time dealers in ounces, and from there to individual consumers in "eighths." That's short for one eighth of an ounce. An eighth usually goes for about $50 for the good stuff. More often than not, this is done right out of somebody's house or apartment, not on the street. Since there are 8 eighths in an ounce, and sixteen ounces in a pound, selling it by the eighth is the most profitable for a small time dealer. A pound of weed bought from a grower for $2500 would go for $6400 when sold by the eighth.

Maybe that was too much information, heh, heh. But there you have it in a nutshell. I've been smoking the stuff for 15 years, and it probably took me 10 of those to find people that I truly feel comfortable buying from. There are responsible pot smokers and dealers, folks who are essentially decent people with morals but happen to like a certain intoxicating plant that's illegal because some politicians long ago were bought out by the timber industry. And then there are others that I try and stay away from. In the world of weed, good dealers are like gold.

[FirstLight]

28. ...heehee

Thanks for that Economics of Pot lesson! I agree, it's usually a friend of a friend who knows this guy who grows in Humboldt or something..I'm in CA...and I wish I could get a prescription without feeling like I'd be on a "Government List"

*sigh* and I'm taking a break right now from smoking, too poor to buy any...ack!:cry: