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never heard hash being called shit as a slang term here (unless its in something like a comedy sketch with someone trying to act like an American dealer). The politicians are looking at something like parts of the USA, or the NL coffeeshops.

It may be described as shit if it is poor quality or contaminated, which unfortunately happened a lot in late 1990s, leading to most UK cannabis being highly chemically processed weed (which unfortunately also got contaminated by with anything from sugar crystals to worse stuff like silicone-based lacquer used in the electronics industry).

A legal market would of course allow for proper quality control (like we have for food safety).

I read that in CH you only get CHF 100 fine for up to 10 grams (of course only if the cops catch you with it), is that still the case?

In the mid-late 90s there was also “diesel” hash which was supposed to have diesel / paraffin mixed into it (it certainly smelt like it and was unpleasant to smoke); although bizzarely the term is now “reclaimed” for strains of weed in some countries (USA?)

It does coincide with the era when the Western nations started pissing off the folk in the Middle East (whilst at the same time openly funding the more conservative régimes that clamped down more on drugs) which could easily have driven dealers to bulk out shipments with anything that would dissolve in an organic solvent (such as beeswax, resin etc) rather than sell better quality gear (which was more the case in the late 80s/early 90s).

@tryptameanie 987078 wrote:

That diesel hash I had heard had been transported in diesel. How close to the truth that is IDK though.

Sour diesel is a very very nice strain of weed and diesel was a strain that became the starting point for many strains.

@Digital Buddha 987079 wrote:

Sour D is a quality strain, diesel isn’t bad either.

Thus English speakers can be just as confusing as the French about street names of drugs :laugh_at:

I am not sure how true the 1990s stories were or if it would even be practical to actually transport the hash in diesel – not only would it be definitely contaminated, petroleum distillates are usually transported as bulk cargo in specialist vessels – harbourmasters worldwide tend to (for good reason) strongly discourage small vessels carrying multiple loose 200L drums of any flammable chemicals and these would surely be more likely to get monitored/searched.

The smell of beeswax, rosin and turpentine can easily be mistaken for that of diesel or paraffin (all of which contain what are known as aromatic organic chemicals) unless you are familiar with subtle differences between these substances (such as growing up in an era when there was less paranoia over chemicals/solvents)

Of course today there is no real need to contaminate/bulk out cannabis when it is so easily grown worldwide and folk are increasingly becoming wiser to its correct appearance and quality.

Coincidentally I was watching a documentary from German TV about a Heideterrier being trained as an explosives sniffer dog, yet the dog in the film looked totally different to any other Heideterrier shown online and there is some debate as to whether its a breed in its own right or a mixture of various other small terriers (its like a German version of a Jack Russel/Patterdale).

Thst said, my comment about the smell of these various substances was more from the viewpoint (or nose!) of the smoker; who might well have been equally likely to think there is “diesel” in the poorer quality hash (being more familiar with it from filling up or working on motor vehicles) when it was bulked out with the beeswax and/or solvents used to produce initial bar out of poorer quality source material (and worse items that would dissolve in this) being added. I definitely remember some varieties smelling like they contained rosin, as this stuff is used in the core of solder you might use when working on electronic circuits. Turpentine is related to this, and “white spirit” (a cheaper substitute) is usually a mixture of heavy naptha and paraffin.

if they legalise then the govt/council could still get the tax, and the police would be able to do other more important things (such as stopping people vandalising the trains/stations or keeping them away from dangerous areas of the station). I have been comparing the tweets from the UK, NL and DE Police and even though weed is not 100% legal and big grow operations still get busted, the NL cops have so much more extra time to do more useful stuff that genuinely helps the community and even Dutch people with very progressive views support them more (although they will still criticise excessive policing of protests or hassling minor drug users)

What is a “civil canine brigade”? Does that just mean the dogs are from the civilian Police and not soldiers? In English that would mean they are a private organisation that isn’t part of the Police such as a security guard company; they do occasionally have sniffer dogs but only at music festivals, it would be very unusual to use them at a railway station!