NotYourSaviour
Well-known member
There can/will always be the opposite, but to my experience, the more "advanced / branded / hey look at me" the brick stamps are, the more commercial the quality is.
The real deal usually comes without a stamp or a small one, which might only prevail itself to the ones in the knowing.
BUM SHIVA
True that! As you said there are exceptions(as it sadly isn't a regulated market and in the end most often only about profit), our clique is always buying in bulk and all these stamped slabs we came across over the years always leave a bitter taste to some degree(the better ones seem only to be cut with a knife or something as you said too or no stamp). Luckywise I can stick to organic homegrown from other sources so it's more of an occasional thing(only get mostly mid grade unfortunately but would always prefer excellent imported moroccan of any kind to any weed)and I'm excusing myself with life isn't without risk anyway. When stamped it seems importeurs in Spain or whereever either repress and stamp it or press their own slabs including stamps from imported loose pollen. In both cases they most probably cut it. It's all guesswork though. Shame no one gave real insight here https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=315539 about techniques as I'm sure some people in the know are on here as well. Matter of experience of course but I can only figure out henna as an cutting agent myself. I'm not talking about the old shoepollish thing but have seen strange stuff in the last couple of decades like moroccan hashish staying really, really soft in a fridge. Suspective to say the least! Especially these ultra goey so called high end moroccans(from often foreign genetics) available in some Amsterdam coffeeshops needing to be stored in a fridge as well. I mean I've done dry sift and water hash from primo indoor myself and even though its straindependent and all that it never was that oily.
It's somewhat sticky but not that oily(I'm aware of the fact that it's an art turning dry sift into hashish but hope you guys know what I mean). To me it's targeted at the younger generation more or less only looking for bho-like resin. Just a theory though. Maybe we can discuss cutting agents and how to recognize them(not talking about 'if it bubbles it's good', that doesn't work anymore). Would be greatly appreciated! Sure everyone got scammed over the years at least once.
Long story short I wanted to comment the following: I too like the look of the slab Sixsix posted but when he talked about the texture(what about effects and taste by the way?)I was reminded on a fake egg I was scammed with a couple of years back. I mean those ones discussed in this thread as well. You only get scammed once with this crap(or with other types). They were rock hard(dry) and even though I noticed something was wrong I went for it as my source was asuring it's proper gear as I bought the real ones from them as well before. Needless to say I never went back when I realised they're very low grade(heard they often go to prison for some reasons and of course to scam people). They clearly consisted of two types of pollen when cut open. Texture was like Sixsix already described.
I remember some pictures but couldn't comment due to not being a member on here back then. No offence intended, Mack 10, but they're looking like the fake one I had(and still get offered every now and then, about 10g but have seen bigger fake ones as well), maybe I'm wrong though: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6129990&postcount=2336 / https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6129991&postcount=2337 / https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6129994&postcount=2338
Let's discuss!