Amsterdam: Pot and Hash and other oddities of the time.

[boomer2]

Hi, last summer i was privy to pay a visit to one of the other large legal Magic mushroom Farms called Pro-Care in Hazelwoud Dorp, Nederlands.

During this visit, I was fortunate to be allowed to photograph 15 different kinds of Bud from a single coffee house in the Red Light District, as well as 10 different kinds of Hash, and we also visited the Hemp Museum.  I wanted to see the College of Marijuana where they actually had large kolas of budd in bloom but they were close for a holiday period while we were there.  This came about after several coffee house operators told me no cameras allowed and customers were generally paranoid about having their pictures taken.  Also you cannot photograph the girls in the windows. Their Arab and middle-eastern pimps will beat on you and break your camera.  A friend who paid for my airfare to see the mushroom farm was, in the daytime, photographing a flower stall when a doorway opened and two girls came out and started to scream at us that they were getting their boyfriends to come out and take our cameras ans smash them as they to thought that we were photographing them.

The Coffee house we were at was run by a European man named Frank who once visited New York. He liked Americans as he told me that when he was in New York he met an Iraq War Vet who took him to the Statue of Liberty and to the top of the Empire State Building, treated him to lunch  and shared a day showing him America from a viewpoint of a soldier.

His shop, on the main street in the district, also has many coffee houses and the Kokopeli Smart Shop was a cool place to spend some time.  Each night my friend and I went there and shared joints one night with five girls from Spain who rolled cigarette sized joints mixed with tobacco.  Really do not like that, but these girls were under high tolerance and just continued smoking while my friend and I became wasted pretty easily on just a couple of joints.  Also smoked a little hash.

So here I want to share some of those images with you.

Here is the Coffee House Het Oerwoud:

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Here we have Northern Lights:

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Here we have Super Shiva:

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Here we have some White Widow:

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Here we have some badly string wrapped Thai stick (Buudha style, very thick, but grown and wrapped in the Nederlands):

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Well aside from different atmospheres, one pot coffee house is not much different than the one down the street.

Two years ago when I went to Teil and my friend had rooms in a chateau, we took a ferry ride to tiel and went into a pot place, had a bunch of French Morrocan or middle estern types at one table and some tourists at another, and was pretty empty. Only 8 tables and 3 chairs or so per table.

The middle eastern coffee house in Teil, Nederlands known as Relax:

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Went to the back of the shop and looked at the menu and a middle eastern elderly man took out order for three grams of Jack Herer budd. He went down some back stairs and came back and gave us the pot, so we caught the ferry back to the chateau and rolled one and smoked it and it was the shits. more like colombian or Jamaican.

Probably all of that shops budd could have been the same. Here I am in Amsterdam in 2007 rolling a doobie at a coffee house with alcohol, so bring your own budd and it is okay:

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And here is some of that famed Black Afghani Hash:

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I went three times to the Nederlands in the last few years, However, each of the three recent visits lasted a week.

Sad thing about it is that I could of done everything I did there here at home for practically nothing compared to what it cost over there to do it. And I could have saved on the expensive airfare also.

IT is definitely a ripoff. I mean even the frigin' hostels were $70.00 a night for a bunk bed.

in the 1970s, hostels were a dollar a night.

Here is a Muslim Prayer Rug made from hemp at the Hemp Museum.

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I really should have gone to the Cannibis College Museum instead.

They had Pot kolas growing.

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This beautiful hand-carved Meerchum pipe is on display in the Hash and Hemp Museum in Amsterdam.

Not really sure if it was used to smoke pot?

Especially since it appears to never have been used.

Probably carved from bone of Whale.

This pipe is definitely exquisite:

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An 18th century photo-painting of some Barbers? smoking either ganja or hash from long cooling pipes:

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And here, grown by the beautiful Anna,  Some really good budd Kolas called KGB, which originated from seeds from St. Petersburg, Russia:

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