# Hey, druggies! Screw you.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 14, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366 "2009-08-14T01:15:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366/161 "2009-08-18T01:40:11Z")
> [@TheFatKid](#):
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> Nothing in this world is sunshine and pancakes. If you live in the refrigerated, air conditioned, petrol fueled, supermarket fed, air bussed, computer connected West, let me tell you, your life is built on other people’s misery. No way around it.
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> If you want to opt out of that, go build yourself a teepee in a national park and start hunting, gathering, tanning, and spinning.
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> And if you do that, you won’t be logging on to post in this forum, I reckon.
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> I realized a long time ago that I dance for the devil.
Then, again, you need to talk to the people in this very thread who are _denying_ that.
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### Author:  [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366/162 "2009-08-18T01:41:57Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Then, again, you need to talk to the people in this very thread who are _denying_ that.
Well, my message goes for them, too, I reckon.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366/163 "2009-08-18T03:14:13Z")
> [@TheFatKid](#):
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> Dude, where I am, if you’re buying Mexican, you’re buying trucker-butt brickweed.
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> If you’re buying hydroponic, it’s either from USA or BC.
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> ETA: Dope is Kentucky’s biggest cash crop.
I spent a lot of years in KY, and now live adjacent to it in IN. All I’m trying to say is that if you don’t have an intimate relationship with your pot dealer (we don’t) how in the fuck do you have any idea where it comes from…and further, as long as it produces the desired effect, why would you care?
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### Author:  [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-druggies-screw-you/506366/164 "2009-08-19T00:18:38Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> I spent a lot of years in KY, and now live adjacent to it in IN. All I’m trying to say is that if you don’t have an intimate relationship with your pot dealer (we don’t) how in the fuck do you have any idea where it comes from…and further, as long as it produces the desired effect, why would you care?
I always disliked mystery product. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t prohibitively picky, but when I had a choice I knew what I was getting.
According to the DEA, Mexican pot is primarily outdoor grown. Canadian pot is increasingly indoor grown, as is Georgia/Florida weed (that’s the “where I am” I referred to).
Outdoor pot is harder to control than hydroponic indoor weed, as you probably know. You tend to get lower quality. Also, very large-scale Mexican operations (and their fields are, on average, much larger than US outdoor operations) don’t have the space to properly cure the weed, so it’s simply “piled and dried”, which results in the brown, compact, and sometimes moldy “brick weed” typical of Mexian “trucker butt”.
So around here, if you’ve got some fluffy, aromatic, bright green, hiqh quality stuff, it’s hydro that has been properly cured. That means it’s almost certainly local, or in some cases imported from BC.
If you’ve got dark, dense, low-quality schwag, it might be from a US outdoor operation, but more likely it’s Mexican.
Here’s [one DEA report](http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs31/31379/marijuan.htm) that touches on some of this.
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