First tastes of Dam

[daddy fingaz]

Just sat here smoking some jack Herer and reminiscing my first trip to Amsterdam.

Jack herer was the first weed i smoked in dam, from Coffeshop 'Old Style' (now closed) at around 9am after a 12 hour coach trip back in 99', in the company of a few local business men having a quick toke before work!
I hadnt got a hotel booked and needless to say, as im sure many English have, spent the next few hours wondering around very high (in circles most probably) trying to find one!

...Anyone else like to share their first tastes....

 

[theHIGHlander]

jack was my first aswell bro,,in the grasshopper about 7 year ago.....i was up all night before i went getting high,, we had no hotel aswell lol,,,
me and my buddy jumped of the train at central station, there was a you chick on the platform asking if we were looking for somewhere to stay,,,yeh sure,,she pointed us in the direction phoned the guy to tell him we were on our way lol,, it was madness how it all worked out ,,,,chucked our bags in the room and off we went...toking allday long.....
i remember going into a place called the doors at 10oclock the next morning ....getting a bottle of bud and a 3 gram of white widow,,,sat in there most of the morning getting drunk&stoned (i thought i was strange as most places i went into did sell weed & beer),,then went walking ,,can i just add i thought we were walking around in circuls to.....its a mad/weird/strange place Amsterdam,,, but that dont mean its not good...

keep it green
highlander

 

[JamieShoes]

91 was the first year I went to amsterdam - I remember buying polm (zero zero) and thai from the "doors" cuz I didnt know enough about skunk to be tempted.. it was the first coffeeshop I ever went in, after walking past probaly 200 places called stuff like rasta marley and cheech and chongs tourist hole and the blues brothers shit stop and a million other places with obvious names, but we couldnt decide if we were certain that they sold weed...and walked all the way to the doors before getting up the courage to go inside ...hahaha (hell I was only 18 man)

me and the girl I was with also didnt have a hotel booked.. we ended up staying at a huge squat in bennebroek .. they let us pitch our tent on their tennis courts... yup, you heard me... squat.. with tennis courts....lol styling


edit - I fell out of a tree there...

 

[Blimey]

1986....the old 13-hour marathon "smokers' express" from Victoria bus station - at least you could smoke on the coach back then.

7am in Dam Square....bleary-eyed and gagging for a toke....nowhere was open!!! Including our hotel down on the NeuePrinzengraacht. Every road name a tongue-twister.

Dropped our bags off , brekkers at McDonalds...and stopped off at every coffeshop we could find...10 guilder bags (or was it 25? memory fails me now) - didn't take long to get totally monged, and get kicked out of the Goa 'cos my mate finally lost his fight with consciousness.

That night in the red-light district....like the Four Musketeers...we boldy tried to balance along the planks of wood that seperate you from the quagmire that is the pavement. Three cool dudes, and their uncool friend in his parka....obviously he's the one who brought his camera..snap..snap..snap..getting abuse from the ladies in the windows. Soon enough, he ran out of film....but he wanted to take more pictures....so he kneels down precariously on the shitty plank sidewalk.....pulls his parka over his head (so as to not expose the film)...and changes it.

To the casual passer-by, of course, all you can see is some crazy English dude kneeling down with a parka covering his head, hand and crotch...and some serious fumbling going on down there. He soon attracted quite the crowd to watch the "live masturbation show" - we should have passed a hat around for donations.....

Learnt another valuable lesson on arriving back at Dover customs - don't leave a pack of king-size skins in your bag. I learnt the meaning of "body cavity search" that morning....yikes! At least he was gentle...his first time as well, allegedly.....but I bet he said that to all the young lads.....

 

[JamieShoes]

hehe I remember that coach trip thing..even used it one way once as it ws cheaper to get a return from them than a one way elsewhere... didnt they advertise in viz?


he let us play dodgy techno all the way here and man there was some cack being passed around ...lol

 

[buddymate]

hehe I remember that coach trip thing..even used it one way once as it ws cheaper to get a return from them than a one way elsewhere... didnt they advertise in viz?


he let us play dodgy techno all the way here and man there was some cack being passed around ...lol

That Viz advert,wasnt it the Canna-bus?I am sure I heard the owner was caught smuggling a few dozen keys back to the UK?

 

[JamieShoes]

I'm not a 100% sure buddymate.. although I did think it had the word "express" in it At the time, the guy was a cheary 40 something obvious old toker feller, so it really wouldnt surprise me..

I never did the return journey myself, but when I came here in the early years I'd do that thing Blimey describes of going from shop to shop buying 10g bags, having a joint, feeling like "we should probably walk around for a bit" before walking straight to the next shop and buying another deal...


repeat this until you have 20 baggies .. half of them unlablled and 4 hours left til you go home again..... and then on with the "have you tried the affie x maroc x thai x super skunk x whatever the hell this is spliff?" session.... hehehehe

 

[Blimey]

The boat back from Oostende to Dover took 5 hours.....you can smoke a lot of weed in those 5 hours

 

[Scrogerman]

I can still remember the smells of Coffie & Skunk'

I can still remember the smells of Coffie & Skunk'

91' was my first taste.First stop just out of central square-'The Dolphins', first ever coffie shop. Me & my best mate got to stay in a place called hallemmer houtinnen with a guy from merther who had lived over there for 8 years or more(R.I.P-Phil). just on the outskirts of the red light, for a week, well it ended up being 8 days cause we missed the bus back, too stoned lol!
he only asked that we paid 30 guilders just to pay for food n coffie. Few guided tours of the dam later & a stop off at the 'coffie shop with no-name' which sold 'Silver haze' (original) and i was hooked.
was a regular visitor year after year, and moved out there to live & work in 98'. I'll always love the place. Holland is a one of my second homes.

Done the Hoek van Holland (The Comic-with the Chevvie bar round the back) to Harwich a few times too-lo.l! Lived in S'Gravensande just outside Den-Haag(excuse the spelling) Worked on the Kassenbouw.(Glasshouse- Erection)-sometimes lol
Peace & Love...............Scrog' Tot-Ziens.........

 

[Buffoonman]

My usual trick in Amsterdam is to book into a hotel go to a coffee shop get stoned then forget where the hotel is. I've spent hours wandering up and down canals . Favourite smoke over there is normally Kali Mist or Lavender. Lost my travellers cheques last trip only to find Amsterdam is about the only city in the world that doesn't have a American Express office spent a week on the phone stoned trying to sort it out. Anybody know why there is no office over there is it because that many people have scammed them after spending all there money on drugs. lol.

 

[daddy fingaz]

91 was the first year I went to amsterdam - I remember buying polm (zero zero) and thai from the "doors"
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Lol i can remember getting some zero zero from the doors and smoking chilum outside with a german midget guy and police walking by ! one of the many surreal things that happens in dam!

 

[theHIGHlander]

weve all got something in common,,,make sure you get there first,,,then get somewhere to stay,,,lol only stoners...


keep it green
highlander

 

[DocLeaf]

Bulldog Leidesplein,,, Sensi Skunk,,all cool until my buddy sold n rolled a spliff to some older American kids,, we got pranged/paranoid cause we were dealing 5mins in and half our crew were underage.. lmfao So we ran-off back to our hotel with our pockets full of hashish and ganja... the imported grass n hasj was the same as the stuff we had at home, but that "skunk" stuff was much better.

Edit: A few memorable names from that first trip,, Green Crystal, White Butterfly, B52, Master Kush, 45 Automatic, Swazi, and 10g of Super Skunk we used as tobacco ..lol

Btw,, i n i always check in at the hotel first,, then go compare the stuff we smoked on-route against the stuff the coffeeshop is selling