BM, the truffles are basically shrooms....if I only had a night in the 'Dam and I had to fly somewhere for work the next day, I'd stick to smoking a sensible amount of pot and getting a proper night's sleep.
I leave tomorrow and basically have the Dampkring, Barney's Lounge and the Grey Area mapped out. While I appreciate the suggestions on hash and understand the logic, I will stay with weed. After all these years of smoking, I want to really experience a quality sativa. I will try to lean on the budtender to help me out a bit but lean towards a good haze (like the suggestions above) or Grinspoon.
Thanks again for all the suggestions. I go to London after Dam and will not come home until the weekend. Will check back in to let you guys know if I was successful in my quest.
if you are not already in the plane here is the marijuana menu of the dampkring from july, i advise you a good nevils haze instead of amnesia if you want to smoke an excellent sativa not commercial herb (low yield but fuckin great high)
have fun
First off, I want to say what a great city Amsterdam is. I really love it and will go back. Not just the weed, but cool people, buildings and I do love fresh Heineken.
I was there for two nights. And after a very full day and evening dinner drinks on the first night, I was finally alone about 11pm. Frankly, I was afraid that it might be my only chance. So I ventured out into the rain and found a taxi to take me to Barney's Lounge. When I got there, I was afraid it was closed. The whole area was deserted. But I peeked into the lounge and a few people were there. Ventured in and talked to a great budtender from Greece. I told him my story and must have appeared frazzled by the day and experience. He said...First just relax, you are in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam. Then he directed me to the Dr Grinspoon. Really nice guy who helped me with the Volcano too.
And the Grinspoon lived up to my expectations of a pure sativa. Great high and totally different from the weed here in Texas. It was slightly stronger than the stuff I am used to. But the real difference was the type and experience of the high. I am so glad that I got to test it out.
Funny thing is the next night my boss starts talking about the coffeeshops. I was initially afraid it being a test due to the straight lace nature of my company. But he wanted to go the Bulldog and I didn't want to tell him that I knew it was crap. So we went and had the SSH. Average strength and the weed was just nothing special. Don't get me wrong, we had a blast and it was better than sitting at a bar in Texas...
Again, thanks to all that offered me advice including the Dampkring menu. I really appreciate it.
Sounds like you had fun, and Heineken tastes 10x better in Amsterdam! I spent five whole days there getting baked in '05...and I got really, really, really high every day LOL. I need to get back out there some time!