ripped off...

Now I realize any time you hand someone cash for an illegal transation, there's a chance you'll get ripped off with out any chance of recourse, but DAMN! It used to be an unspoken trust among the world's pot smokers that you don't rip someone off.

This chick on Friday night I met at my local bar had just got a job there. She said she could pick me up some middies, better than most of the dirt swag weed that can sometimes be found here. This is a coke town, not a weed town so ganja is hard to come by. In my desperate hour I handed her just $30, yeah, I know it's not that much, but its the principal of the matter. She said she'd be back with it on her next shift - Saturday afternoon. Well she didn't come in and didn't answer her phone until late Saturday, gave some big story about her uncle having a heart attack and loosing her phone for most of the day...

I was thinking, at least she called back, that's a good sign, right? So she's supposed to be at work right now with either my cash or my weed, and she seems to have blown off work again and isn't answering her phone. Great, now she won't be working there any more, and I'll never see her again.

Oh So Bruned.


It seems like when I'm in a "not weed" town the chances of getting ripped off are so much greater. It makes me want to move from this horrible place. I haven't had any weed for weeks. This town totally sucks.


Has anyone else been ripped off lately besides poor weedless me?

 

ya, u should get from people that u know next time.. or just buy only what u see, not what they r telling.. =/ im sorry for u..
i once paid 50$ and the guy didnt show up and my "friend" told me he will buy it for me and bring it to me the next day,
and the next day i got not even a 20$ worth.... but it was at least some good shit...
i usually look at it before i buy it..

 

She must have been pretty desperate to stop going to work for $30...

 

I used to not buy it unless I could see it first, but its SOOOO hard to come by here, and I've scored from the waitstaff at that bar before. I'm new in town so I don't know anybody here from Adam's house cat. I figured since she had a job there, she would at least be easy to find, but she seems to have blown off that job. Everyone here is super flakey.

This fucking sucks. If I knew where to go in Jacksonville, I would make the hour drive down there, but I don't want to waste my gas not even knowing where to go. But I'm almost ready to just go slumming for some weed down in Florida because it isn't around in south Georgia.

 

First, i doubt someone's gonna quit a job for $30 bucks, right?

Second, yeah, when I was a kid, we were in Berkeley for the weekend. We bought graph paper thinking we were buying acid! hahahaha I don't remember how much we paid for it, it was 22 years ago.

 

Check with the cooking staff, in my experience the cooks are much more likely to burn than the wait staff.

 

thats why they call em the wait staff..
cause your waiting..

 

fuck you.. hatin on us cooks..

 

All the cooks I work with burn.

 

the cook was out...he's who I can sometimes score ditch weed from.

 

Not hatin appreciating, do you know how many cooks have hooked me up in a pinch?

Well actually only twice its happened because usually I have a real solid connecy, but trust me both those times it was crucial and incredibly appreciated.

 

Best way not to get ripped off...



Don't give people money up front for drugs.


Come on now, they're drugs, you think someone isn't going too take advantage of somebody who just hands them money?...


You're just setting yourself up to lose.

 

Admittedly I was drunk and my better judgement was impaired. Like I said under normal circumstances I usually wouldn't hand cash over until I see what I'm buying, and that's how its going to be from now on. That seems to be the way it works here though because the go betweens are poor and need to have cash up front when they go to the dealer to get a bag for you.

This is NOT California. Everything is done behind closed doors. When I lived in Cali I could just walk down the street asking poeple and could have my pick of the finest buds. It's just not like that at all here. Dealers only sling to a few people they know very well here, and since I'm new in town and all, no one knows who I am.

 

gosh darn spambots!

 

That is most likely a lie. Those are called "middlemen" and their existence depends on you being too inept at finding dealers.


Tell them that you would rather meet the dealer face-to-face, and be given the drugs in exchange for your money.

Most people arent afraid to lie to you to separate you from your money.


You know the old adage,

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

Not to imply that you are a fool, just that it is important to know when someone is necessary to getting you drugs or not.



And middlemen aren't.

Also, make sure they weigh it out for you.

 

Thanks for the schooling kido, I've been smoking since you were three years old, and yes, you're right, that's how it works in an ideal world. But you may learn in life, that if you venture out of northern California, you'll find not every pot culture is like the West. Believe me I've been a smoker for 14 years. I've lived in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia and managed to adapted to a number of different pot sub-cultures. I wish every where could be like the West Coast, but it just isn't. If you think that's a lie, try coming down South and scoring pot in a rural conservative southern town with very strict marijuana laws, it's not as easy as it is else where, I promise you.

Oh how I long for the days when I used to live where I could just grow my own without having to exchange money for sub-quality product.

 

I thinks hes hating on CROOKS.... not cooks..

 

Hey man, Im in Jacksonville. I wouldnt come here unless you know someone or want to be ripped of by niggers.

 

Yeah, I can see how I'm privileged here in the bay area when it comes to finding weed.



Sucks you got ripped off though.

If I were you, I'd put some effort into making some direct connects.

 

That's too bad. Everyone in St. Marys, Georgia has advised me that if I want dank I've got to go to Jacksonville to find it, but I kind of thought that I could be putting myself in a dangerous situation down there. Maybe its time for me to just hang up my pothead hat, it's just too hard to score here and I'm wasting too much time on it. It was just so simple when I was in college and when I lived in more liberal communities.