Health Warning: Meth Adulterated Weed in Portland Hempstalk

Well folks I hadnt been to a pro pot rally down in OR since the drive to medicinalize it in the late 90s, and I decided to make the drive to Hempstalk this year. I was appalled. It was mostly drugged up kids (and by drugged up I do *not* mean stoned) and angry cops/security/volunteers. There was the usual sketchy stuff like a ton of "Molly" being offered, edibles being sold willy nilly to minors, and then there was the newer scourge - all those coop booths that were selling individual doses of hash oil made with contaminated butane (Power 7x, Vector 5x were the two named by the various coops as being used, both of which are highly impure), which always makes me mad bc bho is supposed to be medicine, not toxic industrial lube. But none of that is what Im here to warn about: Someone (I suspect a minor) came to me and offered to trade me the last half of his gram sack that he had acquired there in Hempstalk in exchange for some chips. Dissapproving of minors in possession without a license, I quickly agreed to relieve him of it. That was the end of it for a few days, the baggy went into my pocket and I forgot about it, since I have no use for it anyways; I only vape hash oil. When I discovered it again going through my pocket (days later - lol stoners), I noticed it was covered in hard white loose crystals, the size and shape of table salt. I figured it was likely salt but there was so much of it and it was smooshed into the bud, so out came the marquis reagent. I separated out some crystals, applied the marquis, and BAM - bright orange instantly, quickly to brown over 60 seconds: Pure, high grade, methamphetamine. Now, the crystals of meth were very visible, and I am glad whoever did this didnt dissolve and then soak the herb, as that would be invisible. The baggie it came in was clear in front and had a field of blue on back with a repeated golden crown logo. The weed was well developed but not very sticky. Please beware of this branding and any suspect pot, Portlanders. I must say I am extremely disappointed - this is not the responsible pro-pot scene I saw during the push to medicinalize over a decade ago. This is a busted scene, with the dispensaries selling dangerous contaminated hash and the street sellers selling kids methed up cheap weed. Truly sad, and needless to say: I'll be attending neither Hempstalk nor the current shady Portland coops again unless all you responsible Oregonian patients (*waves @ rollitup*) can swing the tide back to safety and responsibility. EDIT PIC PROOF: http://postimg.org/image/xslopxwff/ This shows test. Its gone mostly light brown at this point ~45 seconds in, but you can see the corners are still orange. It was originally bright orange, after ~30 seconds turned brown, after 1 minute was the darkest brown. http://postimg.org/image/qm4w5nlm1/ This shows the back, the blue background and shine from cellphone really obscures the logo, but its gold crowns (you can just barely make out their shape

thats to bad. what a waste of bathsalts...lol

Thats why i bring and smoke my own shit. Im not gonna trust some random punkass kid from portland. Maybe he bought some bud and threw it in his leftover meth bag lol maybe next time dont try and be such a stand up citizen, those kids are scandalous.

hardknox, youre misunderstanding the source of my frustration. I wasnt trusting random kids for weed; I am not upset that I do not get to smoke the weed bc its contaminated. I dont care about the half gram of weed nor the bag of chips I gave away for it, neither cost me anything. As I said, I only vape hash oil, and I traded the kid only to get the weed out of the hands of a minor - the fact that it was methed up is just the shit icing on a big steaming shit cake. I am outraged that someone was selling minors weed, esp methed up weed, at a pro legalization rally, and that the dispensaries are selling contaminated bho. You may be correct that it was the kids meth bag that he had put some weed in, but the meth had been well squished into the bud, and combined with the logo-ed drug baggie and the frequent rumors of methed up wed sold by shady dealers and the fact that the kid looked too young and well nourished for such hard drugs, this makes me think it was intentional on the part of the dealer. But yeah, some of those punk kids from portland are twaked out - methed up molly, fake ass acid, and apparently methed up weed have made them quite sketch, and they dont even realize how shitty their drugs are most of the time.... which is why I dont mind doing some testing and posting results. In any event my point is that there was a short time ago in OR that the pro pot rallys would be responsible adults, professionals, parents, the full spectrum of OR stoners, all gathering and being chill, and no drugs other than marijuana would have been tolerated. Compared, Hempstalk was mostly minors of the Renegader/Punk/Traveling-homeless persuasion, it was more of a music festival than a political one, and everyone was pushing mystery chem molly, someone was selling kids methed up weed, and hazardous bho was being given out by the co-ops. Its very disturbing, and it feels a bit like the dream has died. You know the dream - the one where marijuana is pushed into normalcy, where its just no big deal when an adult uses, and no one is offended and no one even thinks about it. WA is very very close to that since they legalized. But if this is what the pro pot scene has become in OR, well, its going to result in MMJ getting banned again, because however much the square preppy voters may be ok with an adult like me medicating, they would shut it down in a heartbeat if they think of the mmj and pro legalization rallys and events as being locations that minors go to score drugs, esp adulterated ones.

Yeah i seen alot of peoples booths having kids stacked outside giving out dabs. 13 yr olds walking around with huge oil rigs in one hand and a torch in the other, my wife was apalled. Later that night my buddy passed me his new vap pen and som bho he got from a guy... It was some of the worst i've had. Definetly out of line and Very sketchy at best.

yeah the BHO scene is really fuckered, and those vape pens are just ecigs and the little red hot coil they use just burns. lol to show my age; when I first started making bho in the 90s, if I found any bho in the dispensaries, I'd jump on it blindly bc it was so rare that the only ones who could make it had a firm enough grasp on chemistry to understand that you need a solvent that isnt contaminated, but now, unless they can tell me what kind of butane they use and its one of the clean ones (which hasnt happened in 5+ years), I avoid all co-op/dispensary BHO like the plague. It seems everyone who makes bho for dispensaries since bho has blown up in popularity uses only the contaminated butane and has never even heard of a clean plate test, much less performed one on the solvent they use for their so called "medicine". Likely bc the lipid impurities boost the end weight of the extract. I'm not saying there arent a few that are supplying dispensaries that test their solvents and have a clean extract, just that the overwhelming majority do not.

I've been to the last few Hempfests in Seattle and I also was upset with seeing so many minors wandering around smoking, half baked out of the minds. In my mind it distracts from the event and does more harm toward legalization. Seattle is a very liberal city, as is most of the state, I guess that's why they were able to legalize it in the end. I'm surprised no one made an issue about all the minors, even the cops seemed to look the other way. I guess this is a "new world" we live in today.

Yeah, no one seems to get it around here those those brands of butane are NOT safe and contain petroleum distillates. I stopped making my own BHO because I have concluded it should not be done unless you have all the proper equipment but that doesn't mean I trust must of the stuff in the co-ops/dispensaries ether. I don't have much to say about the speed weed...seems kinda counterproductive to lace weed with a much more expensive drug, wouldn't do much for the profit margin I wouldn't think...

The 13 year-olds with dabs would have definitely sent me packing back home pretty quick had I been there, I think.

so OP buys some weed from a kid in the park (i'm not buying op's story) with some meth in it and he thinks it is representative of all portland area weed or something?

my advice: don't buy weed from kids in the park.

VladFromOG said:

Well folks I hadnt been to a pro pot rally down in OR since the drive to medicinalize it in the late 90s, and I decided to make the drive to Hempstalk this year. I was appalled. It was mostly drugged up kids (and by drugged up I do *not* mean stoned) and angry cops/security/volunteers. There was the usual sketchy stuff like a ton of "Molly" being offered, edibles being sold willy nilly to minors, and then there was the newer scourge - all those coop booths that were selling individual doses of hash oil made with contaminated butane (Power 7x, Vector 5x were the two named by the various coops as being used, both of which are highly impure), which always makes me mad bc bho is supposed to be medicine, not toxic industrial lube. But none of that is what Im here to warn about: Someone (I suspect a minor) came to me and offered to trade me the last half of his gram sack that he had acquired there in Hempstalk in exchange for some chips. Dissapproving of minors in possession without a license, I quickly agreed to relieve him of it. That was the end of it for a few days, the baggy went into my pocket and I forgot about it, since I have no use for it anyways; I only vape hash oil. When I discovered it again going through my pocket (days later - lol stoners), I noticed it was covered in hard white loose crystals, the size and shape of table salt. I figured it was likely salt but there was so much of it and it was smooshed into the bud, so out came the marquis reagent. I separated out some crystals, applied the marquis, and BAM - bright orange instantly, quickly to brown over 60 seconds: Pure, high grade, methamphetamine. Now, the crystals of meth were very visible, and I am glad whoever did this didnt dissolve and then soak the herb, as that would be invisible. The baggie it came in was clear in front and had a field of blue on back with a repeated golden crown logo. The weed was well developed but not very sticky. Please beware of this branding and any suspect pot, Portlanders. I must say I am extremely disappointed - this is not the responsible pro-pot scene I saw during the push to medicinalize over a decade ago. This is a busted scene, with the dispensaries selling dangerous contaminated hash and the street sellers selling kids methed up cheap weed. Truly sad, and needless to say: I'll be attending neither Hempstalk nor the current shady Portland coops again unless all you responsible Oregonian patients (*waves @ rollitup*) can swing the tide back to safety and responsibility.

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mayb it was just 'powdery mildew'

--it looked like meth on the weed

pics or it didnt happen

Buck - didnt buy from some kid - traded a chip bag for it at his request (he approached me) in order to get the drugs away from a minor (again, I dont even smoke weed, I only vape oil), and dont think its representative of portland as a whole (though the weed in the co-ops is very meh and their oil is contaminated), just horrified that it would be there at all, esp in the hands of a minor, at a pro pot rally. Buckaroo - powdery mildew doesnt show up as meth on marquis, and doesnt appear as hard table salt sized grains. Greenghost - fair enough, had a friend take some cell pics, will post tomorrow. shows logo and marquis reaction 45 seconds in (orange -brown). Obviously this stuff is being sold by some sketchball but the fact that it was given to a damn minor at a pot legalization rally is unacceptable.

iv learned from experience that when a kid is giving away free herb, they stole it from their parents or maybe brother or sister.

there are now pic links added to first post, but for some reason it doesnt preserve my formatting, it just lumps all my paras into one big runon, so here they are again: http://postimg.org/image/xslopxwff/ shows the marquis, is 30 seconds in, mostly brown, still orange in corners. The color change was very fast. You can even make out a couple of the last crumbs of meth on the bottom of the bag, though most of those I poured into the test.http://postimg.org/image/qm4w5nlm1/ shows the back, and the logo is a gold crown, if you cant make it out

You cannot say all Portland ya there are some shady characters but its not just here its everywhere I'm born and raised in Portland don't buy from shady looking little kids and it won't have nasty ass meth in it its his ass anyway and why are they allowing little kids at hempstalk anyway you sure he was a minor ?

No one made any comparisons to the entirety of Portland, and if you think I was trying to score for myself, you have missed the point completely. Why are so many reading " Wah, I got sold weed with meth, poor me, Portland sucks rabble rabble rabble" when what Im clearly saying is "Oh no, the scene has deteriorated to the point that someone sold a kid meth laced weed at a pro pot rally, Im glad I could get it away from him, help me get the word out and make the MMJ scene like it once was"

I was at Hempfest in Seattle 3 years ago and was disgusted by the entire event. There were people stoned out of their minds everywhere, and I saw a group of guys running around yelling how they were the event organizers being douchebags to people like they were gods. I was saddened for the movement.

If it looks like table salt, it is likely crystal meth and that can FUCK you up and down if you don`t know what you are doing and/or are unhealthy. Stay clear of it... I believe a kid had a bag of meth he took with him to keep him on the edge, he bought some weed, it got his little tweeker-ass with the head-spins and he dropped the weed.. (not the meth addiction)..

Seriously, who trades a bag of weed for a half eaten bag of chips? Got weed, but no Chips? haha... A Meth User, thats who. I know them well.

UncleBuck said:

my advice: don't buy weed from kids in the park.

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I agree..

I hate to be "that guy"..but we were all kids once too..not necessarily speed weed smokers, but I am sure a lot of us here were up to the same crap at that age. Eventually your learn that you are mortal.

Didnt Sammy Hagar get popped for buying grass off a kid in a park? hahahaha!!!

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