Also, go to other cities like Utrecht, Amersfoort, Nijmegen....but not Amerstamd to buy weed...
Pretty much buy your stuff from anywhere outside Amsterdam and it'll be much cheaper...
Amsterdams weed is like 5 euro more per gram just because it's Amsterdam...
True is, there's coffee shops everywhere haha.
Whatever you do, DON'T buy in Amseterdam unless it's just some FLAME that you can't pass on.
I'm sure any Dutchies will back that up haha!
Have to agree on the cheaper part as well a visiting other cities. Going to the Netherlands and only visit Amsterdam is like going on vacation to Florida and visitting only Disney World.
But quality-wise, most sell largely hastily grown and dried weed or just crap, which in A'dam with over 200 coffeeshops means a whole lot of places where you should 'not ' buy weed.
So it comes down to knowing where 'not' to buy, and even then you have to filter the menu with some educated guessing.
Nearly every well known shop is 'not' where you should go. The larger ones (in expensive buildings at the main canals) are usually not the places to go. The 'famous' and oldest etc, not the places to go (anymore).
I could recommend a few but your miles may and likely will vary. They sell so much on a day in Amsterdam, even at the smaller shops what's seems good today may be from a different harvest/grower/batch tomorrow. I've been there a hundred times at least but most shops I've never been, and most of the rest I only tried once or twice - and that's over more than two decades. Ask two people what the best shops are and you will get two different answers.
I do think going to the known as well as random shops is part of the going to Amsterdam ritual, but the price is indeed not an indication of better quality. The main difference with most other cities is that they don't have to compete as much for returning visitors, they have an endless stream of customers (and busy doesn't necessarily mean good). Amsterdam does have however quality control, so overpriced and not the best quality, likely 'clean' nevertheless.
Hash-wise you'll first have to pick between local and import hash, with the major difference that local hash has roughly twice the THC of weed and little CBD, while import hash (often from North Africa) has low THC but high CBD. Most common Dutch hash is pollen, and super pollen, but the quality varies a lot, and sometimes the super is anything but super (or just some cheap Morrocan hash sold as pollen).
I can't really recommend good hash in amsterdam, I almost only buy and smoke relatively cheap pollen from a local shop in my town (besides my own ice hash of course
). Nearly any city has a one or more shops owned by a Moroccon guy, ask him for his best hash. Used to be a cliche years ago, when the owner had a piece of his best hash in his pocket rather than under the counter. That's pre-isolator times though
And we tried so hard to get the thread back on topic
Maybe a moderator can split some posts of to a new thread in TnT for example.