I used to have a dealer, the only one I knew at the time, and he was into the c*** pretty hard, but he sold reefer. I bought a few bags from him, and this one time I paid $40 for an "1/8." I look at the bag, look at him and say, "what the fuck is this?", he kind of looked at me and says, "what, that's not an 1/8" and I told him it sure as fuck didn't look like one. And it didn't. It looked like rolled up grass clippings dried in a hard clump. It did get me high, but that was when I was like 16. Shit, I knew no one, and I knew I was getting ripped off. Being from Holland and all, you know what good cannabis looks like, even if you don't smoke.

Another time when I was 18, my old friend, who is now dead, suicide, he came up to me, told me his friends knew where to get some s*****s. I asked him if he knew them for very long and he's like, oh yeah, these guys are good people, I've known them for like 3 years, yadda yadda, so I was like, trusting, so okay, lets get some. Buddy tells us an ounce for $90, and I mean, these guys put on an awesome display of acting. Pretending to talk on the phone with their dealer, telling us how good they were...yeah. My buddy paid $50 so I tossed in the other $40. I told my friend we should tell one of them to leave their bikes here just in case they don't come back. They didn't like that as it was a long ways for them to go and would take them forever. To say the least, I never saw those two goons again and they got my $40.

That's the only time I've been ripped off where I got nothing back in return. Other times, I'm sure bags have been underweight, but at least there were buds in the bags.

I used to have to take a cab (I don't drive) 10km out of the city to get weed from a middle man. $20 each way, and $160 for a half ounce, so $200 for a half ounce I was paying, and the middleman, who is VERY untrustworthy (I didn't know at the time) probably snagged tons from me.