It most definitely happens. Amnesia haze "Dutch import" bought in the UK(London) will most probably have received the spray treatment with an offensive smelling substance. Don't let people have you believe it's all paranoia and that it simply doesn't happen - IT DOES! I have cultivated and smoked a lot of weed in my time and in my experience have never had such awfull, toxic shit as this. You can tell by smelling it that at one stage it was a perfectly nice sativa(prob actual amnesia) but it has that added nasty chemical, toxic smell. The bud also doesnt smoke paticularly well but this isn't down to the flush or the cure, it's just poison. Seriously - grow your own or find someone who does and support UK homegrown.
Username: R1b3n4 - Don't listen to this fool, he speaks pure shit. Why does your "boy" get his grade in from Europe when there are loads of decent growers here in the UK. You don't know jack, you're prob smoking on some poison shit now but are too dumb to know. 20 years and you haven't come across this shit? You've either been living under a rock or selling this crap and perpetuating the bad image that people have of weed here. If the latter isn't true then I feel sorry for you son.
One last thing - why is it always Amnesia, lemon haze. There are other strains out there you know. The Dutch are good at flogging crap to tourists who don't know much and equally good at selling our suppliers(who may or may not even smoke themselves) bunk, shitty weed under the guise of it being High quality dutch import.
+1 for this man right here, he knows and speaks truth. I'm going to carry on down the road he is on because there are too many ill-informed in here that think they know it all just because they have been fortunate enough NOT to come into contact with this product themselves, and so ignorantly assume everyone else is a fantasist. And that bloke on the first page who said 'your friend is an idiot and knows nothing', does in fact know nothing. I only hope him and people who talk like him end up with some of this on their hands. I'm sure we'd soon see who'd be laughing then. The U.K. cannabis market is a breeding ground for contaminated gear.
ANYWAY.
If you're smoking weed in the U.K., and you're tired of the cheese because it's everywhere, and someone dangles some nice looking 'import haze' in your face,.. do yourself a favour and stick to the cheese. On reading the first post of this thread, it felt exactly like the position my cat and dog are in. They came across someone selling 'imported amnesia', which was gorgeous at first. Immediate head high, spreading through to energy throughout the body; producing that uplifting high like a sativa should.. keeping you up there for a couple of hours, then bringing you down into a stoned slumber; which is pretty much what i look for in a smoke. Another smoke of it at this point would take you back up for another hour or two before bringing you back down. Contrast, length, and quality of high.. the basic fundamentals of a true haze experience for me. Everything was good. Everything was great... Beautiful.
So, what happened? I'm still asking myself the same question. Fast forward a month or two later,.. amnesia coming from the same guy. Looks the same. Smells the same. This stuff did not produce the sativa effect however, it hit you like it was about to knock you out and no uptake in cannabinoid receptors; instead feeling poisoned.. body rejecting it. Headache. A slight sensation that you could throw up, though controllable. It obviously had an effect, and it was obvious that there was a foreign chemical giving it this effect.. it definitely wasn't a cannabis effect. It left you feeling messy, but not good. Not stoned; Messed up. Tasted a bit like.. tempted to say the scent of paint, though that would not be a completely accurate description; it was like the smell of a freshly painted room. So, the bud received the taste test.. crunch. Oh great.. no surprise really, but still angry it was confirmed additive as opposed to flush issue. Also had a salty taste... assumed salt, or a chemical had been added.. but judging by how it felt, more inclined to say chemical...
Ever since it's been hit and miss with it. Sometimes it's the original belter of that first month of getting it; most of the time it's sprayed or 'cut' with SOMETHING; though not always the same thing. 2 batches since have had a different form of contamination. Had one that had the salty taste but no crunch on the bite, and the most recent is the weirdest yet, and it's something that's been seen years ago but not since, and hard to determine whether it's chemical or flush with this one.. looks like the amnesia but a little damper. Smells like that typical import haze smell, but it's not a strong scent by any means. If you bite a tiny piece of bud, it produces a COLD sensation on your tongue. Taste of bud, bud it is COLD. COLD! I have no idea what this is all about. Whether it's unflushed bud with a chemical buildup that's actually changing it's composition, or whether it's some chemical spray thats been added since, or during cultivation; I have no clue. None.
One thing's for sure though. My cat and dog are going back to the cheese. This haze will kill them if they carry on, and I love my pets.
If you're reading this and have experienced any of what I am talking about or feel the weed you are smoking is not quite right but can't put you're finger on it, please post in here; even if you're just browsing and need to create an account to do so. I did, it only takes about 30 seconds.
Knowledge is power. It is the ill-informed that keep this stuff on the market, so ignore those everywhere; those you smoke with, those you speak to online; even those on this forum that will call you paranoid and clueless for sharing important information. Any cannabis smoker in the UK, experienced or not, needs to be savvy about this stuff for their own health's sake.