The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly the 2006 Scamabus Cup!

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This is a really cool article I wrote in 2006 just after the cup that year.

Before you read the report know it has nothing to do with the final results, we felt ripped off long before the results were announced. They allowed 22 sativas to enter way more than is possible to be judged when you add 18 Indica’s to bring the total to 40 strains.
I thought at one time I was special to be invited but I just had the coin it’s that simple. Old Pink of Gypsy fame had his own strain and the guy looked like he hadn’t taken a bath in years. In my opinion this is simply a cash cow for the senior members on the staff of HT. The Winning Indica strain is a clone only! That would be like me entering A-13 as Vortex and the cup wouldn’t have meant a lot to me won crooked. Lets get to checking out our adventures and please tell me if you think we were treated as the First medical entry from the USA.


This will take a few days to complete.

We arrived after the flight from hell as Jill covered in her thread and then learned the taxis still rip you off as bad as ever and we over paid by 50$ but we did get to the city safely and Amsterdam at night is bad ***. We had a kick *** view of The Grass Hopper from our window.

Since our plane was several hours late we missed Pistils but he had smartly left the buds to smoke out the staff in a hemp bag in the corner and we proceeded to smoke everyone out. I must say the local they were at was extremely seedy and reminded me of what a crack house would look like. They were blown away by all the samples, Candy Store, JTR, Space Queen and Agent Orange as well as ful melt JTR bubble that Mat Stang said and I Quote “ That’s the best Bubble I ever tasted”. We had one large JTR nug and Steve Hager pulled it out and asked if he could smoke it. It retrospect HT was the last people I should have smoked out and saved it for all the other breeders as the ones that tasted out gear were blown away.
We landed several new accounts due to the potency and flavor of our buds and Delta 9 is now growing out multiple strains to supply bud to the Rokeri. We also landed 3 new writing deals with respectable publications in other countries like Italy, Canada, and Germany. We gave seeds to any one in a wheel chair or with any visible illness. We hooked up half the Nocal cash croppers with mass genetics and you boys in Nocal get ready for buds I met 6 of the coolest guys ever opening dispensaries in the towns.

So we received our passes and were told the expo was easy to find just take the shuttle behind central station. When we arrived there were 7 possible docks no signs and its on the North sea. After several trips across the river and back we found the right one. We started walking and after about 20 minutes we were in an old dock yard. No lights cold rainy, MrsJills in a dress and I am in nice slacks unlike the HT crew we do have class.
I am thinking this can’t possibly be it as we turn a corner we see a large red arrow and walk another ¼ mile to what looks like an abandoned warehouse.

Heated??

 

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Our Booth was a broken table in a freezing *** cold warehouse with 1 foot behind the table to stand 12 hours a day for 4 full days. No table cloth and poor directions sounds like a great deal for 2000$ yes? We couldn’t display the shirts and only had room for about half the banners Pitsils had made. The Couches and Catered food that were promiced was there but we weren’t allowed in that area and a bottle of water was 11$ US.
Matt actually stopped MzJill from going for a coke. If he would have been state side I would have knocked him down the freaking stairs! He did go get her a full liter and some cups but that’s not the point. She was a vendor and dressed to the 9’s and these dumb shits are the most classless wankers I have ever met ( with the exception of Danny Danko).

I think we probably lost at the point cause I was pissed and couldn’t contain it there peon workers at a magazine and have no real respect for what it took to get our entry there or what it takes to create a new medical strain. At this point my focus became all the cool people at the cup and smoking as many of them out as we could. When we ran out of Bud DNA walked over and handed me a huge sack of D-line and it was some of the best weed I smoked the intire time. Other than Peeshes Pineapple! They were also shut out with 4 entry’s and are also not Dutch! There weed was the bomb and there Connie Chung caramel was the ******* bomb for the trip back! Thanks D and A.

 

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The first coffee shop we went to was The Green House as I love there Jack Herer and to see what Arjan was entering. The guy has gone Ron Popeil with Bobble head dolls and factory bubble packing. They did give us a nice bag of goodies and a good discount but IMO the Haze entry was toilet paper.

The new thing is to label the THC as they think US growers are f***king stupid and are using a gas coronagraph machine even though they can’t afford a decent venue. I told ever one there don’t let em insult you and if this is 36% I assume the bubble we make is 400%.

Check out the impurities in 40 euro a gram hash ( thats like 55 usd

That night we went and scored some good hash to smoke out all the people coming to see us at the booth and wheile we were at dampkring we had on our competitors laminant. They actually refused to sell HG any bubble so I went back and let em know I had been coming there for a decade and wouldn't be back.
The best two hashes I smoked

Twibzla
Sage and Sour thats 150$ worth of bubble btw

Every single visitor agreed the weed they were buying in the shops sucked and was an insult, you could tell the us growers by there distaste for the weeds flavor.
A group of nice guys from nocal came by and smoked some California Outdoor bubble and it wa sthe best thing I hade that day.

This is Bubble!!!
West Coast baby!

 

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Some wet Bubblegum from Bush Doctor they have great weed and hash but this sample sucked

Soma's

I am not seeing resin?
Of yes the scuffing

Yummy hair bud

BTW At the expo there were no phones no internet no wireless and one night I emerged to no cabs so I walked in the rain for 45 minutes

 

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Let’s take a look at the Expo in full swing. I can’t say a lot of business wasn’t done here we did extremely well with contacts and such and we met a lot of cool people. HT don’t get credit for that I always make things happen when I work. It called networking

Crowded space

Loads of Room glad we didnt have a fire!

 

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Lets leave all the wankers behind and focus on the good parts. I met so many cool people and toked em out with our gear till it was gone. With an Entry I was treated by others with respect and admiration and who dosnt like that!
We did our best to help spread the love of the Cannabis comunity and I preached all week on helping man kind and giving back to those in need. My heart grew 3 x

Some Peeps we met!
MzJill shows of her First Pass

A few members of TGA in front of our X favorite shop.
There refused to sell HG hash as he had a compeditor badge on hash that cost 60$ a gram?
Skinning a Joint in public Badboy and Home Grown reveal in Freedom from Leo ( They have ben to BC so it wasnt a big shock)

Cool vap that these guys hand envented it pumps out nice smooth smoke

The happy cheif fits over a Pipe and stops ash and hash chunks from coming through it also filters the hit somewhat.
Cool Idea and nice people

I wish these huge bags hadn't been full of Arjans Moss Bud
The Hotel Rocked

 

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Wassup sub,
Sorry to hear about the bad time in holland, sounds like it's got very commercial out there. And they say were all about the money, my how things have changed since i've been there. Although scince i am 100%dutch they have always treated me very well out there, but the friends i go with dont get the same respect and thats clear as day. Well at least you got some new accounts and contact's to hussle with. Keep up the hard work Sub it all happens for a reason!! Peace and Love!!!

 

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I don’t think you will convince these people we shouldn’t have won these are the lucky few that came by on day one to sample some TGA buds. Ed was pretty impressed as well as the guys from Delta 9 after hearing him proudly talk about his gear. I let him hit the JTR bud I saved back for pistils and a small bowl of my #1 Bubble he was blown away.
I should also mention at the Hightimes hide out we dropped the sample off to we smoked them t down to the point almost everyone stopped toking and passed on more.
That was kinda fun to I had em chocking and red eyed. Steve comment at the time was “ What The hell is that smell” and Mat said the bubble was the best hed smoked.
Hopefully it didn’t end up in there stash boxes but I wouldn’t be surprised you simply wont convince me or anyone that’s grown JTR that a cheese cross or a serious cross was better the Kiwi may well have been I didnt taste it

These people were all blown away and most said wow I am now high and everyone loved the flavors of our organic weeds. I have spent my life toking people out I just wish I would have had more than a 1 x 3 feet area to sit and toke with people who paid a lot to do just that!
Delta 9 gets wasted on JTR
Save your coin go to Amsterdam in the spring grab some hash see the sites

I was pretty pissed when I wrote this so if I sound bitter I probaly was. On a side note it was pointed out that the JTR featured in the HT cup issue was NOt the bud I entered. Ka sara I learned many many things that year and I am no longer pissed.
I understand the cups not rigged but it can be bought and we simply don't want it under those terms. The following year we won the Oregon Medical cup when a local card holder entered the strain and took home first place ]

This was still a killer story though

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Sounds like a crappy yet good time. You think they would have treated you better. Have you thought about going back? Has an American ever won the Scamabus Cup?