Vince said:
It just has to do with the strain and the growing conditions.
There's no best bud, cause taste differs. But US has some of the leading breeders and award winning strains, and there's no doubt about that US is superior to the UK when it comes to breeding new strains.
Thats what im sayin what else would you need a couple of hundred bucks for growing equipment for? and where are you getting these facts about U.S. having leading breeders? Oh, and awarded? Well i dunno but im thinking an american magazine or whatever 'awarding' strains is gonna be judging shit they have over there, not what some guy has been growing in a spare room in china.
The netherlands is filled with grow shops, these are stores that explicitly and specifically sell products relating to growing marijuana. The are legal, common and well known. They have pretty much EVERYTHING in even the crappiest little small town shop that you could ever need for any type of marijuana growing, wether it be indoor, outdoor, hydroponic, wtf ever. They have dozens of different strains from all over the world (including your 'award' winning strains). You can get seeds, you can buy clones, you can get m already sprouted and ready to plant water and go. They have the lights you need, you can buy complete automated water pumping/filtering/dripping systems, air filters, not to mention dozens of different types of fertilizers for each and every little possible stage there is in the growing process. They are also usually filled with shelves of books on the subject, also from all over the world. I could go on and on...
the point is, it gets done a lot more here and on a much larger scale, we certainly dont have to import marijuana like they do in the states, in fact people from all over europe come to holland to get the weed. And its been like that for many many years. If someone gets busted they at most get a huuuge fine, once thats paid off they can just go and start over again until they are caught again it doesnt mater.
The weed over the years here has gotten hardcore, much higher thc and cannabinol content than ever seen anywhere. It has even gotten to the point where they were starting to talk about classifying some of the marijuana as hard drugs instead of soft drugs. We even have some weed that heroin addicts use when they cant get their hit or their shot, and its the only shit theyll touch because being heroin addicts they have an extremely high tolerance level for any type of 'stoned' drug.
And im STILL not tryin to say we have the best this and that and so and so, just keep this in mind when you are talkin so called 'best' weed. What we have goin on here is unique, theres nothin like it anywhere else in the world even to such basic underlying thoughts as mentality and social acceptance of it (and i mean in the sense of culturally and governmentally, not just people themselves).