In 1991 I saw a half a kilo afghan black in Ireland with "Smash Kremlin" as a seal.
Don't really get what you mean by calling Maroc and pollem a different thing. Every old style made (by beating the plant over a filter with sticks), marroccan is pollem, literally powdered pollem like those that you see from a lot of plants in spring. Then the producer may press it lightly into what we call "pollem" wich still has that golden colour, or press it harder into what we know as "gum" or "hash" here, in wich case it turns dark.
I don't remember the last time that I needed to burnt it to make a joint, probably in the soapbar era. Here (Spain) hash or pollem is often very fresh, creamy and soft.
Oh, indeed. Both hash and weed are cheap here, but I kind of grew to dislike marihuana, it is often just too potent. Haven't you hear old cunts complaining about weed not being the same drug anymore? Well, they (us) are right. Lots of weed strains have become a powerful allucinogen (sp?), not the soft treat that it used to be and that hash still is.
Regarding weed I often feel as If I were to walk into a pub for a beer and being told "no, we just sell vodka nowadays"
Apart of that, forestal is my background and it drives me mad to think how many mileranarian, low thc, local strains do we have to lost so the kids can get higher and higher and the industries richer and richer.
Years ago mexican, thai, angola, malawi, colombian.. strains were all so natural and so different...
There is a place for developing accurate pharma varieties to help better some conditions, but replacing a naturally occurring being with a ultra-active shit is a sin in my opinion
We are talking about biodiversity after all, man.