Charlottesville

Law Enforcement

At UVA, Campus Police covered the Grounds. Off Grounds, Charlottesville and Albemarle County officers had a reputation for responding to loud parties and people stumbling home. One officer might laugh at a smoky parked car and walk on. Another might order everyone out, hands up, and look for charges. Quiet residential woods and trails around town, including spots nicknamed the Stumps and the Playhouse, got less attention. Wealthier neighbourhoods sometimes saw regular patrols. The local advice was to stay polite, say “sir,” and decline consent if asked for a search. Virginia has since changed adult-possession rules, as covered in Marijuana Laws.

Where to Buy Marijuana

Charlottesville could go dry despite the college crowd. Most of the time it was mids, ranging from seedy and stemmy to nearly seedless and close to KB. There was plenty of schwag too. At UVA more people seemed to drink than smoke, but a Bob Marley shirt, dreadlocks or 311 playing could mark out the crowd who knew the scene.

Downtown, Mudhouse on the mall was one place to talk, and the free water was good for cottonmouth. Local connections through restaurants and fast-food jobs often had steadier supply and better prices than a student bringing weed down from Northern Virginia. Garrett also came up for cheaper flower, with strong warnings about approaching it without a contact.

Marijuana Prices

• Schwag or regs: US$15–25 for an eighth in one account. Ounces were separately quoted at around US$50–55 or under US$100.
• Low mids or mersh: about US$15 for an eighth, US$35 for a quarter and up to US$120 for an ounce in one price list.
• Mids: US$30–50 for an eighth or US$200–300 for an ounce in one account. Other quotes were US$15–25 an eighth, US$50 a quarter and US$150–160 an ounce.
• High mids: around US$20–25 for an eighth or US$180 for an ounce. Decent beasters were sometimes US$25 for an eighth through a contact.
• Local seedless mids or dank: US$35–50 for an eighth. US$50 could mean good skunk or wet beasters. Haze or hydro was also quoted at US$50–100 an eighth, and dank ounces at US$300–500.
• Headies such as Sour Diesel, Purple Kush or White Widow: US$20 per gram in one account or US$65 for an eighth in another.

Types of Marijuana

Most Charlottesville weed came without a name. Trainwreck, AK-47 and Blueberry turned up now and then. Some high mids were lightly bricked Mexican flower with seeds, while others were seedless warehouse indica stripped of some kief. The Mexican batch was favoured for its lively sativa high after a couple of bowls. The warehouse stuff felt sleepier. Local sinsemilla had visible trichomes and a distinctive taste but could wear off quickly. A strong batch of headies could do it in five hits and felt almost hallucinatory in one instance.

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Students were generally live-and-let-live about weed, although being obvious at a party could get somebody kicked out or bring police. Buyers at UVA also got quoted high prices because they were assumed to have money. A reliable townie tended to have steadier supply and better prices, although bulk discounts were uncommon in one account. Walking into Garrett from the downtown mall without an introduction was a common setup for getting ripped off.