Oh yeah the borders are much softer there and the interactions politically far more complex.

We just share a large landborder with Russia and that's pretty much empty all around it. We've even designed roads to only run parallel to the border around there, so if Russia were to invade, there's no roads leading directly inwards towards the country.

That's where any legitimate organised crime threat in Finland would've come. But since we're also very small and Russian government acts very much like the Russian mafia, lol, our equivalent of the FBI, KRP, very much keeps on it's toes.

California has a 40mil population, Finland like 5.5. In California, there's a 40% population of Hispanics and Latinos. From our 5.5 there's less than 1.7% who even speak Russian.

I'm just saying that even putting all the drug trade aside, trade of every sort, cultural exchange and just exchange of people and migration and ideas in general, is, I daresay, more common there.

Because while we have small borders with northern Sweden and Norway as well, there's not much industrial scale drug growing going on up there by cartels. :D

Now with the added sanctions towards Russia in the past years, it seems some hash route shut down. A bit annoying, they manage to smuggle good hash nowadays. (It was black and tough as the bottom of your shoe in the early 00's.)

Yeah back to the business, I know exactly the type of shit you're talking about, which is why I grow my own. I think industrial trimming, then drying and the buds getting tumbled a ton while absolutely bone dry is what causes quite a lot of the shit quality.

It's very different if you hand trim and slowly cure them, never letting the relative humidity drop below like 55%. The two-way RH bags I use for curing are 62% or 59%. But I haven't tried trying to dry with just those and a long long time, I usually allow them to hang dry a few days before putting them into humidity controlled boxes. I could try the full 62% cure though, but it would be better if there was also proper ventilation.

Oh yeah homegrowing indoors has been very much a really popular thing pretty globally for like 15 years since LEDs started breaking through. Before that you'd have huge HPS lamps. It's not any different, theyre just hotter and louder and less efficient etc, and you'd need to actually have an actual grow room.

Now with tiny leds people can do all sorts of sneaky micro groweries as well.

Instead of discussing this I should be trimmin and training my plants which are just going to flower. I'm too lazy

Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.

No, we don't. People idealise it a bit too much. It's different, and probably objectively better on average, but I would definitely not back up that statement. We're far more authoritarian than you'd think. I'll link a thread after I browse for it and edit and you can have a bit of a gander as to what I mean instead of us having to get into it here

The thread starting from my comment here https://lemmy.world/comment/15812994