Ok so because my previous commented was downvoted in oblivion with no real retort, I'll make a clearer case. About 150'000 Germans and French visited NZ in the last year. I don't know about you guys, but I've met and hung out with plenty of this crowd - they pretty much all smoke weed, and for a lot of them, it was a minor or major factor in choosing to visit NZ. I have several dealers, all of them are pretty consistent with their bud, in terms of stock and quality.. they have personally told me that they sell a lot of weed to tourists, and they make up the majority of their sales - they then elaborate that kiwi's are pretty much never happy with a fifty unless its minimum 2.5, preferably 3g or more, whereas the tourists will happily keep coming back to buy 2g fiftys. Because they travel in groups, they often by 5+ bags at a time. It's a no brainer for the businessman that is a weed dealer - they can sell more, faster, for a bigger profit, when they sell to tourists.

Summer is the most popular time for tourism in this country, given that the majority of that 150k would be in the summer, thats an extra(conservative 1 in 3) 50k stoners in the country - a shit load more weed gets smoked.

If what people said about outdoor season being a major factor was true, then the dry season would not end in feb like it usually does - harvest season is after winter, not after summer. As well as that, I personally have smoked on and off for 10 years, and at least 90% of the weed in that time has been indoor. It has always been a rare occasion to get outdoor weed, at least here in Auckland.

I'm not really implying in my previous post 'fuck tourists', its good for the economy, but it is a major factor in the weed shortage we experience every summer.