leafy_ferret
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WTF is a lid... regarding weight/measurement
Question Reguarding cheech and chong referance
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A lid was a common slang name for an ounce. Back in the day, most sellers did not use scales, so the main way of describing the size was a 3 or 4 finger lid; meaning the sandwich bag was that full when you put your fingers up to the quantity in the baggie. Ahhhh...the good ole days. lol
BLUNToPOTomuss
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it was also in reference to the old big folgers coffee can style lids. You filled the "lid" and that was usually around an OZ.
leafy_ferret
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Lucky, i'd die if i ever actualy had that much at once, especialy for 10 bucks. Man... with what you spend now for a quarter you could have like 6 or 10 ounces.
princess cronic
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never heard of the can lid but the finger weight was how we did it. A lid was when all you could close was the flap(lid) otherwise it was a 2 finger,3 finger,ect. Usually 4 finger was an oz. of course it wasn't $15-20.00 a gram back then either. And the cops smoked with us at several concerts and life was much more simple.
princess cronic
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I got one-Anyone remember the BIG BAMBU album? Did you fill it up and roll that baby?
leafy_ferret
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hehehe rambaling old folks about tangets and concerts ..... I'ts ok, when im 40 ill have amusing anicdots about the internet...... Wooohooooooooooo 
hopefuly when my tomatoes are done growing ill have enough for my own lids
and tiny lids... Big lids... What if there was a descrepency in the lid size? Was it always a folgers can? And how do you know they didn't fuck you by using a smaller sandwich baggy like a snack baggie... I know you can tell the diff but you know what i mean i hope...
hopefuly when my tomatoes are done growing ill have enough for my own lids
and tiny lids... Big lids... What if there was a descrepency in the lid size? Was it always a folgers can? And how do you know they didn't fuck you by using a smaller sandwich baggy like a snack baggie... I know you can tell the diff but you know what i mean i hope...
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Fred el Gato
leafy, back then you didn't have all the choices you have now. just one big ass can of coffee and a baggie that fit your wonder bread. no caffe latte singles and little baggies for your cheez nips
Lid was half oz
I learned of lids from my parents when they first knew I smoked (I was 13) and trust me you would be very much alive with that much. You seem to be a little confused about potency, have you ever smoked an ounce of schwag (mexi-brickweed) and felt that you were going to die? Didn't think so...
Also, I don't rember the last time I payed $60-$100 an 1/8th for schwag.
Most weed floating around 20-30 years ago wasn't anything special, 'bout equvilent to today's brickweed.
heck,you can still get an ounce "lid" for 40$ here,so only a 400% increase since back in the day,i remember gas being 25 cents for reference
leafy_ferret
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I learned of lids from my parents when they first knew I smoked (I was 13) and trust me you would be very much alive with that much. You seem to be a little confused about potency, have you ever smoked an ounce of schwag (mexi-brickweed) and felt that you were going to die? Didn't think so...
Also, I don't rember the last time I payed $60-$100 an 1/8th for schwag.
Most weed floating around 20-30 years ago wasn't anything special, 'bout equvilent to today's brickweed.
Not an 8th quarter, and not of schwag the 100$ stuff is a quarter of the good stuff. mids are 60 for a quarter
My dad explained to me like this "pile weed on a folgers lid until it falls off, thats your lid"
Marshmello
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In my neck o' the woods, it referenced a Zip.
I know that 'the good stuff' goes for that much, what I was trying to say was that 'lids' didn't consist of 'the good stuff'.
Also, the 1/8th thing was a typo of sorts, I was really high when I wrote that. I had just bought a "lid".
in these parts, a lid was slightly less than an ounce (carrying fee), & a nickle was a match box full of de-seeded mexican. oh, & gas was to be had on the interstate going to florida for between 17 & 19 cents a gallon too. ah, for the good ol' days...
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Four2Zero
4 finger lid 10 bucks
That question and, even more so, my knowing the answer, makes me feel REALLY OLD. It seems like only yesterday I was running around town with my high-school buddies trying to "cop a lid."
We are not "REALLY OLD"! For us, it's called "experienced". LOL
