Why is weed measured in grams & then ounces???
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Herbal extasy
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From cold nordic country in Europe. 1 gram is the basic measurement. 1 gram costs from 10 to 20 euros, depends on city and who you are buying from. MJ is usually sold in 5 gram or 10 gram bags. 100 gram is used when someone is buying in bigger amounts.
Hectogram slangword is "heikki" here.
I think I can shed some light on this...the two main reasons are readability/error and convenience.
Readability & Error:
Digital scales are the current standard no matter where you are living. While many scales can display readings in various units (g, oz, dwt, ozt, etc.) all readings will be in decimals, not fractions. Can you imagine trying to weigh out a quarter oz. with a display that only goes between 7/32, 1/4 and 9/32 when you are close?
7/32 = 6.2g while 9/32 = 8.0g.
The error would be huge! 7.0g quarters would be the least of your worriestiphat: @ Mezz Mezzrow)! (Hands up who'd buy a scale with 64ths??)
Fractions are more abstract than the decimal system and generally harder to work with (unless you are a carpenter, for instance).
Convenience:
Even countries that adopt the metric system seldom use the units inbetween grams and kilograms (i.e. decagrams & hectograms) hence the need for some unit inbetween 1g and 1000g. Enter fractions and the imperial system...two eighths make a quarter, two quarters make a half. Without this system your dealer might need to run around with 1g, 5g, 10g, 20g, 50g and 100g bags...like dollar bills! Rather a pain in the ass to split up, don't you think? (Edit: although it seems to work well in cold nordic countries in Europe)
Great question Penguin59.
(Did that make sense?? I'm not even baked yet)
Readability & Error:
Digital scales are the current standard no matter where you are living. While many scales can display readings in various units (g, oz, dwt, ozt, etc.) all readings will be in decimals, not fractions. Can you imagine trying to weigh out a quarter oz. with a display that only goes between 7/32, 1/4 and 9/32 when you are close?
7/32 = 6.2g while 9/32 = 8.0g.
The error would be huge! 7.0g quarters would be the least of your worries
tiphat: @ Mezz Mezzrow)! (Hands up who'd buy a scale with 64ths??)Fractions are more abstract than the decimal system and generally harder to work with (unless you are a carpenter, for instance).
Convenience:
Even countries that adopt the metric system seldom use the units inbetween grams and kilograms (i.e. decagrams & hectograms) hence the need for some unit inbetween 1g and 1000g. Enter fractions and the imperial system...two eighths make a quarter, two quarters make a half. Without this system your dealer might need to run around with 1g, 5g, 10g, 20g, 50g and 100g bags...like dollar bills! Rather a pain in the ass to split up, don't you think? (Edit: although it seems to work well in cold nordic countries in Europe)
Great question Penguin59.
(Did that make sense?? I'm not even baked yet)
why do you need units between 1 and 1000g?
around here you go to your pusher and just say how much you want.
1g
10g
100g
500g
one kilo
etc etc
street level pushers dont sell via the gram anyway, they just have 10 euro bags or whatever.
for 10 euro yuo get one bag. for 20 you get two, for 50 you might get 5 + some discount. and for anything more than that you wouldnt go to a street-level dealer anyways.
1 pound = 0,45 kg
1 ounce = 28,35 gram
around here you go to your pusher and just say how much you want.
1g
10g
100g
500g
one kilo
etc etc
street level pushers dont sell via the gram anyway, they just have 10 euro bags or whatever.
for 10 euro yuo get one bag. for 20 you get two, for 50 you might get 5 + some discount. and for anything more than that you wouldnt go to a street-level dealer anyways.
1 pound = 0,45 kg
1 ounce = 28,35 gram
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Rysam
I use a gram based triple beam (i'm old school), I used to have to get out the calculator to figure out my weights. eventually(a few years) in stoner time, I wrote them down .
that t-shirt on the last page couldn't be any more accurate.
that t-shirt on the last page couldn't be any more accurate.
lol try cutting 5g, 10g, 20g from an ounce by sight. whereas cutting an oz into half, cutting the half ounce into half, and the Q into half is easily done by sight. Cutting a 9 bar into 3 and each of those into 3 is fairly easy to give you the ozs. but to cut 250g into 2 100g pieces and 1 50 g piece by sight would be very hard to get even nearly close.
in the UK a penny weighs an eighth, a 2p weighs a quarter - so on the old fashioned balance scales those are the weights that are most convienient to weigh out. Uk is still ounces and eighths/quarters for pot, but pretty much everything else is metric.
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purplesupremacy
'Cuz...
- a kilo is a thousand grams, it's easy to remember...
- all around the world today, the kilo is the measure...
DankasaurusRex
Member
hmmm, now i'm wondering why the american nickel weighs 5 grams......
I had a girl who loved the four finger but she hated the fist !!
memphis man
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omfg lmao
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Rysam
You sir just made my night....Thank You!
Did you get a discount for giving her the 4 fingers? Do you have a thumb?
We measure in grams because us herb buying rednecks got too broke to buy the whole ounce.
My girlfriend gets great pot and she a) doesnt know a kind farmer b) is not independantly wealthy and c) doesnt farm
We measure in grams because us herb buying rednecks got too broke to buy the whole ounce.
My girlfriend gets great pot and she a) doesnt know a kind farmer b) is not independantly wealthy and c) doesnt farm
it was not allways wieghted when i was young it was sold in lids and tins a lid was a baggie stuffed to the top for 10 dollars or a prince albert can filled with cleaned ready to roll weed for the same price 10 dollars if you were lucky enough to find some allready cleaned it was super cool becuase sensi was rare in the old days of weed once it started to get everyday wares it dropped to ounces as keys became bricks and weight got to be a issue with 1 3/4 pound bricks no more 2.2 keys then it was bales and pounds and it has stayed as ounces and pounds ever since kilos stopped being kilos
straintester
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Why do you dudes always gotta turn it into something rude
Oh right
I remember
Boyz will be boyzzzz
when an old dealer by me started using the new 5p (back in the 90's so it was still "new") he called them "metric eighths".. I used to piss meself... good on ya Graham, where ever you are
dankydoodle
Member
I remember getting $10.00 lids. Basic 4 finger bag, mostly shake. They were about an ounce. Weed was pretty good considering the time (70's). How things have changed.
cannaboy
Member
I don't get how that now the uk gets most herb insorced that the price is higher and the quality shitter!! you cant buy good weed in the uk!! It went shit when the suposed terror started.. You could get more oz's than you needed for like £120 being pricey for 2 now you can't get it!! The denominations of working from a kg down to bars is you get 4 x 250but the street guy thinks he's getting 252.
So the answer is weed is measured in grammes of ounces!!!!
Why is sugar mesured at 25g's a oz and contraban at 28g's and gold at 31g's???
If your a smugler then its down to the exchange rate and logistics and your barterability!
So the answer is weed is measured in grammes of ounces!!!!
Why is sugar mesured at 25g's a oz and contraban at 28g's and gold at 31g's???
If your a smugler then its down to the exchange rate and logistics and your barterability!
