what's a lid? and why do call it a lid?

[Stress_test]

Ain't there ANY old timers left?

Back in the day most people who smoked weed carried a Prince Albert can with their makin's in it.
A lid would cost around $15 and was the general amount that could be piled onto the lid of the can.

A "Can" was approximately an OZ.
We had a Nickle bag ($5), a Dime bag ($10)
A Lid approx. 1/8 oz ($15)
and a "Can" or "Bag" which was of course an OZ.

 

[kmk420kali]

Yes Stress...that is how it was in So Cal in the 70's too-- Only a lid was determined by fingers, and a can was (s'pose to be!!) an Oz--

 

[Classy@Home]

We had "nicks" and "dimes" also - $5 and $10 bags

Prob approx 1/8th and 1/4s.

Forgot about those...

Rarely that shit dirt brick, usually semi compressed leafy and seedy - you'd get a film canister worth of seeds outta an oz.

The lumber in those bags reminded me of dried shroom stems...

 

[Buddle]

I'm having a hard time remembering.My first recollection is it was between a half and whole oz..like 3/4 or 3 fingers for 30.00. this would be the late seventies..Earlier on we called them nickles and dimes.One or two fingers in a sandwich bag..Columbian and later Columbian Gold and Panama Red that went for 45-50 an oz.

 

[FreezerBoy]

It may not have been a full oz but, it was never 1/8.

4 fingers for a dime. $15? That's when we started growing our own. No one will ever pay $15 (koff-koff)

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

About a year or two before Colombian was available in my parts, Mexican sold for ~$90/lb. Typical ounce was $12.50 to $15.

Colombian rolled in at $300 to $350/lb in most cases. Ounces were typically $30 and a few moral objectors sold it for $25.

Weed was finally decriminalized in '83. I saw one of the first decriminalized fines for less than an ounce and it was on the same form as a traffic ticket. The fine was $67.50. So the ounce (well almost... 27.5 grams) and the fine that went along with it were less than a C note. Those were the days.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

"Prince Albert in a can" used to be slang for pot. I was just looking at a collection of rusty old pipe tobacco cans dating from the early fifties. The oval lids are about a quarter inch deep, and close like an Altoids tin. Would make a great little scoop to hold an eighth.

 

[Hammerhead]

we called it lid for a zip we used are fingers to measure 3 or 4 finger. It was always more then Zip in our area. We paid 25$

 

[Stoner4Life]

btw, anyone wanting to go old school can buy these cans on eBay.......

 

[NOTB]

so it's a way for you guys to get over on each other?? up here we provide straight weight and always have...so we sometimes have eye ball eighth's .......but it's always kill as hell.

 

[Big Eggy]

Lol ^^

brought an "8th" in Brixton (London) form some Yardys when i was desperate.. The dude just broke a big bud off and stuffed it into my hand.

 

[NOTB]

don't you guy's do it by 10.00 A g US?......i dont know about your metric system..sorry

 

[Big Eggy]

don't you guy's do it by 10.00 A g US?......i dont know about your metric system..sorry

Think they still use Imperial weights. 1g = 15.43 Grains lol

 

[HighDesertJoe]

Think they still use Imperial weights. 1g = 15.43 Grains lol

So if I was breaking up a Stone's worth of Weed would I be breaking them into Pebbles?

 

[Big Eggy]

Maybe Coz weed is so expensive these day it should be mesured in Carat's?

 

[mrcreosote]

Nobody really weighed shit back in the day.
3 fingers with stems meant you were getting screwed.
4 fingers was a decent lid.

The old jazz cat I worked with in '71 called em lids too and he goes back to the 40's.

Probably would have to ask Jelly Roll Morton why they called an oz. a lid.
Like a throwaway stickup gun was called a gat.

I've heard that it was a Saltine cracker tin lid full would get you about an oz. but when was the last time you saw a cracker tin?

 

[NOTB]

Dude man 4 finger 1/8s?.....only once i seen that shit for real 15-20 yrs. ago MTF=matanuska thunderfuck ....sadly i think that strain died out.

 

[kmk420kali]

So if I was breaking up a Stone's worth of Weed would I be breaking them into Pebbles?

Then you'd get busted for selling ROCK!!!

 

[mrcreosote]

NOTB

No, a 4 finger oz. A $5 nickle bag would be around an 1/8 or so from a $20 East Coast Woodstock era Mex brick 'lid'. A few buds, a lot of shake leaf and stem.
Sometimes you could get lucky and get some really trippy sativas but it usually ran higher if it was that much better. Reds and golds were worth it.

High risk, small volume pricing.