In the late 70s I threw away a nickle bag because my wife freaked out when we first tried it. Don't know what it was, but a couple of tokes each was all we needed to persuade us to flush the rest of the bag. We still sometimes talk about it.
Seasoned smokers, when you think back to the stains of the 70's and 80's
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ChickenSoup
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I'll keep it short or I will get carried away thinking about the old days but the major difference between then and now is that most of what went around was outdoor tropical Sativa strains compared to the mostly indoor Indica's we all are used to now. That really is the major difference is the qualities that the sunshine & non multi-hybrid outdoor strains grown in their natural settings & environment bring to the table and also being grown by the same farmers for many generations even if it was not properly cured and had to ride in the trunk of a car to eventually get to us. 
Just saying. 
Just saying. 
i had the opportunity to buy Colombian Gold a few times in the 70's. Smoked some Panama Red with friends once. the rest was unknown Mexican Sativa, not dirt weed, decent mexican, albeit over dried and full of seeds/stems.
in the 80's i ran into Thai Stick for the first time.
it was definitely different back in the day.
9/11 really started America growing and indica's work best indoors...
hell i ain't complaining. i like it all
in the 80's i ran into Thai Stick for the first time.
it was definitely different back in the day.
9/11 really started America growing and indica's work best indoors...
hell i ain't complaining. i like it all
stagehand099
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In the south, early 70's, we got "lids' OF Mexi bricked dirt for 15-20...headache weed. In the mid to late 70's, it was all about "Cibo", Columbian gold/red that was an order of magnitude better than Mexi, for 35-40 a Z. In the early 80's, I rode my bike out to Big Sur and smoked the first domestic weed I'd ever had that actually got you kinda tripped out. I rode home with a 500.00 elbow and was the toast of my town for as long as it lasted. No one could believe how potent the "Holy Weed" was. I'm proud to say that was the turning point in my life where I forever refused to buy anything of a dirt nature ever again.
The hash in the 70's was mostly outstanding, also but pretty damned rare in my little town. A friend in the army brought me 5, 100 gram plates of Red Leb from Germany around 79. I paid one dollar per gram. Man that shit was good.....
stagehand
The hash in the 70's was mostly outstanding, also but pretty damned rare in my little town. A friend in the army brought me 5, 100 gram plates of Red Leb from Germany around 79. I paid one dollar per gram. Man that shit was good.....
stagehand
Late 70s
Late 70s
I planted a couple of seeds and the plants grew well. At the time I had no idea about strains and male/female plants or anything else about growing. I used to pick a leaf off of the plant and set the leaf on a light bulb to dry it. It only took a couple of leaves to do the trick. The plants never flowered because my wife made me throw them out. No idea about the plants, but my wife was a keeper.
Late 70s
I planted a couple of seeds and the plants grew well. At the time I had no idea about strains and male/female plants or anything else about growing. I used to pick a leaf off of the plant and set the leaf on a light bulb to dry it. It only took a couple of leaves to do the trick. The plants never flowered because my wife made me throw them out. No idea about the plants, but my wife was a keeper.
When I first fired up in 1972 I had no idea what it was. Always Mexican, usually pretty seedy with lumber thrown in. But it always seemed good. It was always 15$ an ounce. You could buy nickels and dimes. A nickel was one fat finger width in a sandwich baggie, a dime two, an ounce three. The first time I heard of high priced gourmet was probably 74, it was just "redbud". They said Columbian, but who knew. It had fewer or almost no seeds. It was explosive. You could not hold a hit in without coughing even if you put money on your ability to do so. Once that 15 dollar an ounce barrier had been toppled a slew of boutique shit started to hit. So called "Gold", Thai Stick, Vietnamese Black. It was such a huge step up the potency ladder that there was talk of shit being spiked with PCP, or Opium. In 1981 on my way to homestead off the grid in Maine we stopped in Rhode Island to visit and the man of the manor gave me some seeds of his that were a couple generations localized straight from Afghanistan by someone who worked in the Peace Corps or some shit. I had never seen anything like it. Squat round, deep green, In the Fall they were covered in frost and deeply colored. It was the first time I saw purple plants. We called it skullfuck. The locals in Maine would be stupified when we turned them on. A couple years later the local cop came through and took everyone's plants down and I lost the genetics. That might have been the Big One. Anyone around Newport RI come across any crazy good Afghani in the early eighties??
We were getting compressed kilos of mexican for around $300. The supplier wrapped the 2.2's in different colors of construction paper as a way to keep track of the grades. Light blue for average, orange was above-average and red or purple for high grade.
Had $25 opiated Golden Triangle thai sticks for a year or two after the Vietnam war ended. Got bopped for slanging 2... the complaint read "Tied Sticks" lol. Little did they know...
Had $25 opiated Golden Triangle thai sticks for a year or two after the Vietnam war ended. Got bopped for slanging 2... the complaint read "Tied Sticks" lol. Little did they know...
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all we had in my area was panama red, some columbian or mexican and hash with a gold stamp. i liked the red and the hash most
Man some of the comments in this thread really bring back memories.
I remember some of the rag weed we got back then. For the most part nothing then compared to what is available now. Most people grew bagseed of unknown origin and most of them plucked and smoked the leaves.
But once in awhile some real smoke entered the picture and we got all kinds of fucked up. LOL
Acapulco Gold, Kona Gold, Panama Red, and Thia Stick stand out in my memory as some of the better weed around back then.
But weed wasn't nearly as potent then as it is now. Most of the better weed we got, came from bricks, but they compressed everything, stems, leaves and all into the bricks.
I remember some of the rag weed we got back then. For the most part nothing then compared to what is available now. Most people grew bagseed of unknown origin and most of them plucked and smoked the leaves.
But once in awhile some real smoke entered the picture and we got all kinds of fucked up. LOL
Acapulco Gold, Kona Gold, Panama Red, and Thia Stick stand out in my memory as some of the better weed around back then.
But weed wasn't nearly as potent then as it is now. Most of the better weed we got, came from bricks, but they compressed everything, stems, leaves and all into the bricks.
i've seen a few posts on the CG of the mid 70's
what i remember is there was a '1st' batch of this gold, was around for less than a year
at the time, the appearance was incredible, gold it was with a vengeance
not too pricey, weighed in around 35$ for a zip, but that was the most i'd paid for weed then
potency was strong, but the quality of the high was extremely good
if i had some of that old time gold, i could sell it today no problem, and for a lot more than 35$ a zip
what i remember is there was a '1st' batch of this gold, was around for less than a year
at the time, the appearance was incredible, gold it was with a vengeance
not too pricey, weighed in around 35$ for a zip, but that was the most i'd paid for weed then
potency was strong, but the quality of the high was extremely good
if i had some of that old time gold, i could sell it today no problem, and for a lot more than 35$ a zip
Skunk #1. early 80s. Sam is a legend in my mind and many others. It's funny how he started as a Jr. grower in the 60s and look what he ended up doing for US. Much respect for him as we all know what skunk #1 did for our little hobby.To Sam for all he did for us . Idiot out
Bahhhh I'm sorry, I accidentally hit the 'No' button instead of the 'Yes' button :-/
That first wave of CG was santa marta gold, and ti was memorable, both for taste and the quality of the high. First time I paid 435 a pound, and I was grumbling about it, sold it in an hour. Planted and grew many of the seeds.
Thai stick was the best, they were tiny bud structure, psyhcedelic, spiritual.
African black was a class all alone, heavy, thick, in taste and stone, real one toke shit.
Michoacon, howeve you spell it was absolute laugh weed, amazing. Really falling down in public uncontrollable laughing.
Hawaiian that defines both kush and indica in my earlier mind. Rival in smell to RKS.
And Lebanese hash, the blonde was fine, bought my first house with that stuff, hehe. But the red leb was the heaviest hash I have ever had hands down.
We ain't far behind.
H
Thai stick was the best, they were tiny bud structure, psyhcedelic, spiritual.
African black was a class all alone, heavy, thick, in taste and stone, real one toke shit.
Michoacon, howeve you spell it was absolute laugh weed, amazing. Really falling down in public uncontrollable laughing.
Hawaiian that defines both kush and indica in my earlier mind. Rival in smell to RKS.
And Lebanese hash, the blonde was fine, bought my first house with that stuff, hehe. But the red leb was the heaviest hash I have ever had hands down.
We ain't far behind.
H
i had heard of the santa marta gold, but never made the connection
damn good info there
Herb was a pain in the ass to get. Some one always had to call some one, who called some one else, etc. etc.
By the time you got your herb, sometimes you were lucky to get 2/3 of what you paid for!!!
and there was always a beeper involved also, so who knew what would happen
I was in college then and we had to toke to relax. I remember Alcapoco gold, Columbian, Maui Wowie, Thai Sticks and a lot of unnamed Mexican Sativa. The music was good then as everyone had a big sterio and got high and listened to music. I don't like today's Indica much as it seems a bit couchlock for me.
Manijahtor
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the hawaii x mawi waui from sativa seedsbank (or the nirvana copy) is one of my favourites old school strains mmm tastes like lemmon
I probably first lit up in 75.
I remember there being 2 main bag weeds around: leafy seedy stemmy Mexican and different kinds of good Columbian.
I don't remember any Mexican around after 1978 but I do remember getting bags of Jamaican in this time frame. The bags smelled different than either the Mexican or the Columbian. The Jamaican buds were long and thin. The stems were also long and very thin.
The high in order of potency was 3rdMexican, 2ndJamaican, *Almost1stColumbian.
*Thai Stick:
I had it 3-4 times. I got lucky once and found it when I had some cash in pocket and bought a bundle. Never had anything better.
