Iv heard that the quality of the hash was much much better in the past and have read about strains like paki black, turkish, afgahani. I was just wondering for those that were around smoking it back then what was the high like ?. And did you notice much tolerance build up using it daily. cheers.
UK HASH IN THE 70s AND 80s
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clive,,from 1978 onwards i remember most,firstly "nepalese temple balls",a extremly hard hitting,very trippy hash,,nailed me to the back of a ford granada outside wembley arena preventing me watching genesis in concert lol [still havent worked out if that was good or bad thing
],,also had "lebanese zero-zero",,another hard hitting and very dreamy solid,,both of these seemed to have no ceiling,,always half a spliff in the ashtray, also "red leb" which was very soft and pliable but not at all potent and finally "red-seal black" which had little white bits in it,,some say it was opiated but i dont know if that was true or false!bloody strong though and again a real hard hitter,,no hash apart from some bubble hash are the only thing that comes anywhere near the hash we had in the 70s [imho] for potency,effect and taste,,hope that helps a bit clive,,peace and regards 944s2
clive,,from 1978 onwards i remember most,firstly "nepalese temple balls",a extremly hard hitting,very trippy hash,,nailed me to the back of a ford granada outside wembley arena preventing me watching genesis in concert lol [still havent worked out if that was good or bad thing
944 thanks for your time loved hearing that, you lot must have had some good drugs if you were listening to genesis lol
when did you notice things going down hill on the hash front in the uk may i ask ? and how would you compare todays weed with yesterdays hash ?.with things like the volcano to add extra potency to your weed would you still say that those selection of hashes you had back then were better than the weed strains like skunk we get today. Many thanks.
moppel,,i remember soapbar turning up in the early 90s and i never experienced it until then,,not denying it was about pre-90s but not in the scale it later became, for me anyway,s2
cheers clive,,glad you found it useful,,i noticed hash went downhill in the early 90s that was my experience and even the many types of hash now available,cant touch the ones from the 70s apart from manali cream maybe or some "grateful dead" hash i had a few years ago but thats just my feelings,,i cant really compare the hash of many years ago with todays cannabis strains but one thing i know for sure is nothing comes near to jamaican "lambsbread",,nothing then and nothing now almost 34 years later[imho],,in 1979,lambsbread was £25 or maybe more for a q,,,peace and regards s2944 thanks for your time loved hearing that, you lot must have had some good drugs if you were listening to genesis lol
with things like the volcano to add extra potency to your weed would you still say that those selection of hashes you had back then were better than the weed strains like skunk we get today. Many thanks.
thanks for that 944 the biggest problem i notice these days is the tolerance factor on most strains. Allot of the smokers from the 60s 70s 80s and early 90s say they never had a problem with that until skunk came along. I want to take a break from weed and then go to amsterdam and just smoke hash to see if thats true and see how long it takes to build a tolerance. At the minute it feels like weeds a rip of.
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jaded1
The soap-bars that were about in the eighties were always of good/v.good quality,wasn't 'til the mid nineties that they became the shit we know today.
Still occasionally see good moroc about but never any affy,pak,ind,nep like was about in the eighties.
Still occasionally see good moroc about but never any affy,pak,ind,nep like was about in the eighties.
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GreenPlant
I was about 14 in 1985 (14th year) and Returned Home from School one Day to Realised my Brother (20 mths older) had Aquired this Brown Substance from the "devious" lol Nxt door neighbour.5 Pounds Worth [£Gbp] 
I went WHITE even Thinking about what it was when I saw it!
Sure the Efx were the Same as Today.. Well, 14! Wasnt I.Lol
Sure I thought Dopey
Was happy with my B&H back then
Made ya Joyfully dizzy.
(At times)
I went WHITE even Thinking about what it was when I saw it!
Sure the Efx were the Same as Today.. Well, 14! Wasnt I.Lol
Sure I thought Dopey
Was happy with my B&H back then
Made ya Joyfully dizzy.
(At times
)
Yes, like you and others say, there really was some half decent soap bar around back in the day. Clean and clearly stronger than Slate or any Leb. But the scene changed from being nice hippies stacking VW vans up in Morocco to the big gangland operators who literally gave up armed robberies to become Hash smugglers. They did not care about the quality, dodgy adventures gave us Diesel or Seawater soaked hash, dodgy dealers sold bars full of Henna and it all went to shit.
I watched some friends build up from nothing to importing 500's, it all went really well, till one day Charlie Big Taters decided to buy 800 not 500, for the same money.. it was shit and the gang fell apart over the next 2 years as they struggled to move the shit anywhere, anyhow. Dealing with anybody they could find they even got set up and lost a bag of 40kg in a pub with a faked Police raid.
Likewise with the Black, London had less and less, but you always found it in the Midlands, but the quality kept on going down, greedy suppliers at source reducing the quality, plus few people in the UK would ever pay for the higher qualities, so it was just the odd dribs and drabs from Hippies/Travellers.
Now there is Black Maroc, an English guy took over a sackful of Pakistani Indica genetics to Morocco 15 years ago and did actually manage to "pollute the landrace" slightly.. with something most say is superior. There is enough coming out of there for it to get noticed in the market and it was good money... but.... Shit is getting mixed in there too now. Just a few weeks ago I was shown some that had Henna mixed in, ruined...
FWIW, it was never stronger than what we have now, that is rose tinted spectacles and teenage low tolerances, the best hand rubbed Manalis etc are still great, but better hashmaking techniques [ICE and "cleaned" heads] and better genetics are making the strongest hash ever made, today not yesteryear.
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GreenPlant
Strongest Hash I ever Had was the Soft putty Type Hash Known as Squidgy Black around me (then)
Of recent timez WaterHash for Sure
Of recent timez WaterHash for Sure
i started in the late 80's and yeah the soapbar was good back then. there was some good black hash/red seal too with gold stamps on the 2 kilo slabs 'camel challenge' was one i remember. soap type hash pressed into slates the we called 'passport'.
i liked the red leb that came in the cloth sacks
VG
i liked the red leb that came in the cloth sacks
VG
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Dipper
This thread's bringing back some memories. I look back fondly on the slate, rocky, red and gold seal we used to get in the 80's. Always nice and clean in proper penny eighths! Nice weed was much harder to find back then.
I can also remember driving serious distances to score temple ball, double zero and sputnik which were always well worth the extra hassle and paranoia lol.
I can also remember driving serious distances to score temple ball, double zero and sputnik which were always well worth the extra hassle and paranoia lol.
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GreenPlant
Ty (memories)
Stronger today?
Stronger today?
I started smoking around 85 to 86 and I remember the red and gold seal's were very nice and the squidgy too, we used to call it blow, lol.
I also remember a very nice hash which came with a golden stamp of a camel on the bars, early 90s and the Rocky was nice until it turned 'snide', bits of plastic and fuel smells, black smoke pouring from the end of a joint, yuk.
Smoked my first Skunk around 90 to 91 and it rocked me more than anything I had before, so for me I would say no, weed today is stronger but I know old heads who say the afghan and nep hashes from the 70s were amazing.
I have not brought anything from the street since say 94/95 as I grow my own and make my hash which is not bubble or full melt or whatever they call it, just dry sieved but it matches or even surpasses anything I got in the 80s.
Stronger today?
I started smoking around 85 to 86 and I remember the red and gold seal's were very nice and the squidgy too, we used to call it blow, lol.
I also remember a very nice hash which came with a golden stamp of a camel on the bars, early 90s and the Rocky was nice until it turned 'snide', bits of plastic and fuel smells, black smoke pouring from the end of a joint, yuk.
Smoked my first Skunk around 90 to 91 and it rocked me more than anything I had before, so for me I would say no, weed today is stronger but I know old heads who say the afghan and nep hashes from the 70s were amazing.
I have not brought anything from the street since say 94/95 as I grow my own and make my hash which is not bubble or full melt or whatever they call it, just dry sieved but it matches or even surpasses anything I got in the 80s.
Nice Soap bar seems like an oxymoron, maybe I'm to young to remember the 80's weed scene but soap bar to me has always been hash bulked out with adulterants.
Not that I've not baked brownies with it plenty though :-S
I feel Goldie Lookin' Chain described (at least current) Soapbar pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKceQT0Scg4
"Most soap bar comes from fuckin' Holland, they make it out of oil and tires and pollen..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKceQT0Scg4
Not that I've not baked brownies with it plenty though :-S
I feel Goldie Lookin' Chain described (at least current) Soapbar pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKceQT0Scg4
"Most soap bar comes from fuckin' Holland, they make it out of oil and tires and pollen..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKceQT0Scg4
They also describe a lot of other things very well. Always cracks me up listening to GLC. Good call!
