What did a lid cost you?

[WTFisLoud]

This one is going out to the other very old members on here; what did you pay for a lid? (Back when they still existed!) I'm curious as to what other people paid, and what parts of the country had better/worse deals. Feel free to be a vague or specific (strains/how they effected you) as you'd like!

 

[Weird]

20$

 

[Chunkypigs]

in 73 when I started selling joints at school the $20 bags were 1/2's and $35 was common for regular ounces. sativa was king then and some varieties were more lumber and seed than smoke. the top imports that I saw around Ann Arbor area then were $50-$55. Panama Red, primo mex or Jamaican, etc. the only people I remember calling it a lid were Cheech and Chong. one day after school 4 of us chipped in to buy enough of a Thai stick so we could share a joint between us. those were the days. untied Thai was big around '81-2 and zips were in the $140-$160. we were just getting nice $200 zips of the bright green Cali weed. by then commercial weed was mostly garbage and everyone transitioned to coca. everything turned to shit with the coca.

 

[DJXX]

in the midwest $35 for good columbian and $40 for columbian gold or panama red...that goldbud had a taste of its own...yummmmm DJXX

 

[oldchuck]

Seems to me I remember around $25-$30 for a lid of Mexican brick weed back in 1967. That was in Ann Arbor where I went to college. Never ran across any of the good stuff but I heard about it.

 

[WTFisLoud]

Great posts everyone! I remember most guys would just eyeball it for things < 1oz! (how that's changed!). The lower-grade stuff (Mexican brick) in CT was $20-25; and as far as the higher end pot like Panama Red (which I preferred over a lot of the stuff that comes around today), around $45.

 

[EsterEssence]

In the 70's ten bucks for mex or colombo...

 

[aridbud]

$20-25,depending if "home grown" or Mexi-brick...

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Two finger Lid = $20
Four finger Lid = $35

...my buddy told me to buy Krugerrands at $39 an ounce in 1967..

...did I listen?...noooooo... I bought an ounce of something else

 

[WTFisLoud]

lol Pinball Wizard! I have one gold ounce coin I bought in the 70's, but I also preferred greener ounces!

 

[Bud Green]

Summer of '69, after school was out, we bought nickel bags of dry, brown Mexican for 5 bucks (quarter ounce) A full oz. was $20.
Sometimes I got lucky, and the dry stuff was Acapulco gold or Panama red. Some of the best weed I ever smoked, with it's soaring, electric, Sativa buzz!

By summer of '70, I worked in a Taco joint right by the beach..There was a commune in a big old house a few blocks away...
One of the hippie girls who lived there would invite me over to get high....
One guy there copped some Jamaican weed. I bought a HUGE 5 finger oz. from him for $25.. Awesome shit!

By the summer of '73 the gold and red bud Columbian started showing up..Wow. That was some good shit in the beginning!
By 1974 the price started jumping up to $35 a oz. But you could still get the shitty regular Mex for $20 a bag.

This is the way it was for me, growing up by the beach on the east coast...

 

[gekolite]

So. cal ,mid sixties $ 10 a lid which was 1 ounce , kilos $80 ,

 

[Capt.Ahab]

I remember buying 1/4 lbs. of "Rainbow" for $65.00.

 

[yesum]

SoCal early 70's it was $10 for cheap mexican or for better grade 15 or 20 bucks.

Colombian started at $35 and up for better grades, this was 1974 and the first I had heard of Colombian. I did not get to try lumbo till 78, no money for that. The term 'lid' died sometime late 70's.

I remember a guy trying to sell a 'red hair' ounce for $150 back in 77 or so. Was mostly leaves and some immature little buds. I did not diss him but knew he had grown it himself and was hoping get rich off of his crap bud.

78 or 79 I started seeing proper 'homegrown' buds like you see today. Trimmed buds that were mature and no shake. Prices were around $100 an ounce. Homegrown or pot grown in cali was almost always just leaves and maybe some immature buds up to the late seventies. It was synonymous with crap smoke.

Today homegrown means top quality, well mine is anyways.

 

[WTFisLoud]

Yes! "Homegrown", in the last 20 years has done a 180 degree turn around; I give credit to sites like ours.

 

[Gry]

First I recall was $12 lids from a pal, $15 otherwise. DC area early seventies, bricked Mexican cannabis w/ coloured construction paper wrap

 

[fatburt]

how much is a lid?half q?

 

[paper thorn]

A lid was an ounce.

In AZ a lid was 10 bucks. Mid to late 70's. Mexican weed. Never saw it bricked. Always loose shake, barely any discernible buds.
Couple guys might go in halves on an oz. No dealers here would sell quarters, and we would have laughed at the thought of only buying an eighth.

a nickel bag was a half oz.

We rarely had scales, so would go by fingers. a four finger bag was a good lid.

Saw my first Colombian late 70s and a lid was 20 to 25 bucks.

 

[armedoldhippy]

in '68, a lid was $15 or $20 depending on where it came from. if you just wanted a 1/4, it was $5 for a matchbox full of de-seeded smoke, and it was all mexican. when columbian got here it was $30 a bag, and when redbud showed up, it went for $35 an oz. i can still remember guys bitching that they would NEVER pay over $35 a bag. homegrown could be picked up for about $90 a lb back then, nasty shit.
my how things change...

 

[Hammerhead]

In Frisco it was 20$ for 4 finger lids on the street. All we had was gold/red/Thai/Hash for the good stuff.. At home it was all homegrown it was always better than what was on the street. There was never any names or strain info. We grew the seeds we found in the good stuff.

In HS I would sale my rolling services to everyone. No one could roll a joint back then but me it seemed like. I would go from car to car rolling up there lids. They would sale them for 6/5$ or 1 for .50 cent..Really good weed was 3/5$ or 1 2$