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.I am trying to forget the stains of that time(think skid marks). Sorry I could not resist. Most smoke of the 70's was Mexican and not the best quality. I did get several good bags of commercial Mex, not all was crap. There was primo Mex, Colombian, Afghan hash, Thai sticks, etc. The Colombian was the only one I had any contact with and not much at that. ACE Panama Red reminds me of the Colombian pot from then. Sadly, I missed out on Panama Red from that era. I managed to get a Thai stick and oz. of Colombian Gold ripped off before I could hardly sample it....
The 80's were not much different than now. Plenty of Cali grown hybrids as good as now. I had a bag of Hawaii pot back then that was super strong and super speedy. I got rid of that bag as it caused anxiety, or after several tokes, severe couchlock. No in between. It was psychedelic so I was sad to see it go in a way.