How did you buy pot back in the '70s?

I'm writing a novel about a guy who sells pot back in the '70s to get money for rent. I never sold pot back then, so I don't know how you would have gone about buying like a half-a-pound. How would you have met someone who sells that much or more? How would you set up a buy? Where would that take place? What would the conversation sound like? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

1.if u come in ur ILLEGAL
assaulting a garrison
premeditating a hit
leading 2 possible physical harm
& i used to really sell weed

 

in the 80s, like 1981 /80s not to far off from the 70s.. walked into the plaza housing looking for some weed.. meet a few black dudes playing chess .. one time got some wet weed. didnt do much to me, but made my friend rob a foodland with twinkie ..

 

i used to pour a bottle of cough syrup on my blunt & smoke it

 

No fucking idea! Can't remember!

 

A club they used to call "The Blood Tub " there would to be a guy in a long coat used to wait in the toilet, he sold acid ,weed and Valium ! you gave him your money and he would go out to the car park and come back with your stuff !!
same guy did other clubs and pubs but that's where we used to get him

 

I used to shake down dealers and junkies in the streets on NYC.

 

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You too? I also grew up in some South Bronx shit-hole and at the age of 3 in my pimp outfit I would cruise the streets of NYC in my Cadillac El Dorado looking to shakedown the local Pusher

 

Naked.

 

I didn't buy quantities, wasn't a dealer. I'd buy it by the ounce, aka a lid, for $15-$20. The ounce was a mixture of buds and shake and would have some stems and seeds in it. Nowadays don't even think about selling weed with stems in it. We didn't mind the seeds as long as there weren't too many of them and it made it easy to grow your own. Now if you want seeds you have to buy them.

The weed wasn't as potent as it is today, one hit just didn't do it, 2 or 3 people would smoke a whole joint. And you had to be careful not to roll any seeds inside the joint or they'd explode when you smoke it and snuff it out.

 

we could only get This in the 60/70s No weed as such !

 

i get what your saying

 

i used 2 take the red pills
i used 2 take the blue pills

 

Never heard it called 'pot' in the 70's, other than in the media. 'Dope' we used to call it. Or 'hash'. Weed was 'grass' or sometimes 'herb' once Reggae took off.

 

Man... so there was a guy sitting in the bathroom all night? Hope he made some good money so it was worthwile for him

 

nah he used to do the rounds blood tub was seven thirty if I remember ! he was probably half hour at each location
dont forget it was the 70s and yeah he probably made mega money (or the man in the car Did )

Thinking about it there was kind of a pecking order in those days he wouldn't just sell to anybody we had to give our money to someone else and they would do the deal ! you could go to jail in those days if you got caught
The blood tub got raided quite often they used to back the cop vans up to the exits so you couldn't get out then officers with dogs used to come through Lol its all coming back now

 

The DJ at the blood tub's Name was Tony Fyne he used to play all the heavy bands of the day had a huge music knowledge ( bit like me ) he moved to Israel in the 70s played his last show at the tub ( its real name was The Legion )
I was there ! Tripping my head off as usual !

 

This Guy !
Israel Radio gives legendary DJ Tony Fyne an on-air send-off

Fucking Memories !!