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

I forget what it was called but pot from Thailand was pretty good as was Hawaiian.

 

Yes, Thai Sticks and Maui Wowie!

 

Really enjoyed reading through the stories since I’m pretty heavy into weed and I’m an 80’s baby so started smoking in the 90’s. From the sounds of it, looks like weed has got more potent over the years and I can only imagine how the future strain is gonna be like if these stories are anything to go by.

Remember getting weed in the 90’s with the seeds and sticks in them, I’m from Africa so used to ge weed by the sack load(no lie) and me and my best friend would spend all day separating the sticks from the grass and it was painstakingly slow and tedious work but hey, where there’s a will.

Notice I only said separating the sticks, used to leave the seeds in there. It was a general my known in my ends that smoking weed with the seeds in it would make you go mad so obviously we being teenagers, our aim was to pop as many seeds in our spliff and see if we could really get insane. Huh, good ole times.

 

I hated it when a surprise seed caught fire and popped out, blowing half the joint away. We used a shoe box lid and a credit card to separate the seeds but sometimes a few would slip through.

 

I sure would not be proud about that.

 

I used to curb stomp the cunts.

 

I caught my hair on fire once. That was in the late nineties. I wasn't supposed to be smoking at school and my long hair fell in the bowl or near the lighter or something.


I wasn't even alive in the 70s, but in the 90s we paid $20 for an eighth of an ounce of what was affectionately referred to as mid-grade or b-grade. Not bad, really.

 

Gave a girl 50 bucks for a kilo in San Fran---she directed us to a house--got out--walked around the side of the house--be right back-said she---Never saw her again!!--'67.

 

Columbian gold and I got it from my boyfriend back in highschool. Being female it was kind of simply shared willingly. So I rarely paid, but I haven’t smoked anything in the last 20 years for the most part.

 

actually i never did and never have "bought" it.
what happened in the late 70s was people, the people i knew, you know would grow it and just give it to each other mostly as a kind of hospitality thing.
i really had no idea how i would go about it if i had wanted any bad enough to buy it.
today in the city and the state where i live there are stores you can go to and buy it.
legitimate streight up licensed businesses that legally sell the herb over the counter,
but in the 70s when it was still, you know, people, a lot of people thought they were protecting public health by keeping it unlawful,
well people would come back from wherever with seeds and just grow it in deniable places like national forests or even the planter boxes in front of government buildings.

 

Oh I should add this was not in the 70s, it was in the 80s and 90s

 

we bought weed from other people in our circle. $15 a bag with stems and seeds. low grade, I didnt see a flower until many years later

 

Living in the Haight, in 1969-'70, we could buy a lid (about an ounce) of plain old Mexican (stems and seeds included) for about $5. If we wanted the better stuff, just clean buds, we could get that for $15-$30 a lid. A kilo of good stuff could be had about $100-$150.

 

Buying pot in the late 60s and early 70s was never difficult for me. I graduated from Georgia Tech in 69 which was next to "The Strip" where Atlanta's Summer of Love happened in 1968. It seemed to be everywhere in those days. Most people I bought from then were friends who'd buy a small quantity to split which I began doing as well. It wasn't long before I could have gotten any quantity I wanted but mostly would quarter pounds.

When I moved to Charlotte in fall of 69, there was again no problem finding it. For a while a friend who ran a head shop would come over to my apartment to split bricks and leave me a lid for my hassles helping him.