More weed now? or in the 1960's

i think that like in the 60's weed started & was like just getting to be a big thing. now it's looked at by most normal people as this bad thing... but every smokes it.. i mean ok not everyone but i think there's probably a hell of a lot more people now than then. & for whoever said weed ain't better now.. full of shit. maybe you get dirt where you're at but not me.. i don't get dirt man.

 

Weed is definitely better now.
We had a song we used to sing:

No stems, no seeds that we don't need
Alcapulco Gold, is bad ass weed.

Stems and seeds were a given.
I guess thats partly why an O was $15
and a QP (quarter pound) was $45.

 

There is no magic way to make higher THC%!!! Selective breeding has been going on for thousands of years. It is more scientific now, but the same genes are swimming in the same pool! Nobody can just create a strain with ridiculously high THC out of thin air, it just doesn't work that way.

Is marijuana (in general) better today? Hell yes it is! At least it appears to be. The fact of the matter is that it is just handled better. Most of the stuff we got in the early 70's, here in Calif., was Mexican Dirt Weed - commercially grown, dried (no cure to speak of) and smuggled without any attempt to preserve the THC content. For example, it was dried in the sun light (a big THC killer) for speed. The quick dry method also made it harsh. No cureing didn't improve the taste any, plus it prevented the other cannabinoids from converting to THC. Better techniques are widely known today but we still get tons of Mexican Dirt Weed, we just call it Schwag or Brickweed nowadays. This stuff really isn't bad if it's handled right! Want proof?
Take some schwag bagseeds and grow them properly, then dry and cure them properly. The difference between your finished product and the original weed will be nothing short of amazing! The seeds maintain the original genes (the potential for greatness) so all the difference in quality - taste, smoothness, potency, etc. is do strictly to the way in which it was handled. Schwag seeds will grow into (at least) middy buds, even if you are half assed in your growing and cureing efforts.
Big commercial growers produce bulk not quality (ever seen a gourmet cafeteria?), always have - always will! Today, we have access to the best seeds; so if you want the best buds grow your own!

 

Big commercial growers produce bulk not quality (ever seen a gourmet cafeteria?), always have - always will! Today, we have access to the best seeds; so if you want the best buds grow your own![QUOTE: T.H.CAMMO]
sooooooo true , one thing that commercial growers are doing that just real piss me off, is their tumbling the bud before they sell it, to take off the first layer of THC , for some of the best hash that you can get.
OH!we called schwag, ditchweed

 

It's kind of funny, really, if you have ever seen some of the old "Official Government Statistics" on the potency of marijuana. "Back in the days" they were measuring "typical" marijuana at around 2-4% THC content. These figures were arrived at by testing confiscated shipments (after sitting around in the open air for who knows how long!!!). Excessive light and air makes THC degrade rather rapidly, that is common knowledge now. But back then, who knew or cared? Certainly not the ones drying the weed in the sunlight or smuggleing it in newspaper and burlap! I'm pretty sure that the same weed that tested at 2-4% would have been three times that much (6-12%) if handled and protected properly and tested promptly upon confiscation.

Oh yeah! And porn is a lot better now too, because those old 8mm celluloid movies really sucked - no pun intended!!!

 

I think there is something important that everyone has missed here. The weed that was really good back then came from other countries. Columbia, Venezuala, Africa, China, Phillipines, India (the homeland of indica). These places were exporting weed because they could make money off of America's fattening pocket. Nowdays, really good weed comes from the U.S. (99% of the time). Schwag - Mid grade weed comes from other countries now because that is where it can be grown in bulk, dried in the sun, thrown into bags, sealed and shipped. Think, even the old burnouts on this post have been talkin about the old SATIVAS that creep on you with a really feel good uplifting high. And just because weed has a super high thc content does not make it the best. Besides thc, there are many other cannaboids at work, only these chemicals are hard to study and not much is known about their effects.

 

the reason they banned weed was a guy told that it caused white woman to want black men...that was im pretty sure about 1937 im not being racis thats the truth. and i deffenatly think that in the 70s weed was more popular...the preppy type kids the rock type kids the nerdy types all kids smoked weed that were in school...there is like 4 people in my school who smoke it and then you had all the fans of the beatles that came from the baby boom era that most probly toked up every now again too so i vote 60s-70s more popular...its just not frowned apon as much now...

 

My dad payed 20-30 for an oz back in the 70's
I pay 100 and this was for high mids.

cheaper? yes
better? doubt it

mids is mids
shit is shit
chron is chron

if it gets you high WHO CARES!

 

EXACTLY.

 

And as an FYI I was buying ounces of green weed on San Diego for $30 about 10 years ago. It was $200 a lb., but got cheaper as you went up.

 

And as an FYI I was buying ounces of green weed on San Diego for $30 about 10 years ago. It was $200 a lb., but got cheaper as you went up.

 

i'd say in ten years we'd have to make a decision about this. we gotta look at the cannabis culture from a perspective, rather than just thinking that we smoke more now. i know the weed is stronger, but i'm also pretty sure there's a lot less hippie type people now a days. my dad told me people smoked it back then but usually only once in a while. he says now everyone who smokes it is a pothead, which really isn't true at all, but he just stereotypes everyone who smokes weed as a pothead nowadays.

 

I think it is more popular today thanks to the old hippies who got our generation into the cycle. But I don't think that people today really understand how to use ganja simply because we don't have any massive peace movements in America anymore. An' we all know that good ol' Mary Jane was the first peace inspiration....

 

Hippies The 80's were full of herb my man it has always been a matter of where you live and who you know. 90% of people smoke herb to get high the other 10% lie about it. Herb predates any hippy movement. Its a party favor.

 

The hippie generation sold out and is now making money from the prohibition. Know how to use ganja my ass....

 

ok the goverment is geneticlt inhansing it in labs and shit for medical purpases but alot of it gits on the street if u know the right guy and thats why we have the advanced techniques to grow the shit from labs the cant be grown like a normal pot plant and thay will make a normal plan alot beter but thay werent invented for growing a normal plant

 

I just called 2 smokers from the 60s and 70s, I am a late 80s on . Anyways I asked and heres what they felt. Theres alot less clean up to do with the weed today.Weed today needs less tokes for same level of high.

 

Drugy it has nothing to do with hydroponics vs soil etc, it all has to do with the breeding. Any herb can be grown in any way, it's not like theres super-pot out there that needs different specific conditions. Hydroponics do let plants grow faster and yield better, but the quality is actually not as good as soil/organics.

peace.

 

Um say what?

Before the 60s Pot has many uses that go as far back atleast 5000+ yrs.

No need for a peace movement first , the pot will still work LOL

 

I know that the pot'll still work man. But after havin' listened to a few ol' hippies around my town an' county I've discovered some ways to increase my experience that other cats around here don't know or understand. A lot of it is spiritual as well as mental for me. I'm not tryin' to cause some wide spread argument I'm just speakin' my opinion.

I wouldn't be suprized if pot today gets u higher than it did back then man. But for some smokin' isn't just about gettin' high it's about discovering your inner self man. Maybe I am just a nut who does too much weed an' not enough thinkin' but trust me I still do a lot of thinkin'. If it wasn't 4 in the morning here an' I hadn't been awake since 9 yesterday morning I might try to explain a lil more but that'll have to wait. Peace love an' freedom of the mind man.