A Lid of Weed - WTF

i remeber $12 lids an nickel and dime bags and 50 cent joints big joints not the pinners people roll these days acid was a buck a hit and hash for $5 a gr. i miss the old days some times it was a lot differnt cops never bother us much eather .

 

Yup, thats how we measured.

 

That term 'Lid' came from way back when they use to put weed in Prince Albert cans. The PA cans held an oz of weed.

 

It's weird for me reading about the old school way. I know that some weed is really fluffy and some is really dense. So using the volume method to determine weight seems a little ineffecient to me.

An ounce of fluffy pot is going to take up more space then an ounce of dense bud.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Here's an idea of what buds looked like in the sixties. Very airy and fluffy. So whoever thought they were getting an oz.in a lid --not likely . You were just a victim of marketing.











PAX

 

and thats the stuff i was refering to when i posted lid= ...all you could put in a fold over baggie and still fold top over (sandwich size). not this. he he he

 

heres a strain that has been around since "74, probably longer, but thats when the strain started being taken care of in "proper fashion"......so i have been told. http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=49255&stc=1&d=1339252375

we can make our own whiskey and our own smoke to, aint to many things these ole boys cant do......

run johnny run!!!......google that folks if you get the chance, i had forgot about him

 

That's what I remember too. Sometimes it was also called a "can".
Although I remember a guy who came through town, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to Costa Rica, telling me that his dealer kept the weed in a coffee can & the amount you could scoop out with the can lid was a "lid".
Either way it was about an ounce. Of course nobody weighed it, when you could get a half a pound for $75 for "street grade Mexican"... who cares?

Ah.... Happy days...

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

Measurement. In the Haight into the early '80s a 'lid' was an ounce and if you had a quality dealer that included no seeds or stems. A quality kilo in the late '60s/early '70s was $200.more or less.

In the '60s in the south you often bought a matchbox \. This was a box of kitchen matches and if well packed was near an ounce.

 

I buy by the pinch or smidgen.

Only measurement I need.

 

a lid is 15 bucks worth.