What is a Thai Stick?

[rkymtnman]

 

[Tolerance Break]

This has brought back a lot of memories My brother managed to get some home in 74 at that time it was the highest I had ever been. Just started growing again after about 27 years or so now I'm wondering. How hard is it to find true land race strains?

Good place to start https://therealseedcompany.com

 

[Kerowacked]

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Nope, Thai sticks were on thin flat bamboo strips and wrapped in a single thread from a hemp stalk. Special then, the hash and hash oil too. Legend of the tall ships loaded with exotic in the bicentennial, 1976.

 

[rkymtnman]

Nope, Thai sticks were on thin flat bamboo strips and wrapped in a single thread from a hemp stalk. Special then, the hash and hash oil too. Legend of the tall ships loaded with exotic in the bicentennial, 1976.

sounds like you are talking about Thai strips then.

 

[Skittlez12]

I'd take some of that old school Thai over any of today's cookie cutter polyhybrids. Todays strains might have more THC but they lack character. Seems everyone today is just growing fast flowering high THC fruity stuff. I find it boring which is why I don't grow it.

Now I'm thinking about popping some Highland Thai landrace seeds. If I get them going now I can have some ready to smoke in 5-6 months. You can't smoke the real stuff unless you grow it yourself so I do.

My next run I am going with Landrace seeds. I live in the northeast and my father in law grows outdoors, the climate would be suitable for one of those landraces adjusted to the colder climates come Sept-Nov when its time to harvest. He usually harvest somewhat early due to the first frost.

The Syrian strain on RSC looks so does the Cidar kush and Afghaan 90.

 

[BWG707]

Not the real Thai. But that was rare stuff. A lot of knockoff shit probably did occur. Most real was probably shipped back by the US military. Multiple property personnel were charged for smuggling heroin usually but also high grade weed. Dogs were not even a thing then. First drug dogs were trained by the military because of the problem.

I lived on a AF base in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The C 141 Loadmasters used to bring back Thai sticks a lot. Extremely potent weed. I’d put it up against anything out there today. If I could I would definitely smoke old school Thai instead of most of today’s hybrids and crosses. Thai ounces were usually about $100, single sticks went for $10 to $15 a piece. In the late 70’s we were seeing some homemade sinsemilla sticks from Humbolt Co. They were huge, about 15” long and 3x the thickness of real Thai sticks. They were more or less a novelty, although the bud used to make them was the old “skunk”strains. I would love to find a strain today that actually has that old Thai taste, it was very unique.

 

[Kerowacked]

sounds like you are talking about Thai strips then.

The stick may have been hemp instead of bamboo and i think it was wrapped with a single silk thread, been a minute.

 

[BWG707]

I scored some mid 70's, $15 a stick. We had some good smoke for the time, Columbian Gold, some seedless stuff from Oaxaca that was primo, some homegrown Sinsemillia probably from Afghan stock. Black hash was my favorite. I had smoked honey oils also, and the high from the Thai was TOTALLY different. We smoked a pinner between 3 people and we were done. There was no list of ingredients, but the high seemed to be opium enhanced to me due to the small amount smoked and the effect. They started smashing them into bricks with a smaller stick and less weed when I quit buying them.

Oaxaca spears were tasty, very spicy. We got some very potent Santa Marta Colombian, taste like hash and had that big expando.

 

[BWG707]

Got some in the early 90's. It was dipped in opium. There's lots of ways to prepare them from what I've read over the years. They can be dipped in hash oil, opium, or just be straight weed. I'm sure the curing has something to do with the effects as well. Reminded me of this sweat cured mexican we used to get. Big buds that smelled like ammonia. Got you very high.

The sticks from the 90’s were nothing like the ”real”Thai sticks.

 

[rkymtnman]

The stick may have been hemp instead of bamboo and i think it was wrapped with a single silk thread, been a minute.

i was just messin with you. i was there on business twice but never got to see any of it. 20 yrs ago.

 

[GreenestBasterd]

That must be todays version. This is what I remember.

Proper one indeed. Not a cigar

 

[Kerowacked]

Probably the most accurate description

Where Does Original Thai Stick Weed Come From?

Thai Sticks are some of the finest examples of an original Sativa strain, hugely popular in the 70's & 80's - We Look at Thailand and is Marijuana history.

www.marijuana-seeds.nl

 

[hotrodharley]

I lived on a AF base in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The C 141 Loadmasters used to bring back Thai sticks a lot. Extremely potent weed. I’d put it up against anything out there today. If I could I would definitely smoke old school Thai instead of most of today’s hybrids and crosses. Thai ounces were usually about $100, single sticks went for $10 to $15 a piece. In the late 70’s we were seeing some homemade sinsemilla sticks from Humbolt Co. They were huge, about 15” long and 3x the thickness of real Thai sticks. They were more or less a novelty, although the bud used to make them was the old “skunk”strains. I would love to find a strain today that actually has that old Thai taste, it was very unique.

$15 was the going price in El Paso. Ft Bliss right there. It was always a true treat. Buy them when they had them and put a couple away. That's expensive when lids were going for $10. 5 finger bags. Nobody weighed squat in those days on the border. A $15 Thai stick was living large.

 

[raratt]

Im wondering if the opium effect was either intentional, a side effect of the processing (potentially fermenting?), or from being transported tightly packed with heroine?

Fascinating stuff

I can only describe the effect. We were hiking on big rocks and our depth perception was all messed up to the point that the rock wasn't as tall or short as you thought it was. We stumbled to where we were backpacking to that day and just sat around and stared at the creek.

 

[raratt]

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Never saw one that looked like that.

 

[GreenestBasterd]

That's lame. It looks like they claimed they were too dangerous to adopt. I'm glad we don't do that shit anymore, and let people adopt them. That's some bullshit what they did after Vietnam. I had no idea.

Shame they didn’t do what they did with boxers in WW2, returning soldiers would bring them home and adopt them. It’s pretty much half the reason they’re so popular nowadays.

 

[rijkmus1]

I have been around a bit and I am old. The way I remember it with only smoking 2 of them. I say it was one of the best highs of my early years. Hawaiian was probably the only thing that I came across later that could compare to the high. Those two left an impression as I can remember who and where I took my first hits of each.

 

[rkymtnman]

Never saw one that looked like that.

that was just from a google search. i was trying to figure out what they are dipped in? opium wax or something?

 

[BFERG]

$15 was the going price in El Paso. Ft Bliss right there. It was always a true treat. Buy them when they had them and put a couple away. That's expensive when lids were going for $10. 5 finger bags. Nobody weighed squat in those days on the border. A $15 Thai stick was living large.

Remember those days well, blond lebanese hash (still some of the best I've ever smoked) cubes on the tip of a needle under a glass about the only way to smoke hash then except grinding and throwing it in a pinner. This thread has turned into a walk down memory lane for some of us

 

[ooof-da]

that was just from a google search. i was trying to figure out what they are dipped in? opium wax or something?

I never remember the dipped, it was always tied..prob many varieties- but it was rare in the Midwest. I remember it being real smooth and creepy. 2X more than the stuff w/ seeds.