My... have times changed...

Crazy4coco

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1994- My Local hydro shop: Cops mount fake transformer fitted with a camera to telephone poll and follow customers home.

2023: My local hydro shop: Seed packages for sale and on display under the front counter glass.

Never would have figured back in the day. :):):)
Try talking code with the guy at the electrical supply place . I need a 400 watt sports light with a 8 foot cord between the ballast and the bulb .
 

thumper60

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Yup, I remember those days. IFC it was called operation green thumb, when they used to monitor hydro shops.
That was when worms way got popped an they turned over their customer list across the country lot of good people got locked up.
 

hotrodharley

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Early 2014 I was driving my daughter to Portland from Las Cruces NM. Got to Cortez Colorado and found several retail sales places. Went in the Medicine Man. Absolutely mind blowing. Been smoking since 1964 starting in Texas. Where a joint got you serious jail time. Here I am with huge jars of buds on shelves. Apothecary style place. Bought a couple of quarters and some dab and a cheap dab rig.

Walked out with it all in a sack in the daytime on the main drag through town. I was amazed and incredibly happy after a lifetime of bullshit over marijuana. And I’m still damned happy about it.
 

lusidghost

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We do have dispensaries. I just saw a fb update from my old plug talking about finally being able legally smoke in his home while holding up a nug jar. So things are definitely changing here too.
 

PadawanWarrior

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Early 2014 I was driving my daughter to Portland from Las Cruces NM. Got to Cortez Colorado and found several retail sales places. Went in the Medicine Man. Absolutely mind blowing. Been smoking since 1964 starting in Texas. Where a joint got you serious jail time. Here I am with huge jars of buds on shelves. Apothecary style place. Bought a couple of quarters and some dab and a cheap dab rig.

Walked out with it all in a sack in the daytime on the main drag through town. I was amazed and incredibly happy after a lifetime of bullshit over marijuana. And I’m still damned happy about it.
At a Rockies game with one of my son's baseball teams, one of the other dads said "just get a Red Card" and laughed when I was talking about my back being sore. It's pretty obvious I'm a stoner, lol. Anyway I did, :bigjoint:. First day I got it I bought weed too even though you weren't really supposed to. i was stoked, (:. Had the card for 10 years and decided I don't really need it anymore after things got recreational.
 

hotrodharley

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At a Rockies game with one of my son's baseball teams, one of the other dads said "just get a Red Card" and laughed when I was talking about my back being sore. It's pretty obvious I'm a stoner, lol. Anyway I did, :bigjoint:. First day I got it I bought weed too even though you weren't really supposed to. i was stoked, (:. Had the card for 10 years and decided I don't really need it anymore after things got recreational.
Alaska 2011. The hydro shop in South Anchorage. Called and asked them to set some nutes aside and I’d have my daughter pick them up. She gets home that evening “Wow the guys at that shop were weird. I walked in and immediately they’re all hollering “Don’t say the word. Don’t say the word.””
 

PadawanWarrior

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Alaska 2011. The hydro shop in South Anchorage. Called and asked them to set some nutes aside and I’d have my daughter pick them up. She gets home that evening “Wow the guys at that shop were weird. I walked in and immediately they’re all hollering “Don’t say the word. Don’t say the word.””
That reminds me of the head shops back then. Say the word "Bong" and they were supposed to kick you out, lol. Some were more forgiving than others, but once I asked for a "bong bowl" and they said "Sorry you have to leave".
 

Jjgrow420

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I remember walking in, hood up, sunglasses. Parking down the road, paranoid someone's following you home. Lol. Wait till dark to pull out the bail of promix 'hey can you wrap that in a black garbage bag'. Lol. Code words.... If you said 'weed' they thought ur a narc and wouldnt sell you shit. Jeez.... and meanwhile the junkies methheads and hookers roam the streets free. At one point in time you'd get more time for growing weed then diddling a kid...fucked up.....
 
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