Why was pot quality so bad in the past?
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MsBotwin
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Some strains from the 70's and 80's are still around today and still considered to be some of the best. Ever heard of Purple Haze? I'd say it is some damn good smoke! Then and now. I have been smoking for 23 years. Yes, there are a lot more new strains now and they do have more thc, at the same time there was good strains like Thai and purple haze! There was also dirt weed back then, but there is still plenty of dirt weed around today. Depends on your connections, that won't ever change! 25 years from now there will be young'uns saying the same thing about the weed you're tokin on right now! Saying it doesn't make it so.
angrygranola
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from dictionary.com
Word Origin & History
sinsemilla
potent strain of marijuana, 1975, from Mex.Sp., lit. "without seed."
not that i know anything about this from experience, but i'm pretty sure the way it is now, is the same as it was back in the day, you have bulk growers whom don't care what shape the weed is in, and you had specialist cultivators. who can grow the best ganja. this sort of agra-competition is repeated all over the world. from my grandma's tomatoes, to the tribal paupua new guinea, and their kava. who can grow the best kava?
chances are with the little info available back then, less communication, less transport of dna, good growers were few and further between, but they most certainly existed.
Word Origin & History
sinsemilla
potent strain of marijuana, 1975, from Mex.Sp., lit. "without seed."
not that i know anything about this from experience, but i'm pretty sure the way it is now, is the same as it was back in the day, you have bulk growers whom don't care what shape the weed is in, and you had specialist cultivators. who can grow the best ganja. this sort of agra-competition is repeated all over the world. from my grandma's tomatoes, to the tribal paupua new guinea, and their kava. who can grow the best kava?
chances are with the little info available back then, less communication, less transport of dna, good growers were few and further between, but they most certainly existed.
tafbang
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of course. that's how we got here today. progression and spread of knowledge from the best. there are thousands and thousands of people trying to achieve the perfect strain. that will be a long ways from now but we definitely aren't trying to see who can grow the shittiest weed among top growers
ANC
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Lol, actualy I have always wanted to have someone to discuss slavery with (not the kind we do for socialist/communist governments).
I think we can assume that capturing someone and makeing him a slave or selling him as a slave is wrong as it deprives a man of his freedom WITHOUT HIS CONSENT.
Now lets say, I was a pretty lameass bum all my life but at some point I knocked up a lameass lady and my child now needed to go to school.
Surely I should be able to surrender myself as a slave (for the duration), in return for her education. Maybe I could be the school master's slave. This allows me to purchase the child's education, through slavery, BUT WITH CONSENT.
Grumpy Old Dreamer
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... I agree 100%, those Thai sticks used to make whoever had access to them very popular and wealthy - many a single cone coma was enjoyed.
tafbang
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That thai stick statement seems sketchy. There is no way that it is stronger than today. It had to have been mixed with opiates or something.
Romania they grow weed and opiates all the time in their grow ops for that combo. A guys mother on this site or another site talked about how almost every body around that time grew weed and opiates in their house like some of us do today.
Romania they grow weed and opiates all the time in their grow ops for that combo. A guys mother on this site or another site talked about how almost every body around that time grew weed and opiates in their house like some of us do today.
rowlman
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...what seems sketchy is that you still don't want to believe...idk...all I know is I smoked some pot back then that would make your eyes bleed...make your throat close up...and give you that almost trippy,LSD, no sence of time feeling for hours,...and not opium...if you have to convince yourself it was mixed then thats fine...but it seems like you think people like me lie about our past...or think I was a lightweight back then who was just getting high for the first time and just THOUGHT the weed was good...idk dude...there's really no way to expain something to someone who wants to believe what google gives them...google didn't grow up in Clarkston, Michigan in my little hick woods where all the older guys were true hippy stoners who passed the joy down to the younger guys who arte now here to tell you your wrong...too bad for them huh...oh well,I know what was happening then...my memories are true...Peace
Nice Ol Bud
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Just as humans weren't as knowing awhile back,
the plant wasn't at its fullest peak.
I guess..
Lol, just my 2 cents.
the plant wasn't at its fullest peak.
I guess..
Lol, just my 2 cents.
rowlman
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...think about what your saying...how much do you really think weed has evolved in 40 years...considering the plant has been around for well over 5000 years, I don't think science has done that much to it...think about how shitty the weed would have been 500 years ago if you think it was that bad only 40 years ago...people would not have been consuming a plant for religous and medical purposes if it was so weak and low in the thc...think about that for a minute....just smoke a bowl of your super duper 2010 strain that God himself couldn't of made better 40 years ago and think about it
poplars
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I think it has got better. but not dramatically better.
perhaps the majority has got dramatically better. but that killer dank still existed back then, if you ask the old time hippies that were truly in the high grade pot scene back then, they'll tell you that todays weed is not much stronger than back then.
I think you all are confusing the majority quality with the potential quality.
perhaps the majority has got dramatically better. but that killer dank still existed back then, if you ask the old time hippies that were truly in the high grade pot scene back then, they'll tell you that todays weed is not much stronger than back then.
I think you all are confusing the majority quality with the potential quality.
rowlman
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....sounds fair to me...I feel that proved my point
Nice Ol Bud
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Great point.
my dad was telling me about weed the late 60s in mexico. He went down there and they got a coupke kilos of stuff that off one joint he couldn't keep his eyes open or move and then he fell asleep on the beach and woke up to the worst sunburn off his life. lol. he said it was golden from all the trichs so maybe it was alcapulco gold? He said most weed was 75% stems leaves and seeds though but it was 5-10 bucks a lid, yes that's right they measured weed by a lid to a jar back then. lol fuckin cavemen.
well when i first started smoking i would be comatose from dirty brown schwag and I've never been high like that since my first year of smoking.