Brick Top
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It is in part because most people here are unable to distinguish between actual quality and a something being a fad.
In my area of the U.S. in the late 60's and most of the 70's there were no fad strains. People did have individual preferences but I never knew of groups of people all hyped up on one strain. They were all anywhere from very good to incredibly fantastic. One reason why fad weed did not exist then, at least not in my area, was virtually everything in that era was a sativa, and I mean a real sativa, not some cross that is predominantly sativa. That might sound boring to some but there can be a big difference in pure sativas so there was variety. Some were very fast and would cause paranoia. Some was very invigorating and made you want to do things, anything, just as long as you were doing something .... and whatever it was you were doing, you loved every second of it. Some was very relaxing, very calming. Some made everything so funny that you would laugh and laugh and laugh like a scene out of "Reefer Madness," minus of course the murder and insanity bits in the flick. But all still gave you a clear soaring head high along with whatever various subtleties they each had.
There were not several thousand strains all being hyped by slick advertising copy and relying on totally dubious claims of potency. They were not marketed like today and tokers were not being sold the belief that one or another is something truly special, something above and beyond all the rest. There were not known breeders who in the minds of tokers were seen as being superior so therefore any crap they foisted on the public has instant credibility and no matter how worthless it was there would be someone who would claim it to be one of the best, or maybe even the best, just because of who created it.
The first fad strain or strains I ever knew of were Jamaican. Those hit the area and people went nuts and that is all they wanted, to them it was the best ever. It wasn't actually better. It was just different in different ways than what most people were used to. Hawaiian was next. Again, it was not better, it was just different in a different way. Over time there were others but starting with the Hawaiian we were seeing crosses and the more crosses we saw the more there would be small groups of people who would swear to God that the cross that particular little group loved was the best there had ever been.
For a while if something wasn't Chronic it was not worth smoking. For a while the only strains worth smoking were Skunk strains. If it wasn't skunk it was not worth purchasing or growing. The word skunk itself became synonymous with uber-potent strains. Strains that were not actually skunk strains but were potent were called skunk in some areas of the world. Skunk became a classification, a seal of approval. That's all many people wanted. Before long people saw Skunk strains as being run of the mill, old hat, just good herb and that is all, but certainly nothing so special that people were getting all cuckoo for Coca Puffs over Skunk anymore.
It was not like suddenly Skunk strains were not as potent as they once were. It was not that suddenly there were new strains that just came out that were so much more potent. It was a fad, like Kush, and it died out, just like the Kush fad will too.
Since then fad after fad has come and gone. Most, if not all, fad strains of the past for the most part died out. They had become unpopular and few if any breeders offered them any longer. They went from hero to zero and the Kush craze will do the same thing. It may take a year and it might take two years, but something else will become the next fad and in time breeders will not be able to give away Kush strains.
The other part is the totally inaccurate misconception that today's puppies have about strains they never experienced in their entire lives. Strains that were created through thousands and thousands of years of evolution or by Mother Nature of God or whoever or whatever you want to credit for them, and they were truly incredible.
I have fully explained how the testing procedure for determining THC levels was altered resulting in false high THC level ratings. I have fully explained how the Government claims of THC levels of the 60's and 70's were highly questionable, not only because of the different testing procedure, used trhen being different but also because of how most tests were performed on the largest busts that were almost always the lowest grade commercial strains found in major busts of massive shipments. I fully explained how the confiscated herb would sit in Government warehouses exposed to light and air and heat and humidity, sometimes for as much as a year or more, before testing would be done and everyone here should know that storing herb under those conditions will result in loss of THC. All of those facts are being totally ignored by those who get a baby-bone over Kush strains.
On a little side note, I find it amazing that a group of people who for the most part would not believe anything the Government says, even if it was raining, they were standing out in the rain, and some Government official said, it's raining ... many here would question the honesty of the statement just because of the source. But those same people 100% rely on old Government information for their alleged proof of THC levels of the past.
I also find it very amusing that people who never experienced the pot of the past actually believe that they know more about it and can better rate or rank it than those who smoked it and have smoked ever since and have personally experienced herb of the 60's and the 70's and of the 80's and of the 90's and right up until today.
To me that would be like some kid who is new to baseball hearing about Nolan Ryan and saying Nolan Ryan couldn't throw a fastball to save his life, that he was a junkball pitcher at best, or that Goose Gossage couldn't bring the heat .. even though in the All-Star game in 1978 both Ryan and Gossage registered a 103 MPH pitch in the same game. The kid new to baseball would be like many here today, he would refuse to accept those things he did not see, did not witness, did not personally experience. They would say only modern day pitchers can bring the heat. They would not believe it when told how an US Army Ballistic Ordnance Chronograph Instruments used to test the speed of Army ordnance timed Bob Feller at at 106 and 108 mph. The kid would say, because that was in the past it didn't really happen, things weren't really the way the old timers think they were, they are just clinging to their glory years and trying to make them seem so much better than they ever were, just like the Kush lovers of today claim about the high quality strains of the 60's and 70's. They utterly fail to realize that they are doing precisely what they claim an old timer like me does, that being attempting to fool, or succeeding in fooling themselves into believing they are smoking the very best ever.
They want to believe that and they need to believe that so they desperately cling to any and all dubious to totally false claim they can about the weed of both eras so they can feel good, so they can feel better, so they can say I smoke the best there has ever been. WHOOPIE!
Some people, many people, in fact far too many people wrongly assume that new or newer is always better. About many different things in life they would be totally wrong to believe that.
I have said it before, and I posted a long list to prove it, but most Cup winning strains have their roots in the very strains that many people here love to claim were crap, various sativa strains smoked in the 60's and 70's. It is not like those genetics have nearly or virtually been bred out of the new strains and later work made up for the error or mistake of relying on low quality genetics. It is the opposite. They are the core of the modern loved strains, the main building blocks that make them what they are and what make them loved, but due to misinformation and ignorance all the credit for the strains successes have been given to the small amount of indica, especially Kush strains, that were eventually used in some crosses.
I would bet anything that if some real true honest to goodness 100% pure Dalat seeds could be found and the Kush lovers smoked some they could not handle it. They would not be overcome with paranoia, because it was not a strain known for causing paranoia, but the high was incredible and it hit you hard and it hit you fast. It was like a Star Trek warp factor 10 ride. It would take you places that no strain today can take you and it would take you there almost instantly. I have seen true hardened party commandos overcome by Dalat. I have seen and heard them blurt out HOLY SHIT as they first began to exhale their first toke because they were already strapped to a rocket-sled and starting the ride of their life. I have seen and heard them say they were too high and had to go to bed, after only one, two or in a few cases three tokes ... and again, these were no lightweights. These were hardened veteran party commandos who had smoked and smoked and smoked some of the best strains there have ever been.
I would LOVE to be able to sit around with a pack of today's puppies and pass a pipe of real true pure Dalat with them and then sit back and enjoy their reactions. It would be hilarious.
Now due to Kush lovers being in love with the Beavis & Butthead numbed mind and body, asses glued to a couch, eating gas station burritos and big gulps eyes glued to a TV set they would not like the high, it would not be their preference. But that is the key to it all. They believe preference equates to most potent and the very best when in fact all it actually equates to is personal preference.
The strains I talk about are not at all about personal preference though. I, and others like me, what few there are of us there are that remain, have a totally different perspective in that we have lived and experienced the things others here, most here in fact, never lived, never experienced and fail to have equal knowledge of. They will never understand and they will never accept because they lack a common frame of reference.
In place of a common frame of reference they rely on inaccurate information, myths, urban legends and what is pure propaganda, as in intentionally created and manipulated information to purposely mislead the public, and they swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
I understand every1 has their own opinion on bud but I personally think Diff Buds in Diff Locations and Im just happy im here in cali where its not only taken seriously, legal, abundant. But you also have that State of the Art bud ^_^ ..
but alls I'm saying is that I think this is ridiculous this difference you seem to think we have on pot being and having increased In THC POTENCY. if you go back you'll notice I never stated thc had gone up. Just the over all quality. I'm not arguing that th gov made a think tank to figure out a way to claim that pot is more potent so they could label it high power or extremely potent. That's all government mumbo jumbo man. I know.
