Started smoking around 75 or 76. Weed then was mostly brown, pretty seedy and stemmy, but the buzz was definitely there. Prices to die for too, bought my first quarter pound for $70. Early 80's we started seeing "green weed", still had seeds and stems but the look and flavor were something quite new for a while. I was obviously much younger then and after about 36 years of smoking I'm sure my tolerance level has grown quite substantially, but I can HONESTLY say I think we got much higher then than we do now. Could be because I was younger and didn't have decades of smoking behind me, but I swear the weed was better. When I say better I mean strictly the buzz, not the look or taste or seedlessness. About 8 years ago a buddy called me to check something out. He had an OZ of what we named retro-weed. Same old brown pot, seedy buds on huge stalks, but the buz was still there. It was actually, in a way, refreshing to taste what many would consider nasty smoke nowadays, but we loved it. And maybe I had gone a day or two without smoking at the time, but I do clearly remember both of us saying we were higher off that brown, seedy, stemmy pot than we've been off anything "green" in quite a while. Could have been us just reminiscing about "the good old days" but we were both ripped off one joint, giggly, smiling, joking, and just enjoying the buzz. I like the look and taste of pot we all grow and sometimes buy now, but gotta admit it was sort of nice to smoke some old fashioned brown. I could go on and on about the weed we got back then, compared to what we have now. Some good things, some bad (prices these days are ridiculous!)but it was all part of growing up in the seventies and early 80's.Good times indeed and something I have no desire or plans to stop anytime soon.