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Lord Kanti

Lord Kanti

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abandonconflict said:
I would be highly curious to check out what passed for a good ounce back then. I have bought bags in quite a few countries and I can appreciate a bag for what it is. I am less than 40 years old but my dad talks about the old days.

In fact I rather enjoy taking the time to roll up a nice one after picking a few seeds and sticks out. I liken it to my preference for natural tits.
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freshly vaped hemp seeds are absolutely delicious. If you fed them well they're like mini coconuts. Careful not to crack a tooth. I can't vouch for electronic vaporizers, however.
 
hotrodharley

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Sounds about right.

$20 ounce, $15 lid. $10 dime. $5 nickel bag.

Oz. - 3/4 - 1/2 - 1/4 oz.

I remember when a nickel was a nickel. Lol.

Could get lbs. (seedy stringy Mex) for $75 if you bought 5 at once.

After you rough cleaned it, had 4 lbs left. Lol.
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Everybody had a boot box. One cowboy boots came in. Use the lid to clean some. Use the bottom to store the rest. Get a coffee can full of seeds in short time. Big fat oily dark seeds.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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tangerinegreen555 said:
We used LP covers and coffee cans. East coast technique. Lol.

Wish I had a few of those seeds preserved somehow. Just for fun.
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I grew up in El Paso. You could buy a "key" for $25 in West Juarez. It was just a matter of getting it across the river somehow.

Beer case boxes of peyote buttons for $20.

Edit add: the peyote right at the old mercado downtown. From Tarahumara Indians. It was not against the law then. In Mexico. Again it was getting back across the border.
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Oh, they always weighed 28+ gms.

But the seeds, the seeds!

Maybe you got 23 out of them. Sometimes.
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I have had quite a few ounces all over Latin America and Asia. I don't mind the seeds as long as they aren't the immature little poppers that take hours to pick out from a joint's worth of herb. I'm going to Cambodia soon for a weedcation after I finish up an instructor development course here in the Philippines. I have been there a bunch of times and I always pick up a few ounces in Kampot of the Mekong herb they have there for about $20 to $25 for a bag that is probably not quite an ounce. It's pretty nice though good aroma and clean, all flowers and not compressed. It's not as stony as anything in a dispensary but it's also not unpleasant to just smoke more and walk around Angkor Wat, burning it all day. It's a fantastic strain and would probably be top shelf if produced with the latest horticultural methods for a medical dispensary but I still very much enjoy the outdoor flowers. I would not be surprised if it were a very ancient landrace and that the product I can get there now has not changed in centuries, even through the genocide a few decades ago.

I'll post more pictures in the coming weeks. I posted some the last couple of times that I visited there. I might be checking out the new med scene in Thailand too.
 
doublejj

doublejj

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abandonconflict said:
I have had quite a few ounces all over Latin America and Asia. I don't mind the seeds as long as they aren't the immature little poppers that take hours to pick out from a joint's worth of herb. I'm going to Cambodia soon for a weedcation after I finish up an instructor development course here in the Philippines. I have been there a bunch of times and I always pick up a few ounces in Kampot of the Mekong herb they have there for about $20 to $25 for a bag that is probably not quite an ounce. It's pretty nice though good aroma and clean, all flowers and not compressed. It's not as stony as anything in a dispensary but it's also not unpleasant to just smoke more and walk around Angkor Wat, burning it all day. It's a fantastic strain and would probably be top shelf if produced with the latest horticultural methods for a medical dispensary but I still very much enjoy the outdoor flowers. I would not be surprised if it were a very ancient landrace and that the product I can get there now has not changed in centuries, even through the genocide a few decades ago.

I'll post more pictures in the coming weeks. I posted some the last couple of times that I visited there. I might be checking out the new med scene in Thailand too.
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That's not the same Cambodia I remember. My 5 weeks in the jungle was a nightmare, some of our worst firefights were in Cambodia. Scary place to me..
 
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abandonconflict

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doublejj said:
That's not the same Cambodia I remember. My 5 weeks in the jungle was a nightmare, some of our worst firefights were in Cambodia. Scary place to me.....
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You've mentioned it before and I would bet that the horror was much worse just after the US withdrawal right up until Ho Chi Minh's boys liberated the country from the Khmer Rouge. You're right though, it's not the Cambodia that you experienced. It's a wonderful place to visit and one of the most welcoming places in the world.

I would probably opt to stay out of Iraq or Afghanistan if given another opportunity to visit either but only because they have not changed enough since my experiences in those countries when I was in uniform. The difference is rationality. I will refrain from the YouTube video. I prefer to learn by traveling
 
doublejj

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abandonconflict said:
You've mentioned it before and I would bet that the horror was much worse just after the US withdrawal right up until Ho Chi Minh's boys liberated the country from the Khmer Rouge. You're right though, it's not the Cambodia that you experienced. It's a wonderful place to visit and one of the most welcoming places in the world.

I would probably opt to stay out of Iraq or Afghanistan if given another opportunity to visit either but only because they have not changed enough since my experiences in those countries when I was in uniform. The difference is rationality. I will refrain from the YouTube video. I prefer to learn by traveling
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I honestly did not think I would make it out of Cambodia alive. The jungles were nastier than Vietnam, and every day in there was worse than the day before. It was the worst hell I've ever been in. It was a hastily planned mess of an operation from the beginning..
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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doublejj said:
I honestly did not think I would make it out of Cambodia alive. The jungles were nastier than Vietnam, and every day in there was worse than the day before. It was the worst hell I've ever been in. It was a hastily planned mess of an operation from the beginning..
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The jungles in Honduras were the worst I have ever seen. If a bunch of American conscripts were sent there to fight a proxy war of attrition against Maoist shit heads thinking about protracted warfare against colonialists, it would be much of the same.

Let's hope we never send troops to the Philippines to hunt the NPA. Afghanistan was pretty bad but there were fewer than 10,000 of us hunting for Bin Laden when I arrived in 2002 but I do remember some vast fields of cannabis near the worst of the fighting somewhere between Deh Rawud and the Afghan side of the Khyber Pass. Colas the size of a standard S80 scuba cylinder.

You bring any seeds back from Nam? I rather enjoyed the herb I bought in Hanoi.
 
doublejj

doublejj

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abandonconflict said:
The jungles in Honduras were the worst I have ever seen. If a bunch of American conscripts were sent there to fight a proxy war of attrition against Maoist shit heads thinking about protracted warfare against colonialists, it would be much of the same.

Let's hope we never send troops to the Philippines to hunt the NPA. Afghanistan was pretty bad but there were fewer than 10,000 of us hunting for Bin Laden when I arrived in 2002 but I do remember some vast fields of cannabis near the worst of the fighting somewhere between Deh Rawud and the Afghan side of the Khyber Pass. Colas the size of a standard S80 scuba cylinder.

You bring any seeds back from Nam? I rather enjoyed the herb I bought in Hanoi.
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Hugs brother they can sure send us to some pretty bad places sometimes. I'm still chasing that dragon of a high I got from my first thai stix. Sadly I never thought to bring any seeds back.
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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doublejj said:
Hugs brother they can sure send us to some pretty bad places sometimes. I'm still chasing that dragon of a high I got from my first thai stix. Sadly I never thought to bring any seeds back.
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It was reckless. The stereotypes about the French notwithstanding, they knew it was folly. Measuring success by kill ratios is the kind of stupidity people come up with after designing the MAD doctrine as a strategy to "avert WW3". Same sort of assholes are now denying climate change and building walls.

God forbid a poor person grows their own medicine.
 
Unclebaldrick

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abandonconflict said:
It was reckless. The stereotypes about the French notwithstanding, they knew it was folly. Measuring success by kill ratios is the kind of stupidity people come up with after designing the MAD doctrine as a strategy to "avert WW3". Same sort of assholes are now denying climate change and building walls.

God forbid a poor person grows their own medicine.
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Growing your own medicine cuts down on corporate profits and weakens them against foreign competition. Once one corporation goes down, another and another will too - like a row of dominoes.


Robert S. McNamara won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Have you won the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Ha! I thought not. We must listen to Robert S. McNamara because he won something.

Right @ttystikk?

ttystikk said:
I've posted lots of evidence to support my claims, only to watch you shit on the work of University professors and Pulitzer Prize winning journalists while spewing corporatist nonsense unsubstantiated by any actual fact or research.
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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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abandonconflict said:
The jungles in Honduras were the worst I have ever seen. If a bunch of American conscripts were sent there to fight a proxy war of attrition against Maoist shit heads thinking about protracted warfare against colonialists, it would be much of the same.

Let's hope we never send troops to the Philippines to hunt the NPA. Afghanistan was pretty bad but there were fewer than 10,000 of us hunting for Bin Laden when I arrived in 2002 but I do remember some vast fields of cannabis near the worst of the fighting somewhere between Deh Rawud and the Afghan side of the Khyber Pass. Colas the size of a standard S80 scuba cylinder.

You bring any seeds back from Nam? I rather enjoyed the herb I bought in Hanoi.
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doublejj said:
Hugs brother they can sure send us to some pretty bad places sometimes. I'm still chasing that dragon of a high I got from my first thai stix. Sadly I never thought to bring any seeds back.
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I actually brought seeds back in a Pall Mall package , My mom washed them for me
 
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