Was Marijuana Really Less Potent in the 1960s?
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Milovan
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Blond leb as well! The tropical pot was the shit big time!
Milovan
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Milovan
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Landrace strains will only turn out correctly when grown in the Country of origin.
Milovan
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The opiated thai sticks were actually oil!
I used to get 60 at a time and they always got the baggies oily.
doingdishes
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i had thai stick when i was 15 & WOW!! that same dealer got stuff from the Philippines and it was always amazing. we called it 2 toke week because after 2 tokes, you were wasted.
for years all that was around was black putty hash-gold seal "freedom of Afghanistan i think was the stamp. i haven't seen that stuff for decades.
blonde & red hashes were in there as well.
the fist time i saw bubble hash i thought "wow..old school putty" & then i put heat to it & it smeared across my fingers...it was really good but just not the same
for years all that was around was black putty hash-gold seal "freedom of Afghanistan i think was the stamp. i haven't seen that stuff for decades.
blonde & red hashes were in there as well.
the fist time i saw bubble hash i thought "wow..old school putty" & then i put heat to it & it smeared across my fingers...it was really good but just not the same
hydroMD
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10 years is more than enough to dramatically change genetics with the amount of breeding done year round in greenhouses and indoors.
Sativied
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Sure, I don't want to dismiss all the work breeders have done over the past decades, on the contrary, but it (increased yield, thc, looks/structure) does come at a cost by default. The only way to breed a trait true/stable is to breed other genes out.
O haze is an easy example. When I look at SSH, amnesia haze and other popular haze hybrids I favor they sure look better... they yield more, they taste better, and I rather grow those than O haze. It's (at least without full insight of the dna) impossible to cross it with anything without losing some of the O Haze.
Even though it was much harder decades ago, careful selection and testing has gone into the old IBLs and indica-sativa hybrids many crosses and pollen chucks are based on. After that is was a long time all about THC levels and frostiness, the thc levels tested in many coffeeshops every year for decades show that nicely. Over the past 5 or more years it's more about taste and even looks (purple...). Now with lab testing for cannabinoid profiles breeders can focus again on the effect and use landraces to 'repair' the genepool.
retyred
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As a recent "retiree" who did without mj for over 35 years because of my career I think it has become more potent. Breeding, genetics and growing techniques have increased thc levels. In high school in the 60s you could smoke and still function, stuff I've run into now will pretty well make me a blathering idiot if I'm not careful.
ps:
I'm straight right now. Anyone remember Rochdale?
ps:
I'm straight right now. Anyone remember Rochdale?
ttystikk
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First, whoever said that marijuana genetics are narrowing has it exactly backwards; there is an explosion of genetic diversity underway greater than any in the plant's ten thousand year history of association with our species... which brings me to my second point;know what's funny?
i just got a stack of old hightimes from a friend who's demo'ing a house.. 1983-89
..and in one they posed the exact same question.
wonder if this question/BS fact will ever go away? (they actually said that it was infact more potent in the 19th century.. dunno where they got that from though)
wonder if it's just generations wanting to think they're stuff is the best
It's BEEN many thousands of years and hundreds of generations of growers who have made the plant what we see today. We stand on the shoulders of every one of them and there is nothing new under the sun genetically, just new mixes and ever more and better selective breeding.
I'm quite sure that Thomas Jefferson's personal stash would get any of us plenty ripped today.
ttystikk
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I don't buy this cock n bull story for one single minute.
BarnBuster
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Every year has had it's good and bad. At least I was lucky/connected/$$$$ enough in that I've had pot at the very least several times a year since the early 70's that's really kicked my ass. My memories of dope gone by has been clouded by the halcyon days of my youth. Spicy gold Columbian pot that sent you on a rocket ship ride has always stood out in my mind. however.
Grandpapy
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Pin joints of gold!!!!! Aw man that shit won't get a fly high.....
4 hours later........What were we doing???
BarnBuster
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Ha, Ha, having no idea which direction you should drive on a road you've been on 1000 times before
(Edit: first time I smoked gold, a buddy got in the car and started cracking on me about what I brought to smoke. what I had was good. we fired it up, he took a couple of hits, made a face like he was smoking dog shit and tossed it out the window. he pulled out a pin thin, i laughed at it, we smoked it and got lost. a memory that's stuck in my mind for 40 years)
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