Weed Taste Different

cock roach

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I started back smoking weed about a year ago at age 73. The last time I smoked I was in my 20's about 1968. I think what we bought was brick weed from Mexico, but today's weed to me taste and smells different. I'm not saying that the old brick weed is better, just think it's not the same anymore.
 

NaturalFarmer

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Cannabis changed over in the eighties in the US when sativas and indicas became hybrids together. Mainly sativa was all you could find back in the day. You can still grab sativas though but the quality is much better and cleaner I would assume as well as the storage.
 

Fatmat19

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I’m 36 and grew up on brick weed, can’t say I miss it. I think I read somewhere that drying bud to fast instead of curing it gives you a hay type smell/taste.
From a small town that had limited options brickweed, mid grade, and green lmao. The best of the best back in my early twenties doesn’t compare with medical grade today.
 

Coloradoclear

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I'm old school 73 years old makes me that way I guess? So I prefer the old taste and smell. All these Berry, Cookies, Cheese are like girly stuff to me ...ha
Holy fucking fossil!!!!!! Just kidding, glad to see you enjoying some herb. If your in a legal state, try smoking some East Coast Sour Diesel.
 

Thundercat

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I'm old school 73 years old makes me that way I guess? So I prefer the old taste and smell. All these Berry, Cookies, Cheese are like girly stuff to me ...ha
I would bet you can find something you like from the new stuff, because there are so many options. You could grow some of the old school sativas and see what you think. Try some skunks, or diesel strains, or some landrace genetics. I haven't grown them but Mandala seeds is supposed to have some awesome landrace crosses.
 

Couch_Lock

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I'm old school 73 years old makes me that way I guess? So I prefer the old taste and smell. All these Berry, Cookies, Cheese are like girly stuff to me ...ha
I'm an elder myself these days......63.

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Renfro

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I remember smoking that old crappy brick weed. Every once in a while you'd get a good sack of brick weed, less seeds and all mature fat black seeds, emerald green, you could see it sparkle in the light from all the compressed trichomes. That stuff got me so high, good sativa buzz and good flavor, subdued skunky smell. Had to be a landrace sativa.
 

Renfro

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I think a lot of the taste difference is because of the way weed was dried "cured" and the fact that it usually aged a lot. A lot of terpene degradation and evaporation in the imported brick weed. Id imagine what they were smoking where ever it was grown was a lot better than what made it to the USA.
 

Couch_Lock

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Well all that old school landrace was grown outdoors, and likely only fertilized with nutes initially. After that just water, there weren't lots of commercial growing operations in the mid 60's and early 70's....very few..

Exotics back then, always on point.

today so many hybrids and mixes in the plants lineage that many variations occur naturally, and excessive nutes most use nowadays.

hence flavor can be hit and/ or miss now....
 

T macc

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I was just talking about this with a friend. I'm still in my 20's, but I remember bud in the mid 2000's being better. Today's weed test higher in thc, but in my opinion, the high just feels generic. Many crosses today are watered down kush's. I love strains of the 80's and 90's, and crosses of. That's all I really grow. Or maybe the stuff that comes thru here isn't properly grown etc.
My friend tried to argue that the smells and tastes of today's herb is better for social events. Which I could understand to an extent. But "danker" smells always do me right. Who cares about taste when you're in another world, raiding your fridge lol
 

Kingrow1

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I was just talking about this with a friend. I'm still in my 20's, but I remember bud in the mid 2000's being better. Today's weed test higher in thc, but in my opinion, the high just feels generic. Many crosses today are watered down kush's. I love strains of the 80's and 90's, and crosses of. That's all I really grow. Or maybe the stuff that comes thru here isn't properly grown etc.
My friend tried to argue that the smells and tastes of today's herb is better for social events. Which I could understand to an extent. But "danker" smells always do me right. Who cares about taste when you're in another world, raiding your fridge lol
Totally agree, these millennials aint got a clue what good weed is s'why they have ten different strains every grow :-)
 

Antitheist

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I’m 36 and grew up on brick weed, can’t say I miss it. I think I read somewhere that drying bud to fast instead of curing it gives you a hay type smell/taste.
From a small town that had limited options brickweed, mid grade, and green lmao. The best of the best back in my early twenties doesn’t compare with medical grade today.
Sounds like my story. I grew up in small town Midwest . Im 40. I smoked nothing but mexican brick from about 95 until probably 2005. Couldn't get anything else around there. Still hard to find anything good.
 

Beachwalker

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I started back smoking weed about a year ago at age 73. The last time I smoked I was in my 20's about 1968. I think what we bought was brick weed from Mexico, but today's weed to me taste and smells different. I'm not saying that the old brick weed is better, just think it's not the same anymore.
Agree
 

tyke1973

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I started back smoking weed about a year ago at age 73. The last time I smoked I was in my 20's about 1968. I think what we bought was brick weed from Mexico, but today's weed to me taste and smells different. I'm not saying that the old brick weed is better, just think it's not the same anymore.
Love this Post,what you smoking on.It took some getting used too,to be honest.Not keen on Sativas,i like indicas.But Sativas make great oil and hash.Are you growing or just smoking brother.I agree its not the same,and i think its one of the only things that has changed in a big way that i am happy with,the quality now is just super high grade.In all Honesty i think there is more strength in a 8th over a oz of that old brick week.But back in the days when i first started i smoked Hash red and gold seal along with the slate and soap bar.I was never that keen on soap bar though.But loved the other hash from back then.Funny enough i'm smoking hash that is very much like that old gold seal from years ago,But its far stronger,but taste is same just far more sticky.Never really enjoyed the weed from back then,apart from the odd time we got thai weed.But that was full of seed,i love a few of those seeds now though just to see what i could do with it.You also have to take into account when we was younger we was smoking with friends,having a good chuckle,I aint had one of those laughing fits you used to have sometimes when we smoked for years.Most of the time i smoking it with wife,or when family come who smoke.But i smoke now for pain and other medical problems i have,and it really does help.But my wife just does not get high,I can smoke half a joint so a gram and i feel it ,she smokes a full one and the only thing it does is she sleeps,that's it.But not one tablet doctor gave her,makes her sleep like she does when she has had a smoke.Its the only thing that numbs the pain.
 
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tyke1973

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20190101_174807.jpg Go with some of the old lines,Like Skunk # 1,Northern Lights,Ak47 ,Big bud ,Afganica # 1 ,these seem to be better for those that miss those old school flavors.But to be honest i would seek out good quality soft black,its what i smoke.Same taste has the old stuff,But just far stronger love it.I know the dude who is getting it fresh of the block,so getting it for a nice price.I do smoke bud at night though,just love a change.But through day i smoke this.This Melts like wax.Full of flavor that peper kinda old school smell.I'm loving all this New stuff the wedding cake and El chapo,Strawberry Sorbet ,i like them all.
 
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