Do you think weed is better now than in the 70s, 80s and 90s?

[TomH]

I did a simple search and my stoned arse didn’t see anything like this, but it seems like a question than has to have been asked before!

Is weed better today than it was in decades past?
I didn’t smoke in the 60s, not idea what it was like, but in the 70s and 80s, I had some of the greatest weed I can possibly imagine. Aromas that just apparently don’t exist anymore!
I used to regularly get something called “Purple Sierra”, it was purple and smelled like a Christmas tree farm.
My buddy used to get thai stick that a pinner share by 4 people would render all of us wasted!
I smoked some African weed that was like mushrooms! I sat in my yard and watched grass grow for a few hours!
I can also remember some skunk that smelled like Pepe le’ pew’s ass pipe!

Today, I have froot loops, berry and skunk that even occasionally smells a little! Even my own weed doesn’t compare to those aromas (in my memory)!

Now, the weed today is probably more potent, but I’m not sure I’d check off the “better” box though. Just way different!

In my humble opinion, I prefer the weed from my memories, but I’m pleased with the weed from my garden!

Your experience and stories welcomed!

 

[SSgrower]

I did a simple search and my stoned arse didn’t see anything like this, but it seems like a question than has to have been asked before!

Is weed better today than it was in decades past?
I didn’t smoke in the 60s, not idea what it was like, but in the 70s and 80s, I had some of the greatest weed I can possibly imagine. Aromas that just apparently don’t exist anymore!
I used to regularly get something called “Purple Sierra”, it was purple and smelled like a Christmas tree farm.
My buddy used to get thai stick that a pinner share by 4 people would render all of us wasted!
I smoked some African weed that was like mushrooms! I sat in my yard and watched grass grow for a few hours!
I can also remember some skunk that smelled like Pepe le’ pew’s ass pipe!

Today, I have froot loops, berry and skunk that even occasionally smells a little! Even my own weed doesn’t compare to those aromas (in my memory)!

Now, the weed today is probably more potent, but I’m not sure I’d check off the “better” box though. Just way different!

In my humble opinion, I prefer the weed from my memories, but I’m pleased with the weed from my garden!

Your experience and stories welcomed!

I had 70 weed and can attest to this summation as I enjoyed "Skunk", Michoican, Alcopolco, and others where I would "Trip". It's "Real", no Joke!

 

[Garbage_bear]

I had 70 weed and can attest to this summation as I enjoyed "Skunk", Michoican, Alcopolco, and others where I would "Trip". It's "Real", no Joke!

The ones where you would trip is the loooong flowering sativas with THCP. I really miss those. I mostly avoid sativa at the dispensaries because no one finishes them. They always harvest early for $$$

 

[willie]

The first time I saw weed smoked was in 1969. I was at my friends house and his older sister had some folks over and they were rolling joints! Holy shit....I was 11 t the time. They made me take a hit. And after I coughed my ass off I went right to the window and peered out from the curtain because I was CONVINCED the police were on they way. I wasn't high at all, but definitely paranoid. Never smoked again for 4 more years and then all hell broke out, lol. I became a retailer, lol.
Now, whether weed today is more potent or not I don't know. But one of the things we did at college was to have 1/2 ounce parties. Round up 10 people who each had to pony up $2. (Oz's were $40 at the time). The half oz was smoked by joint, pipe, bongs and the 10 people walked out of the session completely wasted on their ass. I'd love to see this happen now and the results because that would tell you. You'd need to test it on youngsters though and not us over tolerance oldsters.

Thank Ronald Raygun for your sinse (and the runaway prices of the 80's)

 

[Beachwalker]

It was better in the 70s by leaps and bounds

There were reds and golds that came down to Boston from Montreal from around 73 to 78 that would knock your socks off!

Finest cannabis I've ever smoked.

 

[steamroller]

It was better in the 70s by leaps and bounds

There were reds and golds that came down to Boston from Montreal from around 73 to 78 that would knock your socks off!

Finest cannabis I've ever smoked.

I am the youngest in my family at almost 60.
My older brothers used to get Panama Red, Columbian Gold and real Thia Stick~!
It seemed better then but not from here, all imported/smuggled.
I cannot even imagine the price for that today~!

 

[TomH]

It was better in the 70s by leaps and bounds

There were reds and golds that came down to Boston from Montreal from around 73 to 78 that would knock your socks off!

Finest cannabis I've ever smoked.

That’s my recollection as well.
Different sides of the country but awesome weed to be found on occasion.
There was also cheap lousy stuff that I smoked a lot of. But the good stuff was pretty awesome.

 

[steamroller]

I remember back in the 80's and 90's that the best weed would arrive around the holidays.
Whether it was just harvesting time or college kids coming home there was always fire that was not always available.
When I first started growing back then I would have to hide some to make it last till the holidays.

 

[Pipecarver]

Today's weed blows the doors off the old stuff. I've been smoking since the 60;s and each generation something new came along that had a better buzz, taste and experience. I smoked them all until lately and with all the new shit its gotten out of control. I just can't keep up. Buds were never as frosty with such a variety of tastes and high thc content as they are today.

I think our good highs from the past were a lot to do with time and space we occupied at the time. With Friends, concerts,BBQ's and such we experienced pot differently. Today I get a buzz, back 50 years ago I got wasted....time and space my friends. There was some good weed but in general most weed we can grow today is far better than what we could grow 20-30-40-50 years ago. genetics have been manipulated and we have pot on steroids compared to the old days

All of course just imho but I'm fkin right I'm 72 years old so don't fkin argue...lol

 

[willie]

Stardate 1978


That's 1 lb of Panama Red on the left and 1/4 lb of red hash on the right. Both were on the higher end of things at the time.

 

[Observer]

It is measurably better

 

[TomH]

It is measurably better

I think that’s the million dollar question. How could we ever measure this?

It’s the incredibly accurate memories that stoner are know to possess versus frosty bud in hand!

We need to invent a time machine because studying early cannabis is the best use for that technology!

 

[Bandit420]

High Times is sort of a time machine in these regards.
Starting in '74 it was best strains of the year then later, cannabis cups starting in '88.
All of these are archived in photos and some of that stuff from the 70s looks closer to yard waste than good pot.
Early to mid 90s it started to look more like what's around today with full buds trimmed and cured well and not looking all grassy.
Take those 90s buds and cover them in sugar and that's what we have today.

Personally, I don't dig many of those old strains. Acapulco Gold and Maui Wowie IMO are trash weed today but the times we had and the youth we lived back then is what became legendary. It was good times with good friends and no hype shit that made those cuts so good

 

[Pipecarver]

High Times is sort of a time machine in these regards.
Starting in '74 it was best strains of the year then later, cannabis cups starting in '88.
All of these are archived in photos and some of that stuff from the 70s looks closer to yard waste than good pot.
Early to mid 90s it started to look more like what's around today with full buds trimmed and cured well and not looking all grassy.
Take those 90s buds and cover them in sugar and that's what we have today.

Personally, I don't dig many of those old strains. Acapulco Gold and Maui Wowie IMO are trash weed today but the times we had and the youth we lived back then is what became legendary. It was good times with good friends and no hype shit that made those cuts so good

I spent the late 70's in Hawaii 77-78..79-80 and what I smoked over there was the best taste I'd ever had with smoke at the time & maybe still to date.

Coming from the Vancouver area in Canada I'd smoked a lot of Mexican dirt weed some Acapolco Red & Gold but mostly seeded Mexican sht.

I was also in California 78-79 worked for CalTrans driving them big Orange trucks up and down the highways, smoking the Red Sinsemilla & Acapulco Gold & some Local grown stuff with buds the size of my arm, first time I'd seen that.

Vancouver BC in the 80's & 90's smoking Skunk, Thai stick & everything else available when Skunk wasn't. I didn't have any Haze until the mid 90's when I moved to the east coast, same as Chemdog & now what ever I grow and a few sample oz's along the way.

I'd really like that Hawaiian stuff again, it had such a unique taste, it would give me that tropical feeling again just having that fresh taste. I wonder if I could ever grow a strain that would give me that taste. I think it would take the soil, humidity, sunlight, constant warm temp, the same atmospheric pressure and salt air and maybe a touch of parrot shit.

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[willie]

I spent the late 70's in Hawaii 77-78..79-80 and what I smoked over there was the best taste I'd ever had with smoke at the time & maybe still to date.

Coming from the Vancouver area in Canada I'd smoked a lot of Mexican dirt weed some Acapolco Red & Gold but mostly seeded Mexican sht.

I was also in California 78-79 worked for CalTrans driving them big Orange trucks up and down the highways, smoking the Red Sinsemilla & Acapulco Gold & some Local grown stuff with buds the size of my arm, first time I'd seen that.

Vancouver BC in the 80's & 90's smoking Skunk, Thai stick & everything else available when Skunk wasn't. I didn't have any Haze until the mid 90's when I moved to the east coast, same as Chemdog & now what ever I grow and a few sample oz's along the way.

I'd really like that Hawaiian stuff again, it had such a unique taste, it would give me that tropical feeling again just having that fresh taste. I wonder if I could ever grow a strain that would give me that taste. I think it would take the soil, humidity, sunlight, constant warm temp, the same atmospheric pressure and salt air and maybe a touch of parrot shit.

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ah.hawaii..... never been there but in '77 I was working with an Englishman here in NY and he went to hawaii and came back with several lbs of Kona Gold. My clique got one of those lbs. Excellent in every way. I'll never forget that and we never ever saw that weed again.

 

[willie]

High Times is sort of a time machine in these regards.
Starting in '74 it was best strains of the year then later, cannabis cups starting in '88.
All of these are archived in photos and some of that stuff from the 70s looks closer to yard waste than good pot.
Early to mid 90s it started to look more like what's around today with full buds trimmed and cured well and not looking all grassy.
Take those 90s buds and cover them in sugar and that's what we have today.

Personally, I don't dig many of those old strains. Acapulco Gold and Maui Wowie IMO are trash weed today but the times we had and the youth we lived back then is what became legendary. It was good times with good friends and no hype shit that made those cuts so good

Around here in '74 it was either mexican or the most awful homegrown....those were the choices, lol.

Imo, I never smoked any decent Acapulco gold, but as time went on there was much more Columbian here than mexican. Never saw Maui Wowie. Thai stick when it originally appeared was awesome. But soon after it was everywhere and bogus, not real T stick.
Weed changed dramatically thru the 80's. Sinse happened! Yard waste could be a good description of some of them and you had to deal with seeds. A lb would almost always fit in a gallon ziplock. When you cut up your louies into zips, you had to allocate the same % of seeds to every bag.
The worst yard waste fiasco I ever had was buying 20 lbs in a black garbage bag.......holy shit, lots of buds on top but there was more shake than I was planning on....never do that was the lesson, lol. That shit got packed up into quarter zips, fill your knapsack and head for the dorms....took a while to get rid of all that

 

[Pipecarver]

Around here in '74 it was either mexican or the most awful homegrown....those were the choices, lol.

Imo, I never smoked any decent Acapulco gold, but as time went on there was much more Columbian here than mexican. Never saw Maui Wowie. Thai stick when it originally appeared was awesome. But soon after it was everywhere and bogus, not real T stick.
Weed changed dramatically thru the 80's. Sinse happened! Yard waste could be a good description of some of them and you had to deal with seeds. A lb would almost always fit in a gallon ziplock. When you cut up your louies into zips, you had to allocate the same % of seeds to every bag.
The worst yard waste fiasco I ever had was buying 20 lbs in a black garbage bag.......holy shit, lots of buds on top but there was more shake than I was planning on....never do that was the lesson, lol. That shit got packed up into quarter zips, fill your knapsack and head for the dorms....took a while to get rid of all that

Some buddies of mine drove to Mexico from Canada late 60's. They bought 4-5 lbs of pot and loaded it in their spare tire. To be careful it was placed on the car as they drove over both borders and drove about 20 miles away from the border before they'd switch it out again.

When they got back and we started smoking it it was like smoking rubber, gagged and coughed its now known as the Michelin weed run but having nothing else we smoked all they couldn't sell. It was gross but it was weed...every time I smell burning rubber I remember that weed...lol

 

[steamroller]

Thai stick when it originally appeared was awesome. But soon after it was everywhere and bogus, not real T stick.

I remember a dude saying he had Thia stick and he pulled out small buds tied on a stem~!
1982~!
I looked at him and was like $15 a gram, pass~!
Ounces were $35- 40 of good weed and QPs $120.
$15 a gram for shit tied to a stem~!

 

[TomH]

I remember a dude saying he had Thia stick and he pulled out small buds tied on a stem~!
1982~!
I looked at him and was like $15 a gram, pass~!
Ounces were $35- 40 of good weed and QPs $120.
$15 a gram for shit tied to a stem~!

My friend that lived across the street used to get those thai stick that were tied to a thai stick and boy did they ever feel sticky.

That stuff was serious, messed me up every time, lose my brain weed. I couldn’t tell you how it smelled, I was too busy just gooning out!

 

[stonemason]

ah.hawaii..... never been there but in '77 I was working with an Englishman here in NY and he went to hawaii and came back with several lbs of Kona Gold. My clique got one of those lbs. Excellent in every way. I'll never forget that and we never ever saw that weed again.

We used to have an old picture in the family photo album of a big kona gold plant. My dad went to Hawaii in the late 70s and met a guy that grew it.when he got home the dude mailed him a couple grams, my mom said they smoked a tiny little joint in the car with the dog in there clam baking.she said the dog was so baked it had trouble walking. Neither of them smoked after me and my brother where born ,but they always talked about that kona gold