anyone get high in the 60's and 70's?

[DazedandConfused]

that had to have been awesome. was anyone on here growing up and getting high back then? if so tell me about it

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Nice job at double posting it. lol.

Nah man, born back in '88, so I can't help you ;)

[DazedandConfused]

uhm, alright dude

[bonsaiguy]

that had to have been awesome. was anyone on here growing up and getting high back then? if so tell me about it

What would you like to know? I started smoking on my 16th bday in...ummm...
wait...it's coming to me....oh yeah, 1974. Which makes me about 3 days older than god.

[deathbyvalley]

wait...it's coming to me....oh yeah, 1974. Which makes me about 3 days older than god.
lol

[emg]

What would you like to know? I started smoking on my 16th bday in...ummm...
wait...it's coming to me....oh yeah, 1974. Which makes me about 3 days older than god.

well, i was born in 1981, so i would like to know:

was weed better back then? or now?

[flamingskullballs]

i, personally, think that i like to smoke pot

[bonsaiguy]

There's more "better" available now. Back then it was pretty much Acupulco Gold, Columbian red bud or gold, Thai stick, the rare hawaiian, some average hash...none of this Baskin Robbins 131 flavors you kids can choose from today.
Oh, and no internet.

[beachguy in thongs]

well, i was born in 1981, so i would like to know:

was weed better back then? or now?
CLAIM #2:

MARIJUANA POTENCY HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY

The claim that there has been a 10-, 20- or 30-fold increase in marijuana potency since the 1970s is used to discredit previous studies that showed minimal harm caused by the drug and convince users from earlier eras that today's marijuana is much more dangerous.

THE FACTS

For more than 20 years the government-funded Potency Monitoring Project (PMP) at the University of Mississippi has been analyzing samples of marijuana submitted by U.S. law enforcement officials. At no time have police seizures reflected the marijuana generally available to users around the country and, in the 1970s, they were over- represented by large-volume low-potency Mexican kilobricks. 8

During the 1970s, the PMP regularly reported potency averages of under 1%, with a low of 0.4% in 1974. Quite clearly, these averages underestimate the THC content of marijuana smoked during this period.

Marijuana of under 0.5% potency has almost no psychoactivity. While it is possible that people sometimes obtained marijuana of such low potency, for the drug to have become popular in the 1960s and 1970s, most people must have regularly obtained marijuana with higher THC content.

Until the late 1970s, PMP samples included none of the traditionally higher-potency cannabis products, such as buds and sinsemilla, even though these products were available on the retail market. When changes in police practices resulted in their seizure, PMP potency averages increased.

Every independent analysis of potency in the 1970s found higher THC averages than the PMP For example, the 59 samples submitted to PharmChem Laboratories in 1973 averaged 1.62%; only 16 (27%) contained less than 1% THC, more than half were over 2% and about one-fifth were over 4%. In 1975, PharmChem samples anged from 2 to 5%, with some as high as 14% - nearly 30 times the .71 average reported by the PMP 9

After 1980, both the number and variety of official seizures increased dramatically, improving the validity of the PMP's reported averages, although they continue to be based on "convenience" rather than "representative" samples.

As shown below, average potency has remained essentially unchanged since the early 1980s:

Mean Percentage THC of Seized Marijuana, 1981-1993
Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project

[bonsaiguy]

I agree Beachguy, those "studies" are just plan bullshit. Like I said, there is just more of the primo in more varieties available today, but it's not any better or worse than the "primo" we had back then.

[Ganj]

i, personally, think that i like to smoke potthat's a fact!! lol

there's a lot that goes into consideration when talking about potency of marijuana throughout a persons life. for instance, a friend of mines mother agrees that the shit we get nowadays is much more potent than what they used to smoke back then. like bonsai guy said, we've got variety.
most of the marijuana smoked back in the sixties and seventies was probably provided from an unknown source out of another country (mexico, columbia, etc). there have been a lot of advances in growing marijuana since those days.

for instance, the government opening up trade with outside governments is a important factor as to why we have more potent marijuana to this day. just a few questions that arise:

1. what's the cause of more potent marijuana coming to the states?
2. what kind of marijuana were europeans smoking in the sixties and seventies?
3. could the trade agreements between nations influence "better" marijuana?
4. does a person still get the same high after decades of smoking?
5. what important advances has there been in growing marijuana?
a. technological advances?

one thing i'd really love to know is why in the hell have the prices gone up so drastically?

[Brennan]

Hippies preferred homegrown that's all that it was.

[Fabolous]

personally i don't see how one can andswer that question, not like anyone could becase most likely they have forgot on how good or bad it was back then, i mean come on can you tell now from ur frist joint you ever had, was it that much better now? no study or word from mouth can say yes or no inless we had a time machine(witch would slove omost everything in the would today, if we had one)

[Roadking]

The first time I got high was in 68, i think. Two brothers had moved into town and they bragged of having smoked dope. I told them I wasn't afraid to try it...and a few days later at a basketball game, a kid a year younger than me sat down on the bench. "I hear you wanna try some pot," he said.
I didn't really want to...but i surely couldn't back down then. It was this same kid that I would trip with a year or so later. He hung out with the older teens...and they tolerated him, but sometimes tried to run him off. I remember watching the hippies try to pry his hands off of a car seat when he refused to get out of the car as they were leaving for a party in the woods. But he was able to get hold of the better drugs. And once you're in....you're in. Back then you could buy a marlboro box stuffed with good turkish weed for five bucks. A nickel. And there was mescaline. this I found out by accident. my sister was into drugs...and one day after school, I was going through her purse. I found a little pink capsule. I thought it was a downer...and that I could get away with eating it before supper. I emptied out the contents and replaced the contents with crushed aspirin. Yes, I was now a theif too.
Ah....but the music! Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young came out with Deja Vu sometime in the early seventies? or was it 69? No....after Woodstock.
the summer camp outs...beer on the hill. red sunsets....

Anyhow...black opium treated hash, mesc, thc, lsd, cocaine, testers rubber cement(yup...we even sniffed glue), beer, cheap wine, uppers, downers, black beauties, crossroads, animal tranquilizers, etc., etc....oh...and mom had some kick-ass valiums too.

and there were the rip-offs who would sell a kid catnip for grass...or if you wanted an upper, would sell you a downer...

Would have made it through high-school if the booze hadn't kicked in late in my senior year...

"we grew up smashed...and we grew up alone..." - Tom Petty

[Roadking]

oh...and the last I heard of my friend...was that he had problems and tried to shoot drano into his arm...

[Ganj]

The first time I got high was in 68, i think. Two brothers had moved into town and they bragged of having smoked dope. I told them I wasn't afraid to try it...and a few days later at a basketball game, a kid a year younger than me sat down on the bench. "I hear you wanna try some pot," he said.
I didn't really want to...but i surely couldn't back down then. It was this same kid that I would trip with a year or so later. He hung out with the older teens...and they tolerated him, but sometimes tried to run him off. I remember watching the hippies try to pry his hands off of a car seat when he refused to get out of the car as they were leaving for a party in the woods. But he was able to get hold of the better drugs. And once you're in....you're in. Back then you could buy a marlboro box stuffed with good turkish weed for five bucks. A nickel. And there was mescaline. this I found out by accident. my sister was into drugs...and one day after school, I was going through her purse. I found a little pink capsule. I thought it was a downer...and that I could get away with eating it before supper. I emptied out the contents and replaced the contents with crushed aspirin. Yes, I was now a theif too.
Ah....but the music! Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young came out with Deja Vu sometime in the early seventies? or was it 69? No....after Woodstock.
the summer camp outs...beer on the hill. red sunsets....

Anyhow...black opium treated hash, mesc, thc, lsd, cocaine, testers rubber cement(yup...we even sniffed glue), beer, cheap wine, uppers, downers, black beauties, crossroads, animal tranquilizers, etc., etc....oh...and mom had some kick-ass valiums too.

and there were the rip-offs who would sell a kid catnip for grass...or if you wanted an upper, would sell you a downer...

Would have made it through high-school if the booze hadn't kicked in late in my senior year...

"we grew up smashed...and we grew up alone..." - Tom Petty
not that much different from how i grew up...well...not much different from what i've experiened in the past two or three years. thanks for the memories, man. ooooh, i need to get ahold of this mescaline.

[Psycho4Bud]

Homegrown was considered as dirt weed. Mexican sold for $15 and ounce and Columbian was $25. I remember the ol' Columbian Gold and Acapulco Gold was the shit!!! I smoked a hash bowl of lumbo gold with a buddy one time and he puked up his supper!! :rasta:

[bonsaiguy]

Homegrown was considered as dirt weed. Mexican sold for $15 and ounce and Columbian was $25. I remember the ol' Columbian Gold and Acapulco Gold was the shit!!! I smoked a hash bowl of lumbo gold with a buddy one time and he puked up his supper!! :rasta:

You're right about homegrown. It was always suspect. No where near as much info on growing back then. Just good old Ed Rosenthal.

[flamingskullballs]

i cant wait till i grow mushies...

[litespeed]

in the sixties I got mine from Casablanca, Morocco and it was african black and it cost 250. an oz. 1 or 2 hits where good for 4 to 6 hours, we had potent marijuana then also. and Afgainastand hash :thumbsup:

[Psycho4Bud]

in the sixties I got mine from Casablanca, Morocco and it was african black and it cost 250. an oz. 1 or 2 hits where good for 4 to 6 hours, we had potent marijuana then also. and Afgainastand hash :thumbsup:

Oh hell ya, good ol' Afghan Hash. Now that was some good shit!! Wasn't that about $5 -$10 a gram?

[bonsaiguy]

That sounds about right Psycho. And you were dead on about the mex and lumbo...you from the midwest?

[Psycho4Bud]

That sounds about right Psycho. And you were dead on about the mex and lumbo...you from the midwest?

If your in the cities I'm 90 miles due east on 94. :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

I am. Northern burbs. Spitting distance from Hwy 10. Makes me wonder if we've ever crossed paths before. Maybe we should sometime.

[Psycho4Bud]

I am. Northern burbs. Spitting distance from Hwy 10. Makes me wonder if we've ever crossed paths before. Maybe we should sometime.

That would be cool....usually during the summer I take the scoot to Hudson. Sit up on the Indian burial grounds and smoke a "j" lookin' over the river. Send me a e-mail. [email protected] :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

You'd be one macho bastard to be riding your bike right now.

[Psycho4Bud]

You'd be one macho bastard to be riding your bike right now.

LOL...not happening now dude! Jack Frost nipping at my nuts ain't for me! :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

I know man, I hate this fucking winter shit. I swear I will retire somewhere that has no winter.

[Psycho4Bud]

I know man, I hate this fucking winter shit. I swear I will retire somewhere that has no winter.

I was thinkin' New Orleans....get on the ground level. Fun party town and WARM!!! :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

I don't know about the south. Not all bad I suppose. Wife and I took a trip to SanDiego last year...beautiful area. But real estate is nuts out there. Maybe Arizona...Would be fun to spend some time wandering the desert.

[Psycho4Bud]

I don't know about the south. Not all bad I suppose. Wife and I took a trip to SanDiego last year...beautiful area. But real estate is nuts out there. Maybe Arizona...Would be fun to spend some time wandering the desert.

Got a buddy that moved to Arizona a couple years back. Gotta wear gloves when you ride or your hands will cook from the heat comin off the road. My bro lives in the San Diego area...he likes it but its not really my bag. Ya dude, we'll have to hook up some time for a toke! :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

Got a buddy that moved to Arizona a couple years back. Gotta wear gloves when you ride or your hands will cook from the heat comin off the road. My bro lives in the San Diego area...he likes it but its not really my bag. Ya dude, we'll have to hook up some time for a toke! :thumbsup:

I got your addy, mine's in my sig. We can figure it out after the holidays settle down. BTW, you married or single? No, not looking for a date, just nosey.

[Psycho4Bud]

I got your addy, mine's in my sig. We can figure it out after the holidays settle down. BTW, you married or single? No, not looking for a date, just nosey.

Got married...got divorced...but then I got married again...oh well, got divorced....Catch up with ya after the holidays! :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

Got married...got divorced...but then I got married again...oh well, got divorced....Catch up with ya after the holidays! :thumbsup:

That's what I get for being nosey. Sorry if I dredged anything up.
After the holidays it is.

[Psycho4Bud]

That's what I get for being nosey. Sorry if I dredged anything up.
After the holidays it is.

It's cool....I look at it like this, doesn't matter what you rent, you gotta pay for it in the end! :thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

It's cool....I look at it like this, doesn't matter what you rent, you gotta pay for it in the end! :thumbsup:

Funny...good one.
Married 25 years here. To the same woman that is.

[Psycho4Bud]

Funny...good one.
Married 25 years here. To the same woman that is.

Congrads....I told the last one she would go before the scoot..I'll be damned if I wasn't right! :thumbsup:

[peji]

:smokin: Class of 1975,,,sweet memories of floating down the American River w/ buds & brew,,,summer concerts,,,keg parties by the river... Hip huggers,,halter tank tops...tie-dyed shirts....those were the dayz my friend...Oh yes $15 (lid=oz),,,columbian gold, panama red...chocolate chip mesacline,,,strawberry micro-dot acid........ :stoned: Who cares if the potency wasn't higher than todays smoke,,,I still got stoned then & still am getting stoned now :smokin:

[Roadking]

Got a buddy that moved to Arizona a couple years back. Gotta wear gloves when you ride or your hands will cook from the heat comin off the road. My bro lives in the San Diego area...he likes it but its not really my bag. Ya dude, we'll have to hook up some time for a toke! :thumbsup:

Yep....that highway 8 down along the border. Your handgrips melt...and when you wipe your forehead with your hand you leave a black mark. The good thing about that stretch of road is that you can pull to the side, get off your bike, click a couple of pictures, get back on and ride away before another vehicle comes by.
San Diego is too crowded...not the safest place to ride.

[Roadking]

here are some random pictures....three of them, including the photoshopped one are from highway 8...

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

here are some random pictures....three of them, including the photoshopped one are from highway 8...

Oh man, that loooks cool :D
I love the photoshopped one, well trippy :p

You lot have a good time meetin' up for that session.
Also, if anyone has any holidays, driving up and down highway 8 booked for anytime soon, I wanna come, it looks nice. :)

[Torog]

that had to have been awesome. was anyone on here growing up and getting high back then? if so tell me about it
Howdy Dazed,

I started toking in '73..I went from being a redneck kid with a flat-top haircut,to growing my hair and beard out,my old man,was a 6' 5",240 lb redneck from hell..lol,but I was in the mood to rebel..so I did. It was a great time to be alive,I tell you what ! What we had back then,is pretty much as bonsaiguy and RoadKing described, if I had my way,I'd like to grow out the classic strains we toked back then,I do miss them ! I miss those days..dang near every Friday night,my brother and I,would git an oz and a case of beer..and party like there was no tomorrow..lol.

Have a good one !

[Starchild]

Raises hand..I lived next door to hippies when I was 11~1973~I would babysit all night while they went out..They gave me a bag of weed and after the kids went to bed,I would smoke and listen to Frampton Comes Alive,David Bowie or whatever my mood and just smoke.... :rasta:

[Fengzi]

First time I somked was in '82 so I guess it doesn't really count as the 60's or 70's but it comes close. Yeah, we used to get some kick ass buds back then but it was only every now and then. I think the big reason we're seeing such high potencies now, at least on a regular basis, is that a lot of weed is now grown indoors and in the U.S. (or Canada). Back then it was coming in from Mexico or points furthur south. Most likely is was grown outdoors as big cash crops. Money was the key, not growing premium weed. That's why there was a lot of seeds and the potency wasn't so great. Also, weed grown outdoors has a definite harvest time so if you were buying a bag in July it was most likely already 7-8 months old.

Now weed is grown by people who take pride in their work and are trying to produce the highest potency weed they can. They'll wait a little longer and take care that no male plants get mixed in. Hell, I haven't even seen a seed in at least 5 years. Plus, when its grown indoors the harvest time only depends on when it was planted, not the time of the year. So, you're more likely to be gettiung fresher weed.

[DazedandConfused]

it had to be awesome getting high back then. did anyone ever drop acid in the 60's or 70's?

[Psycho4Bud]

it had to be awesome getting high back then. did anyone ever drop acid in the 60's or 70's?

Hell ya, first time I thought I was about 3 inches tall. What a fuckin' night!!!