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i have been smoking since 69 and acapulco gold was epic,weed now is a lot stronger and some stuff taste really good.Try some sweet tooth#1 or afghan kush and u will know what i mean.AGE don't mean nothing boy!CHILL OUT:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
i have been smoking since 69 and acapulco gold was epic,weed now is a lot stronger and some stuff taste really good.Try some sweet tooth#1 or afghan kush and u will know what i mean.AGE don't mean nothing boy!CHILL OUT:thumbsup:spider and mississippi steve need to grow up,stop smokin shit. grow your own chronic.... please stop bitchin,todays weed is epic if u get the right shit.....for u ...each to their own. happy days;);):DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
yea the stuff in the stores are pumped with bullshit to make them look better and have better color etc.iv even got weed that tasted and smelled like lemon washing up liquid.who makes this crap and do they think were actually stupid enough to say"yea that tastes good "they just dont make weed like thay used to too much fertalizer and stuff for growing to have the weed there was back thenQuote:
Originally Posted by fasterspider
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Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
iv gotten through school high every day have a good job and a car and still drive to work high every day?
plus the weed in the 70,s was bullshit to the weed today u cant compareQuote:
Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
What you're smelling is the nutrients and different products used to grow. You should be grateful you get to smoke professionally grown and cured buds though.
I dunno, I was getting hawiian, thai, sensimillia, and some rockin indica back then..... and that doesn't include what I was getting when I was overseas. Some of the domestic stuff was almost as good as what I am growing now. I still haven't found anything that compares to the stuff I got on Yap Island in 1979.Quote:
Originally Posted by indicadyl
FWIW, back then, my buds were buying oz zips of colombian, or mexican for $25, and their whole stash would be gone in a week or less. I would buy a 1/4 of something decent, and still be gatting hammered at the end of the month.
I guess you have to be old enough to have been there.
Mmmmmm Thai sticks didn't see them very often but a lovely treat when they did turn up. compared to todays weed i wouldn't say it was better than the good bud today as i think tolerance levels are higher as the weed has gradually got stronger. 25 yrs ago i didn't have a pick of good quality weed like i do now it was mostly hash temple ball, double zero, paki black, gold seal and lebonese gold :D
I think it may be worth mentioning that if you have been smoking for years, 20+, I think it's safe to say your personal tolerances are different than they were "back in the day". I sure wish I had been around for some of the old school landraces, but when I see pictures of them, they do look a little skitchy. Of course I didn't grow up on Acapulco Gold, so I can't give a personal opinion on experience, but by looks alone, I would definitely prefer todays smoke.
I'm not even going to attempt to figure out where that smell of weed went, I'm only 30 and I remember getting bags back in the day that smelled like weed. All the good stuff had that same weed smell, and I haven't had anything like it in years.
That being said, i think the "potency" vs decade argument is a purely subjective one to the individual. With so many combinations of cannabinoids, everyone has different experiences with different herb. Most of what I have read about potency suggests that today's weed is of higher potency, but with it's subjective nature, that doesn't necessarily equal a better experience for the individual.
I blame the internet..
WHAT!? kidding right..chanel 5 sounds gross.. i like my nugs nice and green, and shiny with crystals get an oz of it lasts me 3 weeks. smoke that mexican shit i just end up with seeds that wont germinate and alot of stems.
In the 70's, and early 80's, we could get ripped on a pin joint by ourselves, and a two-paper joint would blast-off a group of several.Quote:
Originally Posted by indicadyl
Today, they roll huge things called "blunts", that have enough weed in them that if they contained good 70's weed it would last a person a week or more!
Bring back the great imports of the past and you'll have better highs, with less smoking.
Yes,I dont understand.My oldest son&friends do it in blunts-ruins the taste but u do get WASTED
faster, you may not recall me, but you have had the same avatar for years. Can't forget you lol.
I just bought some really good weed. I know EXACTLY what you mean about skunk piss. Animal piss in general though, imo. Once I walked into my house after my cat got done with a whole day of spraying the furniture, took my sister an hour of explanation before I stopped believing she had toked up without me.
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I agree in general with the consensus view that most weed is not the smell I want. The smell I generally want I usually describe as swampy weird outdoors stuff (like my dad used to smoke).
Anyways, the pot club I belong to (CALM) had a strain they called Chocolate Thai listed as B and as a strong Sativa dominant blend. The nugs were fairly compressed. The first time I bought it it was completely full of seeds and stems. I took the time and separated the buds out and picked through the seeds so that I'd have something worth smoking. The buds were small, completely flattened and crumbled out very nicely in your fingers. A true cannaisseur friend of mine came over and told me right off the bat that what I had was just some nice land-strain from Jamaica.
Living in Toronto I had somehow managed to avoid this amazing strain until now. The taste is minty and the "chocolate" aspect would come from the slightly fermented flavour that I would describe as almost brandy like. Really strong flavour when smoked, not a super strong smell in the bag but definitely noticeable when you crack a bud.
Out of the 10 grams about 1 whole gram was seeds and what remained didn't last me very long so I went back to pick up another half oz. This time around very few seeds and the stems that are there are large, not small: the buds are also much larger: still flattened and compressed together of course but some nugs are almost a gram, which I view as good for this type of weed.
The other day I ended up at a Jamaican friends house. He had told me once when I offered him a hit from a joint I'd rolled that he only smoked hash, not weed. Well, found out that was just a nice way of saying he only smokes good Jamaican sess (and busts out the hash to impress at the pot cafe). He showed me the tiny "brick" of sess he had, which looked very much like a more compressed version of the weed I had. It also smelled very similar but much stronger in the bag. Both weeds had the same effect :rastasmoke:
Long lasting high, perfect for music or concerts, total relief of back/nerve pain in my entire body. Grooving. I used to work out stoned all the time but couldn't with my back pain: this is the only strain that works for me now. This is two bowl weed for me (from the vape) but more than that will have me melt into my bed if I so choose.
Wish there was a way to post a webcam pic here.
edit: thought I should specify that the oz I picked up (as well as my friends) was $170 which is what I used to pay for ozs bout five years ago (for white rhino or white widow) or $6 a gram, which is what it used to cost at the BC compassion club :)
Ah yes. I live in Atlanta, HUGE blunt city. Everyone here smokes them.Quote:
Originally Posted by smello
I hate the little blunt papers with gummy strips. Those are for n00bs and taste bad.
But on topic. Here is my philosophy. I don't care how it smells, or what the name is, or if it indoor/outdoor, sativa/indica, whatever. So long as it gets me baked.
As far as the mids discussion that took place shortly up there. I wouldn't say I PREFER mids, they don't bug me too much. I use a vape 95% of the time, so mids will be better in those. Right now I have some mids packed in my vape. I'm not even down with the bowl and I'm ripped.
Mission successful. :thumbsup:
Oh dude, your words to God's ears...Color me...perfumed..
Mannn, this is a great topic and I always think about this.. almost everyday. As a student of cannabis and a grower of just a few years I try to learn the history behind what I'm doing. I personally believe that the strains cultivated and grown in the native climates of Hawaii, Columbia, Jamaica, etc blow these "medicinal" strains that we have today out of the water. I was born in 1987 so I never experience the 60's/70's strains but I just dont see how overbred, indoor grown nugs can beat a Sativa grown and bred for YEARS in a tropical or subtropical climate. You cant convince me of that. I've smoked just about all the major strains coming out of the California scene and I rate them a C+/B-. Sure the buds are more potent and have higher THC levels but the QUALITY of the high is shit. Who the fuck wants that couchlock, tired, sluggish feeling that you get from most of those buds. I've only had a few buds that gave me that psychedelic, smooth, trippy high that I appreciate and love. I think these funny modern growers need to stop crossbreeding everything they get their hands on, stop worrying about NPK values, and lumens per square ft and take some original strains and experiment with recreating the environment that these strains come from. This new stuff gets you pretty high and I've had stuff that one gram in your pocket will literally leave a trail of the smell wherever you go.. but the quality of the high.. meaning whether it's trippy, dull, or an energetic high.. the quality isn't that great.
I want earthy buds, with a smooth, natural, even fruity taste. The stuff I get my hands on now rarely has a distinct taste or smell and if it does its not natural or earthy.
I think anyone that started smoking after the 90's has gotten severely cheated out of some good nugs unless they just know a great cultivator. When I lived in GA and started smoking in 2000 we were getting some great stuff that was either grown in GA or FLA or some of it could've come from anywhere, but I remember getting golden brown nugs that were so sticky 8 little nugs stuck together in one big ball to make the 8th, or nugs that were completely white with a green tint behind it, and lime green nugs with a ring of orange hairs around it.
Nowadays all I get is this so called medicinal bud that you cant notice any nuances or subtleties between one bud to the next. Sure it gets you high in two or so hits but the highs are usually dull in quality and lack that psychedelic feel. I've had my golden years of cannabis consumption and it just makes me wonder how much better bud from the 60's 70's and 80's could've been. I think it's better to have variety of buds grown all over the world in different climates, different latitudes and under different controls & then shipped in of course in the right conditions and not poorly handled. I dont want to smoke all this indoor bud thats been crossbred 50 times. sorry just had to rant real quick!!!
Those buds may very well have had Chanel 5 on them.
My friends went to Harborside in Oakland and bought some weed. It is like a weed super store. They got a few different types and tried them out. One of the nuggets smelled like perfume and they actually went back and complained. It turned out that one of the employees in the back room who was making the eights had put on some perfume and while at work and actually got the smell on the buds. They actually gave a replacement eigth and took the bad one back then made a rule of no perfume in the weighing room.
I had some of the sea thai sticks described above. I took some to U of Washington for a party and wiped out every one in the room. A guy saw the large thai sticks in my tray and said I could knock out everyone in the room with the weed in my tray.
I have noticed that indoor weed seems to have a better smell but that outdoor weed is better overall. Sour Diesel, Chem Dawg, Cheese, Purple Kush, Afghan Goo and Pineapple Kush will all hold their flavor long after harvest when grown outdoors.
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Originally Posted by fasterspider
Us young people arent deluding ourselves. In fact our marijuana now is better than any " fire " you had in your day. Alot of modern strains are ballin, some of the best chronic in the history of the world is being produced today.
You pay 120.00 for Schwag? or Good bud called "Schwag"? I get a qp or strawberry diesel for a buck straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by friendowl
Think back to 1979 or 1980 when "Sea Weed" showed up... it was real thai weed... a lot of it was tied on sticks. There were over 100 boxes that came to shore, each box was 1 cubic meter. Most got picked up by the Coast Guard. but there were several boxes that didn't get confiscated.
......that stuff was outstanding.
To this day, I will only buy or grow stuff that takes one hit and I'm good for the night >>>>
Holy shit! I remember this, there were people on the beach with stuffing hefty bags full of weed and hauling it off, news crews showed up and scared people off. They figured the coast guard may have been following a boat so they ditched their cargo but I absolutely remember this.
Real thai stick seems to be a thing of the past. I've had it a few times, the first time I thought I got ripped off, got an 8th for $25 and it was the size of my big toe, I was like WTF is this shit? Well it was tight as fuck and blew your mind when you smoked it. CHOCOLATE thai was even better and even harder to find.
I remember right before CAMP started news crews were parked out up in Mendocino and were filming growers pulling their harvest down from the hills, this is what got CAMP started and within a few years the prices doubled.
The old fashioned skunk bud, the stuff you could smell sealed in a ziploc bag from your pocket doesn't seem to exist anymore however I believe it's all in the curing. If you let the bud stay just a little more moist before you seal it then this might help bring that smell out however when you buy it you're paying for water weight. I remember that really stinky and sticky bud you couldn't even smoke in a joint but that was because it wasn't actually done curing. If you remember, when you bought a big bag of it and as it dried out the smell wasn't nearly as strong. IMO we were paying for water.
My friend's dad started smoking in the mid 70's, and since he is a hardcore cannasoir like me, i can only assume he tried some of the best shit that was available in the States at that time. I burn with him nowadays, and he constantly tells me how amazing the stuff i get is, even calls it "super weed" lol. He never actually said that its better or worse than the 70's shit, but every study i've read says that U.S. pot has like quadrupled in potency in the last 20-30 years.
But anyways, the shit i get is always smellin different, sometimes fruity, sometimes skunky, sometimes piney, sometimes even a little minty. I like the variety, but my favorite smell is definitely this shit that my friend calls mango kush, its like skunky and fruity at the same time and makes you cough your dick off and be gigglin after one hit.
However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that smell directly correlates with potency, because my friend has some shit right now that LOOKS amazing, and gets everyone who smokes it high as fuck, but smells like fuckin dryer sheets and tastes like... well, nothing. Even though it's potent as fuck and gets the job done, i'd prefer to smoke some mango kush for sure. To me, taste and smell are secondary to potency, but still very important to me. i love me some good as shit like that one guy was talkin about where the nugs are sparkly like theyre covered in tiny diamonds and they smell so good you just wanna pop one in your mouth.
I wish i couldve seen the 60's/70's for a shit ton of reasons, but i got absolutely no problem with this "youngster" weed.