What happened to the good smell of weed?

[Nhoj Nayr]

I goto the store to buy my meds and out of 25 or 30 different kinds of weed in their store, they only have one that smells good like marijuana is supposed to smell and the rest smells like friggin perfume.
Then these moronic youngsters that have no fucking clue what good weed smells like sit there and say things like "This is the best marijuana out there" I take a whiff and almost puke because it smells like shit.
I have been smoking marijuana since September of 1973 and know what weed is supposed to smell like, kind of like skunk piss. Even dirty Mexican shwag that you can buy on the street from idiotic gang bangers smells better than the shit they sell in the stores and it has seeds & stems all in it still making it more appealing than the so called good shit from the stores.
Where did all the good weed go?
You youngsters have no clue, you have been deluded and then continue to delude yourselves.
Good marijuana smells like skunk piss, not Channel #5

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.

[Bucky420]

You pay 120.00 for Schwag? or Good bud called "Schwag"? I get a qp or strawberry diesel for a buck straight.

i get a qp of some dense light green no seed "schwag" for 120.00 sometimes 130.00
when i sometimes get spoiled and buy "kush" or whatever i find myself getting
way more stoned smoking my regular shit.i cant take more than 3 fat bong rips of
the regular stuff cuz i get stuck.i mean real stoned like when the tv looks far away
and you get sick munchies and then laugh your ass to sleep

kush i can smoke all night long and i wont get to that level
it just tastes good and looks nice

[Purple Daddy]

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.

[nevrmindedness]

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.