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

DazedandConfused Reviewed by DazedandConfused on 12-19-2005. anyone get high in the 60's and 70's? that had to have been awesome. was anyone on here growing up and getting high back then? if so tell me about it Rating: 5

[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.