weed in the 60s early 70s

[Polymirize]

You should get the opinions of the guys in the grow rooms.

I'd say the plants for the most part remain the same (although there a ton more hybrid varieties these days for sure) but think about how far growing tech has come since that time. I'm not saying you didn't see any hydroponic and light settups back in the day, but shit, not like you do now.

Hands down, the average bud you can find anywhere these days, has got to be stronger.

[Sir Bliss]

Much more potent strains have been created over the years. Back in the 60s and 70s it was hard to come by what we'd all consider "dank". My mom showed me pictures of the shit she used to smoke back then, and it's actually not that bad; looked like some decent middy to me.

But it's obviously not the same stuff we've all been smoking.

[Bob the Awesome]

I think the reason for the change is, I remember hearing somewhere, that sinsemilla growing started up on a much larger scale in the 70's, before that they just had mids.

I'm sure they had some decent stuff, but nothing like the extremely potent, highly varied strains we have today. That's what kicks the average THC content up.

[Skeevy Stoner]

You all believe bad propaganda, there is no possibility that thc has upped its psychoactive ingredient in the plant over the last 30 years,
theres no difference between the buds then and now,
if anything there was alot more bad weed around back then.

[Nochowderforyou]

I think cannabis had the same potential back then as it does today. The thing about the 70's, is they didn't have proper lighting to produce worthy cannabis. HPS bulbs were not common back then, and were very expensive, due to them being a new discovery, so very few people had them. Now, you can go into any garden center and you can find HPS bulbs.

They didn't have advanced techniques either. They didn't know about the Scrog, or LST training.

They didn't have quality ferts either, if any. Now though, there are so many differnet kinds to choose from.

So all in all, they just didn't have the technology or resources like they do today to grow quality stuff. I'm sure it would have been amazing stuff then if they would have known all the things they can do to make it better.

All I know, is when I asked my dad how he used to grow his cannabis, he said they never used any food, and the only indoor lighting then that was actually affordable, was Floro tubes.

So if all we had these days was the same kind of equipt., I'm sure we would be growing nasty stuff too. Not having the proper equipt. to grow, results in shitty cannabis. Simple as that.

And most of you weren't even born in the 70's, or the 80's. Not that I was, but none of you know how good it was back then, so how can you say it was shitty stuff? You weren't there, so be quiet.

[Natural Revolution]

Just out of curiousity. How many of your were alive and smoking back then? I wasnt so I have a few things to base my opinion on.

1) from what I have read a plant cannot be genetically modified like that over a short period of time, 30 years or so. 2) people have been cultivating potent cannabis for thousands of years according to history, 3) several old hippies I know and smoke with regularly assure me this is not true. in fact most of them are still looking or longing for strains of the day, 4) George Washington grew hemp and wrote about separating males and females, so this process was known at least 200 years before the 1970s, 5) our government are the ones telling us this, and we all know they are lying pieces of shit.

I think what it boils down to is that there is more sensi being grown now sure, but back then the majority of shit was brick coming up from down south. With the proliferation of grow lights and hydro, techniques have definitely improved making high quality smoke more common. But I just won't accept that humans could advance a plant genetically so extremely in 30 years under artificial sunlight, when the real sun and thousands of years didn't have this effect. Another thing is through breeding, sure people have captured strains that produce a lot of resin, but this is still a trait of nature, and modern weed is not a "different drug" altogether. Thats a fuckin crazy claim.

[JMRinFLA]

It's a complete myth that weed today is stronger. I was smoking and growing from 1979-85. I gave up toking when I joined the Army (good idea, huh!?). The skunk I'm smoking now isn't any stronger than the premium shit I could buy in NYC when I was in school. Natural Rev. had a good point, most of you who responded aren't old enough to really know. Take it from one who was there.

[conch420]

i wonder how strong the pot was 2000 years ago?

[rottenPauL]

pot is pot. In order to create strong strains you need to have strong bases. Do you think skunk came out of the blue? Dank cannabis is here way before mokneys were evolved into humen. Human just crossed landrace strains with other landrace strains to create something different. Take the kush varieties for example. They come from a landrace strain in kush valley somewhere in india... And they r considered to be some of the most potent strains today... I could only say that today with all the knowledge we have from previous generations, we could be sure we can take 100% from our plants, for example we use the proper drying and curing methods that people maybe didnt know like 100 years ago.

[MotleyCrueBoy24]

it's easy to believe it's more potent today...but i think you old school stoners are absolutely right.