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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 07:04 AM Apr 2015

Well, kiddos--when I was your age, you would not believe the crap we smoked.

Yessiree by cracky, marijuana used to have seeds in it. And stems. And sometimes oregano or marjoram or PCP. Indica vs sativa?? Whuzzat about?

As a retired analytical chemist, I'm very glad to see THC and CBD content listed on my legal WA weed. Some medical pot assays (though not many medical shops have them) list the gammas, CBN and CBC, plus complete terpene profiles. I keep emailing the liquor control board about this, but haven't gotten any answers.

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Well, kiddos--when I was your age, you would not believe the crap we smoked. (Original Post) eridani Apr 2015 OP
It was headache inducing and often times we didn't even get that high BeyondGeography Apr 2015 #1
What I would give to have 1 more Thai Stick. Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #41
...and compare it to today's mega-weed - n/t RussBLib Jun 2015 #47
Those were the days. Or was it "daze"? calimary Jun 2015 #51
Back then an ounce only cost $25. In_The_Wind Apr 2015 #2
I remember when a dime lid cost a "dime." Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #6
Most was $10, but occasionally you could find some Acapulco Gold or lob1 Jun 2015 #60
I lived in WI - we paid 30-35$. Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #42
You smoked oregano? shenmue Apr 2015 #3
Nope, nutmeg. Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #7
Why not just try the Cinnamon Challenge? Seems to be a really ass-kicking experience! Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #43
I tried nutmeg once. I slugged a lot of it down with Coca Cola. I went to bed disappointed NBachers Jun 2015 #57
As weed and capitalism collided, people found they could rip others off with Oregano. jtuck004 May 2015 #25
I tried smoking catnip yesterday! F4lconF16 May 2015 #26
Is the cat jealous? shenmue May 2015 #28
I just handed her a cup of catnip tea F4lconF16 May 2015 #29
Now remember what we used before.... N_E_1 for Tennis Apr 2015 #4
The Prince Albert can Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #8
10 bucks for a "lid". And we kept a small stash in film canisters, which you don't see anymore. Gregorian Apr 2015 #5
SWIM still uses the plastic kind of film canisters. Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #9
Here you go Go Vols Apr 2015 #11
Wow. Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #12
Medicine bottles. F4lconF16 May 2015 #27
Yep! I remember those well, pretty handy and nicely air tight. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #19
some people were not told about the cleaning ritual olddots Apr 2015 #10
SWIM's old GF once came up with a brilliant solution Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #13
Not to mention the taste. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #33
What does it cost? Major Hogwash Apr 2015 #14
Anywhere from $15-$30g per gram eridani Apr 2015 #16
And banana peals! LOL! We used to stuff the pot seeds and stems in the pipe because rumor was RKP5637 Apr 2015 #15
Electrical banana-- eridani Apr 2015 #17
Yep! I loved that era of music. It was just magical times! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #18
I saw Donovan perform in a small hotel banquet room waddirum May 2015 #20
I'm amazed that it hasn't been used lol. jomin41 May 2015 #21
Welcome to DU, jomin41! calimary Jun 2015 #54
Did he play "Hurdy Gurdy Man," too? NBachers Jun 2015 #59
There was some damned awesome shit back then, too. MohRokTah May 2015 #22
You had to trust your dealer, who may or may not have been able to get good stuff eridani May 2015 #23
SWIM's favorite supplier grew his own. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #34
It was $10 a lid and oh so craptacular. AtomicKitten May 2015 #24
Cleaned the stems & seeds on an album cover xfundy May 2015 #30
Album cover?? Geez, are we old, or what? n/t eridani May 2015 #32
Album cover? Old? Jackpine Radical May 2015 #35
Well, these days, you sure can't download anything to clean MJ eridani May 2015 #36
I still got my vinyls. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2015 #55
we smoked seeds and weeds and we were grateful Backwoodsrider May 2015 #31
Eugene Weekly has articles sense Jun 2015 #63
seeds and stems? shanti May 2015 #37
Or shoe box tops Politicalboi May 2015 #38
We were Frisbeeterians. The altar doubles as a collection plate. MohRokTah May 2015 #39
Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen NBachers Jun 2015 #58
Back in 74 when I first came to Austin you could get kilo bricks for $85. hobbit709 May 2015 #40
Ha! In 74 the HIGH school band brought a key back from Oaxaca. Gregorian May 2015 #44
What I remember from back then is that a kilo of weed was usually a whole compressed plant. delrem Jun 2015 #45
Here in Indiana 1973 Mexican pot was 40 dollars for a 1/4 pound, Jamaican pot was 15 dollars B Calm Jun 2015 #46
damn, that's cheap RussBLib Jun 2015 #50
the russian river... hopemountain Jun 2015 #48
eridani... LeftOfWest Jun 2015 #49
ah those ten dollar lids of Mexican floor sweepings Kali Jun 2015 #52
getting rid of LP Albums was part of the war on drugs HFRN Jun 2015 #53
And that crap they told us about how MJ makes people paranoid is nonsense! n/t eridani Jun 2015 #56
it's never happened to me shanti Jun 2015 #62
my personal experience with hopemountain Jul 2015 #64
Let's not forget to be resentful of Nixon's "Operation Intercept" at the Mexican border in '69 NBachers Jun 2015 #61

BeyondGeography

(40,015 posts)
1. It was headache inducing and often times we didn't even get that high
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 07:11 AM
Apr 2015

I thought I was high, but then my family moved to Asia and some of my helpful schoolmates put me on a Thai stick regimen. That was getting high.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
6. I remember when a dime lid cost a "dime."
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 11:59 AM
Apr 2015

(i.e. $10).

Anyway,

[font size=8 color=green] Happy 420, everyone.[/font]

lob1

(3,820 posts)
60. Most was $10, but occasionally you could find some Acapulco Gold or
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:31 AM
Jun 2015

Panama Red, which was out-of-site expensive at $25 an ounce.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
7. Nope, nutmeg.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:02 PM
Apr 2015

And you eat it, you don't smoke it. And you only do that if you are at least 2 of the following:
a) Crazy
b) In prison and desperate
c) Incredibly masochistic

NBachers

(18,132 posts)
57. I tried nutmeg once. I slugged a lot of it down with Coca Cola. I went to bed disappointed
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 01:59 AM
Jun 2015

because nothing was happening. Then, I woke up tripping in the middle of the night.

It wasn't LSD trip you brains out tripping, it was waving liquid atmosphere and body sensations tripping.

I never tried it again, because I just didn't think it was worth the effort. But I did put a lot of pre-internet research and detective work into the psychedelic properties of nutmeg. Apparently there's a substance called myristicin (I can still spell it all these years later.)

My research led me to oil of nutmeg, probably a concentrated myristicin-containing substance. I never really went deep enough into oil of nutmeg to try it out and see what it would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
25. As weed and capitalism collided, people found they could rip others off with Oregano.
Thu May 14, 2015, 12:01 AM
May 2015

None of this putting it in plastic and letting you inspect and smell it. You shoved it in your jeans (or socks) and beat feet.

Sigh. Part of the theater that comes with keeping it in the shadows.

F4lconF16

(3,747 posts)
26. I tried smoking catnip yesterday!
Thu May 14, 2015, 12:03 AM
May 2015

Surprisingly pleasant, and actually rather relaxing. A very mild but calming effect. Quite nice, really.

F4lconF16

(3,747 posts)
29. I just handed her a cup of catnip tea
Thu May 14, 2015, 12:20 AM
May 2015

(Also delicious by the way) and she ignored it...

However, she very much enjoyed the treats I just gave her in exchange for her sitting on command

N_E_1 for Tennis

(10,784 posts)
4. Now remember what we used before....
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 08:30 AM
Apr 2015

Plastic baggies to hold an ounce of pot?

BTW, we measured out our "bud" in fingers high, not ounces, grams or any kind of weight.
The guy I got mine from had some really beefy hands, he had a huge customer base. Big fingers equaled more pot!

Answer to my question for where I was....
Folded aluminum foil, handmade envelopes made from newspaper or a like sort of paper. Usually found a "loose" joint or two in the bottoms of my jeans pocket. Had to "shake" it out, remove the lint and cookie crumbs then have a good time.

"No stems, no seeds that you don't need, Acapulco Gold is some badass weed".

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
8. The Prince Albert can
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:04 PM
Apr 2015

or a jar lid dipped into the bulk herb--the original "lid."

Or--uh--so I've been told by…uh, you know, like this hippie I once met…

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
9. SWIM still uses the plastic kind of film canisters.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:07 PM
Apr 2015

I guess he lost his old metal ones somewhere along the way.

And, sadly, even the newer plastic ones have gone the way of the dodo bird, what with digital photography everywhere.

There'd probly be a specialty market for little weed containers, but I suppose the head shops already carry something like that.

F4lconF16

(3,747 posts)
27. Medicine bottles.
Thu May 14, 2015, 12:05 AM
May 2015

Waterproof and airtight means smellproof. The big ones are the best.

I keep my stash at home in a huge glass jar, though. I keep curing my buds always.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
10. some people were not told about the cleaning ritual
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:33 PM
Apr 2015

the smell of seeds and stems is hard to forget .

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
13. SWIM's old GF once came up with a brilliant solution
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:06 PM
Apr 2015

to the stem & seed problem. She threw a whole new lid into the blender & blended it into dust. They told me the result was awful, almost unsmokeable. I think SWIM replaced it & saved it for times of desperation.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
33. Not to mention the taste.
Thu May 14, 2015, 08:55 AM
May 2015

SWIM had an old girlfriend who got tired of the cleaning ritual & put a whole lid in the blender.

Don't do that.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
16. Anywhere from $15-$30g per gram
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:02 PM
Apr 2015

Lots of edibles are available, but tend to be expensive--like $0 for five 5mg THC per cookie. My DH still goes to his old dealer which is cheaper, but I really like the state quality control.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
15. And banana peals! LOL! We used to stuff the pot seeds and stems in the pipe because rumor was
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:50 PM
Apr 2015

that was where the good stuff was, at least that was what one of my friends said. Whatever it was, we had a good time. Yep, over half a century ago. Damn, I feel old some days!


eridani

(51,907 posts)
17. Electrical banana--
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:05 PM
Apr 2015
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/donovan/mellow-yellow.html

Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase

They call it mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)

waddirum

(991 posts)
20. I saw Donovan perform in a small hotel banquet room
Tue May 12, 2015, 08:00 PM
May 2015

in Dallas in 1987.

"Mellow Yellow" is an exquisite song, and would be a great strain name.

calimary

(84,334 posts)
54. Welcome to DU, jomin41!
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 12:10 AM
Jun 2015

Glad you're here! GREAT thread! Really takes me down memory lane! And I didn't even kill all that many brain cells back in the day, either!

I can remember "dime" bags. I remember when four of us would go in on a $20 bag - $5 per person - and then we were REALLY gonna be living it up that night. A $20 bag was a BIG deal back in the early '70s.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
22. There was some damned awesome shit back then, too.
Tue May 12, 2015, 10:24 PM
May 2015

Last edited Tue May 12, 2015, 11:02 PM - Edit history (1)

I didn't get the shit weed you talk about that often, and when I did I never bought from that jerk again.

Edited to add: everything had seeds for the most part. Occasionally you'd get some Cali grown Sensi bud, but mostly everything had seeds.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
23. You had to trust your dealer, who may or may not have been able to get good stuff
Wed May 13, 2015, 02:33 AM
May 2015

Usually they were pretty fair about charging less for lower quality--not determined by analytical chemistry, but by the dealer smoking some and noting how much it took to get a desirable high.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
34. SWIM's favorite supplier grew his own.
Thu May 14, 2015, 09:07 AM
May 2015

He had an old VW Beetle. At harvest time he took the passengers seat out to make rom for transporting it from his grow site. He got SWIM through grad school.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
30. Cleaned the stems & seeds on an album cover
Thu May 14, 2015, 12:57 AM
May 2015

That opened up, or folded out. Wish I'd saved some of the seeds.

EDIT: also was sold catnip in 8th grade, smoked it just in case it worked. It didn't.

Learned how to smoke in Boy Scouts. Hiking, camping while stoned, too.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
35. Album cover? Old?
Thu May 14, 2015, 09:10 AM
May 2015

We used to clean on cuneiform tablets. The good stuff would catch in the indentations of the letters, and the seeds & stems would sort of roll down and away when we shook it

eridani

(51,907 posts)
36. Well, these days, you sure can't download anything to clean MJ
Thu May 14, 2015, 11:52 PM
May 2015

Not that, with pure bud only, it really needs cleaning.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
55. I still got my vinyls.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 12:35 AM
Jun 2015

Cream (Wheels of Fire) double album?

Frampton Comes Alive?

The White Album?

Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Don & Mel?

Backwoodsrider

(764 posts)
31. we smoked seeds and weeds and we were grateful
Thu May 14, 2015, 01:11 AM
May 2015

Grateful to have smoke.

I wonder how Oregon is going to do that? I know they growers have to have their weed tested of course but I wonder if they are going to test for quality or just mold ie weed health?

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
39. We were Frisbeeterians. The altar doubles as a collection plate.
Tue May 19, 2015, 06:43 PM
May 2015

It also serves the same purpose as a double album.

We believed that when you died your soul flew up on the roof and you couldn't get it down.

NBachers

(18,132 posts)
58. Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:13 AM
Jun 2015

One of the most poignant Texas tragedy blues songs ever sung. It's etched permanently into my brain.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
40. Back in 74 when I first came to Austin you could get kilo bricks for $85.
Wed May 20, 2015, 12:49 PM
May 2015

Decent Oaxacan or Michoacan, nice lime green buds.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
44. Ha! In 74 the HIGH school band brought a key back from Oaxaca.
Thu May 21, 2015, 06:00 PM
May 2015

That was a great summer. I can still see the mountain of buds on my friend's bed.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
45. What I remember from back then is that a kilo of weed was usually a whole compressed plant.
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 03:20 AM
Jun 2015

Stems, leaves, the works, mashed into a brick of weed. $200CDN.
You pulled out the stems and bagged it.
It wasn't "bud", that's for damn sure.

It either did the trick or you were ostracised for the burn.

I think a lot of the reminiscing of geezers munges a lot of different factors, the first and most important being that they were young then, and let me reiterate that. It counts. Others being that electric music was just invented, that there was an alternative culture opposed to the Vietnam war was certainly a social factor == but as for the pot, the only thing distinctive about it is that some dealers could figure the difference between a male and female plant, on a good day.

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
46. Here in Indiana 1973 Mexican pot was 40 dollars for a 1/4 pound, Jamaican pot was 15 dollars
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 04:32 AM
Jun 2015

an ounce and Columbian Gold when available was 20 dollars an ounce.

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
50. damn, that's cheap
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 11:15 PM
Jun 2015

in Houston in 1973, we'd pay $10-40 for an ounce of regular Mexican. Acapulco Gold could be had for $80 oz, which priced it out of our usual range.

Never had a problem finding a supply. Hashish was usually around. All sorts of other things too: uppers, downers, often mushrooms, peyote buttons, even acid.

Those were the days. Long time gone.

Mankind has always looked for ways to alter their consciousness.

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
48. the russian river...
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 09:13 PM
Jun 2015

we had a cornucopia of excellent weed. and except for the thai - it all had to be cleaned. so, we'd smoke a bowl and begin cleaning. my brother was a gifted carpenter & made me a fine little wooden pipe and a beautiful oak rolling tray. it was round, a foot in diameter, slightly scooped in the center with a channel around the edge that served as a receptacle for scooping seeds and stems. gahhh! when i think of all of those seeds tossed in the woods behind the house - gone forever!

shanti

(21,716 posts)
62. it's never happened to me
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:13 PM
Jun 2015

but i knew a couple of people who have gotten para after smoking (or eating). it's usually their first time though. my BIL got extremely freaked out after eating a high potency brownie. he calmed down after a couple of hours, but you really have to be careful with the edibles.

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
64. my personal experience with
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:26 AM
Jul 2015

increased anxiety and paranoia was from smoking weed contaminated or adulterated with either herbicides or something else… that is about when i stopped smoking off joints/pipes passed around at concerts or parties.

lesson: organic only and know your source.

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