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

[eridani]

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.

[BeyondGeography]

1. It was headache inducing and often times we didn't even get that high

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.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

41. What I would give to have 1 more Thai Stick.

[RussBLib]

47. ...and compare it to today's mega-weed - n/t

[calimary]

51. Those were the days. Or was it "daze"?

[In_The_Wind]

2. Back then an ounce only cost $25.

NYC 1972

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I remember when a dime lid cost a "dime."

(i.e. $10).

Anyway,

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

[lob1]

60. Most was $10, but occasionally you could find some Acapulco Gold or

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

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

42. I lived in WI - we paid 30-35$.

[shenmue]

3. You smoked oregano?

What's next, pepper?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Nope, nutmeg.

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

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

43. Why not just try the Cinnamon Challenge? Seems to be a really ass-kicking experience!

[NBachers]

57. I tried nutmeg once. I slugged a lot of it down with Coca Cola. I went to bed disappointed

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]

25. As weed and capitalism collided, people found they could rip others off with Oregano.

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]

26. I tried smoking catnip yesterday!

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

[shenmue]

28. Is the cat jealous?

[F4lconF16]

29. I just handed her a cup of catnip tea

(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]

4. Now remember what we used before....

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]

8. The Prince Albert can

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…

[Gregorian]

5. 10 bucks for a "lid". And we kept a small stash in film canisters, which you don't see anymore.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. SWIM still uses the plastic kind of film canisters.

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.

[Go Vols]

11. Here you go

http://www.ebay.com/itm/cr5-VINTAGE-1960S-ALUMINUM-35MM-FILM-CONTAINER-METAL-PHOTO-ROLL-CAN-/141642454175?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fa8c549f

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Wow.

You didn't even have to go to the Dark Web to find that.

[F4lconF16]

27. Medicine bottles.

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.

[RKP5637]

19. Yep! I remember those well, pretty handy and nicely air tight. n/t

[olddots]

10. some people were not told about the cleaning ritual

the smell of seeds and stems is hard to forget .

[Jackpine Radical]

13. SWIM's old GF once came up with a brilliant solution

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]

33. Not to mention the taste.

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

Don't do that.

[Major Hogwash]

14. What does it cost?

For your legal WA weed.

[eridani]

16. Anywhere from $15-$30g per gram

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]

15. And banana peals! LOL! We used to stuff the pot seeds and stems in the pipe because rumor was

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]

17. Electrical banana--

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)

[RKP5637]

18. Yep! I loved that era of music. It was just magical times! n/t

[waddirum]

20. I saw Donovan perform in a small hotel banquet room

in Dallas in 1987.

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

[jomin41]

21. I'm amazed that it hasn't been used lol.

[calimary]

54. Welcome to DU, jomin41!

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.

[NBachers]

59. Did he play "Hurdy Gurdy Man," too?

[MohRokTah]

22. There was some damned awesome shit back then, too.

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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]

23. You had to trust your dealer, who may or may not have been able to get good stuff

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]

34. SWIM's favorite supplier grew his own.

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.

[AtomicKitten]

24. It was $10 a lid and oh so craptacular.

[xfundy]

30. Cleaned the stems & seeds on an album cover

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.

[eridani]

32. Album cover?? Geez, are we old, or what? n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Album cover? Old?

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]

36. Well, these days, you sure can't download anything to clean MJ

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

[Manifestor_of_Light]

55. I still got my vinyls.

Cream (Wheels of Fire) double album?

Frampton Comes Alive?

The White Album?

Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Don & Mel?

[Backwoodsrider]

31. we smoked seeds and weeds and we were grateful

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?

[sense]

63. Eugene Weekly has articles

about how Oregon is handling it so far. Here's the one about testing.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20150625/lead-story/dirty-medicine

[shanti]

37. seeds and stems?

but, but, that's what the double albums were made for!

[Politicalboi]

38. Or shoe box tops

I found those worked best.

[MohRokTah]

39. We were Frisbeeterians. The altar doubles as a collection plate.

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]

58. Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen

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

[hobbit709]

40. Back in 74 when I first came to Austin you could get kilo bricks for $85.

Decent Oaxacan or Michoacan, nice lime green buds.

[Gregorian]

44. Ha! In 74 the HIGH school band brought a key back from Oaxaca.

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

[delrem]

45. What I remember from back then is that a kilo of weed was usually a whole compressed plant.

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]

46. Here in Indiana 1973 Mexican pot was 40 dollars for a 1/4 pound, Jamaican pot was 15 dollars

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

[RussBLib]

50. damn, that's cheap

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]

48. the russian river...

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!

[LeftOfWest]

49. eridani...

a true soul.

[Kali]

52. ah those ten dollar lids of Mexican floor sweepings

[HFRN]

53. getting rid of LP Albums was part of the war on drugs

lot harder to clean weed on a cd case

[eridani]

56. And that crap they told us about how MJ makes people paranoid is nonsense! n/t

[shanti]

62. it's never happened to me

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]

64. my personal experience with

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.

[NBachers]

61. Let's not forget to be resentful of Nixon's "Operation Intercept" at the Mexican border in '69