Now I didn't smoke weed in the 70's, seeing as I wouldn't be born for another 21 years, but it's pretty much unanimous that the weed nowadays is a whole lot stronger than it was back then, especially now with medical-grade pot and all. I'm sure if someone went from smoking some red bud everyday from the day Jimi Hendrix died to the 1979 Grateful Dead New Year's show, to smoking some of the weed I've tried in the past 2 years that I've had a medical card, they'd have a panic attack.
This is what I hear from the people i know who were smoking pot around that time as well.
For fuck's sake let's be honest: nobody remembers what weed like Red or Colombian Gold was like in the 70s.
For 2 reasons:
a) most smokers of that decade are dead, probably of old age.
b) you don't remember this shit. I totally stopped smoking cannabis a few months ago after smoking everyday for years and can't remember what it is like already, much less will I remember 4 decades from now (if I'm still alive by then).
But if you really want to know...
If you really want that mythical magical experience of exotic weed from South America...
Your best bet is that smooth brick weed from Mexico.
Weed started being grown on a large scale in Mexico when dealers realized they could place the source much nearer to the major end market. Besides, you can't grow coca leaves in Mexico.
And they are still pretty traditional in Mexico. They still compress and pack that shit up until it's a shit smoke, just like they did in the 70s with Colombian weed.
I heard that Colombian gold got it's color from being sun dried it stacks. This leading to a gold color. Colombian had a mythical status back in 70s as the quality was better than the home grown or block WEED that was around. That's about it the are much better strains now that are better cured and still can have some lineage to Colombia or jamacia. Other than that it's dead. You can't get it and won't find it unless you feel like trekking jungles in Colombia.
dead ?
Cannabiogen columbia mangobiche. This is a Colombian landrace strain.
What an absolute pile of nonsense. "Most smokers of the 70's are dead"? You would only have to be 60ish to have been smoking then. I'm not even half that but I know people who are still alive and kicking that were smoking then.
I can still remember what pills I popped ten years ago too. I guess not everyone's memory is as bad as yours... And not everyone dies at 60.
And pressing weed makes it a shit smoke?
Think before you type ffs. You might aswell of written that on the walls with crayons lol.
Most probably the people you claim to know who smoked weed back in the 70s are just a bunch of posers.
If you don't know that pressing weed into bricks turns it into a shit smoke, then you don't know anything at all about weed.
Take that "lol" and your crayons, and shove them up your arse.
Maybe you've been popping too many pills.
Now I'm sincerely hoping this thread will become like some other ones I've read on another forum tonight that gave me big laughs, where suddenly 10-20 posters who, like, smoked Columbian Gold everyday back in the 70s, man, can enlighten us neophytes on the pleasure of such a (fictional) experience.
Some idiot on another forum I won't mention even said Columbian Gold came in bales stamped "mexican machinery" as if:
1) machinery was packaged in bales.
2) any Central or South American country would export machinery to the USA, much more so back in the 70s.
No really, this is the best Cheech and Chong made in the 2010's material out there.
Cheech: Oh Chong, how we gonna export all these sweet Columbian Gold to the gringos?
Chong: Just take it easy man, we're gonna pack the buds in bales stamped mexican machinery and the customs people won't even bat an eye.