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imho, the reason weed nowadays is better is because of meticulous cross-breeding that's been taking place for generations since the money-minded marketeers took over the business from the lazy hippie types that were providing it before weed really got popular.
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I have to say I disagree; I think it's got more to do with the advent of sophisticated growing (HPS, proper understanding of the nutritional requirements of cannabis, the sinsemilla technique etc) than the genetics. Sure, cross breeding has increased potency to some extent, but people have been selectively breeding cannabis for psychoactive effects for centuries, and it seems unlikely that in the past couple of decades we've advanced hugely on that.
 
Yerg said:
I have to say I disagree; I think it's got more to do with the advent of sophisticated growing (HPS, proper understanding of the nutritional requirements of cannabis, the sinsemilla technique etc) than the genetics. Sure, cross breeding has increased potency to some extent, but people have been selectively breeding cannabis for psychoactive effects for centuries, and it seems unlikely that in the past couple of decades we've advanced hugely on that.
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You mean how just over 110 yrs ago, there was no such thing as an airplane? & Just a bit over 150 yrs ago, there wasn't even a light-bulb? & now we're communicating with phones in our pockets?
Shit changes quickly!! :\
 
squidhead said:
You mean how just over 110 yrs ago, there was no such thing as an airplane? & Just a bit over 150 yrs ago, there wasn't even a light-bulb? & now we're communicating with phones in our pockets?
Shit changes quickly!! :\
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What you're forgetting is that evolution/genetic changes tend to advance in a linear fashion, whereas scientific and technological knowledge increases exponentially.
 
/\/\/\/\ I've made it 55 yrs on 'street-smarts' primarily. Never even graduated high-school [although I did get a GED], but I figured out how to retire at age 46 & my family & I live in a $300,000 home that's bought & paid for. I have had conversations with everyone from attorneys, doctors, politicians to custodians, garbagemen & laborers with 5th grade educations...but I gotta level with you...I don't even have a clue what you just said/wrote. Sorry!! :! 8(
 
You mean how just over 110 yrs ago, there was no such thing as an airplane? & Just a bit over 150 yrs ago, there wasn't even a light-bulb? & now we're communicating with phones in our pockets?
Shit changes quickly!!
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Yeah, shit changes quickly. I mentioned a number of techniques which have been developed recently. Selective breeding isn't one of them. I'm sure that breeding plants from diverse regions of the world has increased potency, but not as much as other technologies, and it's pretty arrogant to think that the West has vastly improved since the Sixties on a process that's been going on for centuries.
 
^ i guess this is the debate over how much stronger herb is nowdays. Im WAY to young to speak from experience but most of the old heads i talk to say the Herb nowdays is much better. By that they mean what is considered dank today is much danker than what they would call dank in thier time. I know that is a really weird way to phrase it but i can't think of any other way. And i always belived the increase in potency was due to selective breeding.....sure they have bred cannabis for centuries but it is the profit potential that has caused such huge advances in breeding in recent times. Marijuana is a billion dollar buisness with much more science behind it now than every before and it just keeps getting better.
 
squidhead said:
I've been tokin on some Kali Mist that is unbelievable!! I can't even finish a packed bongload...I have to snuff it.
Also, that Super Silver Haze is a mind-blower as well, isn't it? I've yet to try some of the Grapefruit that's been sent to me. I also have a full mason jar of some BR 1947 [Blue Rhino x AK-47].
I also have some C-99 I've yet to try & some Romulan, which I have tried. But this Kali Mist is unreal!!
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KM is my fave strain :P

sooooo tasty n trippy
 
squidhead said:
/\/\/\/\ I've made it 55 yrs on 'street-smarts' primarily. Never even graduated high-school [although I did get a GED], but I figured out how to retire at age 46 & my family & I live in a $300,000 home that's bought & paid for. I have had conversations with everyone from attorneys, doctors, politicians to custodians, garbagemen & laborers with 5th grade educations...but I gotta level with you...I don't even have a clue what you just said/wrote. Sorry!! :! 8(
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Here's something increasing linearly:
http://library.thinkquest.org/19387/Pics/Walkthrough1.gif

and something increasing exponentially:
http://hotmath.com/images/gt/lessons/genericalg1/exponential_graph.gif

Basically Yerg is right, selective breeding has happened for millenia and it won't have been going any faster during the last decade than at any other time in history. That is not how it works with aeroplanes/lightbulbs/phones etc.
 
matterofperception said:
By that they mean what is considered dank today is much danker than what they would call dank in thier time.
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Danks a lot!! 8) =D

Yep, that's what I mentioned in a previous post. The weed we got in the 60s/70s & 80s was some excellent smoke. The Colombian Santa Marta Red Bud, the high-grade Mexican [like Michoacan, Oaxacan, & the infamous Acapulco Gold...which was going for a LOT at $165/lb. Yes, that's a POUND!!:\], Jamaican Ganj [as we used to call it], Thai-Sticks, etc, etc.
But as good as that was, it's not like the 1-3 toke strains of nowadays. Good lord, I fill my bong with some WW x BB, or some Romulan, or the BR_1947, Kali Mist, Super Silver Haze, etc, etc & 1/2 the time I gotta snuff out the remaining few hits [I have a party bowl on my 1974 Toker II], as I'm blastoid to the asteroids after 2 tokes!!
The weed of nowadays is much better than it was 30-40 yrs ago. 8(
 
Could someone roll a joint outta this?

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See i think the explanation for the rapid increase in the last 50 years is sure, cannabis has been bred for millenia but in the last 50 years the profit motivation to develop more potent cannabis has inreased probably well over 1000 times. If what squidhead is saying is true and way back in the day a pound of good shit was under 200......think of what a pound of a medical strain goes for today. with incentive like that you sure as hell are going to do everything in your power to increase potency. Also new advances in science have made it easier to breed more potent marijuana. And unlike millenia ago now seeds and cutting can be shipped and shared all over the world.
 
/\/\/\/\ It's true. I'd pay $130/lb for Michoacan or Oaxacan, but was astounded that the A-Gold cost $35 more a pound. Of course, $35 was a helluva hike...when 'lids' were $15 & now you'd have to charge $20.
 
/\/\/\/\ No, they were around back then [unless you're being sarcastic]...we just wondered why some weed would couchlock us, while other weed made us laugh non-stop. =D
 
squidhead said:
/\/\/\/\ No, they were around back then [unless you're being sarcastic]...we just wondered why some weed would couchlock us, while other weed made us laugh non-stop. =D
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Haha I meant recently on the big scale of things, like 100 or 200 years ago!
 
Lol the inner nerd in me spent a while yesterday wondering what the graph of mariuana potency would look like. If there was a graph with the x-axis representing time and the y-axis representing potency, it would look like an exponential function but would eventually stop growing and level off. The level of point would represent where the concentration of THC reached the max saturation.
 
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