Questions for long time weed smokers

[PHD_in_PRT]

This question is for people that have smoked since the 80's.

First I know that is has been proposed that the marijuana of today is much stronger then it was in the past, but as far as I know they didn't test it as much as they do now.

Back in the 80's you never saw the nice fresh indoor kill buds with exotic names like you do now. and now you rarely hear about the good strains then like Thai Sticks, Columbian Gold, and Jamaican Lambsbread. All of which were usually compacted.

I have smoked probably close to a hundred pounds of weed in my 25 years of smoking and I still think today that the best weed I ever smoked was what was call Chocolate Thai back in the 80's. It smelled like chocolate and man it would knock you socks off.

Do others that have smoked as much and long as me think the best weed they smoked was from back in the day, or do you think our tolerance's just got so high that the new shit doesn't do it like it used to?

 

[kanucme]

having been around websites pertaining to weed since the internet started, message boards, overgrow and the like, the consensus from all the old timers was that back in the day - 60's and 70's, early 80's weed was plentiful and usually the same mid grade stuff would flood huge areas and be around for a long time.

It was allot easier for growers in Mexico and even the states to grow enormous amounts, hundreds-thousands of pounds or more per grow and traffic it into the states.

the fact there was retarded amounts of shitty weed around for dirt cheap meant not allot of people (some still did) took the time to grow specific strains or try to improve potency. couple that with a general lack of knowledge at the time along with the rarity of indoor growing equipment meant that until the mid 80's and the war on drugs there was not much incentive to grow higher potency weed.

most of the stuff back then might have had like 3-6% thc, where some strains now have been bred to have well over 25%. that doesn't mean there was not killer bud back then, just that your average pot smoker was not likely to find it.

 

[Sega420]

Back in the 80's you never saw the nice fresh indoor kill buds with exotic names like you do now. and now you rarely hear about the good strains then like Thai Sticks, Columbian Gold, and Jamaican Lambsbread. All of which were usually compacted.

yes you did. as always with any product, anywhere, its all about who you know.
& "Thai Sticks" isnt a strain. its a nickname for a form of cannabis distribution.

apart from UTFSE (this topic has been rehashed again and again);
it makes sense that with advances in botanical knowledge of cannabis,
technological advances, better breeding etc, that the overall quality of cannabis in general would increase.
its simple science.

 

[Wise420]

Sega has sand in his vagina

 

[Chainer]

this has been covered in EXCEPTIONAL depth in a few threads. Try searching for terms you've used in your OP as well as landrice strains.